[Sca-cooks] Compostella pilgrimage

[Suey]

Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote:

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>> Hope you can save up the time.
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> Well, you can do it in sections. It's not the same, but many people do
> it this way. Walk a third of the way one year, then the next year come
> back and start where you left off, and walk some more, then come back
> a third year and finish it...
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> I still want to go some day... been wanting to walk it since I was
> about 15 years old...
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That is right. I did it alone from Astorga to Santiago, others start 
from Paris and others at other places along the way. I did not do it for 
religious reasons but for food, thought and history.  I came to love the 
walk so much that at the end I did not even want to go into the 
cathedral I was so sad my walk ended. I met people from all over the 
world following the same arrows down and up those paths. I would and do 
beg my husband to walk it with me tomorrow.  It is so wonderful. You can 
do it alone meeting people on the way or with others. You can do it on 
bikes if in shape. I do not recommend doing it in a car. Peter thinks he 
wants that and I am telling him no way, your feet have to feel the 
stones, the grass and the stream. I went in May and reached out to 
touch, grab and eat the cherries.  Flowers were in blown like the 
Edelwiess, an ewe was birthing. I sat down to watch her and the shepherd 
and I embraced each other over the miracle of birth when her baby 
arrived. I got lost in the midst of cows and old women and more cows. 
They pointed me in the right direction. A famous English actor rolled 
out of a taxi in front of me one day while having a beer at an outside 
cafe. He told me his life story and disappeared. Some days later we met 
up again and had the best dinner together you can imagine in some off 
beat village. I never saw or heard from him again but he was amusing and 
interesting as so others I met on the way. My photos are incredible.
Save up time. It is the most economical thing you can do in Europe and 
the historical monuments are awesome.
And it is a gastronomy tour! The food is out of this world.
Suey