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This topic is fraught with confusion. There’s medical costs, reimbursement for travel changes and cancellations, and then the item you highlighted: medical transport. For the first I have US Medicare Advantage plan (not plain Medicare, of course). For the second I take my chances because the...
Dinner at Meeting Point last fall was pretty good. I remember my new companions: Annie the toirtoise and Imelda and Julie from Arlington and the duo from the Twin Cities. There was also paella I'd call more solid than memorable.
Did they advise you against staying there? In a place that "had" a problem (past tense)?
Any place can have a problem. It's the response that matters.
How far are you from Navarrete? in what sense are these competitors?
I'm less enthusiastic than others about launching your Camino and more especially your kids' Camino with what sounds like a grueling introduction. (I had a great trek over the Pyrenees in high winds with some ice underfoot, but I have a real phobia when in comes to unrelieved sun, so that...
While hiking in France I learned that many of my fellow hikers called me "the American" because I was pretty much the only one around. When we talked politics I said that my US left politics would probably put me somewhere in the center in France. That always produced laughs and cries like "But...
I just reconciled myself to carrying at least a week's worth of cash. Always kept most of it securely wrapped with my passport, which I guard resolutely and am never without. I never thought about using a card except for an occasional hotel break and my weekly withdrawal. On the Camino cash is king.
I'm sympathetic but this?
"Also, the number of new albergues and guest houses springing up all over the place as entrepreneurs seek to make a quick Euro out of the pilgrims purse. "
Who's exploiting whom? Through the miracle of international currency exchange, many "pilgrims" take advantage of...
The "problem" with groups is their groupness. If everyone walked alone or in groups of two/three/four it would be easy to spread out. But get a few groups of 10 or 12 on the path and that just increases the odds that they'll move in synch at some point and increases the possibility of...
Well OP koilife continues to call this a Jubilee Year. If everyone misunderstands what the Year of Mercy is about, then we should expect Holy Years numbers this year, despite the Pope's attempt to make it clear that this Holy Year is not about generating tourist income for Rome or any other...
I too rather like your thinking/questioning.
Wouldn't it be interesting if the Camino adopted the technology used at major marathons and we got a chip to attach to a shoelace. Then we'd have great data!
And just to repeat something I've said elsewhere: this Holy Year declared by Pope Francis...
Sheen and his grandson and another relative walked the camino with minimal planning after attending a relative's funeral in Ireland. They had a car that they took turns driving, so each had every third day off. Don't know how much anyone carried.
Then came the idea for a film and the script...
I wonder why anyone cares. Go ahead and get two, one for each foot. It's not like the number "in circulation" changes the value or significance of anyone else's.
Even photographs of Francis of Assisi on the beach in Barcelona wouldn't stop the unholy alliance of Money and Mythology that drives the faux anniversary industry.
Scholarship doesn't have a chance.
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