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Planning on the Camino. Finding a balance. Ruta de La Lana
Planning on the Camino. Do you really want to know where you will sleep tonight? I love maps. The pleasure of relaxing on a bunk bed, weary legs propped high with a blanket or two and a guide book with … Continue reading
Posted in Pilgrimage and Prayer, Ruta de La Lana
Tagged Camino Franc, Caracena Callam, La Lana, Spain
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Prayer – just letting it happen.
Prayer – just letting it happen. The great plains of Spain. One of the great joys of being on the Camino, especially walking it alone over long distances, is the emptiness. Emptiness is everywhere. There are none of the usual … Continue reading
Posted in Pilgrimage and Prayer, The Camino de Santiago
Tagged Castilla La Mancha, Ignatius Spiritual, La Plata, Spain
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Finding self on the Camino (Part 2) Accepting Fascists and Sleeping with strangers
Finding Self on the Camino (Part 2) Merida to Aldea del Cano Accepting Fascists. Sleeping alone in a field, under the stars, and awaking covered in dew surrounded by mist gave me a delicious sense of freedom. It opened my … Continue reading
Posted in Pilgrimage and Prayer, The Camino de Santiago, Via de La Plata
Tagged Accepting Fascists, Camino Part, El Carrascalejo, Finca El Chaperral, Iona Community, La Plata, miracles, Proserpina Dam, Scotland, Veteran Pilgrim
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Finding oneself on the Camino (Part 1): Via de La Plata Merida.
Finding oneself on the Camino (part 1) Via de La Plata: Merida. The “Ego” in my rucksack. The person I was when I set off on my first Camino, the Via de La Plata, in 2010 … Continue reading
Posted in Pilgrimage and Prayer, The Camino de Santiago, Via de La Plata
Tagged Holy Week, La Plata, La Plata Merida
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Experience of Communion. Two stretches of the Ruta de La Lana
The experience of communion. Mass in Campillo de Altobuey, Cuenca On the Ruta de La Lana, I arrived in Campillo de Altobuey the day after my “shock”, when I had a fierce reaction to antibiotics. This had forced me to … Continue reading
Posted in GPS, Pilgrimage and Prayer, Ruta de La Lana, The Camino de Santiago
Tagged Camino Parishes, God Love, La Lana, La Plata, Padre Crescente, Roman Catholic, Spain
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Pain, the body and Love: Camino de Santiago. Samos, Camino Francés.
Pain The suffering Pilgrim: pain, the body and love. On the final 200 kms of the Camino the number of pilgrims doubles, then triples. I am always impressed at the determination with which those who have newly joined the Camino … Continue reading
Posted in Camino Francés, Pilgrimage and Prayer, The Camino de Santiago
Tagged Camino Francés, Christian Good News, Iron Cross, Letting Pain
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Iona Community Prayers on the Camino de Santiago. No. 2
Iona Community Prayers on the Camino de Santiago “Dad, have you ever said sorry in your life?” On the Camino, in the hours of walking in the quiet of forests or over the great plains of Burgos or La Mancha, … Continue reading
Posted in Pilgrimage and Prayer, The Camino de Santiago
Tagged AD, Catholic Church, Celtic Psalm, Iona Community, Scotland
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Keeping reason in its place. Via de La Plata. Merida.
Disturbed by reason. Via de La Plata Merida. Almendralejo to Merida. [mapsmarker layer=”15″] I left Almendralejo on my 61st birthday. My legs felt better after the ungainly exercises the doctor had demonstrated to me in the hospital the … Continue reading
Posted in Pilgrimage and Prayer, The Camino de Santiago, Via de La Plata
Tagged Christian Love, David Hume, La Plata, Richard Dawkins
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Railway lines on caminos de Santiago
Railway lines on the Caminos. They seem to go off into infinity. My Caminos often begin by a train journey, sometimes in the middle of the night. I don’t know why I like railway lines. I like the old ones. … Continue reading
Posted in The Camino de Santiago
Tagged England, France, La Lana, La Melgosa
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Money and food: Part 2. Alpera – Iniesta.
Money and food, part 2. A discourse on food. When others who walk long distances first told me that food became less important to them when walking, I found it hard to believe. It is counter-intuitive when you think of … Continue reading
Posted in GPS, Pilgrimage and Prayer, Ruta de La Lana, The Camino de Santiago
Tagged Brazil, Camino Portuguese, La Lana, Spain
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