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"Oh the weather on the Camino
Is great for all that we know.
But three weeks of sun were for show...
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..."
Yes. Snow. Between Bercianos del Real Camino and El Burgo Ranero. Not in the Pyrenees. On the meseta.
And, despite three weeks of mainly glorious...
My colleagues at my university communications department honoured me with this custom cake on Friday at our staff meeting. I did not want to cut into such a beautiful gift, but finally relented (and ate the bottom half of the pilgrim on the right). I start my pilgrimage on April 5, buoyed by the...
I want to include some Spanish language prep in my pre-Camino. Any reccos of iPhone apps?
FYI, I speak some Canadian French and took two years of high school Spanish back when 'los dinosaurios' ruled the earth. But now "soy" to me is a beverage not a conjugation of the verb "Ser"....
"Preparations court disaster." So wrote my compatriot Alice Munro in her short story Simon's Luck. I considered the irony of that phrase as I submitted my request for a leave of absence in April and May, 2017. After all, what else would a comfortably indolent, casually Catholic, 58 year old...
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