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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD 🦠 Travel to Spain/Portugal for Canadian travelers

    I checked Expedia for flights for mid-Autumn 2021 from St Louis MO to Lisbon. Flight options were all over the place! Up to Toronto for lengthy layovers, one to Denver and tnen to Munich (?) and Frankfurt, several out of London and one, only one to Madrid ending in Lisbon; one did get close...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD A year ago today

    It has been one year -- a lifetime, a moment, a forever, and a "normality" which we shall never see again -- and I think of the elderly woman who stopped me on the Camino in 2002 who asked me to pray for her. I did. With tears, in Santiago, I prayed for her. And yesterday, I received a...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD State of Emergency, Again - Patience is a Virture

    And so our boots In Covid times Did sulk behind the closet door, Bring we our Kelty and our Berghaus, Our Lekis and our Hokas To airport gates and passageways Met with countenance masked and words unkind. Bring us our compostelas unsullied, pure and white Bring us our cafe, solo y con leche...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD I'm plummeting...

    "Thanne longen folk to goon on pilrymagges .." Chaucer Here we are, painting our doors, when we would much rather be walking through the door of an airplane to Spain, not leaning against our too-familiar kitchen door, shaking in tears, wearied, overwhelmed for one moment or many moments, awash...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Getting the "run around"...

    Although I may be living in a pink cloud of rosy optimism that a September-October Camino may prove an option, there is "a cloud no bigger than a man's hand" of a renewed outbreak in Autumn. After a nail biting read of online, hours-on-hold and confusing travails in the above cautionoary posts...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Haikus for our Postponed Caminos

    Indeed I do! As I wrote that haiku in one minute, I would now change "dreaming" to "longing". Aw, what the heck -- pilgrims who have cats know exactly what I meant! I wish I did the words to express that sound, that whispery-gargling-not-quite-mewing sound cats make when they see a bird --...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Cherish the elders

    On my 2002 Camino, as I crossed from the path across a gravel road, a tiny, wizened lady entirely in black appeared seemingly out of nowhere. She approached me with a questioning look, took my hands in hers, and spoke softly in Spanish. "Peregrina?" At the time, my Spainish was virtually nil...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD My "CoronaCamino 2020"

    Had me laugh-gulp-snorting my coffee! The wheelchair chap's muttered remarks in French -- Zut alors! Witthout taking a single element away from Kiernan's brilliant and hilarious posts, I think if Heath Robinson and Ronald Searle ever walked the Camino -- it would look rather like this!
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Haikus for our Postponed Caminos

    Herewith for the "cat" in Catheriam; Catherine in Latin. Surprised with the rapidity this fell from my pen; maybe a syllable off here and there but ... this is me! Camino longing Like whining cat Window scrabbling At backyard bluebirds.
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Supermarket opening hours in the UK for the elderly and vulnerable

    Had an 18 month secondment with Sainbury's Customer Service HQ and bravo their decision to support the elderly and vulnerable with exclusive shopping opportunities. Entirely within their brief as the standard bearer of British grocers. My High Point NC Harris Teeter has been busy free from...

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