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It's often been said that the Camino, as well as everything around it, can be a reflection of one's inner habits and philosophies on life as a whole. I've been reflecting on this myself for the last few weeks, as I expended an unbalanced amount...
Recycling is good but it wasn't voluntary, it became law, with fines for not doing it. The same with the move to less polluting cars .. expensive clean air zones and so on, not voluntary, not choice. So there is no virtue in it.
I do see a lot...
That's why I don't use any streaming-service. As I read last year, 2/3 of all digital traffic through Europes largest central main-node in Frankfurt is videostream.
All datacenters in Frankfurt (especially banking and finance) could heat the...
Many returned pilgrims, after the experience of travelling light, are convinced that we could, and indeed should, live quite happily without an accretion of consumer goods. While we pride ourselves on our attempts to reduce our material...
Most equipment that I brought to my Camino in '19 I owned already. Only bought a bumpack and new boots.
On booking airfares I include the CO2 compensation (a few Euros extra) and use airlines that offers informations about their environmental...
"I’m curious about what other people reflect on in order to ‘tread lightly’ as they walk"
Thanks for the thread.
In my life, which is almost 77 years long, I have come to pay attention to the circle created by the bulk of me, the shadow I cause...
Flying from Australia to Europe is always going to be the highest environmental impact through carbon emissions on any Camino and I do struggle at times with the apparent selfish nature of that action. Once in Europe we try to travel by train...
Oh man, alexwalker – those photos. Reminds me of a niche American movie, First Reformed, one of the saddest and darkest films I’ve seen. (Maybe even more so because the recommendations were high among clergy members.) Just palpable despair...
According to this article, sent to me by a friend in Oviedo, the old train station in Pola de Gordón will be turned into an albergue, at a cost of more than € 500,000.
Lodging for pilgrims isn’t bad in Pola de Gordón, with two very affordable...
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