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Camino de Santiago de Compostela
October 02, 2022
Our Tabard Inn was La Rosa Negra café. Not exactly a 14th-century inn on the Thames in Southwark, but a neighbourhood bar in Vigo serving albariño wine, crisps and local Galician beer, across the road from our unfashionable travellers’ hotel. The evening before we headed off in the morning towards Santiago on our 100km Camino
October 01, 2022
Walking holidays are not what walking the Camino, or indeed any holy path, is about, but the reordering of time is what they have in common. What really separates them is that single simple letter ‘I’. Somehow when walking a pilgrimage as a Christian the ego subsides
June 24, 2021
Tucked away in the remote hamlet of El Cebrero (O Cebreiro in the regional Galician language), atop a 1293-metre pass some 150 kilometres from the tomb of St. James, is the church of Santa María la Real, site of a powerful Eucharistic miracle.
April 09, 2021
Saints and sinners, miracles and miscreants, and even Old Scratch himself … the literature associated with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela abounds in characters and tales as colorful, instructive and entertaining as anything in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
July 29, 2016
One of the world's most popular pilgrimage sites is planning a new centre for Anglicans
May 03, 2011
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