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I have certainly learned a lot about religion, spirituality, myself, and so many other things while walking and experiencing the Camino. Gratitudes. I’ve returned to the Francés many times because it keeps reminding me of all the people and... -
The Frances is a wonderful route, still, I believe. It's the one I always suggest for a first time Pilgrim. It has an energy that seems to come to us through the ages and the millions of souls who have passed along it. That energy will always...
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I have walked and enjoyed the Camino Francis ten times since 2013. I have obsolutely no interest in walking the Portuguese which lacks the appeal to me of the Camino Frances. All the videos I have seen from the Portuguese looks flat and boring...
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I agree completely, 100%, absolutely. I am verging on what cannot be written about on here, but - a pilgrimage is a process, an internal/external process, it isn't something that can be Googled to know the answer, or be done in a hiking holiday...
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The Camino, camino is. If some of the people who wander down it’s ways have no notion of camino that matters not a jot to camino. If the hoteliers, restaurateurs and merchants scattered along the ways are gazing, disgruntled, at the fortune...
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People in general, are very sensitive and they think they are being personally criticized if they don't fit the "view" expressed. We see it here on the forum which is why the rule about not saying who is a tourist and who is a pilgrim was made...
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I can't help feeling that people have become very thin-skinned and touchy recently. All too ready to yell some variant of the J-word whenever an alternative opinion is voiced. If you have given serious thought to your own choices and are...
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The points translated from the article read to me like sour grapes from Leon, but I admit freely that my command of Spanish isn't up to the task. But... "That pilgrims abandon the French path, which is the initial one, the most traveled one...
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I just read this article. https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2022-08-19/descenso-peregrinos-camino-santiago-frances_3478222/ Here are some points in English: "That pilgrims abandon the French path, which is the initial one, the most traveled...
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There are multiple reports of scammers cloning Booking.con. See here https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/scam-booking-com.84954/ and elsewhere. Best to contact the Albergue directly by email or 'phone.
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