simply B

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member From PNW in the USA

Joined: Apr 13, 2019

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- simply B reacted to Bradypus's post in the thread Belloc on the Way? with Like.
  
  You prompted me to look for references to his travels in Spain. Quite a remarkable description of a walk from Pamplona to Roncesvalles and on to Valcarlos. A 42 mile day carrying only a gourd of wine and a sack. They bred them tougher in those...
  
  Dec 22, 2024
- simply B reacted to Rebekah Scott's post in the thread Belloc on the Way? with Like.
  
  Belloc and his hardy friends did a lot of stomping along the Caminos in the Pyrenees. He followed the Camino Aragonese over the Somport Pass and wrote "Tarantella," a long (and not very great) poem about a wild night of song and dance in the very...
  
  Dec 22, 2024
- simply B reacted to rappahannock_rev's post in the thread Belloc on the Way? with Like.
  
  I made an interesting discovery this morning which I wish to share. For most of my long life I've been an admirer of that early 20thC English 'Poet and Man of Letters' Hilaire Belloc....This winter (in my dotage) I decided to re-read some of his...
  
  Dec 22, 2024
- simply B reacted to Waka's post in the thread Old Camino Walkers with Love.
  
  It's now seven weeks since I returned from doing he Frances and what a wonderful 40 days it was. I'm sure there are possible pilgrims out there that worry that they may be too old to walk the camino, but I can assure you there is no age barrier...
  
  Dec 22, 2024
- simply B replied to the thread Your Memorable Photos and Why.
  
  Both from 2017 - - The first, is of a late friend from college days in the atrium of the 'Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos'. He is dejected as we could not get a space inside the cloister for the night plus he was in terrible pain. Still...
  
  Dec 22, 2024
- simply B reacted to Canada Wanders's post in the thread Your Memorable Photos and Why with Like.
  
  If you will forgive the levity….a picture of my beloved wife in a bathtub. As we went through Pamplona, a man at a hotel offered us a special ‘pilgrim’ rate for a room with a queen size bed and bathtub….of course, it is not always as it seems...
  
  Dec 21, 2024
- simply B reacted to steve392's post in the thread Your Memorable Photos and Why with Like.
  
  The most perfect of Camino mornings. Leaving Castrojeriz.
  
  Dec 21, 2024
- simply B reacted to GaTeach's post in the thread Your Memorable Photos and Why with Like.
  
  Somewhere near Triacastela. The amount of joy this ole cow brought me at that particular moment....
  
  Dec 21, 2024
- simply B reacted to Damien Reynolds's post in the thread Your Memorable Photos and Why with Buen Camino!.
  
  Momma. She started it for me. 2005. She found out her breast cancer recurred after we got back. I still see her on the trail sometimes.
  
  Dec 21, 2024
- simply B reacted to Louise Comacchio's post in the thread Your Memorable Photos and Why with Love - Red heart.
  
  My dearest of brothers who surprised me at the end of my walk. He himself, a few years earlier, had walked the Mozarabe and via de la Plata. He knew the emotion of walking into Plaza Obrodoiro and wanted to be there for me. I bawled like a baby...
  
  Dec 21, 2024
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