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Other than allow people to vent, threads like this really serve no good purpose. Those of us who don't know better than to litter the trail with trash and TP, to click-clack along the Camino without rubber tips on their poles, or to deface...
Spain, like the rest of the western world, not only has less priests, but also has a declining population of church goers. So the volunteer parish numbers decline, and the volunteers that do assist are getting older and can do less, or nothing.
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...
@davejsy I read some of your posts and it was delightful to see how much you enjoyed your first Camino. It was particularly welcome to see your joy and positivity in the context of recent threads. So, why even think about changing anything? One...
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