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  1. JabbaPapa

    Barcelona and Tourist Taxes

    Stayed in Carcassonne last night, tourist tax at the youth hostel €1.10 - - < swoons !! >
  2. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    Great stuff, though as a counterpoint, at the Perthus, if you're on one side of the main road you're in France, and on the other in Spain. The Spanish side is livelier as the shops are less expensive, but the locals there most definitely do their to-and-fro, and speak both languages as a matter...
  3. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    I'll add that in Europe anyway, the border area dialects have generally been dying out since the 19th Century, and from both efforts by Governments and the effect of mass media (invention of the industrial printing press in the 19th Century and so on from there), so that within national borders...
  4. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    I'd say that would depend where in Europe, though as a generality I'd say that's right. The border area French where I live speak Italian far more often than the other French do, and the same is true of the Italians on the other side of the border - - having said that, locally it's due to many...
  5. JabbaPapa

    Why 100km for compostela

    The rule was and is purposed to limit the number of qualifying pilgrims to some "reasonable" number, though truth is that our numbers have increased so much that it's hundreds of thousands every year anyway -- but bear in mind that without this condition, the number would probably be in the...
  6. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    Wikipedia is insufficiently reliable. I live about 20 km from Nice, and nobody uses anything other than Nissart, or sometimes in French Niçois. But usually even in French it's called Nissart. And it's not "was historically spoken", but this (Occitanian) dialect is still spoken today, even...
  7. JabbaPapa

    Camino miracles

    My conversion story is a bit too complicated for this type of forum, and it did happen on the Camino. So a different story. In about 2009 I became very ill with three successive serious flus, being mostly bed-bound over a period of about six months. I lost a great deal of muscle mass, and...
  8. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    That is an excellent clarification, thanks !!
  9. JabbaPapa

    Do you drop any personal restrictions on Camino?

    Sadly, the local Portuguese bakery down here on the French Riviera, which still has very excellent Portuguese pastries, has switched from Delta coffee to an Italian brand. It's smoother, but that's not what you want in a Portuguese coffee ; and it's not Italian either, because they make it in a...
  10. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    Looks very inaccurate, even just down here locally. There's no "niçart" but it's Nissart. Almost nobody speaks Provençal itself in the eastern Alpes-Maritimes and there is a pretty hard dialectal border formed by the Comté de Nice and also by the local Alps from Èze and La Turbie outwards...
  11. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    Some French do. More use Chemin than those who use Camino, and I use Chemin de Saint-Jacques myself, but both words are used by the French, variably between one individual and the next.
  12. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    No -- linguistically, even though the concept has been somewhat messily suggested by the OP, it basically refers to local dialectalism in trans-national border regions. Typically, non-native immigrants will over a number of generations become mother tongue speakers of the language spoken...
  13. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    I don't think it applies in that case ; nor in the case of Catalan as far as French is concerned -- as the same language is spoken on both sides of the border rather than languages bleeding into each other. Catalan does "bleed" into Valencian, Andorran, the Balearic dialects, and to a degree...
  14. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    Basque is completely unrelated to Spanish and French. It is an entirely separate language having no mutual intelligibility with either of those languages.
  15. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    Yes, and over the border there are some Italian dialects, not French ones -- though few French people now speak those Italian dialects.
  16. JabbaPapa

    Spanish language on Caminos outside of Spain

    French and Spanish are actually quite distant from each other, and typically Spanish monolinguals don't understand French and vice-versa. It's complicated by the presence of Basque in the French and Spanish Basque countries in that border region. French and Occitanian have a bit more mutual...
  17. JabbaPapa

    Do you drop any personal restrictions on Camino?

    I do.
  18. JabbaPapa

    Do you drop any personal restrictions on Camino?

    Well, I won't talk about the restrictions that are endemic to any Camino. But I found, after I pushed past my old three month psychological barrier of previous Caminos in 2022, and settled into a different and more "permanent" Camino routine, that walking the Camino in that frame of mind was...
  19. JabbaPapa

    Surfing the Camino

    Walking from Santiago to SJPP in 2022, I do very much concur -- though as you suggest, there is often some overflow on Mondays (some people start their vacation period after a Saturday working day so that Sunday for them is a travel day for a Monday start). Tuesdays to Thursdays in the major...
  20. JabbaPapa

    The forum, 20 years on.

    I joined in July 2005, just before heading off on my 2005 Home to Santiago, and 3rd Camino. My first post was some advice to a prospective pilgrim, of my typical "start from further away than SJPP" sort ... :p

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