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I completely agree with what @ShoshTrvls says here:
I can speak Spanish well enough to call and make a reservation, but it's often difficult to understand the other party without the benefit of body language.
I think that WhatsApp is...
For the life of me, I don't know why you have to be so judgmental.
I grew up in somthing of a bilingual house where I spoke mostly Spanish until I started going to school. I do know the basics. But it isn't a "small effort" to learn enough of a...
From SJPdP it's really best to use the service of Express Bourricot. I've used them three times to send a suitcase to Santiago and theyr service is very reliable.
https://www.expressbourricot.com/luggage-transport/
Sorry for coming late to this (I was out yesterday). From SJPP there are two ways of getting things to me in Santiago for storage. See option 1 and 2 here:
https://casaivar.com/luggage-services-in-santiago-de-compostela/
... you can also use the...
I think it's fine to say that is what the Camino should be, but I do have to wonder if it ever was.
This is not a rhetorical question (I do not know the answer): but how many of the pilgrims in medieval times actually went on a deeply spiritual...
I agree completely, 100%, absolutely. I am verging on what cannot be written about on here, but - a pilgrimage is a process, an internal/external process, it isn't something that can be Googled to know the answer, or be done in a hiking holiday...
People in general, are very sensitive and they think they are being personally criticized if they don't fit the "view" expressed. We see it here on the forum which is why the rule about not saying who is a tourist and who is a pilgrim was made...
I can't help feeling that people have become very thin-skinned and touchy recently. All too ready to yell some variant of the J-word whenever an alternative opinion is voiced. If you have given serious thought to your own choices and are...
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