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[QUOTE="VNwalking, post: 721773, member: 38350"] I'm ranting. Please forgive me, but here goes - I would have loved to have known all this, right from the start: "The Camino" has been hyped as one thing: The True and Only "Whole" Camino starts in St Jean Pied de Port and goes over ([I]only[/I]) the Napoleon Route and from there on the Camino Frances to Santiago. And along the way, you will have the complete "camino experience" complete with families, angels, epiphanies, and magical provision. This mythology bugs a lot of people, and for good reason - it's a modern story, driven by fiction and Hollywood. Because of it, the Frances is becoming increasingly crowded, each new pilgrim blindly following the stories about the 'true way.' Because of it, every year there are some people who endanger themselves and rescuers by insisting on illegally taking the napoleon Route in the winter and getting into trouble - because it is the 'real' path. And because of it, the actual culture of pilgrimage, and of supporting pilgrims is getting overwhelmed by commercialism. If you have never walked, don't be fooled by the hype and misinformation. The camino is [I]so [/I]much deeper, grittier, more challenging, and three-dimensional than those stories tell. And there are [URL='http://pilgrimdb.github.io/alphalist.html']a huge number of ways[/URL] to walk if you want to end up in Santiago, each of which is a whole legitimate camino in and of itself. And some of which predate the Frances by a long time. So if you seek a genuinely quiet and contemplative walk, there are many options, if you have the courage to not blindly follow the crowd. To inspire, here's a [I]wonderful [/I]map that [USER=7293]@wisepilgrim[/USER] made, and that [USER=1]@ivar[/USER] sells in the Forum Store - and that's just in Spain. The entire rest of Europe is equally covered by camino cobwebs. [ATTACH type="full"]53670[/ATTACH] [I]Happy planning and buen caminos, Peregrinas and Peregrinos![/I] [/QUOTE]
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