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Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but the simplest way to avoid Ponferrada is just don't turn left towards the bridge at Puente Boeza, but simply keep walking West and straight ahead towards Toral de Merayo, staying on the southern bank of the...
I fell in love on the Camino. It was the kind of love at first sight, burn fast and bright, thing that I haven’t experienced since I was a teenager.
I met him in Belorado. @alexwalker and I got the last two beds in the hostel he was staying in...
Hi Tilly.
Well I don’t know if it happens often, but it does happen.
In April 2014, I was walking the Camino Le Puy, solo. It was my third camino, having walked the Frances in 2011 and 2013. On the afternoon of my 19th day on the Le Puy route...
Not meeting on Camino but one year I met a young Texican couple. Good upbringing, good schools, perfect teeth, etc (oh, and they were really good, intelligent, positive, and nice people too). They had been childhood sweethearts .. did school...
In 2013 near the end of my first Frances I met a spanish lady and we dated for 9 months. Now just friends. She lives near Madrid so I see occasionally when I walk.
When I was 27/28 I asked God to send me a man: named Ken (to my Barbara/Barbie), 6’2”, 190lbs, single, well-educated, never-married, no children.
When I was 40 on my second camino I met him in Roncesvalles at the pilgrim’s dinner. He lived on...
Not a very serious topic, but I just realised how ideal it would be to find romance on the Camino. A fellow pilgrim seems like the perfect match: he likes walking, he likes Spain, he does his own laundry, he gets up early, he shares similar...
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