- Time of past OR future Camino
- Some in the past; more in the future!
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Why do pilgrimages survive, even thrive, in a secular age? The Camino de Santiago must rank as one of Europe’s most popular walking routes. In 2017, the number of pilgrims arriving at its end point, Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, was up 8.3% to 301,000. Yet much of it is on roads, with uninvited companions, through unexceptional terrain, with a destination whose claims to sacred significance are fantastical, even by the standards of the genre.
Touregrino thus ! Instead of a peregrinoI disliked the passage jungleboy quoted as well!
This article looks to be more for a luxury tourist. On a quick search, all three properties mentioned are lovely higher end spots with pools off the camino (and not at all in Brierley) between his stages 16 and 17.
. Who reads the guardian? Is it journalistic well reputed?
Thank you . Did not know.I do for oneIt is probably the UK's leading left-of-centre national newspaper and generally has pretty high journalistic standards. The article seems quite entertaining but I do not think it is one of the Grauniad's finest efforts and I personally will not get too overheated about the "luxury" commercial aspects of its depiction of a Camino. As far as the Portugues and the Frances are concerned that battle was lost some time ago.
Right that’s what I was wondering who the audience is. Thank you.Each to his own, I suppose. It's all in the approach and the intention, don't you think??
If you forget all about the caminho in this case, stays the beauty of the Minho aera.At the end of the Guardian article is a link to the Inntravel trip in question. It's not even marketed as a luxury camino taster but as "slow travel holiday" and the title is "Manor Houses of the Minho" with "gentle riverside walking in the home of vinho verde". It praises the beauty of this part of Portugal and just at the very end it mentions the camino: "Enjoy the pastoral beauty of the landscape and the camaraderie of fellow walkers as your path intertwines with the Caminho de Santiago on its pilgrimage north to Spain." Which is not a grammatically correct sentence, I think.
And by the sound of this thread, the fellow walkers on their way to Santiago aren't going to show much camaraderie to Inntravel customers ...
As he quotes, "in a secular age", this certainly made me imagine how many more people would be walking the Caminos if this was not a secular age?Walking the other way: the Portuguese Camino.
This is a rather unremarkable article that's light on substance and purpose but I'll share it anyway. The writer did three days of the Portuguese camino, walking 9 miles / ~14.5km per day and staying in manor houses. He doesn't seem to know much about the camino and writes mostly about the tourism part of it.
At least he manages to ask the age-old question of why we keep walking caminos, though he doesn't attempt to answer it.
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