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  1. jayree

    Camino Frances during the pandemic

    Mary Colwell’s new book The Gathering Place: A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times. Why did it make the 2024 shortlist of the best travel books? Several of the books on the shortlist are centred around walks or hikes, including The Gathering Place, which traces Mary Colwell’s 500-mile solo...
  2. jayree

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    https://www.salon.com/2024/01/20/my-unexpectedly-feminist-pilgrimage-walking-the-camino-de-santiago-and-the-freedom-i-found/
  3. jayree

    Sites along the CdN

    Walkers on the CdN may find some sites of interest in this article...
  4. jayree

    Blister Prevention and Care

    From the July REI newsletter https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/blister-prevention-care.html?
  5. jayree

    A unique Basque artist

    Perhaps someone might encounter this artist on the Camino Norte. His sand sculptures are just remarkable. https://mymodernmet.com/andoni-bastarrika-sand-sculptures/
  6. jayree

    New art in Bilbao

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/drowning-girl-statue-causes-stir-bilbao-2021-09-28/
  7. jayree

    “An experience that is more about the self than the selfie.”

    From the NYT 52 Places to Travel in 2021. The Camino de Santiago, Spain “An experience that is more about the self than the selfie.” My grandfather and I have walked four routes together on the Camino de Santiago. He is 80 and Catholic; I am 35 and skeptical. Our walks were undistracted...
  8. jayree

    Cáceres

    This Ancient City Should Be Your First Stop in Spain Post-Pandemic While other destinations have been hibernating through the pandemic, this medieval jewel west of Madrid has been quietly glowing up. Read in The Daily Beast: https://apple.news/AuvHw6DIbSI6zhl23gx8gbg
  9. jayree

    NYT article on Asturias

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/travel/asturias-spain.html?
  10. jayree

    Visiting Spain from the couch

    https://artsandculture.google.com/project/discover-spain (Yes, there is a link to the Camino de Santiago)
  11. jayree

    Camiño dos Faros

    This article from the Washington Post (June 2019) was recently posted on their year-end travel newsletter "look back at some of our top stories of 2019." https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/hiking-spains-luminous-lighthouse-way/2019/06/06/22fc5d40-8186-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html?
  12. jayree

    Relics and pilgrimages

    There is an interesting article about relics and pilgrimages in the online magazine Aeon. From the ending ... "If you believe that that these places and objects might be sacred, you can experience a profoundly moving act of veneration in which the celebrity or celebrated dead is both mortally...
  13. jayree

    Thoughts on a long walk in Japan

    "In the context of a walk like this, “boredom” is a goal, the antipode of mindless connectivity, constant stimulation, anger and dissatisfaction. I put “boredom” in quotes because the boredom I’m talking about fosters a heightened sense of presence. To be “bored” is to be free of distraction."...
  14. jayree

    Cape Finisterre’s mythical pull

    http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190411-the-camino-de-santiagos-ancient-secret?
  15. jayree

    Strangers on the Earth

    Last night at the American Pilgrims on the Camino (APOC) Gathering in Ashville, NC we watched the recently released movie “Strangers on the Earth,” a documentary on the Camino Frances. The soundtrack, Bach cello sonatas performed along the way by one of the central characters, “pulled the movie...
  16. jayree

    Training at The Prado

    A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/travel/prado-bicenntenial.html?
  17. jayree

    Pilgrimage

    Today I was reading "The Life You Save May Ne Your Own. An American Pilgrimage." by Paul Elie. It is a combined biography of Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy. (Richard Rodrigues calls them 'the best Catholic American writers of the twentieth century'). At the...
  18. jayree

    St Nicholas and Bari Italy

    A nice summary of St Nicholas with story themes that overlap with Santiago and the history of pilgrimages ... https://www.salon.com/2018/12/25/this-christmas-tell-your-children-the-real-santa-claus-story_partner/
  19. jayree

    Rioja wine

    A nice summary of the new "rules." https://winefolly.com/review/rioja-wine-gets-a-new-classification-system/?
  20. jayree

    Sacred Sites. The Camino

    This season (in the USA) the Smithsonian channel will feature a documentary on The Camino (season 2, episode 3) that will air in a few weeks, August 27. Details are at https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/sacred-sites/the-camino/1003827/3462207. From their web site ... "For more than a...

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