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Great to be there - then. Wish really wish I was.
As it is, I am sitting in a hospital, in Washington DC, next to my wife. I have been her 24 x 7 caregiver since last April - 2023.
She has been here for one week. I took a hotel near by so I...
Not sure if this is the answer you are looking for but here it goes. I’ve just walked into Oviedo after the San Salvador and was a bit “shocked” at all the artificial scents that are in the air (perfume, hairspray etc). It seemed off after...
Hello all. Here to give a brief account of my (and many others) first day on the Camino on May 1.
The trip to Roncesvalles was tough. I went Valcarlos route because napoleon was very ill advised due to the snow storm.
I did not have the proper...
This was my husband. So many thanks to all of my fellow pilgrims who stopped to help and to pray and to translate for me.
He was doing what he loved.
Thank you for the news article link.
I really do not want to go into another discussion about tourists and pilgrims ( yawn ) but I will repeat it again : there are selfentitled pilgrims who write negative reviews and then there are the so called holidaymakers who behave like angels...
Some of the comments after the article are as interesting as the article itself. One of them mentioned that the Camino Francés may have lost ´market share´, but it hasn´t lost in total numbers (even those have been more than made up since, and...
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