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  1. dick bird

    New law affecting dog ownership in Spain

    https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/these-are-the-most-important-changes-that-20230822143759-nt.html So far as I know, this has not been mentioned on the forum. I was actually researching laws affecting service dogs in Spain when I came across this, it is an English language article (for expats...
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    How do I get to Loarre Castle?

    The Castillo de Loarre is on of the gems of the Romanesque and is sited tantalisingly close to the Camino Catalan between Bolea and Sarsamacuello near the town of Loarre. I reckon it is possible to walk up to it and carry on in one day. Wikiloc, All trails etc show trails and I could probably...
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    Romanesque, and others, architecture on the camino

    Possibly self indulgent, I´ve been playing around with basic software and old photos. Romanesque art tends to be overlooked and under-valued, as if the whole of western Europe was blundering about in a superstitious fog punctuated with infighting, epidemics and the occasional famine until the...
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    ¨I am human bedbug bait¨ article in the Guardian

    A topic of which we never tire. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/01/experience-i-am-human-bedbug-bait
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    How many pilgrims walked Camino de Santiago in the Middle Ages, Medieval times? Was it really 500 000 per year?

    OK, a brief explanatory introduction. What follows is the thread as it first developed under the original title ¨500000 pilgrims expected in 1023¨ If you want to know the answer to the question posed by the new title, you could read through the whole thread - it is well-worth the effort because...
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    Cruz de Ferro - What is its history, and what happens to all those stones?

    This may upset some people. The Cruz de Ferro is an iconic site and it has become a tradition to leave a stone or other memento, often in memory of someone who has passed away, on the mound surrounding the cross. This has been going on for many years now. However, the mound does not seem to be...
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    KUMANO KODO not the Camino

    We have just come back from Japan having walked part of the Kumano Kodo - it is a network or routes linking several shrines and holy places rather than a route or routes to one destination like the Camino de Santiago. I walked the Nakahechi, by far the most popular and best-known, and the...
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    Signs and Wonders

    Over the years, I've taken a lot of photos of waymarks. In an idle moment I put them together with a (possibly appropriate, possibly inappropriate) music background to make a video.. Hope you enjoy it.
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Albergues requiring proof or certificate of vaccination?

    Can anyone tell me if albergues are currently (i.e. as of now) requiring proof of vaccination? Is this standard practice and what happens if a pilgrim does not have the certification required. Current protocols for Castilla y Léon suggest that vax certs are not demanded so I'd like to know what...
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    Old routes in Spain

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210923-the-revival-of-spains-epic-pastoral-migration Many caminos use pre-existing routes, many of which were used by pastoralists, for example, the via de la Plata was used as a transhumance route and the via de la Lana existed for that main purpose...
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    Poems for the camino

    dick bird submitted a new resource: Poems for the camino - A private but hopefully shared collection. Read more about this resource...
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    Can you identify this Pablo Neruda poem?

    "And that's why I have to go back to so many places in the future, there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no witness but the moon and then whistle with joy. ambling over rocks and clods of earth, with no task but to live, with no family but the road." This is the translation of...
  13. dick bird

    Photo album of VdlP and Sanabres in 2012

    This is a link to a youtube video of the Plata in 2012, starting from Sevilla Camino VdlPin mid-April. It won't have changed much, especially the countryside. It was my first camino and it is a very long one, but very rewarding. Unlike the Francés, it crosses some very different regions, the...
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    More Thoughts on the Olvidado

    I hope I won’t be looking back at all this in a few years’ time and shaking my head, but it looks like we can realistically plan for 2022. A lot of people will be considering a less well-known camino and the Olvidado is certainly that, in fact ‘neglected’ or ‘overlooked’ might be a better...
  15. dick bird

    Photos of the Invierno 2018

    I did put some captions on, but they seem to have been wiped. People said some really nice things about my video of the Aragonés, so I've done one of the Invierno. It's well worth doing, the scenery is spectacular, especially the Rio Sil and some interesting places, e.g. Las Médulas -one of the...
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    Self- catering - no utensils in Galicia

    In 2019, we discovered that all the cooking utensils had been removed from all the municipal albergues in Galicia. No-one seemed to know why. Could be cost-cutting or could be pressure from local businesses, who knows. I'd be interested to hear any explanations (one hospi told it was because...
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    Pictures of the Aragonés 2019

    Don't know if this will work, my first attempt but here are some photos of the Aragonés. Hope you enjoy them.

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