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To be fair, the two women at the centre of alberguegate haven't received much sympathy in this thread as a whole.
It might be kinder to consider that their plan to use the donativo network was ill considered to begin with, rather than outright...
I get really annoyed with people who seem to still think that Camino should be like they imagine it should be especially after they’ve spent far too much time on this forum researching what it could be.
Oh, and people who think I snore out of spite
I like to think that this forum’s best aspect is to help first-time pilgrims prepare for the best experience possible by pointing out the benefits to be gained and the losses to be avoided. Secondarily the forum is an excellent place for the...
Fair enough. The discussion seemed to focus on albergue rules. And perhaps I'm just weary of the 'what (who) is a pilgrim discussion'. So that's for me to tune out in future when it comes up. Appreciate the job of you and other moderators. 🙏
I think part of the challenge is that there are (at least) two different but related meanings for the word Camino, as applied to a pilgrimage route to Santiago.
One is the physical route that thousands or millions have trod upon on the way to...
Absolutely you do you and I will do me. We should each be true to ourselves to the best of our ability.
Buy we should all remember, in the din of the "It's my Camino" voices, that no one walks a Camino alone, even on the least walked route. You...
I must agree to being apparently one of these "most people". I had thought that this Camino was the one taken by many Christians in al-Andalus (Mozarabes) to Santiago de Compostela. I wasn't aware of a history related to St. James and his...
Last year, after walking a short camino - the Baztan - from Bayonne to Pamplona, we decided to walk 'backwards' to France, via various stages of the Aragones / Arles Way, a path we enjoy very much. We stayed in one donativo albergue in Spain and...
It is sad how narrow peoples' views are. To paraphrase St. Francis, Evangelism takes many many forms. Some of them are even spoken.
The Camino is packed with generosity, transformation, breakthroughs, and epiphanies of all kinds. These all...
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