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Thank you Ken, your beautiful and heartfelt post was the first thing I read sitting down at the computer this morning. May your life and the life of those you love continue to be blessed in the days, months and years ahead.
I have visited Iona twice and also walked the Frances and part of the Norte so would beg to differ with this assessement. Although many of the people visiting Iona are tourists, many are Christian pilgrims who come for a variety of reasons. It really is a special place, on par IMHO but of...
Thanks for posting the PDF, this is so fascinating! How interesting to find that half of medieval pilgrims were upper class women! I think of Margery Kempe and Brigid of Sweden as medieval case studies of this.
I was laid up with tendinitis for three nights in Santo Domingo and can't speak highly enough of Molino de Florin. A nice room, very close to Cathedral and main plaza, fantastic breakfast and a very kind staff that got me a cab to the hospital (where I saw and orthopedist), and then when I was...
We drove hundreds of miles and camped out in the national forest in northern Oregon to see the total eclipse in August 2017. It was so amazing. An added benefit was encountering all the people that had also traveled to these small Oregon towns from all over, lots of families, lots of people from...
I have painful osteoarthritis in both my big toe joints and have been under the care of a podiatrist for the past 6 years, and it has made a world of difference. At her suggestion, I wear Hoka trail runners, and alternate when weather is wet with Oboz low-top hiking boots. I have over-the...
I agree 100%! I love looking out the window and always book a window seat. I much prefer watching the landscape below, or clouds, to gazing at a screen, which I can do any time at home...I always close it on an overnight flight.
I have friends walking and they could not proceed walking from Pamplona as of yesterday morning. After a rest day in Pamplona, they took a bus ahead to Logroño today and are now happily on a tapas crawl.
As some of you might recall, after my truncated Camino del Norte walk in 2019, I started a FB group, a spin-off from a larger women-only FB group called Camigas, for those who wanted to challenge themselves to walk 1,000 miles/1609 kilometers in 2020. Most who joined did so to train for their...
If you are relatively fit and love to hike, don't be afraid to take alternative "complimentario" routes as listed in guidebooks and apps. Although some may be a bit longer, they are typically quieter, more away from roads, and often more scenic. Also, spend the night in Samos and have a late...
I would be wary of literal interpretations of visual images of Santiago, or of assuming that medieval artists and devotees thought that Santiago after his death had been supernaturally turned in to a pilgrim or warrior, or that anyone thought that these images were visual representations of...
I am also an art historian, and relied on the Gitlitz/Davidson book for great information. I would definitely spend two nights in Burgos. What an amazing city. We were there for the fiesta de San Pedro y San Pablo, which we did not plan but which was so wonderful. The Burgos cathedral and the...
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