been walking caminos since 1993, all without every having a Garmin anything. Somehow I am writing this from home. Yeah, I've gotten lost a few times, but somehow I bumbled or hitchhiked or asked or triangulated my way back.
I wonder how I've...
I use my phone for maps - OSMand is my app of choice. I really like it.
OSMand does all of this too. Both are good. In OSMand I use tracks I've downloaded from various sources, and they all work.
No Garmin, though. Nor a smartwatch. So I can't...
Just for the record: I deeply love and respect Pope Francis.
Yeah, there's a lot of noise and distraction on the Caminos in high season, especially the Frances.
But underneath all the plastic souvenirs and billboards and "must-sees" is a...
It is surprising to me that those who I have disagreed with or even had disagreements with in the past are the ones I agree with the most. It never surprises me how almost fiercely people hold on to their ideas about the Camino and often are the...
Pope Francis said: the true Christian pilgrimage experience requires silence, which allows one “to listen with the heart and to find in that way, while walking and through tiredness, the responses which the heart seeks.”
I believe he referred to...
I am not a Catholic, though I have probably been to more Catholic masses in French, Spanish and Italian during my various pilgrimage adventures of the last few years than services in my "home church" of English Methodism.
However I suggest that...
Yes, just be nice to people… and I appreciate you keeping an eye on the thread content, but as long as we are discussing not religion per se, but rather the matter of a code for travellers and those who host them, I hope we can persist a little...
The logic argument seems to work in the Pope's favor and what he says is true. The route IS a Catholic Pilgrimage...period. Those that are not Catholic and choose to walk it should be respectful. They don't have to partake in the pilgrim...
The Camino is an ancient pilgrimage route. But not everyone who walks is Catholic or even uses bibles in their religion. Some are atheists. Remember that, Pope Francis was specifically, addressing Italian Catholics! What if The Pope had been...
According to me, the key point is the silence.
That does not mean we should no pronounce a word, like "Do you see a yellow arrow, I did not for hours" or "Do you think we will find pimientos de Padrón in next bar ?", which are essential...
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