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I went to an orthopedic shoe store and had custom insoles made for my feet. My doctor recommended that. They were fantastic because they felt great and I had zero blisters.
I typed out my letters, converted to Spanish using Google translate. I would use Google translate on their Spanish letters converting them to English for me to read.
I trained with putting a 10 lb bag of dogfood in my backpack in my backpack and walked the daily distance I hoped to walk. That worked great helping me getting my self used to the weight of the backpack.
Not much, at least about the camino itself. The beautiful and ugly, the serene places and the parts near a motorway, the cities and vast empty spaces...all those things are part of a whole.
People are another story. I would love fewer entitled...
Wouldn’t change a thing. I walked on sacred ground, walked by millions of feet for well over a thousand years. I am but a humbled visitor to that historic path.
The albergues are set up to serve pilgrims on their way to Santiago. Many will also host pilgrims who have walked to Santiago and are then returning home by foot. If your intended journey does not either start or finish in Santiago - even if it...
I agree.
To advance [British] pilgrimage as a form of cultural heritage, turning the Christian tradition of barefoot walking from a penitential exercise into a pleasurable sensory experience, Christian heritage not as religious heritage but as a...
I have met a couple of people over the years that engaged me and had a degree of evangelical fervor. Each time I told them to leave me alone and I don’t want to hear it. I have my beliefs and you have yours. I couldn’t care less what your beliefs...
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