I work in a department in which we regularly assign a ‘graduating fieldwork assignment’ as a capstone. My world is adjacent in the sense that there is an ‘anthropology of tourism’ (though we do not cover that where I am), but I have worked...
I totally agree with Perambulating Griffin:
"This thread has been, with some exception, highly cranky, uncharitable and leaning toward the anti-scholarly and conspiratorial in terms of wildly flung accusations.
How regretable.
I wish...
I've now looked at it. It is a short questionnaire. I've seen worse student questionnaires and requests to fill them in on this forum. I answered it without fibbing. The title is actually "What would your ideal experience on the Camino de...
As I already said, it is a final degree project, it could be a hostel, an apartment, a cabin in the mountains, a snack machine, I don't know, it depends on the results.
Everyone here begins to create their own movies without any basis; that I...
God spare us the wisdom of "experts." I live in the next village over from Terradillos. If you talk to just about anyone who lives around here, and ask them why their towns survive, they'll tell you they are FARMERS. The major economic driver...
every now and then I identify as a grumpy old lady, and based on that experience I am happy to inform you about the one thing that always works wonders with the league of grumpy ones:
apologize
be the first to apologize unreservedly for any...
Well I was only referring to my experience less than one year ago, but yes of course things might have changed since then.
This I can kind of relate to, apart from it leading to poor meals. Infact I had much sympathy for the hospiteleros who'd...
I admit I am not a picky eater, but I didn’t find the food on the Meseta to be any worse than elsewhere on the Camino. One of my best meals of the entire Camino was a mushroom pasta dish at Albergue La Morena in Ledigos.
I think saying the...
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