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Hi,
A post on a french forum from Manuela Tschirf :
"Hello, we are friends from Richard Krismer from Austria. He started to hike the way of St. James since 30.8.2015
He was in Lourdes on 10.9.2015 after 2 day´s he started to arrive to Saint Jean Pied de Port.
This was the last living thing...
Hi,
Thank you Randy.
I read yesterday your journal where I found I knew the "crazy guy with a donkey" at Nasbinals.
I sent to him your journal link.
Theo
Re: Somehwere ... in Bellebouche on the Plantagenets Way
Hi,
This small hamlet is located (near Parthenay ; click HERE) on the Plantagenets Way (St James Route) starting in Mont-Saint-Michel to the Via Turonensis.
This route is described in two guides books (At the bottom of this post, a...
Hi,
Many French pilgrims use a bar of Marseille soap -- famous in France -- for washing body, hair and clothes ...
It seems to be similar to Castile soap.
Théo
Hi,
This game seems to be "Quilles de huit" (Skittles of eight) played essentially in the French departement of Aveyron where are located Espalion and Senergues :
http://217.109.95.193/quillesdehuit/index.html
Théo
It’s true it’s difficult to find on websites maps from Le Puy to St-Jean-Pied-de-Port....
... so if you like to walk with maps the only thing you have to do is to buy the 3 “topoguides” of the” Sentier vers Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle” published by the FF Randonnée ...
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