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Nice, right! I think I saw "Fast Hiker" Youtuber say - and I paraphrase, we want the entire world to start walking to places again, so crowds, the bigger the crowd the more forward thinking the Camino will become. Walk town to town, enjoy the...
If you were replying to me, the Caminho do Mar does start in Lisbon* but goes a different way from the CP.
*It technically starts in Estoril but you can easily start in Lisbon and walk to Estoril along the river, which is what we did.
Despite...
There is another option: the Caminho do Mar from Lisbon to Fátima, which doesn’t overlap at all with the CP (and which also doesn’t follow the Mar very much).
My live thread about it is here.
Or if you prefer, Wendy and I discuss it in episodes...
Hi,
I am a long time sufferer of this condition. I have tried all the exercise programs physiotherapists have given me. Nothing ever seemed to really help. Until I suddenly realised that the planter membrane itself is attached to the very rear...
I have had this on my ‘to read’ list for some time but just haven’t gotten around to it. Thanks for the reminder. Michener’s ‘The Drifters’ is one of my all-time favourite books.
As an aside, he is one of the authors featured on the ‘Writers...
I regret not reading Iberia earlier, however, it is never to late to read this marvelous tome, published in 1968. I just finished reading it, two years after beginning my Camino Frances. In Iberia Michener recounts his personal travel...
Peñalba de Santiago with its 10C untouched Mozarabic church and its traditional stone houses with slate roofs and dark wooden balconies is a real gem (and don’t forget the hermit cave of San Genadio) and there are several different walking trails...
This was my husband. So many thanks to all of my fellow pilgrims who stopped to help and to pray and to translate for me.
He was doing what he loved.
Thank you for the news article link.
The fact of something never having happened in the past does not preclude the possibility of that something occurring in the future. I don’t think Spain is the only country where naughty landowners erect fences across footpaths.
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