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We just got our newsletter this morning with a hospitalero report from 2023 from HosVol (one of the organizations we volunteer for that staffs albergues on various Caminos with volunteers). They covered volunteers for 22 albergues in 2023 and...
The nationality of the two women is a minor point. More importantly, they were allowed to stay the first night. Equally importantly, the providers of the albergues have a perfect right to determine who uses them.
Do you really think that? If they were using a credential in the form mandated by the Office of Pilgrimages of the Diocese of Santiago, by that use they had agreed they were complying with a number of conditions, including that their pilgrimage...
I know Anton pretty well, (we serve together on the board of FICS) and admire him greatly. He grew up hosting pilgrims, his mom was herself a "camino angel" with a little hotel on the way to Finisterre... Anton's one of the people who painted...
Please do not misunderstand me. I freely recognise that people may use any service which is legally available to them. They do not need my permission or my approval for their choices and I will not criticise any individual who decides to use the...
+1 for litter of any type, and on a similar theme people who have little respect for the path or people of whose country they are lucky enough to be walking through.
I have just read all 85 posts and managed not to post any comment along the way, which is not like me. It is also past midnight and my bed time, so if I say anything crazy, please forgive me.
As I read through the posts, the first thought that...
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