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  1. Purky

    Purky and SonofPurky on the Primitivo (and beyond?) July 2024

    Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. So I have reserved the last three weeks of July for a camino. Not only that, @SonofPurky is coming with me! Hence, due to budgetary considerations, I finally opted for the Camino Primitivo. The Camino Portugues was also briefly in the...
  2. Purky

    Not really live from the VF, but still... Lucca to Rome August 2022

    Egged on by @VNwalking , who reacted on a picture I posted in the Via Francigena-section, I’ve decided to translate my Facebook-updates and post them here. Welcome to my impressions of the Way from Lucca to Rome during three weeks in August 2022. I'll comment on this thread once for every day...
  3. Purky

    Just a bit of fun on the VF

  4. Purky

    Via Francigena - Palio di Siena August 16th

    It's been a while since I posted, but guys, I really need some guidance. Currently in the middle of planning three weeks on the Via Francigena in August: Lucca to Rome. Tickets are booked and Sandy Browns Cicerone guide has already been delivered. But here's the thing. I've made a rough draught...
  5. Purky

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD On a positive note...

    While slightly under the weather myself, and stuck at home because of it, I am following the Corona news and progress reports eagerly. Because frankly, there's no escaping it and I have a lot of time on my hands. Yesterday I stumbled upon a column written by Rutger Bregman (translated from...
  6. Purky

    LIVE from the Camino Gudbrandsdalsleden - Eidsvoll to Trondheim

    Day 1, Amsterdam to Eidsvoll It never ceases to amaze me: a trainride and a couple of hours in a metal tube in the sky and I am in a completely different country. Norway, in this case. The next three weeks I'll be walking the Gudbrandsdalsleden, from Eidsvoll to Trondheim. I've finally decided...
  7. Purky

    Liquid camino in Holland

    Imagine a camino of 195 km. Your aim is to do it in three days, visiting eleven cities on the way. You got the visual? Okay, now imagine doing it swimming! A large part of Holland is collectively going nuts at the moment because this is really happening. Maarten van der Weijden, succesful open...
  8. Purky

    Transhumance: inspiration for a new GR in France - La Routo, GR 69

    For centuries it was done like this: during late spring the shepherds of the plains of Camargue and Crau in the Provence, France, would gather their sheep and start the "transhumance à l'anciennes". Thousands of sheep and their herdsmen would walk almost 400 kilometers to the Stura Valley in the...
  9. Purky

    Gudbrandsdalen July-Aug 2019

    Although I am still a bit confused about the name of the pilgrims trail in Norway (is the correct nomenclature Olavsleden, Gudbrandsdalen or Gudbrandsdalsleden?), I am now committed to walking from Oslo to Trondheim in the summer of this year. Tickets are booked, guidebook is bought (a Dutch...
  10. Purky

    A merry and melodious Christmas

    During this time of year I always get a little queasy of all the well intended but (to my taste) very tacky Christmas music. I have trouble embracing corniness. As an antidote I usually turn to a few centuries ago, and for all those who maybe feel the same way: a merry and melodious Christmas...
  11. Purky

    Work in progress: a Grand Camino Theory of Everything - part two

    Apart from the fact that I really enjoyed all the reactions, comments and different perspectives on the previous thread, I also felt there were some ideas offered that fleshed out the notion of a Grand Camino Theory of Everything a lot more. I hope to offer a little progressive insight with this...
  12. Purky

    Cheaper flights with Norwegian Air thanks to exchange rate

    Currently checking out tickets from Holland to Norway, because I'm planning to walk the Gudbrandsdalsleden next summer. I am one of those people that likes to plan, so I've been checking prices since the beginning of this month. There have been some minor changes in price, so tonight I decided...
  13. Purky

    An attempt at a secular Grand Camino Theory of Everything

    I don't know about you, but I'm (intermittently) still trying to figure out what exactly got me hooked on walking caminos, being an atheïst and all. Especially shortly after walking part of the St. Olavsleden with my wife, where it became clear that she didn't share my enthusiasm for walking a...
  14. Purky

    St. Olavsleden went south - assumption is the mother of all screw ups

    I need to get this off my chest. I've been assuming things again, and this time it really went sideways. I got horribly, irrevocably stuck. Take notice, my fellow pilgrims and travellers, of the woes and misfortune that befell me, and be warned. Writing this account starts in Åsen, Norway, where...
  15. Purky

    Camino del Salvador - May 2018

    Monday morning started with what turned out to be a minor hick-up, but what could have been a major disaster. Pretty much all the trains from my hometown to the airport were cancelled during my window of transportation. After some shuffling with possibilities it turned out okay, so I arrived...
  16. Purky

    Annoying people and annoying situations - a fairy tale

    Maybe this post is presumptuous or even slightly annoying, which would be fantastically ironic, but the subject of it has been popping up on this forum frequently the last few weeks. It is rather striking at the moment, the number of threads and stories about annoying people, annoying...
  17. Purky

    Wordless meaningful encounters on the camino

    Prompted by @Kanga's reaction in the "Celebs" on the Camino-thread, I thought back on some of the more notable human connections I made on the camino, but without the use of words. Kanga wrote "... the best moments I thought were when we're enjoying each other's company in an uncomplicated...
  18. Purky

    Three weeks St. Olavsleden, end of July to August 2018

    Oh boy... Tonight I finished booking tickets from Holland to Stockholm and from Trondheim back to Amsterdam. It's going to be St. Olavsleden from Sundsvall/Selånger towards Trondheim this summer. Three weeks hiking with my wife, and when I suggested this idea just after the summer of 2017 I had...
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    Download resource for pilgrims: veggie Francés guide, KMZ/GPX files and more

    A big thumbs up for the Dutch Society of St. Jacob: the download section of their website is getting more and more extensive. Apart from a boatload of KMZ and GPX files (and accommodation listings) of pilgrim routes in most of Europe, you can now also find a PDF guide to Vegetarian food along...
  20. Purky

    The Apostle Santiago ‘too sexy and erotic’

    Just read the following in the newsletter of the Dutch Society of St Jacob: "The 87-year-old painter Antonio Ximenez Muñoz is furious because his painting of the apostle Santiago, which was displayed in the church of his native village of Membrilla in Castilla-La Mancha, has been removed. The...

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