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Thank you for volunteering to assist pilgrims. Your care and thoughtfulness to preserve the Camino de Santiago is admirable. I must ask, why do you write pejoratively about “cyclists on the Plata”?
Have you considered that some pilgrims are no...
I wrote a little something about my pinched nerve here. It's all good now, by the way. It seems to have sorted itself out with a little time. YMMV.
Edit: Don’t worry, not giving medical advice, but the description of your symptoms does sound...
I think you were going in the right direction. The brownie points for being a pilgrim (or a hardcore distance walker) rather than a tourist are imaginary and I think St Peter probably doesn’t take them into account. And despite what they tell...
Every pilgrim is a tourist while many tourists might be pilgrims.
The term pilgrim is not exclusively reserved for walkers.
Even bus tourists can be pilgrims. 😲
Once pilgrims arrive in Santiago it can be hard to differentiate who has walked there and who hasn't.
Some of the dining "rules" in Spain kind of drive me crazy. Last year a fellow pilgrim and I went for the menú del día at a restaurant in...
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