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  1. Richard P

    Where did you walk ( locally ) in 2021?

    Back in late March when I posted a few pics here of the "Big Trees" which my wife and I had hiked out to I still thought at that time I would be returning to France to set off on another Camino. Well, that has not happened so instead I have undertaken to try to find all the big old trees, known...
  2. Richard P

    What food did you ENJOY on your Camino(s)?

    This was one of those times when it wasn't the uniqueness of the food but the smell. As I was strolling along a lonely section of the Norte up above the beach the wafting odor of French fries hit me every few minutes and eventually I began to hunger/lust for a plate of them. After another 1/2 km...
  3. Richard P

    Where did you walk ( locally ) in 2021?

    A drive then hike out to the "Big Trees" about 10 kms from home.
  4. Richard P

    Breakfast in France

    I do like a good breakfast so I have learned over the years that if I am asked what I would like I often respond with "bacon, eggs, toast and a big black coffee". Now you may think I am being a bit presumptive in asking for such fare but you would be surprised on how many times the owner has...
  5. Richard P

    Camino Blues

    Hello David I'll be spending 2 months so I think I will either reach Santiago or somewhere along the Norte again before returning home. I want to walk the Norte at least as far as Bilbao as when I walked there in 2015 it was raining almost every day from Hendaye onwards and I really want to see...
  6. Richard P

    Camino Blues

    I'm 71 and don't think of myself as "running out of time" yet as I had a father who continued to work until a few months before he died at 92. In all his later years I never heard him refer to himself as OLD. I had to put off my Camino from Mont-St-Michel last year and am re-planning it for this...
  7. Richard P

    Where have you been 50 years ago?

    50 years ago this month I had just finished 10 weeks of working on a salmon troller in Haida Gwaii and was ready to do something which included walking more than 7 meters from fish pit to wheelhouse so with a buddy headed south to Vancouver Island to walk the little known West Coast Trail. We...
  8. Richard P

    Post a picture of your "shadow".

    In a church in Saintes
  9. Richard P

    The back of beyond

    When my great grandfather homesteaded in southern Saskatchewan in the early 1900's he was said to be "off the grid" as the roads weren't in yet and there was no electricity. 30 years later my grandfather on the same farm was blown out during the dirty thirties and headed 450 kms north to raise...
  10. Richard P

    Running a gite/auberge on the Le Puy route

    Hello Tracying I'll start by answering your first question about pilgrims willing to step off the route: for me yes. When I walked two years ago I did stay in many gites, accueil communal and the occasional hotel. The reason to leave the route was to try to get a good nights sleep. I know many...
  11. Richard P

    FICS Forum: Why Change the 100 km. rule to 300 km.?

    Thank you Rebekah for beginning this thread and posting the FCIS letter. When I set out from Geneva almost a year ago destined for Santiago I felt I was on a personal journey of thought and lots of time for reflection. The carrot at the end (the Compostela) was not even on my mind, though I did...
  12. Richard P

    The most emotional place?

    Two of most memorable places were first on the plateau Vivarais-Lignon before Le-Puy-en-Velay where I had to stop and catch my breath a number of times as I was conscious of the history of many of the residents in this area who chose to hide and protect Jewish children during WW2. What was it...
  13. Richard P

    What about those pilgrim's meals?

    Hello Matt I just finished walking across France (Geneva to Irun) and Spain (Camino del Norte) and my recommendation is take the Turkish red pepper. I love hot spicey food and that is not a Spanish favorite. The menu del dia is definitely the way to go for bulk but you will probably have to add...

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