Walking to Santiago de Compostela in the 1960's

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[mspath]

This is a fine French account/diary available on line of a young man, Dominique Paladilhe, who walked not in the 60s but just after WW2 in 1948; he later became a distinguished historian.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/a-1948-pilgrimage.36028/

also

Check the many relevant posts/links/citations earlier than 1980 in this forum thread.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/camino-franc%C3%A9s-in-the-1980s.18850/

 

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This is a fine French account/diary available on line of a young man, Dominique Paladilhe, who walked not in the 60s but just after WW2 in 1948; he later became a distinguished historian.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/a-1948-pilgrimage.36028/

I was able to grab the text as a PDF file and then import it into Word. From there I used the Translator function to translate the French to English. I am looking forward to reading it.

BTW, the book is freely downloadable as either an eBook or a PDF. To preserve copyright, what I translated is for my individual consumption

 

[MichaelB10398]

Thank you for sharing this - easy to download and have begun to read it. It turns my thoughts to the Way in gratitude and humility - to walk where so many pilgrims have walked before us. It still amazes to consider such an opportunity is still available to each of us.

 

[Bala]

Easy to download, but now I have to figure out how to translate. I love reading about pilgrimages from "back in the day."

 

[jungleboy]

This is a fine French account/diary available on line of a young man, Dominique Paladilhe, who walked not in the 60s but just after WW2 in 1948; he later became a distinguished historian.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/a-1948-pilgrimage.36028/

Thanks for the link! It's been a while since I've read anything in French but I've imported the book into LingQ (a powerful e-reader tool that I use for language learning) and look forward to reading it when I'm in France in a couple of weeks.

 

[sillydoll]

Walter Starkie wrote a book about his pilgrimages before and after the war. Although it didnt receive rave reviews at the time it is now considered a classic. I first bought it in paper back from the CSJ of UK in 2001. Whilst volunteering at our local SPCA bookshop a few years ago I came across a first edition with dust jacket hard cover copy.

 

[Mary Colleen]

Thank you so much, I'll just try to practice my French with it....