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I hope you don't need luck!! Rather, I hope your surgery goes well, you have a safe speedy recovery, and rehab that gets you back doing things you love as well as you once did.
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What does it take to be able to walk a Camino after a heart problem? I guess I will see for myself.
Tomorrow morning I am having surgery to implant a pacemaker. It was the...
I don't want to divert this thread but I do want to address an issue raised by @good_old_shoes .
The things that I want to address are not a "truth". The most effective way for me to discuss this issue is to relate it to my own experience. That...
We can only change ourselves.
And it takes time.
It takes time for many people just to connect with their own lives and their own bodies, let alone those of other beings.
Not everyone lives to help others. But you can.
Please bear with these VOLUNTEERS if they are not fluent in your language. They come at their own expense to help pilgrims starting out on the Way.
Perhaps you too could come and reinforce the English teams.
In French we say "la critique est...
I second the above post. I have just had a brief call with a friend in Pamplona. It is going to be a bit miserable in the area.... Read that, weather wise, as you wish. Here is a notice from my paper today.
What would you do, having read it...
What am
What am I missing here? You come from another country, ask the advice of people who reside in the area and decide you would be better asking strangers from all over the world on a blog. There is a.history of rescues in this area. I...
When personal safety (and that of rescue personnel) is concerned clear words (like those by @Kathar1na) are needed to get the point across. Not sure where you are from but I’ve spent lots of times in various European mountain areas and the simple...
Frankly, how much is there to understand: Weather bad tomorrow, walk Valcarlos route.
I don't mean to sound unkind but if pilgrims go to the local Pilgrims Office, get the advice to not walk the Napoleon route because of the weather conditions...
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