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I have a different view of beggars and homeless. Due to a string of mishaps and cockups I was stranded, broke and homeless in Bangor Maine USA a few years back. I've always worked, and have a comfortable life, but I was forced to live in a homeless shelter for 2 weeks waiting for paperwork /...
I met the German from Hanover in Hontanas. He "said he was a pilgrim" and had walked from Germany 3 months before. Our group spent the evening drinking with him. We never saw him openly beg and he never asked us for anything but we did share our wine and he got the last empty bed for free at 9pm...
I just completed a 16 day walk from St Jean to Sahagun beginning on Good Friday. I became part of a fantastic group of 6 pilgrims from Roncesvalles onwards. We started each day between 6.30 - 7.30am and pulled up around 3pm each day. No problems with finding beds. No bedbug encounters and...
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