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What does it take to be able to walk a Camino after a heart problem? I guess I will see for myself.
Tomorrow morning I am having surgery to implant a pacemaker. It was the...
I had a heart attack at a young age 47, open heart surgery, two stents, and a pacemaker. I have 2/3 of a working heart and now seven Compostellas. Take your time, know your limits, sit down and watch the world. The Caminos are there for you...
Check out this earlier thread re
the descent into Zubiri for relevant posts.
I would NOT follow the camino path any further beyond the Puerto de Erro for it becomes hell. After one ghastly descent in 2004 for the next 9 CFs I always walked down...
Very interesting.The Civil War in Spain has contributions from George Orwell, Andre John Dos Passos, Arthur Koestler, Andre Malraux and others. Should be worth reading.
The review was interesting, and tepid, saying Michener failed to grapple with the complexity of Spain - and I have to say I agree. Iberia's pleasant enough, but doesn't go anywhere remotely complicated.
(The reviewer wrote this more gritty and...
If anyone is interested here is a review of Michener's Iberia shortly after it was published.
http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/05/12/88946674.html
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