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mspath said:For those interested in "how it once looked" check out the images in this 1963 Spanish newsreel showing three male pilgrims in capes walking from Burgos to Fromista along a barren windy meseta path. >> http://www.elcaminosantiago.com/Camino- ... n-1963.htm. Perhaps these atmospheric black and white images helped influence Luis Bunuel's famous 1969 fantastic film The Milky Way/La Via Lactee which depicts two pilgrims walking back through time along the camino.
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mspath said:For those interested in "how it once looked" check out the images in this 1963 Spanish newsreel showing three male pilgrims in capes walking from Burgos to Fromista along a barren windy meseta path. >> http://www.elcaminosantiago.com/Camino- ... n-1963.htm
that was true of Spain in general, one of the things that's changed substantially since Franco's death. Young women in particular were not allowed out without a duenna!mspath said:What a masculine world the camino was then with hardly a woman in sight
that was a later version. The guide was taken over by Randonnees Pyreneennes (which later became Rando Edns, now part of the SudOuest group) and Georges Veron did most of the route description. He died several years ago, but afaik Georges Bernes is still going - Wednesday will have been his 92nd birthday. The 4th edn of this guide was translated into English and published by Robertson McCarta in 1990 - there are plenty of cheap copies of this around. It too is now out-of-date; I just opened it at random and found: "Public telephones may not be seen as frequently as in some other countries, but they are usually in working order. Take plenty of 25-peseta coins."mspath said:I too have a copy of Le Chemin de St Jacques en Espagne by Abbe Georges Bernes and Rene Brynaert, depot legal 1982, 1000 examplaires. Rene de la Coste-Messeliere wrote the preface
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