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A pilgrimage involves deliberately putting yourself in an unfamiliar situation. People around you will notice that you will frequently seem pretty clueless. Occasionally you may even become aware of it yourself. Part of the Camino culture is... -
Growing up in a Spanish-speaking country, I dimly remember as a child watching a movie taking place in Spain, and a priest saying something like “Dios proveerá” (God will provide), no mention of the Camino. This always felt to me like magical...
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I'm 73 now. We have time (we don't have a LOT of time but, well, you know what I mean!). Simply that we are not on a tight schedule when we are walking. We've walked 3 times, 2 French, one a partial, disastrous Portuguese misadventure, giving...
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Haha. I also carry toilet paper Just in case the Camino doesn't provide it
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I, too, can experience frustration at the use (abuse?) of the phrase "the Camino provides." On the one hand, it does - in so many ways, most of which have already been mentioned in all of these thoughtful replies. I love that about the Camino...
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How nice of the Camino to provide you a clinic. I'm hearing the Camino provides you private rooms. I could do this all day.
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I personally love being described as a “tourist, not a real pilgrim” for booking a hotel room and being told that I should trust “the Camino provides” a bed in an albergue. No understanding that the reason there are beds available is because many...
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I take the phrase, "The Camino provides" as to mean that our problems/situations somehow get "solved" on the Camino. Some recites it almost as a magical belief. I believe "the Camino provides" only because people associated with the Camino...
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Sorry...the poster's philosophy hits me as edged, over-focused and quite pessimistic...attributes that are most prevalent in the world since the beginning of the Pandemic. So, I provide my response as observations and not opinion. Yes, I am a...
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As usual, I have several anecdotes to illustrate both sides of this. One time at home I was out running an errand in my car and it started to rain. I saw a woman walking with a bag of groceries, so I stopped and offered her a ride. She jumped...
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