A Day On A Path
EU rumblings indicate Spain may be opening to US (fully vaccinated) tourists this summer – maybe June. If so, I’ll be on my September 1 flight to Madrid. Still up in the air, but looking a bit more promising.
E.U. Set to Let Vaccinated U.S. Tourists Visit This Summer
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/world/europe/american-travel-to-europe.html
I have a few rest days interspersed among these stages, but here is my Stage Plan.
EVERY NIGHT IN A CORNER under the baroque clock tower in the Plaza de la Quintana, a hunched pilgrim appears. He stands life sized, and wears the traditional garb of the religious pilgrim: cloak, broad-brimmed hat, and a staff top-heavy with a gourd for water and the traditional scallop shell, which is the symbol of the pilgrim.
Upon closer inspection, the pilgrim is a trick of the light – and an unintentional one. His body is the shadow cast by the lightning rod pillar in the corner, and his staff is the shadow of the support column of the Berenguela clock tower. There are dozens of these lighting rods and hundreds of vertical supports in the cathedral exterior, but only one pilgrim. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/shadow-pilgrim