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    Christmas in Santiago

    My wife, Robin, and I will be leaving for Seville on November 2nd. This was a sort of last minute decision, but the thought of spending Christmas in Santiago tipped the scale and so the deed is done. Tickets have been purchased and Camino gear is once again scattered about the house. It is...
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    The Apostolic Road

    As the Feast of St. James approaches I offer this simple reflexion. The scallop shell is the ubiquitous symbol of a pilgrim on the road to Santiago, but it also offers us additional guidance as well. Let me try to explain. When the shell is held as in the photo above it allows us to trace the...
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    A winter slideshow

    This past January my wife Robin and I walked the Camino Ignaciano. We never saw another pilgrim (other than CF pilgrims heading westbound from Logroño) for the 27 days we walked. It is a solitary but stunning walk full of challenges and contrasts, but strangely compelling. View the slideshow and...
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    Pope to walk Camino

    The “Way of St. James” to Santiago, Spain is one of the oldest and most famous pilgrimage routes in Christendom. Of the many routes of varying length to Santiago, “The French Way” is one of the most popular. (The Spanish for “way” is “camino.”) And in the latest shock in a papacy of many shocks...
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    Winter Camino del Norte

    Has anyone walked the Norte in Dec-Feb? If so, I would love to know how it went? Cheers, John
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    Camino presentation

    I will be assisting with a Camino presentation at St. Mary's Cathedral in Portland, Oregon on April 10th. I am looking for a slideshow presentation that would give first timers a sense of the route, its history, some practical information on challenges to expect, lodging, equipment, weather etc...
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    Why we walk the Camino

    It has been just a year ago that my wife and I walked from SJPP to Santiago and then on to Finisterre and Muxia. It was strange how the journey came to be. First an unexpected leave from my job, then some money arrived that I had not expected, and the next thing I knew I was booking airfares to...
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    Clothing and equipment from a recent camino

    I have just posted, on our blog, a review of the clothing and equipment Robin and I used during our recently completed, Christmas Camino. Aarn Peak Aspiration packs gets high marks, as do Pacer poles, Patagonia, Arctyrx, Marmot and Ex Officio clothing. Nunatak sleeping bags (but not the stuff...
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    Letting go

    This morning, with life restoring pots of tea at hand, Robin and I talked in the shifting shadows before the fireplace, and yes the subject was the camino (as always these days), I reflected back to a previous conversation we had about letting go. In short the associated vision is a large old...
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    Christmas Camino

    I know that this topic has been addressed before but I am wondering if there is any new information on accommodations open along the Camino Frances this Dec-Jan. My wife, Robin, and I will be departing St. Jean for Santiago on or about Dec 15th. Most of what I have read before warns of...
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    Aarn Backpacks

    Does anybody have information on Aarn backpacks and their suitability for the Camino Frances?Especially interested in the use of their balance pockets with lighter loads (<8kg). Necessary? Useful?
  12. Kialoa3

    2010 Camino Francais December Start from SJPD

    I was hoping for a better weather window to do the CF but the only time my wife and I can put together is in Dec-Jan. We have read many reasons for not going at this time of year. If anyone has any experience with the CF at this time of year please chime in. We would love to learn from your...

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