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  1. dick bird

    Re: Galego and Spanish on the Camino Frances

    Galego is not a mixture of Castilian and Portuguese any more than Catalan is a mixture of Castilian and French. It could even be argued that Castilian and Portuguese are derivatives of Galego. But that won’t win you any friends.
  2. dick bird

    standard of living/quality of life in Spain

    And while we are on the subject, pointing out or claiming that a country does not have very good public transport or health system hardly constitutes an attack.
  3. dick bird

    standard of living/quality of life in Spain

    We don’t delete posts that we disagree with. You, and fellow forum members are free to express your opinion so long as you stay within the rules i.e. no sports, politics or religion.
  4. dick bird

    Kdrama Camino Sighting!

    Working in Villadangos at the moment. Fair number of Koreans on the Camino, and a surprising number of Taiwanese.
  5. dick bird

    Little sculptures

    It wasn´t until I started scrolling through to find the photo of the blue tin man that I realised how much sculpture and how much whimsy there is in rural Spain. These were all taken on the Lana in 2022. If you needed more reasons to walk the Lana - here they are.
  6. dick bird

    Life-size Bronze Statues

    I can´t help feeling that if the great man had been there in person, this is exactly what he would be doing. Outside the Gaudi designed Casa Botines in León.
  7. dick bird

    Little sculptures

    This is one of my favourites. It is in the church of San Bento on Plaza Cervantes in Santiago.
  8. dick bird

    Little sculptures

    Did someone say ¨statues¨? Be warned, there are plenty more where these came from. Estella Segovia Diamante San Juan de la Peña
  9. dick bird

    Spanish or English in France?

    ça va - my keyboard does the cedilla (not a dance, it is that little squiggly thing that turns c into s). It means roughly, how´s it going?
  10. dick bird

    Spanish or English in France?

    In my experience, totally undeserved. As it happens, there have been recent articles in the press commenting on the fact that even the Parisians have got nicer over recent years. My French is not great, but travelling in France this has never been a problem and there have nearly always been...
  11. dick bird

    Castles in Galicia

    This is why we keep journals (plus have electronic cameras that record the date). It was, in fact, Salas, which is on the Primitivo between Cornellana and Espina. My apologies for having erroneously resurrected Grado castle.
  12. dick bird

    Castles in Galicia

    I’ll check. It may be anothe town near Grado.
  13. dick bird

    Castles in Galicia

    Not to be outdone, Grado, Villavieja and Monforte de Lemos. I confess, I aalso chickened out of the climb to Torrenovaes.
  14. dick bird

    Romanesque, and others, architecture on the camino

    Hijack away. I agree, and I love Gothic architecture, in particular the perpendicular style of the so-called ´wool churches´ in East Anglia like Blythburgh church (either beautifully restored or miraculously intact, not sure but it´s a stunner), and one of the joys of standing in a Gothic...
  15. dick bird

    Romanesque, and others, architecture on the camino

    Possibly self indulgent, I´ve been playing around with basic software and old photos. Romanesque art tends to be overlooked and under-valued, as if the whole of western Europe was blundering about in a superstitious fog punctuated with infighting, epidemics and the occasional famine until the...
  16. dick bird

    Happy Thanksgiving to all US pilgrims!

    Squawk.
  17. dick bird

    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    You may have been a very good software engineer, Crosbie, but you´d have made a crap defence lawyer: Counsel for the defence: ¨M'lud, my client is entirely innocent of the charges against him.¨ Judge: ¨Then pray, present your evidence proving your client´s innocence.¨ Counsel for the defence...
  18. dick bird

    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    ¨When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.¨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies. There may be no error in logic, but logic is only as good as the premises it is based on. Or, as the Spartans said to the...
  19. dick bird

    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    David, this is part of Crosbie´s style. If you look through his posts you will find well over a dozen uses of expressions like 'It seems', 'It is possible that', 'I suggest', 'No doubt' etc etc. This kind of language is appropriate when discussing inferences and deductions but when basic...
  20. dick bird

    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    The Temple of Solomon was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 587 BC. The chances of the Ark of the Covenant surviving that event, assuming it to have existed in the first place, are just about zero. If it survived and was then stored in the Second Temple it would have been destroyed along with the...

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