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Interesting thought, it’s not only that pilgrims take experience from the camino (gathering while dwelling), we’re leaving experience on/to it!
Perhaps the thin place is also that it provides opportunity and potential for getting in touch with self. If ‘open’ serendipity provides magic!
Some thoughts
- if people want to obtain a compostela, just follow the rules of the organisation providing them.
- people follow their own rules about their camino.
- it's usual practice on Shikoku (Japan) to use bus inbetween
- contemplation on route: what does your way of looking at others...
Some additional info on this topic I recently posted on my weblog Pilgrimage and Place
Including several short movies, presentations, some article references of more recent dates...
Meet the art of Shinrin-yoku or Forest bathing.
Take a nature therapy session while being at home.
The blog is...
On my Blog Pilgrimage and Place I just placed an item on Nature.
Several views (and little movies) on nature as a place to walk, bike or stay.
Have a look at what nature does for the brain,
find out if nature is right for you,
know about this nature practice: shinrin-yoku?,
enjoy a nature...
You'll find out about the situation on the last part of your camino towards Santiago as you walk there.
A possibility is not to stay in the regular major stage places but to pick a smaller village before or after.
Peaking into Ingles...
(first stage was fine to walk, bridge was tempting, but along the bay walked fine.)
https://www.facebook.com/pauluskouwenberg/videos/vb.100004221725384/422893614528026/?type=2
About 50 kilometers north of Porto on the Camino Portugues the bar keeper told me that in his youth every morning had snow in the streets.
At the moment I'm walking there.
It's beautiful sunny with temperatures around 18 C.
Prepared for winter I am, not for spring;-)
It is possible to receive a compostela for someone who died while walking the camino (posthumously).
This can be arranged through the Pilgrims office in Santiago deC.
Perhaps news we didn't want to hear...
Body of Denise found
May she rest i.p., may her family find peace.
http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2015/09/11/55f33ba4ca4741da168b45b5.html
In a socialmedia group someone asked a simple question, leading to interesting answers.
How long between your idea of walking the Camino
to actually doing it?
Thank you for idea Robert Altenbaugh
Film induced tourism is a complete industry!
With famous examples of 'Lord of the Rings', numerous British police series, sometimes a complete transformation due to a movie like 'Notting Hill' in London.
In the case of 'The Way' we better call it Film Induced Pilgrimage;-)
Just recently I...
Jungle in Nepal!
We're talking about Spain, and the chance you'll contact an albergue infected with bedbugs (and not beforehand be informed by other pilgrims) isn't that big. Yes, there is a chance.
But, as on issues like type of shoes, type of raingear, etc. it's each pilgrim's own decision.
My...
Impression of walking the Camino de Santiago. A pilgrimage route in Spain. Images are from the way from Saint Jean PdP to Santiago de Compostela. All photo's...
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