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    Shirley MacLaine talks to Oprah about her Camino

    Thank you Ivar for posting this interview with Shirley MacLaine on her Camino. It was her book which inspired me to do the Camino, I was ashamed to admit this initially as there were so many low opinions of her book and her motives. It was your forum which gave me the practical details of...
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    Having to postpone my Camino

    Hello Trish Sorry to hear that you had to postpone your Camino and hope that your sister's diagnosis will be well treated, my wife who did the Camino with me had cancer surgery more than ten years ago in Christchurch and we live life in our mid-seventies as fully as we can. Kia Koha and as the...
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    [video] 아들과 함께한 산티아고 순례길 (Camino de Santiago with my son)

    Hi Kevin_A, Although of Asian origin and a practicing Catholic I cannot give you the answers, but I am sure the two Korean couples must have enjoyed the evenings spent with you, more Koreans speak English than Spanish and they must have felt honoured to have someone speak to them on the Camino...
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    [video] 아들과 함께한 산티아고 순례길 (Camino de Santiago with my son)

    There will be a big leap in the numbers of pilgrims from Korea due to videos like this posted by Ivar (thank you). I flew back with a young Korean lass who finished her years' exchange study in Nottingham University and before she returned to Korea did the Camino. She tells me that there are...
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    LIVE from the Camino Jocey is safe and sound!!!

    This was on my fb page today, a coincidence as no-one knows I am watching this thread. Joe
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    Backpacks as airplane carry-ons

    Hi Angela, It is impossible, in my travel experience, to give an objective answer to the carry-on rules on airlines because of the subjective way the rules are interpreted in different countries by different persons, and also by who is supposed to police the rules. I traveled on Vueling from...
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    LIVE from the Camino Jocey is safe and sound!!!

    David wrote Priscillian wrote: I do hope you have a good outcome and heard from your daughter, as you can see from the two postings not everyone is as concerned as you when they cannot connect to their loved ones.
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    Following the heart

    Peachy, how I love your honesty, you will be thankfull and be blessed irrespective what the traditionist may have planted in your mind. It is your Camino and if you wish to deviate so be it. It will give you a better insight of what is around you. Who is there to judge what is or what is not...
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    Private Accommodation

    lbpierce Thank you for your useful information on Private Accommodation, it is however difficult to give a blanket excellent rating to all those you listed. My own experience in Santiago Hospederia San Martin is that whilst it faces the Cathedral it is expensive for what it provides for its ***...
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    It's Different This Year

    I am a pilgrim. I was made to sit at a breakfast table marked PILGRIM in a Convent off Via Dolorosa in the old City of Jerusalem for the entire week I was in Jerusalem. Falcon 269 wrote: I was not too happy being labelled a PILGRIM when I had to take up the accommodation in the Convent...
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    It's Different This Year

    Hi Grayland, I have fixed up the link so all can view the video which Caminomary525 so kindly led us to view. Although I edited the web address so all can watch the tremendously beautiful black and white documentary, I could not re-insert the edited portion where they got lost and instead of...
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    It's Different This Year

    Hi Caminomary525 Thank you for sending us a link to view the video. The website should have been: http://www.elcaminosantiago.com/Camino- ... n-1963.htm Every era has its gaurdians (official as well as self appointed) for the Purity of The Walk. The degree of tolerance and strive to ensure...
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    4 days route wanted

    Bit off topic but would like recommendations for a choosing a route starting from Plymouth to Santander ferry arriving on a July Monday, would like to consider the walk the English for 5 to 7 days to Santiago starting from Ferrol. The other choice is to fly to Porto from Stanstead and begin the...

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