My wife and I are on the Frances. We’re taking a rest day in Sarria. Before we left the US we read and watched videos, etc.. It occurs to me that a lot of us overthink this thing.
On the night before we walked out of St Jean PDP we stopped...
Yes, the compostela, and distance certificate processing, are all computerized now.
When a pilgrim walks up to your counter, "hello, ola (Spanish), bonjour (French), bonjourno (Italian), hallo (German) then scan his/her bar code. The bar code...
There is nothing preventing you from getting a sello in Madrid and starting from Leon. If you later use the credencial to get a distance certificate, you can always tell them you really started walking in Leon. Even if you don't, chances are that...
After walking in rainy and chilly Galicia for about a week I ended up in a warm hotel room, feverish and with a cold. And I asked myself: why am I doing this? It felt like truancy, but I decided to spend my last couple of days in a studio in...
I liked it! After having just completed the West Highland Way, while not a truly long distance "through hike," I found myself being unable to stop calling the other walkers "pilgrims." The "sacred" beauty of the wild places in Scotland, that yes...
Ah yes, I do believe boredom can be very useful and even necessary. Northern France, back in the old days. A sleepy village and no wifi. Learned a lot from those never ending afternoons.
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