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Just for clarification, and I think that it is actually relevant for the OP's question: There are "dedicated pilgrim-only accommodations for the pilgrims" on several Caminos and those who own them or manage them have made it clear in recent years... -
The Camino is a pilgrimage. If you don't intend to walk to Santiago, please stay at hostels and hotels, and leave the dedicated pilgrim-only accommodations for the pilgrims.
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Ianinam replied to the thread Quiet in St Jean Pied de Port!.Yes, June and July are a 'low season', also in Roncesvalles. In May we had full house every day (245 beds and had to send away pilgrims much to our regret as we run out of beds), but June and July are quiet. Last weeks we had 'only' 130 - 170...
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Much as I'm not a fan of disposable sheets, impractical as they might be, I wouldn't refuse them on ecological grounds as it would be hypocritical of me. I'm in no position to lecture the spanish people on the environment while I choose to travel...
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I'll risk a delete here: I think it's likely that every Pilgrim stopped at Manjarin. The others on the road have no need of what he offered. Who needs a Templar Knight when you've got Godgle, Correos and your credit-card provider watching over... -
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Thank you for sharing this!!
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Ianinam replied to the thread Manjarin: Tomás Martinez de Paz, the last templar.HARD CRAFTS Luis Peregrino, another pilgrim who visited the albergue of this unique hospitalero, remembers that 'although he has had his good and his bad days, Tomás never closed the door for someone; only for two sons of Satan with a pilgrim...
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Ianinam replied to the thread Manjarin: Tomás Martinez de Paz, the last templar.WE WANT NORMAL PEOPLE The hospitaleros say they have a vocation to follow: 'In the past we devoted ourselves for former drug addicts, former alcoholics and former prisoners. And now also for pilgrims. In addition to taking care of their...
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Ianinam replied to the thread Manjarin: Tomás Martinez de Paz, the last templar.For example, he was a shepherd of five hundred goats until the Malta fever - 'which is worse than the flu' – made him retire. In 1992 he withdrew as a hospitalero in the albergue of Jesús Arias Jato in Villafranca del Bierzo. There he saw the...
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Ianinam replied to the thread Manjarin: Tomás Martinez de Paz, the last templar.FASCINATED BY THE TEMPLARS Tomás Martínez de Paz, born in Murias de Rechivaldo, left Madrid in 1986 after working there during 35 years and left on camino from León. 'It took me seventeen years to complete the camino. So I laugh a little bit...
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