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On my Blog Pilgrimage and Place I just placed an item on Nature.
Several views (and little movies) on nature as a place to walk, bike or stay.
Have a look at what nature does for the brain,
find out if nature is right for you,
know about this nature practice: shinrin-yoku?,
enjoy a nature...
About 50 kilometers north of Porto on the Camino Portugues the bar keeper told me that in his youth every morning had snow in the streets.
At the moment I'm walking there.
It's beautiful sunny with temperatures around 18 C.
Prepared for winter I am, not for spring;-)
In a socialmedia group someone asked a simple question, leading to interesting answers.
How long between your idea of walking the Camino
to actually doing it?
Thank you for idea Robert Altenbaugh
Enjoyed 'Wild'?
Have fun with the movie 'A walk in the woods'
Based on the book by Bill Bryson.
Never too old to walk... the Appalachian Trail.
Starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson.
In theaters after summer!
More information and trailer on this weblog. Just click here.
I would like to try to interest you to visit a relative new weblog regarding Pilgrimage and Place.
http://pilgrimageandplace.blogspot.nl/
The blog isn't a travelogue walking the camino.
It's about interesting aspects of pilgrimage, the camino and experiencing place.
Latest entries include...
At this moment the Jesuit priest James Martin walkes where Jesus was born, where Jesus lived, where Jesus resurrected.
You can come along, see maps, videos, read reflections, give your prayers...
But only for six days...
Visit this weblog for more information or video introduction.
Have you ever heard of the pilgrimage of the dead? The Holy Company: Santa Compaña?
Click on link (at end of topic) for more information.
(Source: wikimedia)
Not only on the Santa Compaña but also on the 2013 (Dutch release 2015, other releases unknown to me) animation movie that took seven...
In recent times the outdoors is a returning theme in some very nice movies and documentaries. I gathered some of them on this page. Some of them on the Camino trails, some in the USA and some of them in Australia, the UK or in the desert.
About endurance, emotion and beauty; profound and funny...
Interesting facts on number of albergues:
Le Pecten is the magazine of the Amis de Saint Jacques de Compostelle in Belgium. The society counted the number of albergues on the Camino Francés in 2008, 2011 and in 2014:
2008 257
2011 325
2014 437...
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