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    The Meseta, and El Hostal Guzmán el Bueno and Medieval Galician Poetry…What???

    The Camino is a wonderful experience, one which can be enriched with just a slight bit of reading and knowledge - history, art, or architecture never hurt anyone. Many pilgrims, especially inattentive pilgrims not reading their guidebooks or following closely their App have been surprised by the...
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    One More Step

    Walking the Camino is much more interesting than planning your next albergue or talking with cousin Bill on your cellphone, educational and fun if you know a bit of history, architecture, and art. Saint Bénézet for example, he who built the bridge we all know at Avignon (not Camino) and founded...
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    Not the Best Idea

    A Man stages heart attacks 20 times to avoid paying restaurant bills Ides J. from Lithuania visited several restaurants in Spain before he was arrested and sentenced to 42 days in prison. A man named Ides J. from Lithuania was recently arrested in Spain for repeatedly feigning heart attacks in...
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    The Perfect Souvenir

    A peek into my garden. The green leaves among the flowers are an absolutely necessary ingredient for caldo português or caldo gallego - verza in Spanish not cabbage not turnip greens rather a European form of collard greens. Look up from your Camino app and you will see it growing in any rural...
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    Day of Atonement

    Walking the Camino, any Camino, day blends into day and time is not really important. Before the advent of cell phones, one would often hear, 'What day is today?' For our Jewish Brethren a reminder that tonight at sundown begins our Day of Atonement. גמר חתימה טובה!
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    Sad Day. A very Sad Day.

    A sad day, a very sad day. First days of May and our first heat wave is about to hit. Ran to the garden and picked the remaining leaves from my berza/couve/collard greens to make the last caldo verde/caldo gallego of the season. They don't like our arid heat. So here it went including the...
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    A Reminder For Our Jewish Brethren on the Camino

    Walking the Camino it is so very easy to forget the date, not know which day of the week it is, though we can usually barely manage with what time it may be. A timely reminder for those Jewish Pilgrims on the Camino (far more than you think!). This Wednesday evening. April 5th begins the...
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    A Timely Reminder for our Jewish Brethren

    In the Good Old Bad Days when there were no cellphones and pilgrims blissfully walked often not knowing the date or even what day it was. A friend might say that tomorrow he/she will not be starting early and wants to participate in the Sunday Mass which might return some reality. Today, life...
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    Caldo Gallego!

    My latest crop of berza/couve/collard greens for Caldo Gallego - true I should have allowed the leaves to mature a bit more but I cannot wait!
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    Rain Rain Go Away!

    Six dead in Galicia, Spain, after bus plunges off bridge into a river - heavy heavy rains do be careful!
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    Jewish Pilgrim Hanukkah Alert!

    Jewish Pilgrim Hanukkah Alert! Sunday evening begins our Hannukah celebrations, a time of light in these dark days. In the words of Baden-Powell 'Be Prepared'! In the Good Old Bad days candles could be found for a small price in any church. In these sootless, candle-free days there are none to...
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    This Jewish Pilgrim can only say 'Oy Vey'!

    With apologies to Dylan Thomas, 'Do walk gently into the Night' - Portugal just lost to Korea in the Mondiale and lost first place in their division. Do express condolences.
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    The very best souvenir from the Camino!

    The very best souvenir from the Camino! As you walked you saw the plant; here are the leaves from my garden, the prep, cooking, and presentation - Caldo Galego The plant is called couve-galega in Portuguese or berza in Spanish and the seeds may be found in any ferretería/hardware store, one...
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    Shavuot/Pentecost/Whitsun

    I have been looking through the posts this week and today and am a bit perplexed. Today is June 5th, our Jewish holiday of Shavuot commemorating Moses and the presentation of our Torah on Mount Sinai and your Christian holiday of Pentecost/Whitsun commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit on...
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    Passover Alert!

    Passover Alert! All the different Caminos can become the 'Land that Time Forgot' - I often loose the day, the date, even the time though lunch/dinnertime will usually remind me. So, a reminder for my Jewish brethren and sisters now walking any Camino - Passover Alert! Passover will be celebrated...
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    Purim Alert!

    Wednesday evening and all day Thursday we will be celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim. So for all my Jewish peregrinos both on and off the Camino Happy Purim! If you took along a Tanack read some of the Book of Ester, it's a short one but you will have trouble finding hamentaschen in Spain...
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    Merry Christmas!!! No Not a Mistake!!!

    I have mentioned before that the Armenian Cathedral here in Jerusalem contains relics of Saint James, namely his head! Today the Armenians are celebrating Christmas since they continue to abide by the Julian Calander. It was a wonderful mass, positively medieval, sung in Armenian, but...
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    Now Leaving Pamplona With These Seven League Legs Should be in SdC by Monday

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    Not Yet There!

    Trying to get in shape for another ascent to SdC but for the time being I am motivated by my old photo albums (yes, such things still exist) and this sight on Google Arts and Culture. Worth a few minutes. https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/santiago-de-compostela/m06wr9?categoryId=place

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