Every year at this time I am drawn through the mists of time to a very meaningful moment in my life. Long ago, and I mean long ago, I was a young single constable in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). I was alone on patrol on Christmas...
I can only anticipate the duties which might be required of me in comparison with what was asked when I was previously a hospitalera. I have been asked whether I wish to sign in as a hospitalera for 2025 and have not yet replied. As I remember...
This new law has made me reluctant to collect such data and pass it on to the authorities. As a hospitalera, I was generally asked to collect limited information about pilgrims and to keep it secure until and unless an official (police officer...
Well I'm not injured, just half blind and waiting interminably for eye surgery. My first and worse eye (the left) will be done this afternoon. Wish me luck. I am really getting tired of not being able to see properly.
Changing faces of the Santiago sign at San Lázaro.. Fresh, as it was in 2014, and just like the Cruz de Ferro, it comes and goes.. when it gets too trashy, it gets tidied up a bit..
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The helpful person in the tourist office strongly recommended not walking up the Puerto del Manzanal instead of the usual route. Grudgingly admitting that the two are almost equidistant, especially if you allow for the massively greater ascent to...
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