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...I am on day eight of walking the Francés at the moment. It is quite busy. A lot of talk about beds (and the need to book ahead).
I don't book.
Today I tried really hard not to get a bed. I really tried.
Got up late. Took my time to pack...
As Rebekah stated; the Camino Frances is a pilgrimage. By definition a journey to a sacred or holy place. But pilgrimage is much more than a journey to a physical place; it is meant to be a dualistic journey where the physical leads to the...
The Camino de Santiago, aka the Camino Frances, has ALWAYS been a long-distance route. Short and easy religious trips are "romerias." A pilgrimage traditionally is about simplicity, traveling with the minimum, learning what you can do without...
I think there was never an idea of a particular starting point to the Camino de Santiago. I can't speak to the earliest times, but in the 80s, when I first came across it, there was the idea that four routes across France converged into two...
Mito,
I have walked this stretch twice in the last year. The first time with my husband to recon for my student group and then again this winter with my students. We walked a simple Camino. Churches were open and even this winter we attended a...
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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