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I haven’t read it yet but did the reporter ask him if he was going to write a guide and leave out his spiritual ramblings and just have maps, directions, Albergues and whatever necessary information people need. I can take care of my own spirit.This interview with John Brierley by Greg Daly of The Irish Catholic newspaper may be of interest:
https://www.irishcatholic.com/bringing-the-camino-home/
He already has. The maps version of the guide includes accommodations, elevations, distances, etc., with zero commentary.I haven’t read it yet but did the reporter ask him if he was going to write a guide and leave out his spiritual ramblings and just have maps, directions, Albergues and whatever necessary information people need. I can take care of my own spirit.
I know but from what I’ve been told it has a lot less information. Maybe I’m wrong about that. Now on my Camino’s I use wise pilgrim app and Gronze. Works great for meHe already has. The maps version of the guide includes accommodations, elevations, distances, etc., with zero commentary.
I haven’t read it yet but did the reporter ask him if he was going to write a guide and leave out his spiritual ramblings and just have maps, directions, Albergues and whatever necessary information people need. I can take care of my own spirit.
There has been a maps only version of his guidebook out for several years. They sell them on this forum. Or you could always just buy a guidebook written by a different author. They sell those on this forum as well.I haven’t read it yet but did the reporter ask him if he was going to write a guide and leave out his spiritual ramblings and just have maps, directions, Albergues and whatever necessary information people need. I can take care of my own spirit.
Pretty much what I do. Gronze for information on accommodation, Eroski for its historical and cultural background notes. All the basic information I need or want. I prefer to experience the Caminos for myself and not to interpret my Camino journeys through someone else's spiritual and metaphysical filters.Or you could always just make your own guide of sorts utilizing information free from the internet. That way you can totally avoid any ramblings that offend you.
I haven’t read it yet but did the reporter ask him if he was going to write a guide and leave out his spiritual ramblings and just have maps, directions, Albergues and whatever necessary information people need. I can take care of my own spirit.
Very true. Sadly age does not seem to have mellowed me much and I am getting steadily more impatient with crowds all the time. Give me the VdlP or the Mozarabe these daysAnd face it - no one needs a guide to the Camino Frances anymore. they just need the patience to follow the Pilgrim in front
Ach, @Bradypus, if I ever find myself mellowing I'll be looking for the exit.
I had noticed... and what about Coltrane?I am slowly working my way through images of grumpy middle-aged or elderly Scotsmen for my avatar. Fortunately that gives me plenty of scope.... Still not sure whether the next one will be Victor Meldrew or Malcolm Tucker. Probably depends on what thread has got up my nose most that day
but it is just a book, after all....Pretty much what I do. Gronze for information on accommodation, Eroski for its historical and cultural background notes. All the basic information I need or want. I prefer to experience the Caminos for myself and not to interpret my Camino journeys through someone else's spiritual and metaphysical filters.
but it is just a book, after all....
There is no hand that leaps from the pages and forces one to read all the sentences. No spiritual forces hypnotizing and brainwashing.
Just a book. Look at the maps. Look at the albergues etc listing and information. That is all that is needed. The rest is freedom of choice.
So you have bought his guidebook(s) before?All very true. I could of course buy and carry Brierley's guide and simply disregard his purple prose. But as I said above all the practical and historical information which I need for my Caminos is freely and readily available elsewhere. So why would I choose to buy and carry a particular book whose only distinctive and unique features are ones which I actively dislike and feel no personal need for? Other printed guides are available if I want one. Or for popular routes like the Frances there are many online sources and apps. For reasons which probably have a lot to do with my own religious background and current outlook, theological education and walking experience I do not find Brierley's guides to my taste. Clearly many people think otherwise and if the guides meet their needs then that is well and good. Each to their own.
No - but I have read them and decided they were not for me. I walked my first two Caminos in 1990 and 2002 before Brierley's first guide was published. For those journeys I used Valina's 1984 Spanish guidebook and a supplementary pamphlet guide from the Confraternity of St James. By the time I came to walk my third Camino Frances in 2016 there were many alternative sources of information available and I felt no particular need for a printed guidebook. In fact the albergue list and elevation profiles which I was given by the pilgrim office in SJPDP provided almost all the practical information I needed for that journey and I used Eroski and Wikipedia for historical background information.So you have bought his guidebook(s) before?
Tha is for your advice. I mentioned in another post here I use Wise Pilgrim and Gronze and they work great for me.There has been a maps only version of his guidebook out for several years. They sell them on this forum. Or you could always just buy a guidebook written by a different author. They sell those on this forum as well.
Or you could always just make your own guide of sorts utilizing information free from the internet.
Poor Brierly to attract such strong feelings , over a book , a guide one can use or not . Sounding piousThis interview with John Brierley by Greg Daly of The Irish Catholic newspaper may be of interest:
https://www.irishcatholic.com/bringing-the-camino-home/
Poor Brierly to attract such strong feelings , over a book , a guide one can use or not .
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