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  1. Hugh Larkin

    Post number 1 million on the Forum!

    I join with all the other posters in giving a BIG THANK YOU to Ivar and crew for starting and maintaining this site. And I hope the 1M poster is someone who has yet to walk and that receiving the guidebook will be the lighting of the fuse to do the Camino soon. Holiday wishes to all, Hugh
  2. Hugh Larkin

    Information about Pieterpad?

    I did it in June 2018. It is not a pilgrims walk per se, but it does intersect and share sections with some established/signed routes. There is not much info in english. I did answer your pm. Walk north to south, join vrenden op de feits. If anyone else is interested, the following is a link to...
  3. Hugh Larkin

    Morning mass and the botafumeiro

    Just go and enjoy. 2 caminos, 4 mass attendance (2 were pilgrim mass), 3 swingings (very lucky!). The best (and last) was when the small nun sang most of the mass AND the botafumeiro swung.
  4. Hugh Larkin

    Heavy burden to carry

    Both my late parents always encouraged me to get out and live life, even in the last couple of years they were still with me, and they knew their time on earth was short due to deteriorating health. They always said that it brought them joy to see me and my wife out and about the world. After...
  5. Hugh Larkin

    Madrid Hotel Recommendations

    We stayed here in 2018. Nice accommodations. Our nephew’s partner’s parents stay here when visiting Madrid. Just be aware of pickpockets; lost 20€, and my nephew’s friend lost over $200 in the touristy areas of Madrid.
  6. Hugh Larkin

    Rucksack size carry on plane

    So I'm walking around the Albuquerque airport today and see this 🤔😁
  7. Hugh Larkin

    Verizon $100/month plan for iPhone and Apple Watch usage in Europe

    We switched from Verizon to T-Mobile 55+ with the international plan in 2015. Better pricing that included the ‘free, 2-yr iPhones, no more looking for hotspots, no more carrying a second ‘international’ phone outside the US. No more calling issues when we visited Canada, Peru & Ecuador...
  8. Hugh Larkin

    On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 8.0

    Leaving Villafranca Montes de Oca, 16 May 2014. Walking with my sweetie❣️
  9. Hugh Larkin

    On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 8.0

    12 May 2014, Logroño, Marcelino Lobato, “El Peregrino Pasante”
  10. Hugh Larkin

    Handmade Credential

    Here are 2 photos from my 2018 Sanabria camino and 1 from a roadtrip up through Washington State. All show the stamps collected in my sketch journals.
  11. Hugh Larkin

    Handmade Credential

    I suggest getting the blank credential(s) for obtaining your compostella and using your book to collect a duplicate. I did this with my sketchbook which added a special flavor to my image. This way you can meet both needs. BC, Hugh
  12. Hugh Larkin

    Botafumeiro best chance?

    In 2014 when we completed the Frances, we experienced the butafumiero twice, first on the day we arrived in time for the Pilgrims’ Mass, then again 3 days later at another Pilgrims’ Mass, neither being a Sunday. I don’t recall seeing any benefactors, but recall someone saying that a very large...
  13. Hugh Larkin

    How do you feel when you finish a camino?

    Tincatinker has it right. Your camino never ends. Having walked twice, I have found that the 'destination', ie Santiago, is but a waypoint where I celebrate my arrival, ponder about what I have just experienced an learned, and the contemplate the next stage of the journey.
  14. Hugh Larkin

    On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 6.0

    Looking up at the old lit fortress in Puebla de Sanabria at night was a delight. May 2018.
  15. Hugh Larkin

    Train from Ourense to Puebla de Sanabria appears full for 9 days ahead on RENFE

    Looking up at the old lit fortress in Puebla de Sanabria at night was a delight.
  16. Hugh Larkin

    UK to Portugal Ferry Route?

    In 2013, we did an overnight ship crossing from Lisbon to Le Havre across the outer reaches of the Bay of Biscay/"edge" of the Atlantic. That was the worst night I have ever experienced. We were aboard a small 500-person + 350-crew, 600-700-foot ship that got tossed like a feather in a storm...
  17. Hugh Larkin

    Forum Book Club - 1.1 - The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago (Gitlitz and Davidson)

    I borrowed this book from our local library prior to our walking the CF in 2014. After having read cover-to-cover, I thought it was such a great reference tool for so many aspects - history, religion, art, culture, etc. - that I bought an ecopy from Apple books for my iPad (my electronic...
  18. Hugh Larkin

    Missing Spain & CF dearly, however happily walking Dutch Pilgrimpath

    The Pieterpad is also a beautiful walk. We did this walk from Pieterburen to Maastricht in 2018. It also intertwines with sections on a Camino route that wanders along the Dutch/German border. There are so many other trekking routes in the EU as well. And I really like how the routes connect...
  19. Hugh Larkin

    Pleasures of urban walking

    After our 2014 CF, we have been walking more and driving and biking less. As Turga noted, we too, are seeing small changes here and there on our daily walk-abouts of our small city of Eugene, OR; we probably wouldn't have noticed them unless we walked. And its nice to be able to smile, nod...
  20. Hugh Larkin

    Camino Frances a Second Time

    Every repeat will be as exciting as the first. While I have done the CF only once, I have hiked the Grand Canyon down to the river and back out at least 8 times following the same route. Every hike revealed something new and memorable.

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