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peter,
An excellent post. again I am just home form the Camino and can so fully understand what you so capably put into words that I could not express.
My wife accompanied me this time and after a couple of days told me that she then understood why I was on such a high after I returned...
My two halpennys worth on Irache !
My memories of Irache are arriving at 9:00am and enjoying a cool glass of wine and refilling my water bottle from the fountains.
Wine is an unusual drink in that the taste of the wine can vary depending on the occasion , the ambience , the quality of the...
I first heard about the Camino in a newspaper article about 5 or 6 years ago and when I mentioned it to a friend he said that he had already walked the Camino. I then began to hear more and more about it on TV, the WEB and papers
The reaction I got when I told people that I was going to walk...
Luisa,
I walked part of the Camino Frances this September and while there were many people about this did not detract from a lovely experience. While I met many people in the evenings , most days I walked alone just passing others , or being passed in turn. The only problem , which was not...
bugs
There appears to be a problem with bed bugs right now on the Camino. I finished my Camino on Monday last in Fromista and I hope to return and complete to Santiago next June.
I too was asked to empty my rucksack and dissenfect everything but it happened in Castrojeriz. Some people...
As part of my preparations for my Camino I am doing some hill walking here at home in Ireland mostly in the Cooley mountains close to where we live. On Monday my wife and I drove to the West Of Ireland and climbed Croagh Patrick (otherwise known as "the Reek"). at 2510 ft high. We had a...
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