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  1. bjorgts

    We are many people around the world thinking of Spain now!

    We are many who have become very fond of Spain and the Spaniards through many years on Cominos to Santiago. It is very sad to hear the terrible numbers from Spain and see pictures and hear reports from this beloved country just now. This past week I have had Spain in my mind every day. What am...
  2. bjorgts

    What do you do when you cannot walk anymore?

    Alex, I have been thinking of this question ever since I started my first Camino in 2003, much too late in life, I felt. You have got so many good answers here! Mine is this from Ben Okri: "We didn't see the seven mountains ahead of us. We didn't see how they are always ahead, always calling...
  3. bjorgts

    Hurray! Milestone reached! 10 000 kilometers on Caminos de Santiago.

    About being disappointed on arriving in Santiago: The walking need an aim, but it is the walking on the road that makes it worth the trouble. For many years (eight years to be exact) I have carried with me in mind something lovingkindness wrote here on the forum when she was almost on target in...
  4. bjorgts

    Hurray! Milestone reached! 10 000 kilometers on Caminos de Santiago.

    Thank you. I have tried the dictionary. But this is the kind of problem you sometimes get when the language you read and write is one of your foreign languages. I do my best. :) Have all the Camino's had an inner influence on me? I think what I wrote about my experiences above here is pretty...
  5. bjorgts

    Hurray! Milestone reached! 10 000 kilometers on Caminos de Santiago.

    Can you explain "intrinsic" with other world? I have problem understanding this world.
  6. bjorgts

    Hurray! Milestone reached! 10 000 kilometers on Caminos de Santiago.

    - Thank you! - Sorry! I do not have a blog. - We have walked twice in Germany. Mozel Camino some years ago, and half Der ökumrnische Pilgerweg now in September. Both very interesting in another way than Spain. (We speak German.) When I have time, I will write something on the forum about this. I...
  7. bjorgts

    Hurray! Milestone reached! 10 000 kilometers on Caminos de Santiago.

    What have I learned? A year ago, I was asked to give a lecture titled: "What have the long walks taught me?" Then the answer is not about the practical aspects of walking, but about the great lessons: What has the hiking meant to my vision of what is important in life? Here are some answers: A)...
  8. bjorgts

    Hurray! Milestone reached! 10 000 kilometers on Caminos de Santiago.

    A couple of weeks ago, when I crossed the Roman bridge into Cordoba, I reached the milestone of ten thousand kilometers (6213miles) walked on pilgrim roads in Germany, France, Portugal and Spain. We walked out of Pamplona on our first Camino in spring 2003. Since then we have not seen any good...
  9. bjorgts

    The Nun and the Templar - Paying for Sello (Stamp)?

    Thank you, Rebekha! :)
  10. bjorgts

    You Tube Vlogs

    You asked for a link. Here is my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt5ZEmAaRwk0YVj7HRwQa4g/videos Bjørg
  11. bjorgts

    You Tube Vlogs

    I found this thread interesting, since I am one of those who post my videos from my Caminos on You Tube. (25 videos) Before I did this, I was watching videos from different Caminos that could give me the impression of a Camino I was considering walking. I was always so pleased when I found the...
  12. bjorgts

    Is there any elitism between pilgrims taking different routes?

    We came from Camino Norte to Arzua some years ago. It was a shoc even though we were prepared. But that very first morning we met a couple. A young girl had her grandmother by the arm. They were walking very, very slowly. Coming from the other side of the world. They were fullfilling the...
  13. bjorgts

    Pilgrim statistics on the less traveled caminos

    I have collected three Compostellas, and two of the times I told them on the office in Santiago that I had started other places than the startingpoint that year. So I have tried to emphasize that at the counter, but no ... just interested in the place you started walking that year. So no Cluny...
  14. bjorgts

    Pilgrim statistics on the less traveled caminos

    Remember that counting the startingpoints will also only count those walkers who walk the whole camino in one. My startings in Valencia and Alicante will stay invisible. In Santiago they registrate only the place where you started when you walked the part that ended in Santiago.
  15. bjorgts

    Pilgrim statistics on the less traveled caminos

    Since I started walking Caminos in 2003, I have walked 7700 km. I have been counted in Santiago only three times. We who walk parts of Caminos (in almost every holyday!) will get very few of our Caminos counted. I have walked thousands of kilometer in France, from Lisboa, In Germany (!)...
  16. bjorgts

    Peace Museum in Gernika/Guernica?

    I was there two years ago. I found it really good and honest - as Anemone describes it. Bjorg
  17. bjorgts

    Not that I'm concerned but how many got bit by BED BUGS on the Camino

    As you can see, I have walked Caminos every year since 2003. I have never been bitten. I have decided not to worry about bed bugs, therefore I do these things and hope the best: I put an "antibedbug" sheet on the bed (Lifesystems) before I put my sleeping bag on it. The weight is 80g. I have...
  18. bjorgts

    Bed Bugs - Le Puy

    In Spain they say that the bed bugs have come with the walkers from France over the Pyrenees. :D Yes, they are in France too. There are a lot of ways to protect oneself. I think you should read some of the posts for the French route about this. First of all: Do not stay in an albergue where...
  19. bjorgts

    Article in The Times Saturday 1st March 2008

    Calling your own language "THE language" are perhaps not the best way of meeting the rest of the world!? In France "the language" is actually french! Coming from Norway, I can`t go far outside my country before I must speak other peoples launguages. Coming from a small country, you just know...
  20. bjorgts

    Credential / Pilgrim passport update

    Another question: I have a credential for Via de la Plata from the Pilgrim Assosiation in Sevilla. I used it from Sevilla to Caceres in 2006, will bring it with me further to Zamora this year in April, and hope to use it from Zamora to Santiago, hopefully in spring 2009. But I have been...

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