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I was recently in Salamanca and found a heavy metal sculpture in a park outside the eastern wall of the city. The sign was entitled ‘Fundación Camino de La Lengua Castellaña’.
It had a crude map with Alcala de Henares in the southeast, with a line going northwest to Ávila then to Salamanca...
According to all of the sources I’ve seen (gronze, various threads, maps, wikitracks), day 1 of the Camino Ebro takes you southwest from Deltebre to Sant Carles de la Rapita (20 km), and day 2 takes you north-northwest towards Tortosa after passing through Amposta (at about 12 km).
Meanwhile...
I just finished reading the novel, The Garden of Happy Endings, by Barbara O’Neal. The story’s main female character is a former Catholic, now Reverend in a Unity church, who had walked the camino 20 years before with her fiancé. The fiancé ended their betrothal on arrival at the Cathedral...
Greetings all. I am considering returning to the Le Puy route, but looking for a variant. It appears there are GRs that go from Conques to Toulouse and there is a GR guidebook for the route. A short detour could put me in Albi, which has a fascinating history.
Is there anyone out there who...
I was fooling around on google maps, following the route from SJPDP and noticed at Orrison a bunch of tents set up behind the building. Does anyone know if this was overflow or if that many people were carrying tents?
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