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Unless you walk a mile in someone else shoes, you don't know where they have come from or what suffering they have endured. If you go around , accusing people of cheating, look at your conscience and ask yourself "Are any you different from those who persecuted Jesus"?
Jim the Camino is just like life, and life is not always "fair ".Remember Matthew 20:1-16 it ends The last will be first and first will be last. (not unlike beds in the albergues)
With so many elderly walking the Camino each year, what happens if I do pass away? My own preference is a Catholic mass, cremation and the ashes sent back to Australia or scatted into the sunset at Finestre by relatives. I have heard of families having to pay huge amounts of money and also all...
The year after the movie came out, and there was a new interest in the Camino. The Spanish economy just edged out of a recession, some called it a Camino led recovery.
I just checked Qantas/Emirates there is an "Early Bird Special"for flights ADL/Paris(CDG) and Lisbon ,Madrid ,and Baracelona /ADL.
Finishes 11/Nov 15.
Would book myself but I am still dodging flying saucepans ,after going too long last year.
I was disappointed that there a bus from Bayonne station, to St Jean Pied de port not the train.I was told later by a Canadian peregrino that the (edit) steal the copper from the tracks ,and French government is sick of replacing it.I wondered if this is the case ,or was he was taking a lend of me .
I am also from Adelaide and walked the camino May 2015 ,flew ADL /CDG (Paris) via Dubai arrive 13.00 at 1430 caught train to Bordeaux overnight cheap hotel ,morning train to Bayonne then bus to SJPP.
On the way home, train from Santiago to Barcelona then flew back to Dubai and Adelaide .
I am coming from Paris and won't be in Bayonne till 22.30 (19/ may).Is there a good hotel in Bayonne ?So I can catch the train to SJPDP in the morning .(I am coming from OZ)
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