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True. But increasingly there are many whose aim appears to be to tick the pilgrim office boxes and collect the paper prize with the absolute minimum of effort - physical or mental. Trading off cash for effort in the use of luggage services...
Probably I hike/walk caminos a bit different than most pelgrims, because I (wild)camp most of the nights. So I'm not dependend on the availability of accomadation under a roof. Especially in France there are many official camping sites, and if...
I walked along the VF last spring, May 16-June 9.
It's a beautiful route, and a completely different experience from France or Spain. I haven't been able to put my thoughts in coherent order, even after 8 months, so this is just going to be a...
Next week I will travel (by train) to Arles. Probably gonna stay in the city for a few days to do some sightseeing. So will start walking le chemin d'Arles around the weekend of 23, 24 March.
I'm curious if there gonna be any other pelgrims on...
Two years back, when I arrived in Santiago (after walking from Le-Puy-en Velay), I did not even bother to get the Compostela. Not important to me.
The year before that, when I walked the Via Francigena (from Calais) I did get the certificate...
Or just stop issuing the Compostela and other certificates altogether? Is an endless succession of pieces of paper really necessary? As the pilgrim office no longer takes any active interest in a pilgrim's motives the Compostela no longer really...
Sorry if this sounds weird, but I was moved by the “misery loves company”. I’m living with Crohn’s Disease and had a cancerous tumor removed from my kidney last year. The doctors say they never would have discovered it had it not been for the...
Because of colorectal cancer surgery six years ago, this 74-year-old retiree will be starting my CF journey from SJPdP in September with a permanent sigmoid colostomy. I've come to terms with the extra space and weight requirements that my ostomy...
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