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For me, death (Spoiler alert: not my own)
I wanted to pay tribute to my mother, father, father-in-law, all recently passed, and my sister, currently with a terminal illness, through my own sweat.
I thought that the first film was a bit too clichéd with the main characters. The American lead was initially very insular in his thinking and probably had trouble pointing to France on a map, the Dutch character a very laid-back drug abuser, the...
The vast majority of pilgrims visiting the temples do so by vehicle. Often in large groups. People walking the circuit are a very small minority. The linking of the concept of pilgrimage so directly with the physical act of walking is a Santiago...
Very interesting to hear your views. I was born and lived in Japan for 32 years...shorter than you, Burton.
In my youth, my idea of Shikoku 88 was for elderlies with religious convictions. We have hiked around the mountains of Shikoku and often...
I walked at exactly the same time last year but from Pamplona, as the Napoleon route wasn’t open yet. Some zero degree mornings that warmed up to the twenties by afternoon. Blue skies all the way to Rabanal. Lots of (expected) rain and mud...
Thanks. This is the sort of help I was seeking- a publisher with a focus on memoirs of the Camino type, and one also willing to accept manuscripts directly.
The only reservation I had here was in noting that the intro to the Camino book they...
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