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  1. dick bird

    Kdrama Camino Sighting!

    Working in Villadangos at the moment. Fair number of Koreans on the Camino, and a surprising number of Taiwanese.
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    Little sculptures

    It wasn´t until I started scrolling through to find the photo of the blue tin man that I realised how much sculpture and how much whimsy there is in rural Spain. These were all taken on the Lana in 2022. If you needed more reasons to walk the Lana - here they are.
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    Life-size Bronze Statues

    I can´t help feeling that if the great man had been there in person, this is exactly what he would be doing. Outside the Gaudi designed Casa Botines in León.
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    Little sculptures

    This is one of my favourites. It is in the church of San Bento on Plaza Cervantes in Santiago.
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    Little sculptures

    Did someone say ¨statues¨? Be warned, there are plenty more where these came from. Estella Segovia Diamante San Juan de la Peña
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    Spanish or English in France?

    ça va - my keyboard does the cedilla (not a dance, it is that little squiggly thing that turns c into s). It means roughly, how´s it going?
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    Spanish or English in France?

    In my experience, totally undeserved. As it happens, there have been recent articles in the press commenting on the fact that even the Parisians have got nicer over recent years. My French is not great, but travelling in France this has never been a problem and there have nearly always been...
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    Castles in Galicia

    This is why we keep journals (plus have electronic cameras that record the date). It was, in fact, Salas, which is on the Primitivo between Cornellana and Espina. My apologies for having erroneously resurrected Grado castle.
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    Castles in Galicia

    I’ll check. It may be anothe town near Grado.
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    Castles in Galicia

    Not to be outdone, Grado, Villavieja and Monforte de Lemos. I confess, I aalso chickened out of the climb to Torrenovaes.
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    Romanesque, and others, architecture on the camino

    Hijack away. I agree, and I love Gothic architecture, in particular the perpendicular style of the so-called ´wool churches´ in East Anglia like Blythburgh church (either beautifully restored or miraculously intact, not sure but it´s a stunner), and one of the joys of standing in a Gothic...
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    Romanesque, and others, architecture on the camino

    Possibly self indulgent, I´ve been playing around with basic software and old photos. Romanesque art tends to be overlooked and under-valued, as if the whole of western Europe was blundering about in a superstitious fog punctuated with infighting, epidemics and the occasional famine until the...
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    Happy Thanksgiving to all US pilgrims!

    Squawk.
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    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    You may have been a very good software engineer, Crosbie, but you´d have made a crap defence lawyer: Counsel for the defence: ¨M'lud, my client is entirely innocent of the charges against him.¨ Judge: ¨Then pray, present your evidence proving your client´s innocence.¨ Counsel for the defence...
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    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    ¨When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.¨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies. There may be no error in logic, but logic is only as good as the premises it is based on. Or, as the Spartans said to the...
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    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    David, this is part of Crosbie´s style. If you look through his posts you will find well over a dozen uses of expressions like 'It seems', 'It is possible that', 'I suggest', 'No doubt' etc etc. This kind of language is appropriate when discussing inferences and deductions but when basic...
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    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    The Temple of Solomon was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 587 BC. The chances of the Ark of the Covenant surviving that event, assuming it to have existed in the first place, are just about zero. If it survived and was then stored in the Second Temple it would have been destroyed along with the...
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    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    Frankly, I don´t think there is any great danger of this happening.
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    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    So, not a certainty then? In which case, any line of reasoning based on that premise is unsound, which means that just about everything you have said in this thread is, by your own admission, implausible, As for how an organisation can be formed without having first been founded, one can only...
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    Templiers/Hospitaliers wrt the CdS pilgrimage?

    I hope you have checked the meaning of ´a priori´. Let´s go back to your first post. You state there that the Templiers and Hospitaliers (sic) were founded in circa the 10th or 11th centuries, which is a pretty wide ball park. Most if not all reliable authorities are a little more precise in...

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