I have many books of Mary Oliver's poetry and frequently encountered her walking on the bay beach in Provincetown and in Beech Forest. Silent greetings, a meeting of the eyes, a meeting of the minds and a shy smile as we each went our solitary...
Can someone who has walked through here this year (2024) provide an update on the section between Borce and Urdos around Port du Portolet? Has the pedestrian bridge across the gorge been completed and opened, or is the trail all on the highway...
That's one of my favorites.
Here's another, a prose poem:
I OWN A HOUSE
I own a house, small but comfortable. In it is a bed, a desk, a kitchen, a closet, a telephone. And so forth—you know how it is: things collect.
Outside the summer...
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried...
As I prepare for my third trip to the Way, departing from Arles on 9 August 2024, I've enjoyed a few of Mary Oliver's poems. She was an American poet who loved walking in the outdoors, in nature. She experienced heartbreak and trauma early in...
Les Amoureaux du Chemin in Mecle is permanently closed according to a Google listing and a site called Gites d'Etapes et Refuges France et Frontieres. There was no answer at the email address. I didn't try the telephone numbers but they are...
Gronze mentions a gite in Mecle (3-3.5 km before Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare), but the gite is not in the Gronze list of accommodations, not in Miam Miam Dodo, not in the Buen Camino app, and not shown on Google Maps. A search of the forum has two...
Or not. They didn't stamp mine in October 2023 and I didn't think to ask them to do it. I didn't think it important enough to go back to get the stamp.
Agree with @jabrown. Also, the climb from Gernika up to Pozueta, in addition to being steep, was extremely muddy after rain and logging operations in Sept 2023. Once at the top of the climb, there is a wonderful albergue, Caserio Pozueta...
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