Via Francigena Association reporting there is a new Pilgrim's Office in Rome in preparation for the 2025 Jubilee.
https://www.viefrancigene.org/en/pilgrim-welcome-at-st-peters-in-the-vatican-with-volunteers/
Can I just put in a plug for starting a thread in the forum, so that all members can participate and see what @Denmanmurphy has to say? In addition to @Denmanmurphy, other forum members who have walked the Torres recently include @Charrito, me...
My grandfather came over from Portugal in the late early 1910s. At our annual festa West Sacramento, he always insisted on having bagpipes in the procession because it reminded him “of the old country.” What a treat for me to hear them and...
We celebrated the completion of our camino in 2018 by staying in the Parador. Turned out, our room was very close to the bagpiper! We fell asleep listening to those dulcet (?) sounds!
Those bagpipes did not get in the way of our getting a good...
I found my 1990 Camino diary last year when putting all my house contents into storage. I thought I'd lost it years ago. A little sobering to realise that the person writing was less than half my current age! On my first solo journey abroad. No...
There’s a tiny bar not too far from the busker; obviously family operated by a couple of octogenarians.
Last time there I asked ‘when did they start playing the gaitas?’
‘Which gaitas?’
I went to college in Santiago in the 90's and there were "gaiteiros" around the cathedral already. Maybe not every day or for so many hours, But it was happening already. In fact, the boyfriend of one of my friends used to play there sometimes...
There was someone playing the bagpipes my first time there in November 2001. Fifteen years later when I finally made it for the second time, and as the emotion was building coming closer to the cathedral, I heard the bagpipes again. Well that’s...
Aloha, I do walks on Hawaii (Kailua-Kona area) all Winter to prep for the Caminos I do every Spring/Summer. So far, none of my Kona friends have joined me, but there is certainly some growing interest on the Big Island. Buen Camino.
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