Hello from Salamanca!
I'm posting this from the pilgrim albergue in Salamanca. I'm posting it in the VDLP forum because that is the route that the vast majority of our pilgrims are walking, even though Salamanca is on a few routes (including the...
Day 0 – Hong Kong to Osaka to Kii-Tanabe
Sept 29 – 30, 2024
It was almost exactly one year ago today when we started our pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago last year.
This time we’re doing the Kumano Kodo, the sister pilgrimage of the Camino...
Ok, not literally, but kind of they did.
The recent thread on the wolf at Cruz de Ferro reminded me of my tenuous link to the Camino involving wolves, and it would be great to hear of other people's less than common routes toward finding the...
Here I am in Figueres, on the Camino de Girona, after finally deciding on this year’s Camino after lots of issues with plans falling apart for other Caminos. I’ll be continuing on in Montserrat on the Zaragoza variant of the Camino, saving the...
Not quite correct (at least not for the last 4 years).
Because Spain argued their wolf population was in a "favourable" status at the time of the Bern Convention ruling over the EU wolf population, they were allowed to continue with controlled...
Spain and Italy were probably the only two places in Western Europe where a small population of wolves survived what was basically extermination everywhere else. This was mainly due to the rugged sparsely populated mountains areas, in Italy it...
I see that this thread is no longer a "Live on Camino" thread because @RJE has already arrived in Santiago. So: Politico has a number of graphics that illustrate some of the issues around the wolf population in Europe which I found interesting...
I have encountered wolves in Italy several times while walking in Abruzzo and Umbria, two central Italian regions. Usually they were walking alone.
They are not like the wolves of North America, but smaller. But once I witnessed from a distance...
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