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  1. Lexicos

    Chemin de Saint Jacque, from Paris??

    In about a week’s time I’ll be starting my fifth Camino from Le Puy en Velay, however, I’m interested to know if anyone in this forum has started their Camino from Paris ….. to Saint Jean Pied de Port. If so, I’d love to know if the route is well marked and easy to follow, if pilgrim...
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    Lucca to Rome - Should I?

    I’ve done the Frances twice, the Portuguese inland and the Le Puy to Saint Jean. I’m considering whether I should do the Francigena, from Lucca to Rome, in September. Should I? Is it well marked? Is there enough pilgrim accommodation along the way? I love Italy and to walk it and see it on foot...
  3. Lexicos

    Time to heal

    I just arrived in Burgos, from Villafranka. A long hike through some beautiful forest. But too long, unfortunately, and a blister under my toe to prove it. I started in Logrono on Wednesday. Today is day 4. Already I have met some good and kind pilgrims, we pass each other now and then. I have...
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    LIVE from the Camino Walking from Le Puy - after a rocky (anxious) start!

    I made a last minute decision while staying in Paris to start in Le Puy instead of St Jean-Pied-de-Port and here I am, due to go to mass in the morning and start walking immediately after. I’m in the first village you come to & my host has kindly offered to drive me to Le Puy early in the...
  5. Lexicos

    Anyone starting from Paris?

    I’m in Paris from 16 June and wondering if anyone is starting their Camino from there?
  6. Lexicos

    Atonement? Is that what it’s about?

    I guess we’ve all made mistakes in life. I’m sure too that at some point we’ve all hurt someone whom we love very much. Life demands so much from us, ever so much and it’s inevitable that we will make some terrible mistakes along the way, usually in our earlier years, when the world is still a...
  7. Lexicos

    Walking from Bayonne to St Jean Pied de Port: A Perfect Preparation for the Camino Frances

    The map tells me that the walk from Bayonne to St Jean is approximately 50 km. That’s a 1-2 day walk. I figure that’s good preparation for the Camino Frances. Has anyone done this walk? Is it doable and is there a place to stop and stay mid-way?
  8. Lexicos

    Which Camino to choose?

    Yesterday I picked up this beautifully illustrated book for a song, $25 AUD, and having glanced through it I’m now torn between the Camino Frances for the second time, the Portuguese Coastal (this time) instead of the central route, and Via de la Plata for the first time. We all know each has...
  9. Lexicos

    Berlin to Santiago.

    I’m interested to know if anyone on the Forum has walked from Berlin to Santiago in one go. And if you did, the route you followed and how long it took. Thanks
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD I’m tired of waiting

    Looking out my window at the rain and the trees bending in the wind and the sun struggling to come up over the horizon and ….. waiting, guessing, praying, hoping, listening, reading, planning …….. seeing myself walking the same streets, the same parks, the same paths….. waiting, wanting...
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    Musings.

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  12. Lexicos

    Connectivity from Australia

    Is anyone else in Australia, or elsewhere, having difficulty with access to this Forum? I am experiencing very, very lengthy delays in nearly everything I do here, no matter which button I click, no matter what I do, to the point where it's practically unworkable for me to participate. Is it...
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    No words.

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    How much longer??

    The photos from pilgrims now walking the Camino bring beautiful places and fond memories into the living room. Aaaarrrkkk! It's not easy. It's interesting to compare the old with the new (sculptures and buildings) and the summer there with the winter here (Australia) and their relative freedom...
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    33 Day Odyssey, Camino & Grand Tour in a time of pandemic.

    DAY ONE I often think about the walks that my wife and I did in 2017 and last year. Those long walks have become something of a beacon these past few months. No doubt the restriction on travel has much to do with this I had to postpone my April Camino to September, now cancelled altogether...
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    The Camino brings out the best in us

    I can’t remember which day it was in June 2017 that we came to that part of the Camino Frances where there is a tall wooden cross and at the foot of the cross a pyramid of stones. It was a cold and foggy day. Pilgrims stop there to place a stone onto the pyramid. In the thin fog, from a...
  17. Lexicos

    I should have lived the moment

    I took these photos in Padron on Thursday 24th October 2019. It shows pilgrims arriving and exploring this lovely town. The photo in the middle is taken from the monastery of San Martiño Pinario. The one on the right is me, taken by my wife. Whenever I travel I always tell myself to enjoy every...
  18. Lexicos

    Can’t get over it.

    Call me a dreamer or a crab living under a rock but folks I’m still in awe of this amazing ability to talk to people from around the world. We can talk about the Camino, about travel, about ethics and so forth. When I first left this country, Australia, to visit Europe, the only way to reach...
  19. Lexicos

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD When will we go back to normal?

    I don’t think we ever will. I’m afraid things have changed for good. In some way, nearly everybody’s life has been touched and changed by this pandemic. Half a million lives lost, at best, and counting. Economies in strife. Livelihoods and businesses cut short. The future of our young ones...
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    I'll be among the first to head for St. Jean.

    My wife and I left Lisbon for Santiago at six in the morning. We’d been planning this Camino for two years. It was September and still warm. An hour later the sun flooded the city streets with gold. We walked for five days in brutal heat and then caught a train to Porto. We stayed nine days to...

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