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  1. Rebekah Scott

    Camino Lore blog from an expert

    Camino pioneer Laurie Dennett, a professional writer and historian, is publishing a monthly foray into her vast store of Camino stories! Big fun! Find it here: https://www.waybread.org/memorys-rucksack
  2. Rebekah Scott

    Ditch Pigs 2023: La Rioja!

    The 2023 Ditch Pigs Camino Cleanup is LaRioja-bound this year, departing Estella 27 Nov. and rolling on to Sto. Domingo de la Calzada over four days, leaving a litter-free Camino trail in its wake. We reached the Magic Number of volunteers (six) early this year, so no active recruiting was done...
  3. Rebekah Scott

    2023: hospitalero shortage

    It was clear in 2022 that something was up... and now in 2023 it's come a cropper. There are thousands of trained hospitaleros out there, but this summer --with record numbers of pilgrims stretching the infrastructure to the limit -- there's a real shortage of volunteers stepping up to care for...
  4. Rebekah Scott

    Fr. Richard Rohr on Tourist vs. Pilgrim

    Fr. Richard Rohr OFM is an American Franciscan priest and writer on spirituality based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. In 2011, PBS called him "one of the most popular spirituality authors and speakers in the world". This is...
  5. Rebekah Scott

    "Waybread:" Camino Lore from Laurie Dennett (in English!)

    "Waybread: Memories of the Camino for the Onward Journey" by Laurie Dennett. Peaceable Publishing, Moratinos Spain, 2023. 301 pages, paper and e-book. Finally in English: a timely collection of speeches, studies and observations of the history of Camino de Santiago pilgrimage phenomenon, by...
  6. Rebekah Scott

    New/old Pilgrim Welcome Center in Madrid

    Spain will soon have its own Camino de Santiago International Information and Welcome Center, like those that receive pilgrims in Portugal and France. The center will be in the historic Convent of the Comendadoras de Santiago in central Madrid. • A consortium of Spanish and international...
  7. Rebekah Scott

    Ditch Pigs Camino Cleanup 2021: No stopping a pig!

    The frost is on the pumpkin and the trash is glittering in the ditches... time for the Ditch Pigs Camino Cleanup Crew to strap on the neon vests and litter-picking tongs and head out into the wilds of BURGOS! For more than ten years, volunteers from all over the world have gathered in late...
  8. Rebekah Scott

    New Albergue in Canfranc

    This week the Fraternidad Internacional del Camino de Santiago (FICS) signed an agreement to staff the new Albergue Municipal de Peregrinos de Canfranc, in Canfranc village along the Camino Aragonese north of Jaca. The 16-bed albergue is purpose-built within a vintage schoolhouse on the main...
  9. Rebekah Scott

    Food pictures needed

    I am working with a camino old-timer to update a classic Camino book, and suddenly we find ourselves short two photos of Castile... no more churches! We cried. Everyone likes cuisine! Does any of you have excellent, hi-res pictures of garlic soup, cocido, tortilla, and/or lechazo, and...
  10. Rebekah Scott

    Could you be a Hospitable Hermit?

    We are kicking around an idea for camino hospitality and I wonder if some of you can help me hash it out. The Camino ethos, at least among some of us hardcore hospitaleros, is based on donativo albergues, simple shelters with minimal facilities, watched-over by volunteer hospitaleros. Some...
  11. Rebekah Scott

    Beds for Pilgrims in Tabara: a Peaceable Project!

    The latest Peaceable Project opportunity is in Tabara, in Zamora province on the Camino Sanabres branch of the Via de la Plata. The little donativo albergue there opened 16 years ago, and thousands of pilgrims have dined, rested, and slept there since. But 16 years of hard use have taken a toll...
  12. Rebekah Scott

    Portuguese Trash: Ditch Pigs Cleanup 25 November 2018

    The Ditch Pigs trash wagon is rolling up the Camino Portuguese Central this year! The Portuguese Amigos have identified the Top 5 most nasty spots along their part of this classic camino corridor, and we'll be the first crew on the scene. It's historic trash, so the work will be heavy, the...
  13. Rebekah Scott

    Warm a Pilgrim

    The Benedictine Monastery in Sahagun has been sheltering Santiago pilgrims for a thousand years. In 2017, Marist Fathers stepped in to take on the hosting duties, offering a traditional communal dinner, pilgrim Mass, and low-cost shelter for any pilgrim in need. But centuries-old convents are...
  14. Rebekah Scott

    Strip Mine Proposed: O Pino!

    I massive open-pit strip mine is proposed just outside Santiago de Compostela, alongside the Frances path. The FICS has taken it up, alongside hundreds of locals concerned about the noise, dust, traffic, blasting, and long-term effects on air and water quality. For details on the proposal...
  15. Rebekah Scott

    A Memorial for Denise Thiem

    (a continuation of "A Shell for Denise" thread) There is now a memorial stone in place for Denise Thiem, American pilgrim who was killed along the Camino Frances in 2015. The people who use this forum have been great supporters of our efforts to appropriately remember our friend and sister...
  16. Rebekah Scott

    Mystery Liquor No. 103

    I am sitting in Caamaño, a family bar in Santiago with Sybille, finishing off a long day´s journey west. She recommends a brandy that´s numbered, she can´t recall the name, it´s recommended by the illustrious Tinkatinker, a habitue of this very forum. So I ask the enthusiastic waiter what...
  17. Rebekah Scott

    Ingles re-routed by local businesses

    The merchants are at it again... waymarks on the final etapa of the Camino Ingles have been dismantled, the signs now point pilgrims away from the wooded stretch most of us know that begins just outside Siguero, and keeps them walking along the busy highway. Where they are more likely to spend...
  18. Rebekah Scott

    Ditch Pigs Cleanup Crew: 2017

    Don't look now, but the DITCH PIGS are back, cleaning up our 100 kms of Camino for the NINTH consecutive YEAR! We've trimmed down our numbers and shortened out work-week this year, gathering on 26 Nov. and clearing out of town on the 30th. We did a really thorough job from Castrojeriz all...
  19. Rebekah Scott

    Why were we not informed??

    All through this year the Paradors were trying to lure pilgrims into their lairs! Why were we not informed sooner...
  20. Rebekah Scott

    BiarritzDon in the Hurricane

    Some of you may know, our friend Don lives in Naples, Fla., right in the target zone for Hurricane Irma. He's spent the last couple of days working dawn to dusk, setting up safe shelters in northwestern Florida with the American Red Cross Disaster Relief team. (He's been a volunteer with them...

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