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If you really want to walk just where people have walked for over a thousand years, you could start by ripping up many of the highways we walk near and put the Camino back where it used to be. ;-)
[The medieval roads, with the most efficient...
I can understand this wish. I’ve had those same thoughts. But, I now think of it another way. We are walking through areas / countries where people are living, working, commuting, going about their daily lives, maybe benefiting from improved...
Oh, simple!!! I would move the remains of St James to Roncesvalles!! Then pilgrims could walk from Santiago to Roncesvalles and I could walk through France to Roncesvalles - I SO loved my Camino in France, completely different experience to...
Have to disagree. Yes - there would be fewer services. But "dull"? Not my experience. There are now 50 pilgrims on the Camino Frances for every one that I met on my first Camino. I could go for days without seeing another pilgrim. But it never...
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.
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