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  1. Mark L

    Declining Pilgrimage Numbers on the French Camino: Understanding the Local Political Context

    Fact is I’m with you, the point of a pilgrimage is the journey and the time it affords. I didn’t get all the way across last year due to a family death but one of the bits I’m looking forward to tackling in the next month or three is the Meseta. For a solo minded person like me, it’s actually...
  2. Mark L

    Best Ultra Lightweight Sleeping Bags for the Pilgrimage in March-April

    Not sure where you are located but Alpkit do a light quilt which I think is called a cloud cover quilt. light, not expensive and enough if paired with travel sheet you may also fancy spraying the sheet etc with permethrin before setting off to help ward off any bugs
  3. Mark L

    Looking for lightweight tent

    Budget option is Nature Hike cloud up 1 or 2 when I say budget, it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than Zpacks etc, heavier but not too much and works well my real question is “is this for the Spain Camino“ ? If so, why take a tent because organised camping is sporadic and relatively expensive, wild...
  4. Mark L

    O Cebreiro not O'Cebreiro

    Read this and immediately (and somewhat worryingly) thought of …. O Cebreiro, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet When the wind comes right behind the rain. sad but then …
  5. Mark L

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Any reason for concern about post covid surge in 2022?

    Really, who knows and how would this population know ? maybe ask the same question on the WHO forums for some real advice with a basis of fact …
  6. Mark L

    An alternative system for Albergues

    I’d be happy to meet you and I’d also be the first to offer what support I could were you to feel in danger. even if that meant my carefully planned “schedule” now meant nothing I’m not offended but I attempted to actually reference the OP. you didn’t and seem to think I’m alpha male so react on...
  7. Mark L

    An alternative system for Albergues

    then don’t …. I wasn’t trying to speak for everyone on the camino. I was actually referencing the post. Nor did you mention the points on that around many of the same age range not being au fait or having apps in the first place and realistically how that would be updated by Albergues. plus, I...
  8. Mark L

    An alternative system for Albergues

    Tbh I’m on both sides …. like the positive suggestion, like apps and it’d be handy … if it could work and all pilgrims actually had capacity for an app themselves or a team of people handled it on behalf of simple lodgings and all stops did the same etc. Erm not going to happen I am ok sleeping...
  9. Mark L

    Priest attacked?

    This is sad from a number of perpectives … let’s start with the wellbeing of the priest … I’m sure many are wishing him recovery. next, it’s a point of reflection on all of us… when a priest can be attacked in these circumstances, what does that say about the people concerned and more widely...
  10. Mark L

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Let's be careful with our advice

    not got the experience of some here but managed to complete to French side to SJPdP last year in gaps between detentions but it just wasn’t possible or really preferable to try to show horn more into that. For me, the Chemin was the few parts of 2020 which was all about positive. So there is...
  11. Mark L

    Pilgrims Moving in France

    I was a bit surprised over the last few weeks to see pilgrims moving past my front door in Cajarc, france. to be honest, given the current restriction, I didn’t even think they’d have found places to stay ... especially given they would be around 350+km in if starting the Le Puy route And even...
  12. Mark L

    Le Puy (or Geneva) to SJPdP in Autumn

    If you get as far as Figeac and have need of help, just drop me a message and I can help out also can help with local advice (up as far as SjPP) and French language. I live in Cajarc so am always happy to assist Pèlerins where I can having got to SjPP myself last year and hopefully further into...
  13. Mark L

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Camino update - March 1st 2021 What's the situation regarding travel?

    What possible relevance does camping have to the highlighted post or more importantly the OP .... which is entirely about current effective closure. Every time anyone even mentions pretty much anything that May have “camping/wild camping“ in it, immediately the posts go down the negative...
  14. Mark L

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Camino update - March 1st 2021 What's the situation regarding travel?

    So you know what ? thanks for that. It isn’t what anyone hoped for right now but what it is, is what it is and frankly this isn’t a time to be all about personal entitlement. im sure I’m not the only person here thinking “when i can, without hurting others, then I will“ Camino : it’s been...
  15. Mark L

    How to make the Camino more tent friendly. Ideas?

    Yeah I know because I can read .... my question was more along the lines of the OP which was nothing to do with wild camping (in NZ or anywhere else) it was specifically examining options on how to make the Camino more tent friendly how does examining desirability of wild camping using...
  16. Mark L

    How to make the Camino more tent friendly. Ideas?

    Why is this thread now about NZ ? maybe discussion on NZ camping could be started on another thread ?
  17. Mark L

    How to make the Camino more tent friendly. Ideas?

    Having managed to get across the French Le Puy route to SJPP in 3 phases between the various restrictions last year, I was both pleased and sad to be camping all of it instead of hostels. sad because of the isolation of doing it alone and not getting together much with others. pleased...
  18. Mark L

    My 2020 Journey ... home to SJPdP on a bike

    Thing with it appears to be ... having got though enough of it ... there isn’t Really an option but to continue. It’s so similar to the feeling I got though wilderness canoe expeds in Canada etc, yet there is also something else. It’s not something you do, it becomes something you are My wife...
  19. Mark L

    My 2020 Journey ... home to SJPdP on a bike

  20. Mark L

    My 2020 Journey ... home to SJPdP on a bike

    Tbh I’m always and always have been, ok to help people where I can here, so Cajarc should be safe ground for anyone passing here ... if I’m here, I can sort problems, offer hospitality etc. If I’m not then I can get someone to sort issues you’d find a different but similar beat to Paddling...

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