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    • Laura the Explora
      Laura the Explora replied to the thread What makes a pilgrim?.
      They kept referring to page 6 when talking with the women. There is nothing on the English page (page 6) about this. That sentence is not there. Should pilgrims be responsible for checking the translation of a page that looks exactly the same in...
    • Laura the Explora
      Laura the Explora replied to the thread What makes a pilgrim?.
      Unlike the Norte, one would not walk through these towns of stray dogs and abandoned buildings just for fun 🙃🙃 there are beautiful parts of course but sometimes it’s quite uncomfortable and sketchy
    • Laura the Explora
      Laura the Explora replied to the thread What makes a pilgrim?.
      Part of the issue is that association was quite rude about it, sending rather aggressive text (which we read) rather then having a conversation with them. They also claimed it was in their guide that they do not accept pilgrims who go backwards...
    • Laura the Explora
      Laura the Explora replied to the thread What makes a pilgrim?.
      I understand the historical essence of the Camino. I would say that most people do not know the history of this particular Camino and why doing it in either direction is quite a pilgrimage in itself as related to St James and his followers...
    • Laura the Explora
      Laura the Explora reacted to dick bird's post in the thread What makes a pilgrim? with Like Like.
      On another tack, there are numerous people walking up and down caminos, in particular the Francés who are clearly homeless. They are never refused admission to donativos (or at least the rules say they should not be). For the hospitalero, a...
    • Laura the Explora
      Laura the Explora reacted to dick bird's post in the thread What makes a pilgrim? with Like Like.
      There are many other pilgrimage destination routes in Spain (the Ignaciano, to Fatima, the Lebaniego, to Rome to mention but a few), so I do not accept the notion that you have to be headed to or from Santiago to be admitted into a pilgrim...
    • Laura the Explora
      Laura the Explora reacted to ShoshTrvls's post in the thread What makes a pilgrim? with Like Like.
      I understand that an albergue might turn away someone walking the opposite direction because it is not, presumably, why the albergue is there, but I do have a hard time with the notion that the limitation is because the Camino infrastructure is...
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      Laura the Explora reacted to gns's post in the thread What makes a pilgrim? with Like Like.
      It is easy to say that if there was space there was no harm but you don't know what the instructions were and the volunteers' previous experience. There have been posts on the forum bemoaning use of albergues on the Norte as cheap beach...
    • Laura the Explora
      My husband and I are on our 7th Camino right now, the sparsely traveled Camino Mozarabe in SE Spain. Groups of volunteers run the different sections of the Camino and give you codes and things like that to get into the albergues since there are...
    • Laura the Explora
      Thank you!
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