Well, there we were in Vigo, Spain, of all places. Sir Francis Drake had been there, when in 1589 he and his English Armada sacked the place, burning and pillaging; this was only a year after their defeat of the Spanish Armada on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. The...
Pilgrims who finish the Camino and arrive at the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, are mostly of one mind regarding their roughly 500-mile trek: they exude the spirit of life lessons learned – important lessons, necessary lessons, lessons that are even dramatically...
We had seen the candy-apple red “train to the clouds” from the gondola, and the ski day done, were giddy at last to board the historic cogwheel railway – called the Gornergrat Bahn – that would cogwheel us up to a summit where views of peaks, lakes, glaciers, and the...
The first stage of the Camino’s “French Way” between St. Jean Pied de Port and Roncevalles is known as the Napoleon Route. Steep and challenging, this is the climb the French general’s army undertook in 1808 to enter Spain during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). Not...
Given that the Camino de Santiago officially begins not just in France or Spain or Portugal, but also in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Malta, it was no surprise to learn that Switzerland, too, has a pair of send-off...
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