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Today I arrived in one of my favourite cities in Italy, Palermo, ready to start a solo walk across Sicily on the Magna Via Francigena tomorrow! It’s a ~185km trail from Palermo to Agrigento that I aim to complete in 8-9 days. The MVF is the most...
I started my training walks last fall in preparation for the camino frances this year. This included walking in the mall in bad winter weather (ugh!). My husband was undecided about joining me or not, due to significant foot problems. After...
Read the previous episode here: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/alternatives-on-the-camino-frances-1-lintzoain-zabaldika.86049/
This is episode two looking for alternatives around the Camino Frances. There is something...
It's been 5 years since being in Santiago and my perceptions are stuck in a decade ago. But these days it's so much easier to find good vegetarian and vegan food here.
Yesterday I had a wonderful lunch at Restaurante A Porta Verde. Today I...
This was my husband. So many thanks to all of my fellow pilgrims who stopped to help and to pray and to translate for me.
He was doing what he loved.
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I have just been on, and it seems to be working okay now. I can understand how annoying this might be, but I also accept that this happens from time to time. Sometimes it is the price we pay for working online, albeit that Murphy makes sure we...
My usual walk to the pub along a former railway line. Been postponed a few times this week by bad weather and a heavy head cold and cough :-( On the mend now though. Warm sunny day. One of the less happy sights today is the emergence of Japanese...
14.5 k around Hakendover , famous for their annual Horseprocession.
The three Tommen, Roman burials.
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https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drie_Tommen_(Tienen)
On Easter Sunday a small group of us walked up to the ridge line overlooking the Orroral Valley, one of the earliest places where Europeans settled to the south of Canberra, and later the site of one of the satellite tracking stations used by...
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