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  1. Burton Axxe

    Unfortunate, but true... I need to skip some sections

    I was in the same situation as the OP on my first Camino, as I had a strict return date. Upon reaching the hub of Carrion de Los Condes, about halfway through the Meseta, I took a bus to Leon, spent a night, and then took another bus to Hospital D’Orbigo, from where I resumed walking the rest...
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    What inspires you for the physical aspect of the Way?

    Bradypus, have you ever written an uninteresting post? Methinks not.
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    What pushed or invited or drew you to set off for 'The Camino'?

    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.
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    What inspires you for the physical aspect of the Way?

    For me, not knowing what lies 100 metes ahead. This is pretty much a metaphor for all inspiration in my life.
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    Amsterdam to Madrid (or elsewhere in Spain) - what are my (cheap) options?

    Wondering what the issue with the Chinese airline was for you. I was thinking of using them on my next Japan- Europe jaunt.
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    Expected weather beginning March 27

    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 thereafter.
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    Looking for publishers partial to Camino literature

    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 recently published describes it as a ‘dangerous’...
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    A brief taste of the Shikoku Henro pilgrimage

    Born in Shikoku! Wow! You take the stage from me. I'm assuming that you are Japanese fluent, both culturally and lnguistically then. Indeed, the bus tours seems to account for most Henro these days. The Japanese rarely have more than a few days to devote to non-work interests, let alone the 45...
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    A brief taste of the Shikoku Henro pilgrimage

    An interesting response, thanks. I wonder if you could tell me which sections of the circuit you found of particular scenic or cultural/artistic/historical interest? I did only temples 1-6, 13-17 (near Tokushima) and those in the 80's (near Takamatsu). I'm also wondering how familiar you were...
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    Looking for publishers partial to Camino literature

    I've self-published (in a different genre) before on Kindle. The good points are a higher degree of self-control and that most of the (usually meagre) royalties go to you. The considerable bad side is that publicity, distribution, and other support is also all up to you. It's actually more work...
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    Looking for publishers partial to Camino literature

    Yes, this appears to be the first step- at least for those publishers not open to unsolicited submissions. So, are there any authors here who have a literary agent?
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    Looking for publishers partial to Camino literature

    Thanks. I’m a fan of your posts.
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    A brief taste of the Shikoku Henro pilgrimage

    I have lived in Japan for 35 years but had never considered the Shikoku circuit until I started approaching retirement. A few weeks back, I finally took a one-week plunge (by domestic air to Kansai Airport, then to Kobe, and a bus from there). Since I had only this limited time, I aimed to get a...
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    Looking for publishers partial to Camino literature

    Greetings all. I have written a Camino book in Japanese, detailing my experience as a white guy 'representing' Japan on the Camino Frances and the subsequent discussions, meditations, and realizations that this entailed from a dual identity or east-meets-west perspective. I have a lead on some...
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Just to backpedal a bit… My previous comment about avoiding mistaking Canadians for Americans is not due to any latent animosity or sense of superiority towards the latter but for the same reason that Hercule Poirot emphatically shouts, ‘I am Belgian! I believe that Austrians feel the same way...
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