Dear forummembers,
It is with great sadness I inform you of the death of @annakappa.
She and her husband fraluchi ( who was also a member here ) were very active on this forum.
They were both gentle and wise people.
They were always generous...
Rather like those Pilgrims in the Supermarket spinning around in the aisles and almost knocking people over! Be aware of how much a pack 'sticks out'.
I would normally take off my pack and put it in sight just inside the door, or against a...
When you start your Camino at your front door. The two pilgrims I met more than once on the Camino de Madrid were Madrileños, walking from their homes. I cheated a bit on my front-door Camino. Living in Canada, it would be a challenge. But I used...
I am not religious but the Camino is a pilgrimage. I try to respect the pilgrimage by getting a stamp at the cathedral or church where I start the Camino, at the end and at any open church along the way. Parish priests always seem delighted to...
Hopefully this is allowed, but I intend to approach my local basilica or maybe the City Council, and ask them for a stamp, ie my camino starts from my home town which is Invercargill, New Zealand (which is 19,100km away as the bird flies).
Anywhere and anytime. I am a unapologetic stamp addict and can easily amass a dozen in a day. My favorite is going to a post office, buying a stamp, pasting it in my credential, and getting the local postmark with the date. This one is from...
I've walked 35k a couple of times and I had a "walker's low" cuz I was dragging.😅
Now, quite a few years later I drag after only about 25k and I prefer to break up stages when possible to 20k.🙄
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