walking the walk

Why would read a book about the Camino de Santiago when you can go it yourself GIY? Why keep a dog and bark yourself? Why start a Blob with rhetorical questions? I was that desperate for e-reading and earbooking material on Borrowbox that I downloaded To Walk the Way - One Pilgrim's Camino (2026) by Mike Timms. I did not take it because Timms is a retired Director of the Centre for Disability Studies at University College Dublin and lives in Bray Co Wicklow. But there were nevertheless a few parallels between his experience and mine along Le Chemin de St Jacques.Without that common background, To Walk the Way might read like a log-book or journal - which I have recently claimed to be intrinsically poor reading. So you have two (2) glasses on wine in Burgos? Mike, nobody cares, nobody is counting. ditto roncadores = snorers; ditto wrong turnings; ditto blisters; these things exist, they are inevitable to the process of pilgrimage. Readers didn't ask, so don't tell. What can be…

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