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Why 100km for compostela
The rule was and is purposed to limit the number of qualifying pilgrims to some "reasonable" number, though truth is that our numbers have increased so much that it's hundreds of thousands every year anyway -- but bear in mind that without this condition, the number would probably be in the...- JabbaPapa
- Post #27
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?
As far as the current (and "recent" going back to the 1990s) state of affairs goes, you are naturally quite right -- however these things are not really so set in stone, as the distance requirements for horseback (and donkey) pilgrims were reduced (seemingly in the early 21st Century) from 200K...- JabbaPapa
- Post #124
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🚴♀️ Bicycling on the Camino
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LIVE from the Camino [Salamanca to Santiago - Sanabrés 2024 - Intermediary in my Home to Home]
It's starting tomorrow. I am still annoyed at the death of the Paris plan, but I will instead get a train to Arles or Tarascon or Avignon, and then either travel or hitch-hike onwards from there. I'm putting my shell back on around my neck as I type. It's the same one from Pablo Payo, El...- JabbaPapa
- Post #8
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇪🇸 VÍA DE LA PLATA & Sanabrés (from Sevilla)
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LIVE from the Camino [Salamanca to Santiago - Sanabrés 2024 - Intermediary in my Home to Home]
Well, the project of a trip via Paris is dead. Can't afford it. I'd have had to book it two months ago or something ... So I'll just go back to my usual "make it up as you go along" ...- JabbaPapa
- Post #7
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇪🇸 VÍA DE LA PLATA & Sanabrés (from Sevilla)
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Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain
Wikipedia is insufficiently reliable. I live about 20 km from Nice, and nobody uses anything other than Nissart, or sometimes in French Niçois. But usually even in French it's called Nissart. And it's not "was historically spoken", but this (Occitanian) dialect is still spoken today, even...- JabbaPapa
- Post #42
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Camino miracles
My conversion story is a bit too complicated for this type of forum, and it did happen on the Camino. So a different story. In about 2009 I became very ill with three successive serious flus, being mostly bed-bound over a period of about six months. I lost a great deal of muscle mass, and...- JabbaPapa
- Post #44
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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The REAL Camino Viejo - a new project for a Camino alternative.
Yeah, it just doesn't portray the tertiary Roman roads of which there were/are very many. A map of Iberia I've seen which shows them, and that at one point I posted in these forums, is quite interesting in that it shows some regions criss-crossed with them very extensively, and some others...- JabbaPapa
- Post #67
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇪🇸 Camino VIEJO (Pamplona - Aguilar del Campo)
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Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain
That is an excellent clarification, thanks !!- JabbaPapa
- Post #40
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Do you drop any personal restrictions on Camino?
Sadly, the local Portuguese bakery down here on the French Riviera, which still has very excellent Portuguese pastries, has switched from Delta coffee to an Italian brand. It's smoother, but that's not what you want in a Portuguese coffee ; and it's not Italian either, because they make it in a...- JabbaPapa
- Post #53
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Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?
Given the increased use and I'd say "normalisation" of e-bikes on the Camino, and given that traditional bicigrinos are keen anyway to travel longer rather than shorter distances, should the minimum bike distance to qualify for a Compostela be increased to 400K ?- JabbaPapa
- Post #119
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🚴♀️ Bicycling on the Camino
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Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain
Looks very inaccurate, even just down here locally. There's no "niçart" but it's Nissart. Almost nobody speaks Provençal itself in the eastern Alpes-Maritimes and there is a pretty hard dialectal border formed by the Comté de Nice and also by the local Alps from Èze and La Turbie outwards...- JabbaPapa
- Post #38
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Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain
Some French do. More use Chemin than those who use Camino, and I use Chemin de Saint-Jacques myself, but both words are used by the French, variably between one individual and the next.- JabbaPapa
- Post #37
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Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain
No -- linguistically, even though the concept has been somewhat messily suggested by the OP, it basically refers to local dialectalism in trans-national border regions. Typically, non-native immigrants will over a number of generations become mother tongue speakers of the language spoken...- JabbaPapa
- Post #35
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Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain
I don't think it applies in that case ; nor in the case of Catalan as far as French is concerned -- as the same language is spoken on both sides of the border rather than languages bleeding into each other. Catalan does "bleed" into Valencian, Andorran, the Balearic dialects, and to a degree...- JabbaPapa
- Post #28
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Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain
Basque is completely unrelated to Spanish and French. It is an entirely separate language having no mutual intelligibility with either of those languages.- JabbaPapa
- Post #26
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Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain
Yes, and over the border there are some Italian dialects, not French ones -- though few French people now speak those Italian dialects.- JabbaPapa
- Post #12
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain
French and Spanish are actually quite distant from each other, and typically Spanish monolinguals don't understand French and vice-versa. It's complicated by the presence of Basque in the French and Spanish Basque countries in that border region. French and Occitanian have a bit more mutual...- JabbaPapa
- Post #9
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Do you drop any personal restrictions on Camino?
I do.- JabbaPapa
- Post #41
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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Do you drop any personal restrictions on Camino?
Well, I won't talk about the restrictions that are endemic to any Camino. But I found, after I pushed past my old three month psychological barrier of previous Caminos in 2022, and settled into a different and more "permanent" Camino routine, that walking the Camino in that frame of mind was...- JabbaPapa
- Post #15
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LIVE from the Camino [Salamanca to Santiago - Sanabrés 2024 - Intermediary in my Home to Home]
Every. Single. Time. -- I make myself play a game of Hide the Passport, Find the Passport. Took me about 45 minutes to lay hands on it again this time. Found my old expired Passport within 10 minutes, but that was no help. It was in my old Credencial plastic pouch this time instead of...- JabbaPapa
- Post #5
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇪🇸 VÍA DE LA PLATA & Sanabrés (from Sevilla)
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