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Btw let's stop assuming that walking for religious purposes automatically means you care about the Compostella, or that someone walking for other reasons wouldn't care about it.
As I've said before, if I ever do the Frances again, I'll stop at Sarria and bus to Santiago. If that leaves me unfulfilled, I can always walk to Finesterre.
Not defending the picture taking behavior, but I doubt God cares much about dress. That isn't to say dress can't be an indicator of respect (it can). But for a pilgrim walking 500 miles to Santiago....... let's just say that outweighs wearing shorts to church by a few thousand miles.
If you're on the Norte this weekend you sure as heck might. Or, I suspect, Navarra.
I live in Donostia and it's cold wet and windy today. Third day in a row. And expected to be that way a couple days in a row.
A week ago it was 99•F/37•C
The Basque Country, especially Donostia-San Sebastian, would easily get my vote.
Then again, I loved it so much here that we worked out a way to get to live here 1/4 of the year, and plan to live here full time as soon as possible. So I'm biased.
Nope. Eurovision and the UK have both said that Brexit won't impact Eurovision. I know this because I read an article interviewing people who changed their vote from stay to leave when they found out leaving wouldn't impact Eurovision.
The best cell phone plan is not to take one IMO :)
As a more serious answer, its going to be tough to find a cheap european plan that will work in France AND Spain. You might be best to use your american plan in france (as little as humanly possible because of cost) until you cross the border...
As someone who lives in the Basque Country in summer and New Orleans the rest of the year, I vastly prefer the Spanish schedule, and we try to keep as close to it as possible when living in the US (hard with a 5 year old and american school schedules). I have a long list of reasons for...
Not in the least. Most pilgrims are under 22 or over 50 because those are the demographics that can be away from home that long. My wife and I were mid 30s, made friends with both demographics, but were laregely alone in the inbetween age range most of the time
MsPath always gives me hope for humanity in all ways. Not just because of being able to walk at her age. Really, its everything about her. Ive never met her in person, yet she is one of my favorite people on earth. She has moved me more than she'll ever know.
And great post Amenome. If it...
We did it with a 13 month old. By contrast, you are set lol
I think the biggest concern is personality. If he wants to do this, if he is excited, you'll be fine. If not, boredom is a concern.
Get him into collecting stamps. That should be a good motivator.
A great sentiment, and I try to follow this mantra in life, especially on Camino, but it isn't really relevant to this specific discussion in my opinion. My issue isn't good vs bad, its being accurate in what I've told people, especially since I've been advising them to stay at Orisson against...
Spot on, except to say that this route was even more complex. It was the 5 km stretch that went TO the roman road. In the 2010/Brierly era the way to cut over to the roman road changed, so even the people who were doing that were on the new connector....what I found was the old...
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