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This morning I felt a deep longing for the great spirit of the great lands I left behind 3.5 years ago
and then, when opening up the y_tube site, this i found showing up as 'recommended'
"LIFE is a WALKING" 3:15min Video
needless to say - am in tender tears now - feeling that i am still a...
good evening - I enjoyed this brief travel by proxy.
saluti
C
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BBC - Templar Hermitage article
Lying at the foot of dramatic limestone cliffs and caves, the hermitage of San Bartolomé is rich in cryptic Templar symbolism.
By Nacho Larumbe // 6 November 2020...
Greetings and Ola'
I researched the forum postings - hoping to find insights /shares by someone who experienced a deep-puncture wound and what had helped, how strong pain-level, time to heal, etc.
As I wasn't lucky finding collective pilgrim wisdom and hope to be forgiven to pose a question on...
....with "My Million Pound Menu "winner, Pilgrim....
(pardon if this is a repeat posting . hope this link works - saluti - C)
After its own million-pound renovation, Duke Street Food & Drink Market in Liverpool is now home to Pilgrim, the winning idea from 2019’s My Million Pound Menu series...
BBC article on Via Francigena
Thirty years ago, few people had ever heard of the Via Francigena: a 2,000km medieval pilgrimage route that snakes a path from Canterbury all the way to Rome.
By Breena Kerr
4 December 2018
I was...
Greetings -
researching yesterday reg the Via Claudia Augustus (from the south through the Alps, nowadays Italy through Austria to Germany) which took 60 years to built, I found the sites below which might be of interest.
During the camino I often walked over or across or alongside Roman roads...
with best and warmest wishes to all for a Blessed New Year New Day each day, 2018 -
C.
“Finisterre” BY DAVID WHYTE (@WHYTEDW), SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR
The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken,
into the western sea, and the moon rising behind you
as you stood where ground turned to...
german article and fotos - (9) about a chap who walks from vienna to marrocco - currently somewhere in finisterre -
http://www.spiegel.de/reise/europa/pilgern-von-wien-nach-marrakesch-warum-ernst-merkinger-das-macht-a-1173554.html
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/jakobsweg-verkommt-zur-partymeile/story/18860411
Jakobsweg verkommt zur Partymeile
Balgereien um Schlafplätze, Abfall und Hipstercafés: Über 280'000 Pilger erreichten letztes Jahr Santiago de Compostela. Die Anwohner verlieren darob ihr...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/well/move/for-exercise-nothing-like-the-great-outdoors.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0
who knew? (insert: irony );)
and with titles as those - has me wonder...
might be of interest -
Many travellers believe Spain’s late mealtimes are a reflection of the country’s laidback attitude, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170504-the-strange-reason-spaniards-eat-late
so many gorgeous paths, such a short glorious life ... sigh...
:-)
best wishes - C
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http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170428-the-ancient-path-through-palestine
Infamous for walls and checkpoints that keep people apart, the Palestinian Territories are united by a walking trail tracing...
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2017/0427/She-re-created-a-medieval-trail-in-Germany-drawing-thousands-of-hikers
via Regia -
might be of interest - in the category: bridging divides':
Esther Zeiher launched the endeavor after she came across an old map. She calls the...
article in todays newsblog - thought it might be of interest
(who knew?)
:)
http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/04/11/shoe-string-theory-science-shows-why-shoelaces-come-untied/
A new study by mechanical engineers at UC Berkeley finally shows why your shoelaces may keep coming untied. It’s a...
http://pilgrimageandcathedrals.ac.uk/survey/visitor
Dear fellow pilgrims -
last September I was able to visit again the very fine Minster of York - especially during the times of Evensong. What a treat those are... When leaving, I noticed a Guest-table with questionaires regarding Pilgrimages...
The Well - by David Whyte - (in Pilgrim)
Be thankful now for having arrived,
for the sense of
having drunk
from a well,
for remembering the long drought that preceded your arrival
and the years walking in a desert landscape of surfaces looking for a spring hidden from you for so long...
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