Been twice to SdC, first time (2019) the cathedral was undergoing massive renovation and the access was strictly limited. Second time in 2023 the mass was extremely overcrowded and they shut the doors on 200+ more waiting outside.
Went on a...
Strange thread.. so many judgmental attitudes, why? isn't it ok for x to tell how x feel, without an agenda, a question, an opinion poll? Who are you to decide what and how to express here? Maybe the point was to provoke, then you've really...
I dipped in briefly both times I arrived in Santiago. I grew up evangelical, though, and the hordes of kids sprawling in the pews while the elderly stood really irrationally irritated me so I left. (Yeah, I know, different cultures and all that...
Haha! This is so true. Thank you for this. Sometimes I read here or on the many FB groups about people's "musts" for the pilgrimage and I always think "Don't you want to challenge yourself? Don't you want to step out there without your "musts"...
LOVE that stuff!
I bought some on a whim while looking through the REI catalogue, I thought it might come in handy even though I don't blister. I packed it away and stopped thinking about it, UNTIL after my second day of walking I developed the...
Same! And I asked the volunteer at the Pilgrim Office in SJPP where he was from. It took several times of him saying it before I understood "Bordeaux" One of the things that always brings awe and wonder to my Camino is sitting around and...
That’s why:
They don’t live in Europe; there are no direct flights to Biarritz for them; there are no direct flights from Madrid, Barcelona and Porto to Biarritz; and long-distance flights (there and back) to one of these three international...
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