Medieval pilgrimage routes become more popular

[HkNewman]

Spain’s Camino routes are now the most famous, but they were abandoned until Spain reignited interest in them in 1975 as they were thought to be a “masculine” (direct quote) pursuit by the then military government.  The author describes the UKs Canterbury Trail and a link will take you to Japan’s Buddhist shrine loop (1200 km) …. seeing a picture of what looks to be an Arc’teryx FL pack in the promo pictures.   Not sure how many would actually allow wild camping admittedly…

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20201111-a-new-love-for-medieval-style-travel?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2F

 

 

[HkNewman]

… much more for the hiking experience where appropriate, of course, and not a religious experience one per se.

[Paul Wagner]

The lovely part of this story is that during the medieval period, travel was severely limited by social station—the only real reason most people were allowed to travel was a religious pilgrimage. Everyone was else was required to stay put and work for the local noble.

Not unlike today…

[Dale Wambaugh]

We rode bikes from Porto to Santiago de Compostela on the Camino de Portuguese.

There are companies that rent bikes and arrange a chain of hotels and transport your luggage along the way. I’ve seen every inch of the coast. Wind and cobblestones aside it was beautiful.

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