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    What's the Difference between a Pilgrimage and a Long Walk?

    My introduction to the Camino de Santiago was a series of fantastic articles written in the early 1990s by Herb McGrew, a psychiatrist from California, for Gourmet Magazine. He and three others set out to hike from Le Puy. They were hikers who wanted beautiful scenery and to walk from good...
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    "Friends of Planar Fascitis and Heel Spur

    Laurie, I am very curious about how to dissolve bone spurs. Was it rest alone or were there other things you did to dissolve the spur?
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    Heel Spur

    Al, I'm so sorry to hear this. For what it's worth I will throw in my experience. Some years ago I developed pain in one of my heels while on a business trip and saw an orthopedist as soon as I got home. She x-rayed the foot and announced that the bad news was that I had plantar fasciitis but...
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    Suggestions on buying a good bottle of wine in Madrid

    I guess I'm a little late with this post since you've already purchased the wine, but . . . . a few years back there was great PBS special called On the Road with Mark Bittman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Maria Batalli and a Spanish actress whose name I have forgotten. They are driving around Spain...
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    The movie, "Wild"

    In today's local newspaper, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, there is a great review by Roger Moore of the new movie with Reese Witherspoon, " Wild." A brief part of the review says,"Witherspoon . . .hikes her way out of a tragic past, one painful, traumatic step at a time. A...
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    The Camino vs other trails

    I absolutely agree!
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    The Camino vs other trails

    That paints a very vivid picture. Thank you.
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    The Camino vs other trails

    So true. A community of pilgrims . . . I like that.
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    The Camino vs other trails

    Thanks everyone! You people are the best! I love your answers and I agree with them. I will not defend myself to my friends; I can see that this would be pointless. I believe their minds are made up. For that matter, so is mine! The Camino calls to me, and while it's mysterious as to why...
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    The Camino vs other trails

    I have yet to walk the camino, but want to and actively research this topic. I have friends (husband and wife) who have listened to me talk about my desire to make this pilgrimage. They come just short of making fun of this. The wife tells me the camino is no different than any other hiking...
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    NYT article: Swiss woman who walked 10 000 miles ...

    Yes, I read this article. It is quite amazing. I'm glad you posted it. I am not eating grubs!! That's all there is to it. In college I saw a film in an anthropology class of a primitive tribe eating grubs that they dug up. It is an image that has stayed with me for many years. This woman...
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    Big frozen octopus

    Thanks. If it tastes like lobster, I'm all for it.
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    It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

    Oh, okay.
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    It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

    Please explain this. I don't understand.
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    Big frozen octopus

    I guess I suspected that. Sounds sort of like escargot, which is just an excuse for a lot of butter and garlic. The rubber band part is bringing up an old memory of arriving in Barcelona very late at night after not sleeping for 36 hours and ordering paella. It was nasty. It was a cheap...
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    Big frozen octopus

    While we're on the subject . . . what does a big octopus taste like? I eat squid, but those are small tendrils. I once had embryo size octopus in a garlic butter sauce in Barcelona. But the really big pieces that I've seen in photos on this forum do not look appetizing. I'm hoping it's...
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    Hypothetical

    Falcon, you wiley devil, you. I can hear it now, "what kind of tapas ya'll want?"
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    Hypothetical

    I think you're right.
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    Hypothetical

    Thanks, Felipe. I guess it is too unrealistic to try to get to Logrono when one has time limits, but maybe Toulouse.
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    Hypothetical

    Thank you.

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