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Haha! Wellll...it's never too late to try living the other way around...But everyone who knows me also knows that duty and being sincerely focused comes before a good chuckle.
Hee heeeee....Bavarians, @Bradypus, they were Bavarians. It’s an important element of this story.
True - but I'm not taking sides in a German civil warBavarians, @Bradypus, they were Bavarians. It’s an important element of this story.
True, I guess one could view the reality of the differences between Bavarians and the rest of the Germans who are essentially all Prussians to the Bavarian, as a cultural warTrue - but I'm not taking sides in a German civil war
Forget McDonalds if you want a great burger then head for La Pepita in SdCAfter reading this post the guilt is setting in. I think I "cheated" in a different way on my first Camino Frances. I used the GPS on my phone and strategically planned the timing of my arrival in Santiago de Compostela to find a Mcdonald's a few kilometres off the path and enjoy a Big Mac, fries and a coke rather than have another pilgrim's menu. I do apologize to any pilgrim purists but another dry bocadillo just wasn't going to suffice. That Big Mac tasted like a culinary masterpiece. Before I left the restaurant to arrive in the Cathedral square, I asked the manager if she had a stamp and she gave me a big hug - best "Buen Camino" ever!
Ok, again the guilt is still flowing. I also "cheated" on my second and third Caminos from Portugal.
I think not! You do you.I once walked with a lady who was fighting cancer, it was on Via de la Plata, leaving Salamanca, in the rain. She was not feeling well that day. I knew straight away. On the first cafe stop, I called a taxi.
I saw the looks of the other pilgrims as they arrived and saw us getting into that taxi.
i never explained. Is there any need to ever explain???
If I’m wrong someone correct me please! I though when the Camino or the Pilgrimage originated Back in the medieval times it was a way of a person to be forgiven of sins or some wrong doing they have done.
I had a memorable encounter on my second Camino with a German parish group travelling by bus to Santiago. One woman got quite heated and told me that people like me who walked solo to Santiago were not pilgrims but hikers and tourists. She and her friends travelled together on a bus in a church-sponsored group with a priest to say mass daily, hear confessions and lead meditations. Their journey was a pilgrimage. So my journey clearly was not...
If you walked to Finestre you received an extra indulgence.
Is not the Camino about the journey??
You can always justify you conduct
anyone who doesn't walk from their front door is cheating
I think that there is far more about the destination for me than necessarily the journey.Is not the Camino about the journey??
I don't think of it as being a Christian pilgrimage, but I rather suspect that there are those who walk it that would suggest that it has roots in earlier religious traditions. I know that when I did this walk, my first interest was to go to Muxia, and to visit the Virxe da Barca church, and only then to walk to Finisterre.Nope, the walk to Fisterra is not a religious pilgrimage.
This is a popular notion, but not completely true. You might want to read my analysis of this from earlier in the year here:By the way, that's their "Camino". In my point of the view, even those people who take bus or taxi to next town, they have their own "Camino" inside. There are no one has right to make a judgement for them.........
By the way, that's their "Camino". In my point of the view, even those people who take bus or taxi to next town, they have their own "Camino" inside. There are no one has right to make a judgement for them.........
This is a popular notion, but not completely true. You might want to read my analysis of this from earlier in the year here:
And did you get that "piece of paper"?What bewilders me is the importance that people appear to attach to a piece of paper. If you know what you have achieved, and your God knows what you have achieved, and how you have achieved it, that is surely all that matters. Why would you need a piece of paper?
In this context, ‘cheating’ is a meaningless word.
What bewilders me is the importance that people appear to attach to a piece of paper. If you know what you have achieved, and your God knows what you have achieved, and how you have achieved it, that is surely all that matters. Why would you need a piece of paper?
In this context, ‘cheating’ is a meaningless word.
Unless you walk a mile in someone else shoes, you don't know where they have come from or what suffering they have endured. If you go around , accusing people of cheating, look at your conscience and ask yourself "Are any you different from those who persecuted Jesus"?
I am continually astounded by people who accuse others of “cheating”!
I started in Pamplona. I would think Spanish pilgrims would not have gone back to France to start...but I don’t know the facts.
Also “cheating”...taking a bus or taxi to the next town.
Mostly folks younger than me. Luckily I do not feel bothered by this!
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