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I had one of my best Camino days and was so excited to tell someone, anyone, about it and I ran into a woman I would walk with sometimes (we walked at different paces but enjoyed chatting). I started to tell her all about it and she was smiling and happy for me but then got very upset. Turns out...
These are great. Thanks for posting. Seems like a lot of vintage stuff popping up lately. People are are probably not planning so they are researching instead.
I’m an Atlanta Chapter coordinator. The REI’s here do camino classes and both of the presenters (Tom or Fred, depending on the store) have walked multiple caminos. Our chapter also does a class that is intended to be a follow up to theirs. If you in the Atlanta metro feel free to join us at our...
The walk of the missing 25km in your home country came up recently in our local American Pilgrims chapter (Atlanta, GA). When I went to pull up the letter on the CJS website I could not find it. “No problem”, I thought to myself, “I know where there is a link to it” (this thread)...
My first camino I used a German one and a French one. The one I ordered from American Pilgrims got lost on the way over. ( I had intended to use that one and a French one from the office in SJPdP) No problems with either.
Depending on who is at the Pilgrims Office that could be an issue if you...
The town that my grandfather’s family hail from are examples of this phenomenon. It is no surprise, if you visit the pueblo there is nothing, other than family history, to keep a person of any age there. It has become a place to visit, not a place to live.
@JohnnieWalker or anyone else in the know- When filling out the first page of your credential, where it asks for "Starting Point" do you put A Coruña or your home trail? Getting ready to do this with my daughter or I would not even worry, but I would like her to receive a Compostela.
I'll add- make a reservation, and don't just go wandering around. On a non-Camino trip we were driving from Barcelona to Haro saw the building from the road and decided to stop. Wandered the gardens for a bit and at some point ended up in "working" area (see above photo). We had one of those...
Heads up- I was going to buy tickets for the "Pity & Terror" exhibition, unfortunately it ends September 4th. If you want to see it don't wait.
Of course the Guernica will still be there, but this special exhibition will have end before our trip...
@SeaHorse You are spot on. Move off the established routes and it becomes more and more apparent. Of the three towns I know I have family history (La Redonda, Cerallbo, & Sobredillo) only Cerallbo is viable, and it is just barely so. Everyone has moved to Salamanca or Valladolid (or Madrid or...
Amancio, thank you for this update. Still planning, still hoping. Oddly enough, it is the younger people in my family that are interested in this. Or more accurately, seriously interested. Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess.
I've seen lots of kids playing on the equipment in Salamanca and Sevilla. My kids have joined in the fun, too. *Full disclosure, we were visiting family, not walking a Camino* My oldest still remembers her little sister playing with the locals in Sevillla. The youngest only remembers the stories...
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