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This was my husband. So many thanks to all of my fellow pilgrims who stopped to help and to pray and to translate for me.
He was doing what he loved.
Thank you for the news article link.
For what it’s worth, according to this article in El País, most Spaniards do not eat the Mediterranean diet.
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/02/13/inenglish/1550055336_780262.html
@Camo, it is obvious that you like to talk about movies and movie characters. ☺️
Forum members are mostly interested in the realities of their walk. So to prevent any misunderstandings: Emilio Estevez was allowed to be one of the tiraboleiros...
Heh. I *still* haven't seen the movie, and I've been on two short Caminos. I didn't learn about this forum until after my first ( I think).
Truthfully, I can't tell you what put it into my head to go on Camino...but I'm glad it did.
That's a pretty significant increase. The movie is clearly very well-known, and as per Janet's comment above will certainly have led a large number of people to the camino that may not otherwise have done it.
The same is true of equivalent movies...
I am not American and like you I did not see the film before walking the Camino, although I did see it before walking the Camino Frances.
I haven't watched again, although I probably will at some stage, but I do think this is an ungenerous...
I think it is probably true that the movie has greatly increased the number of people from the US who walk the Caminos. But the influence of the film more widely is sometimes greatly exaggerated. I had a bizarre encounter with an avid fan of the...
The article below indicates that this represents more than 10-fold increase in the number of U.S residents receiving the Compostela in little more than ten years. It attributes much of this growth to the popularity of the film The Way...