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  1. Victoria_Peregrina

    Bedbugs in Granon?

    I am very sorry for taking this discussion off topic, but I was so excited that a hospitalliero from my favorite place was posting here. Now, I got a bonus, a motivation to go to Samos. Thank you so much! And apologies for a scenic detour away from bed bugs.
  2. Victoria_Peregrina

    Bedbugs in Granon?

    Thank you, Pingüigrino, Last year I took the San Xil route, and so I really should go to Samos this year.
  3. Victoria_Peregrina

    Bedbugs in Granon?

    Such good memories! When I was there we had a professional chef from The Netherlands. He organized a crew of four guys who have prepared a wonderful dinner, tasty and beautifully presented.
  4. Victoria_Peregrina

    Bedbugs in Granon?

    palmah, Thank you for your service!
  5. Victoria_Peregrina

    Bedbugs in Granon?

    I will be deciding whether to take a detour to Samos in mid-May. If you were still there, it would be a good reason to walk an extra mile for a bit of talk. Buen Camino.
  6. Victoria_Peregrina

    Bedbugs in Granon?

    Grañon and Tosantos were two of my best nights on the Camino. I chatted with the Grañon hospitallieros before leaving and forgot a bag with my toiletries on top of the forte piano. I found it out only when I have arrived to Tosantos and was distraught. There was a friend visiting Tosantos...
  7. Victoria_Peregrina

    Bedbugs in Granon?

    Is bribing bedbugs allowed? ;)
  8. Victoria_Peregrina

    More than one credencial or passport?

    Yes. My insert is a two-sided piece of paper bent two times, thus providing six pages with eight places for stamps on each page. The title on the top of each of the six pages is "FIRMAS Y SELLOS." When folded, the insert shows one page, which is about 2 mm longer and about 6 mm narrower than...
  9. Victoria_Peregrina

    More than one credencial or passport?

    In 2015, I purchased my credential in Pamplona at Jesus y Maria and stamped it there. I then took a bus to Roncesvalles where I got the second stamp. From then on, I was getting albergue stamps in my credential as I was progressing towards Santiago. Somewhere around Sarria, I got a free...
  10. Victoria_Peregrina

    Living on the camino/long term pilgrimage

    When I have reached Santiago in May 2015, I stayed at Seminario Menor. In the dining room I met a Polish man who walked several thousand kilometers for several months, starting at his home. He walked without money and with no knowledge of Spanish or English. Churches and kind people gave him...
  11. Victoria_Peregrina

    Academic conferences about the Camino

    Thank you, C3 to Camino, Georgetown is a member of the Consortium on Pilgrimage Studies, which is centered at William and Mary. I hope to meet key players at this year's symposium I have mentioned earlier.
  12. Victoria_Peregrina

    Academic conferences about the Camino

    Thank you, SEB, I could not find anything suitable in the UPenn database. A Google search has returned the Institute for Pilgrimage Studies at William and Mary, and the Centre for Pilgrimage Studies at the University of York. The York site has a list of conferences, but the ones most relevant...
  13. Victoria_Peregrina

    Academic conferences about the Camino

    I am writing a paper about the economics of the Camino de Santiago. Which academic conferences can I submit it to? The paper is in English.
  14. Victoria_Peregrina

    The Top Ten Things I've Learned from this Forum

    Hi Sabbott, You have created an excellent list of the Camino "principles" and the others made valuable additions. Here are a few of mine: 29. The most important words in Spanish you must know are "Buen Camino". 30. Another important word is "tranquilo". 31. The attitude is everything. Come...
  15. Victoria_Peregrina

    "You talk too much about the Camino"

    Dear Skandinaviangirl, Thank you for an interesting and thought provoking discussion. You have received a variety of suggestions and, clearly, you can't and shouldn't follow all of them. Thus, please feel free to treat mine critically, too. There are no rights and wrongs in one's emotions...
  16. Victoria_Peregrina

    "You talk too much about the Camino"

    The original post and the responses that followed have overturned one of my Camino theories. I walked the Camino alone and greatly enjoyed it particularly because I walked it my way. I always was surrounded by friends when I felt like socializing, and I was alone when I chose so. I maintained...
  17. Victoria_Peregrina

    A Camino Story (The Camino Provides)... Do you have one?

    I was walking alone, passing a cow pasture behind a wire fence. One cow was close to the path and we made an eye contact. As I was walking, I was keeping the contact and even walked backwards for a while. The cow was a game and followed me through. When we finally parted, I was heart broken...
  18. Victoria_Peregrina

    Your annoying habits

    Good point. To my defense: I wanted to read until 10pm, i.e., not through the night, and I thought that it was consistent with albergue rules. Some albergues had an even later lights-off time at 11pm. As for iPhone, Kindle and alike, I did not want to carry electronics not only because of...
  19. Victoria_Peregrina

    Your annoying habits

    I was treating my first Camino with utter reverence and tried to be considerate of everyone and everything. But on one occasion I failed to do so. After getting starved for reading, I bought a book in Leon and was reading it at every occasion until I finished it. In one of the albergues...
  20. Victoria_Peregrina

    What's the Difference between a Pilgrimage and a Long Walk?

    When I was walking the Camino, I had two separate conversations with two different people about suicide. One was contemplating it; the other one had someone who had committed it. Both people were in their 20s. In the first case, I felt responsible to give the person convincing reasons to...

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