A pilgrimage is supposed to be simplicity embodied. Stay in the municipal albergues and you eliminate all the above anguish and fuss and what-ifs. The camino still is not built to accommodate people with hotel expectations on pilgrim-albergue...
I oversee three albergues for FICS.
We did not use paper sheets before Covid-19. We provided a fitted cotton-polyester sheet and pillow case for each bed, and washed them every day. It was a whole lot of work for the hospitaleros.
In Covid...
I live in one of those isolated Meseta villages. Our municipal water supply comes from seven little springs; when one goes dry someone shifts a lever and taps another one. End of August/September the water often goes cloudy, but we are assured it...
@Bedspring, where was this? It’s an odd time of year to be hunting Boar and very odd to waste meat.
An aside, but the majority of the people who live along the Camino routes have little interest and certainly no vested interest in the Camino...
Numbers are only symbols. They only have meaning if we give it to them.... the distance between the markers is the same with or without numbers attached.
Keep walking, pilgrim!
CroPilgrim, I don't know if you are a male or female pilgrim, but knowing a little about the minds of village church ladies, my thought is:
She watches who goes in and out of that church.
She saw the pilgrim girl go in.
She saw you go in a little...
I agree. Before my first Camino I had some conversations with my mother-in-law about her own Camino and read a book by Laurie Dennett which she recommended and lent me. Along with borrowing Barbara's Camino guide book and buying the Confraternity...
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