Quite a character - I remember him in 2002 coming to Rabanal and demanding the Municipal be burned to the ground to rid it of the plague (a young Spanish pilgrim had died there of meningitis two days earlier).
He must have been on a mission the day we passed there in 2006. In any case, my eyes were glued to the other side of the path - so like my home pairts! Reminds me, time to return to that avatar!
Can't find the photo right now. This one is from Media Luna, Pamplona.
A local Navarra website has reported the death of a 61 year old German peregrina this morning in Zuriain. The cause appears to have been cardiac arrest. The third death of a pilgrim in Navarra in...
We’re currently on the Frances. We’re walking from SJPDP. We’re looking at our projected dates for Sarria to Santiago. When we try to find lodging it all looks sold out on booking.com. What...
A few km before Portomaran, a huge swarm of wasps swooped down on a pilgrim. Thankfully, he wasn’t stung. He said it looked like a flock of sparrows that swooped down and he thought they were...
Reposted from Wise Pilgrim comments, was hiking with this pilgrim. Don’t follow app,go just a bit further past to well marked turn, not the one with spray painted arrow on stop sign:
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