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Anne Chépeau of Radio France in
an article published 24/04/2024,
describes a special exhibition of paintings and choir carpet of Notre-Dame cathedral restored after the 2019 fire and presently visible at the Mobilier national where they were...
I just need to vent here a minute. I've been booking lodgings for my next Camino (not my group, but my own).
I would like to ask people who post reviews, especially on pilgrim sites such as Gronze, to remember where they are and what they are...
Minimising your environmental impact having made the entirely avoidable decision to fly halfway round the world does seem to be attempting to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Staying as long as one can so as to average out the...
Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
You better cut the pizza in 4 pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat 6.
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much...
Some of the comments after the article are as interesting as the article itself. One of them mentioned that the Camino Francés may have lost ´market share´, but it hasn´t lost in total numbers (even those have been more than made up since, and...
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...
I wonder what the 1948 reference is about? I walked my first Camino in 1990 and there was no 100km minimum distance rule for receiving a Compostela at that time. As I understand it that rule was introduced in connection with the 1993 Holy Year...
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