I chose to "love" your post, not because I love what you reported, but because I am *that* grateful to you for calling out the entitled affront and politicking in this thread that has happened at cost/on the backs of victims of sexual violence...
As a woman who was sexually assaulted on the Camino back in 2015 by the same elderly man who did the same to several other peregrinas, including one with whom I had walked but finally met again in SdC - in her case she told me that he had also...
This is a sensitive topic so we will discuss it without venturing into side issues (especially political ones).
The camino should be safe, everywhere should be safe. Women alone should not be subjected to harassment or assault or made to feel...
I presume you are talking about the Meseta here in this.
If it was evident to you that you weren't getting sufficient, well balanced meals from albergues and other places you stayed, what did you do in response? There is no promise, on the...
I stopped by El Peregrino Bazaar, Amancio Yagüez's iconic workplace in Castrojeriz's Plaza Mayor, last week. The shop was closed when I got there about ten minutes before 5pm. I sat down on a chair in the arcade hoping to simply pass time...
At a guess?
Whenever a phenomenon concentrates and proliferates in one setting (the caminos being 'one kind of thing')... there has to be a common driving feature.
So what distinguishes caminos from the other walking holiday routes, or hiking...
How very, very saddening - from today's (21 Aug) The Times of London:
Pilgrims behaving badly set Spanish hillside ablaze and steal lettuce
The Camino de Santiago holy route to Compostela has been desecrated by mass tourism, say locals, with one...
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