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Ah, Saint Mike, sadly it wasn't meant to be. Unfortunately the owners/ crew of the boat were very behind schedule and that, combined with a general lack of communication, meant that we had to scrap our flights to meet the boat in England. In the end it didn't sail until about 2 weeks later...
I was skimming through these posts, half reading, and thinking about all the other things I "should" be doing (I call myself "Martha, Martha..." at these moments) when this quote slapped me up alongside the head. The memories of those times which I never would have wished for and when I've...
As an American who is married to an Irish man and has been living in Ireland for many years, I sometimes referred to myself as an American who lives in Ireland or, when feeling lazy, said I was Irish. I don't remember the attitude or reaction being any different regardless of the answer. While...
Oh my yes. Met a man who had walked the whole way from Belgium and booked into a hotel for his first, much deserved, private room of the trip in Villafranca because he was feeling a bit worn down and ... you guessed it...bedbugs. I could have cried for him. :(
Hi, Brenda. While all are correct that you can't really replicate the Camino very easily with training and you can't accurately predict the effect the Camino will have on you - physically, emotionally, and mentally- I think Seabird is spot on: whatever problems you may not anticipate, you also...
Thanks, Cherry and Nuala for your leads. I'll follow them up and maybe get lucky! If anyone else is interested, I suspect there are still spaces available on the Jean de la Lune. They're allowing 9 days for the crossing but did it in 80 hours last year and are hoping to beat that this year...
A shiver of resonance ran through me as I read this. Perhaps these and love and all we still have of great worth. To connect with these, to remember, to continue on. It's a good pilgrimage for an ordinary day, if there is such a thing. Buen camino, my friend.
So I have a chance to sail on the tall ship Jean de la Lune to A Coruna, leaving Portsmouth on the 31st of August and then to walk to Santiago. At present the best option to start the trip is to fly from Dublin to Southampton to meet the ship, but I would really love to go using "no planes...
I spend my days in my garden looking at ancient burial cairns not on the tops of nearby mountains but slightly down from the summits where they are visible from the inhabited lowlands. These structures seem to have been built with remembrance in mind. I love your smaller, more personal gesture...
@Bradypus Green with envy over your trips as well! Planning to combine our sail with a stroll on the Ingles and getting very excited about it :D If you can be tempted, there's probably space for more on the ship. It's a commercial tall ship heading south for winter in the Canaries and...
Been away for a while... Thanks for the detailed info. So sorry to hear about your back. What a shocking and abrupt finish to your walk! It seems I have a chance to sail on a brigantine from Portsmouth to A Coruna in early September (not nearly as long a walk as I'd like in Spain but...
It was a bit of long range planning (dream camino kind of thing :)) so I didn't actually ring them. Thanks for the tip. How long did it take from St. Malo to St. Jean Pied de Port? Were there reasonable paths/ accommodation on this section? I just finished reading "All the Light We Cannot...
I was doing some research on getting from the UK to Bilbao a while back and it seemed that you couldn't go on the ferry as a walk-on passenger. Anyone know if this is true? Kind of defeats the purpose for me to have to take a car ;)
Living in Ireland, we fly from Dublin to Biarritz and then a short bus/ train or taxi journey to Saint Jean, but I've heard of pilgrims from North America being able to get reasonable flights to Dublin and then flying onward from here. Try options on skyscanner.ie. They often have good prices...
Hi, Abigail
The first time we went we started from Saint Jean and walked as far as Santo Domingo. The next trip we picked up there again and got as far as Astorga. The third trip we walked from Astorga to Santiago and on to Finisterre but got lazy and didn't continue on to Muxia! Maybe next...
Oh, Lee, I feel for you and your family. I too am childless and an only child since my brother died 26 years ago and understand the sense of responsibility to parents. Life throws things at us suddenly and, in the moment, we don't know if we can cope with it all. But luckily we don't need to...
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