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  1. JabbaPapa

    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...
  2. JabbaPapa

    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...
  3. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    That is an excellent clarification, thanks !!
  4. JabbaPapa

    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...
  5. JabbaPapa

    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 ?
  6. JabbaPapa

    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...
  7. JabbaPapa

    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.
  8. JabbaPapa

    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...
  9. JabbaPapa

    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...
  10. JabbaPapa

    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.
  11. JabbaPapa

    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.
  12. JabbaPapa

    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...
  13. JabbaPapa

    Do you drop any personal restrictions on Camino?

    I do.
  14. JabbaPapa

    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...
  15. JabbaPapa

    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...
  16. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino [Salamanca to Santiago - Sanabrés 2024 - Intermediary in my Home to Home]

    I will OF COURSE do "too much" !! ... but certainly not too quickly. The great big black pilgrim cape is coming along of course, though I suspect that this time it will serve more often as a blanket than as a cape. It's not a Winter Camino.
  17. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino [Salamanca to Santiago - Sanabrés 2024 - Intermediary in my Home to Home]

    Well !! Here's an unexpected parenthesis in this much longer Camino : https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/camino-home-to-home-2019-2021-2022-2023-2024.58346/ In fact, I had thought that my Home to Home was finished, uncompleted except in an abstract sense, but I have been very...
  18. JabbaPapa

    Need some new route advice

    I would definitely suggest a Via Romea, whether the Francigena or a different one. Though the Loire Valley is also fantastic.
  19. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Santiago Tomorrow to complete camino from home!

    Congratulations !!
  20. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    I'm heading out again next week. Hooray !! I think I need to make a blimming *third* Live from the Camino thread, which is pretty weird. The [intermediary] Camino will be from Salamanca and then the Sanabrés to Santiago, then from there a partial reverse Camino, certainly much of the Meseta...

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