The Norte is more physically demanding than the Francés for a few reasons. There are a lot more ups and downs, and often the distances between towns is longer. Plus the pilgrim infrastructure is no where near as robust, which can lead to...
I recently returned from the Camino Del Norte where two of the people I met in El Convento in Santillana Del Mar were a young teacher and her teenage ward “ a troubled young lady” walking together. We were thrown together in an “overflow room” an...
No, nobody is walking as punishment for a crime today, and I personally do not see any parallels between now and then although posters sometimes make such comparisons.
There are youth programs where young people (mostly teenagers if I understand...
In the end, I've decided to go for "Camino Cool". I wanted to keep something quite international, and I think it still conveys the main idea that is to make the Camino easier.
Thanks for your suggestions anyway!
That's the frustration I had as...
I do not wish to flood this thread with posts about the world of thought and belief of the overwhelming majority of medieval people - the people who created what we know as "Camino de Santiago" today which is more than just a trail. It is a whole...
I'm just going to park here as an observation that ignorance is relative.
Proficient literacy in the written word in the western world was exceptional until the late 19th C, and for Canada (where I live), even into the 1910's literacy beyond a...
The "cheap holiday" phrase gets thrown around a lot here, but if I indeed wanted a cheap holiday, it wouldn't be spent walking for hours a day in all kinds of weather, and sleeping in shared dorms with a bunch of strangers. Instead, I would find...
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