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    Griffon vultures along the Camino

    I walked the VdLP where one is a lot more isolated than on the Frances. On a particularly remote stretch in Galicia I noticed the vultures circulating progressively lower above me. I waved my poles in the air to let them that I wasn't ready for lunch yet. Earlier, in Extremadura, I came across...
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    Red Hugh O Donnell (Aogh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill) possible gravesite found in Valladolid.

    A great, almost mythical, Irish hero. It would be pretty extraordinary if bones can be found which DNA shows to have been Red Hugh. Eight, rather than ten, toes would surely help. Who knows we might even learn whether the suspicion that he was poisoned by Queen Elizabeth's agents has any substance.
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    Let's talk weight... BODY weight

    I am in my early sixties and walked the Via de la Plata in April/May covering 500 miles in just over five weeks. I ate and drank as much as I wanted and lost about 25 pounds ( from about 180 pounds), which I put back on over the next nine months.
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    Menu peregrino: a close call

    Are you sure they weren't vultures, much more likely than eagles to be in such numbers together. I had a similar experience on the Via de la Plata last year. I sat down on a rock in the heat of the afternoon and noticed them starting to circle overhead. So I set off to walk. They started to...

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