LIVE from the Camino Life as a hospitalero: Salamanca

[alexwalker]

Thank you, @David Tallan , for the brilliant idea and performance of doing this stint, and writing detailed about it. It has been a pleasure following your days and evenings in this great city that I have been visiting 3 different years.

Wishing you a great Camino Torres, and hope you will continue writing, now as a pilgrim.

Buen Camino!

 

[CarolamS]

WOW what an amazing experience. Thank you so much for sharing and with photos too, I've so enjoyed following this thread but today's report has me grinning from ear to ear so I can't imagine how you must be feeling.

 

[dick bird]

The quote in Spanish is much more powerful, partly because of the wordplay: "Venceréis, pero no convenceréis."

I agree. I would rather translate it as 'Conquer .... convince' which has a poetic repetition of sound, as does the original. You would know, of course, who Portillo´s son is. I also like this quote from Antonio Machado:
“For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, it is all clear: we have lost the war. But in human terms, I am not so sure. Perhaps we have won.”

 

[chinacat]

Thank you David, for communicating so splendidly about your hospitalero adventure!
Your photographs were especially rewarding.

And what a wonderful end to it
The local friends-of-the-albergue will probably find you quite hard to forget!

Buen Camino for the Torres!!