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When I walked with my teenaged son 20 years ago, he was a voracious reader (and this was pre-Kindle), so he brought a book with him and was able to find exchanges along the way. They weren't always the books he would have chosen, but he read unfamiliar authors and stories. One, about a young man...
You are correct. I walked in 1974, also with David Gitlitz, on his first Camino with students (he led 5 trips, the last 4 with Linda Davidson, who also walked in 1974). I'm happy to share stories from that experience.
I rented a car from Hertz last year at the Santiago airport. The clerk there needed only my driver's license to rent the car, but he told me that if the Guardia Civil stops you and you don't have the International Driver's License, the fine is/can be 500 euros (I guess it depends on the mood of...
2010 Camino Francés: first photo at Leboreiro 8 January; second photo Monte de Gozo 10 January; third photo, Santiago 12 January on our way to Muxía (note light in steeple to guide pilgrims, lit only in Holy Years). It was an unusual Camino.
There's a place on the cathedral roof in Santiago where a guide told us that pilgrims burned their clothes. The Finisterre tradition is modern.
I've always wondered if medieval pilgrims had burned their clothes, what would they wear as most probably had only one set of clothes - what they were...
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