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    Getting to SJPP from Barcelona

    Oops, sorry, I completely ignored the part about Barcelona... ridiculous. Anyway. I know that buses in Spain are cheaper than trains, but you can use either form of transport to get to Pamplona, and from there I know people bussed to Roncesvalles and then taxied to St Jean. So! Potentially...
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    Getting to SJPP from Barcelona

    Hey, holy hannah! Another Winnipegger? What a small... city? World as well, but we all know this is the centre of two-degree separations. I didn't start in St Jean, but in Pamplona instead. Most of the people I spoke to about starting in St Jean went up from Spain by bus and taxi, through...
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    Characters on the camino

    Hey, I likewise remember the two Dutch couples - my family is Dutch and so I can group them with many other incredible and quirky Nederlanders. And I'm not sure if I'm thinking of the right man in Boadilla, but if it's the man who runs the private albergue with his family, he's Hugo, and I...
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    Dental Travails....

    Deirdre, I can honestly say that it wasn't noticeable! I truly wish that I had a picture of you AFTER Azofra so that you could see it... but you became quite close-lipped at that point! Although luckily only while smiling because otherwise I'd have missed out on some good stories and good wisdom.
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    The Nature of Pilgrimage

    Hi, Sil, That's an incredible prayer; I'm not Christian or otherwise religious in any sense, but I love it! Maybe it's true whether a person believes in God or not - if you put yourself fully into going the right way, for yourself as well as others, eventually you'll get it. So thank you very...
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    Medieval Pilgrim Guide

    Hey, Out of curiosity and a desire for some holiday reading material, I searched my school's library database for Santiago de compostela... and it turns out we have a copy of the Codex Calaxtinus in translation! Even more mysterious to me is that someone's checked it out... I might have to hang...
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    Laughter

    Of course I know the song! I have a pair of friends who do a "rap" and that is the best part of it- they do a jig to go along. It's also usually one of the last songs played at a Manitoba social! awesome. I suppose a funny story for you might be one of the days in Galicia when it was raining...
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    Walkers in the dark

    I agree with the safety concerns as regard walking completely alone in the dark, but I must admit that I did it occasionally! Although my usual method was to sit outside waiting until there was just enough morning light to see what was ahead of me, and not to miss signs. However, I found six or...
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    Laughter

    Deirdre- "Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to fall down at your door!" Oh, to have heard it!!! Although I think I can anyway... I'll try to think one up myself, post it tomorrow. Muchos besos, Erin
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    Planning for a trip May/June 2008

    Ah! sorry. What I meant to say was: I go to university in Winnipeg (our strange little gathering of buildings in the middle of all this flat land) and this July/August I walked from Pamplona to Santiago. I'm wondering where you heard about the Camino. I had never heard of it before I was in...
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    Planning for a trip May/June 2008

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    An April start for us

    Hi and good luck from me as well! Also, I didn't know there was a Canadian association of any sort... wonderful. Where did you first hear about the camino? I think this is the question I ask most often now because I'm so curious, especially with North Americans. I know that I'd never heard a...
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    To Ipod or not to Ipod

    Hey, Interesting to see this topic here, since I remember having the conversation a number of times while I was in Spain. I brought an mp3 player with around 280 songs on it, which I'd already had with me because I was backpacking (the more conventional way) before doing the camino. I never...
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    Hello!

    Hey, Thanks so much for the responses! Again, I really love that this is here. It's reassuring to hear about other people's experiences, and I think that some of my favourite stories have been those of finding out about the Camino. I don't know that I myself have much advice to offer anyone...
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    Hello!

    Hey, thanks for the reply! I wanted to go further once I arrived in Santiago- somehow the end didn't feel like it should have come! But I think I'd also reached a point at which my body wanted me to stop. If I'd spent just one night in santiago and gone on, I could have reached Finisterre just...
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