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That's a unique ASSpect!Here is one waiting for you in Sarria!View attachment 35679
I love donkeys, although I won't be walking the Camino with one. One of my favorite Camino Books is
Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
by Tim Moore
Here is one waiting for you in Sarria!View attachment 35679
Somebody has to do the Donkey workAwwww! There's one albergue on the CF with tables on a big lawn with animals roaming around, mixing with the pilgrims. I watched a donkey use his teeth to open the spigot on a fountain faucet so that he and another burro pal could take a drink.
So I can claim to be more authentically recreating the camino by just carrying a day pack and having my steamer trunk sent forward by mochila taxi?Bag transport companies are our modern day donkeys
Ummmm, those are donkeys.of pics I took of them and the mules.
View attachment 35684 To comment on your original statement, I carried my heavy, over-stuffed pack too, and was thankful for the health and strength to do so. If I had needed assistance, I would have used the transport system too. I made many friends along the way that did this. I am no expert on 'authenticity' and have no right to judge decisions made by other pilgrims along The Way. We're all in this together. I ran into a couple of guys last fall that had walked from Hungary with two mules! They did ask for food money in exchange for a couple of pics I took of them and the mules. Food money for the animals! In broken English they explained to me the animals were by far the biggest expense of their trip. I was happy to help them out. I read stuff from you guys every day and I miss the Camino greatly. Some day soon I'll find a way to return. Buen Camino.
I walked along with a man, his mule and hismdog this spring on VDLP. They walk some 1000 km every year. In fact he normally walkes with two mules, but this year one of them refused to keep walking so he had the family come collect him and take him back home. This man also walked from his home in Southern Spain to Rome with his mule and got to meet the Pope because of it. He did say walking through Monaco with a mule was difficult as the mule didn't fit in very well with all the €€€.I'm still waiting to hear about someone walking with a mule. I know both from experience and mules are much stronger and less demanding re food and care. That's why armies used them even in the harshest terrain and weather (like in the Alps and battle of Soča/Isonzo river in WW1). Less stubborn too
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/08/difference-between-a-donkey-and-a-mule/
You're righ. I realized that after I looked at my picture again. Not well versed in equine recognition. They were calling them mules, or at least that's what I thought they said. Something could have been lost in translation.Ummmm, those are donkeys.
Mules are about, or just the same, size as a horse.
Agree. Also mules have a bit shorter ears than donkeys.Ummmm, those are donkeys.
Mules are about, or just the same, size as a horse.
You're righ. I realized that after I looked at my picture again. Not well versed in equine recognition. They were calling them mules, or at least that's what I thought they said. Something could have been lost in translation.Ummmm, those are donkeys.
Mules are about, or just the same, size as a horse.
Good to hear from you Jim. Not much time off this year. Trying to set myself up to retire next year. My Pilgrimage this year is of another sort. Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY! I'm gonna tent camp my way up the Appalacians in the late fall. I've always loved baseball; playing, coaching, watching, all of it. I'll get back to Spain next year, hopefully to meet more Pilgrims like yourself. Enjoy your walk this year. Keep rocking that kilt!Hey Frank. I ran into these guys along the way as well. Very interesting and I was happy to give a little to assist with the animals. I went back last Spring, after meeting you in the Fall, and completed the last 400
k's. Taking a friend back in October for a walk in an undetermined location of the Frances. It would be nice to meet up with you on the road again in the future ...Jim
That's Narciso his Cao de agua called Linda and his mule, Chata. I had the pleasure of spending a few days with them on VDLP this spring. He's the one I mention is a post above who,has walked to Rome with two mules and walks VDLP year after year.Crossed paths with this wonderfully bearded fellow, his lovely black poodle and his very patient and well behaved mule on a rainy day around Las Herrerías. It was sometime in early May this year. He was being interviewed and filmed at the time. Was happy to recognise him in the TV series about the camino that @JabbaPapa alerted us to in an earlier post https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/new-spanish-tv-series-¡buen-camino.49547/. Sitting in a bar (as one does), I did read an article about him in a local newspaper. My Spanish is not reliable but I think he spends his life walking back and forth on the camino?
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Ahh a cao de agua. She is a lovely dog and you can see how she rides on the back of the mule in that television series. I wish I'd had the chance to talk with that pilgrim. Thank you for telling me about them.That's Narciso his Cao de agua called Linda and his mule, Chata. I had the pleasure of spending a few days with them on VDLP this spring. He's the one I mention is a post above who,has walked to Rome with two mules and walks VDLP year after year.
Linda is the most well behaved and loyal dog ever, and she rides on top of that mule as well as any circus dog. Narciso has 7 children who now run the family business so he can enjoy long walks along the Camino.
He and Linda are quite the pair. Narciso sets down a blanket by the albergue door and she spends the night there waiting for him. Unless the town is too loud and then she takes off to go spend the night with the mule in some field. Narciso leads an uncomplicated life, always looking at the good things in life. He knows the Caminos inside out, always recommends the more traditional albergues, and does enjoy his bottle of red wine at night.Ahh a cao de agua. She is a lovely dog and you can see how she rides on the back of the mule in that television series. I wish I'd had the chance to talk with that pilgrim. Thank you for telling me about them.
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