Huffington Post

Ribeirasacra

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the highway

• Jul 18, 2017

• #1

Make up your own mind on this!
An avid hiker only does the last 100km of just one route.

 

MinaKamina

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Jacobspad 2017

• Jul 18, 2017

• #2

Ribeirasacra said:

Make up your own mind on this!
An avid hiker only does the last 100km of just one route.

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He walked only 70 kms! and then he writes:

Arrival at the Cathedral was really my only complaint. The pilgrim’s office had a two-hour long line to get you passport stamped and we decided not to wait.

Yep, that is where you get your passport stamped.... perhaps it was the wisest decision not to wait after all.

 

SabsP

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some and then more. see my signature.

• Jul 19, 2017

• #3

Well I really do hope that the author, who is an educator, gives better classes than he writes articles.

This article is shallow and gives rather incorrect information.

 

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nycwalking

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• Jul 19, 2017

• #4

He walked. He recommends others do so.
Buen camino him.

 

Waka

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Some but not all, and other routes too.

• Jul 19, 2017

• #5

Every one to their own, at least he walked some of it.

 

alhartman

2005-2017 Delightful 346 days in Spain and France.

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• Jul 19, 2017

• #6

It certainly is NOT an article that will add to the recent (post The Way) surge in Camino traffic.

 

NicP

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• Jul 19, 2017

• #7

It's fascinating to me how different people can engage in the same activity and yet get such a different experience and/or perspective on it. I guess that's a facet of being human. His camino didn't look much like mine, and it doesn't seem like his perspective on it was much like mine either. Each to their own!

Having said that, as @SabineP says - some of the information given (as opposed to the opinion on his experience) is, as far as I understand it, factually incorrect - I'd have expected more from a publication like the Huffington Post, which apparently sees itself as a venue for serious writing. Oh well....