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  1. LGLG

    Bus Tricastilla to Samos?

    i understand you may have reasons to consider transport, but just in case walking is an option... The alternative route (more quiet by all means) via Samos to Sarria is quite nice - there is a bit next to the main road (not too busy if you leave early e.g) but also much forested sections and...
  2. LGLG

    Twelve Camino Rules for Life

    I concur. All applicable to post Camino life, definitely. Re point 4- a variation to the ‘not hurry’ advice, I saw on the way and absolutely love: - life is too short to hurry it.
  3. LGLG

    Did you miss anything?

    Wholesome food and decent kitchen facilities.
  4. LGLG

    Thefts at municipal albergue of Melide

    Trust in God, but tether your camel...
  5. LGLG

    Last post From The Road

    ‘ This true hike is between me and God’ and so it is. With that knowledge I have faith that the continuation of Dave’s calling towards Santiago will be successful as a pilgrimage (even as he tries to distance himself from the notion of pilgrim). Perhaps, the experience of isolation may turn...
  6. LGLG

    Need to abandon walk!

    So glad to hear. It was very hard for me to accept that I could not carry my pack, but accepting my limitations got me as far as I did (one day off now). I also had to take a bus on a couple of days my husband walked on, and I had a back up plan to start again from Astorga - but things turned...
  7. LGLG

    Need to abandon walk!

    I had massive foot pain from about the second week, which looked like the end of my Camino as well, plantar, bursitis and arthritis all at once. I rested for a couple of days, prayed, used voltaren forte, changed into sandals with thick insert and woolen socks, as well as some extra cushioning...
  8. LGLG

    How crowded is it.

    ??? 190 euro? More like 30 to 40 max for two people? Booking.com and onlypilgrims. Unless you book through a tour group of course...
  9. LGLG

    How crowded is it.

    It's strange - I too was scared of the reports of crowds - we are now 2 days off Santiago, and we still have to meet those hordes of people. I'm sure they are somewhere but we seem to walk in between the cracks, and havedo e long stretches without seeing another soul. We started the aragones...
  10. LGLG

    An attempt at a secular Grand Camino Theory of Everything

    Just beautiful, Purky ... this really speaks to my heart, and as I'm about 220 km off from Santiago at the moment - more or less my thoughts also.
  11. LGLG

    Lourdes :September 29 2018

    Try NOT to miss the evening procession ... locals are usually very understanding and helpful in Lourdes. If your accomodation is not right on the path to the sanctuary, I would head to the sanctuary straight upon arrival. If you got a pack with you, possibly a restaurant might hold it for you...
  12. LGLG

    Why multiple times on the CF?

    Amen. You succeeded wonderfully in describing the magic - and I love: I pray with my feet.
  13. LGLG

    Why multiple times on the CF?

    It wasn’t English language oriented when I walked it the previous two times - and I met many repeat offenders on the way also then.. in fact it was much more multilingual a decade ago, French, Italian, German, Portuguese. All were more frequent than English, the frequency of which has surprised...
  14. LGLG

    A better guidebook?

    I’ve only walked with the SJPP one page sheet in the past - it’s great and light ! Didn’t come in that way this time so didn’t get one. Using brierley and find it sufficiently accurate for my needs - including reserving ahead and yes.. I love the alternative routes he suggests also - some real...
  15. LGLG

    Is the Camino for me?

    Some people (like me) get drawn to the Camino several times, others wonder why they d ever do again (like me sometimes) others still are on it and wonder whether they should leave (like me, two days ago) have made a mistake or what (I never make mistakes? ha,). So how do we know? This is a quote...
  16. LGLG

    LIVE from the Camino Yesa to Liedena to Lumbier

    I was there just two weeks ago - I can’t do too great distances, and because the Izco albergue is permanently closed - I did Undues de Lerda to Sanguesa via Castello de Javier, then to Lumbier (only hotel accomodation there) and then Lumbier to Monreal (we did it without wifi, so a little hard...
  17. LGLG

    An attempt at a secular Grand Camino Theory of Everything

    As much as I follow your arguments on transcending pain, and pain being a vehicle towards transformation of a more limited self, your theory does not explain the Camino pull to me. What you are saying would apply to any other long distance trail, or similar endurance test also - yet rather than...
  18. LGLG

    99 steps

    A Sufi story that keeps me going..., A devoted Muslim ant wanted to make its pilgrimage to Mecca during the holy month of Ramadan, The problem was, the ant was living in London, and being so small could not even contemplate how many steps it would have to take to get there. Even worse, the...
  19. LGLG

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  20. LGLG

    Permission

    Thanks - and yes updated my photo to this recent Camino (10years older). I honestly didn’t have a more recent photo of myself until now when I started on the aragones ... photo shy and definitely not into selfies... ha.

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