[Gocamino] Via de la Plata

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 Hi May,
The Via de la Plata offers an incredible array of spiritual, historical and wonderment riches far beyond the allure of lesser crowds.  The superb guide prepared by the Andalucian Camino Friends Associations is not, alas, available in English (The guide is so remarkable that I would consider translating it, gratuitously, of course, if I could find someone to help me...... I'm not at all good at translating, perhaps because I dislike doing it).
Last month I was able to get, in Santiago, a four DVDs (!!!!) film of the Via de la Plata pilgrimage done professionally, it seems.  I haven't watched it yet, but since I am presently confined to forced immobility I will sdee it soon and will report on it.
 
Therefore, May, when you've framed your specific questions about the Via perhaps I can answer some of them.
 
Maybe  I should add that the French Camino was pretty "crowded" during my first two pilgrimages there, yet I was always able to find all the solitude I sought. But somehow, the companionship of spirit with self seems to arise more spontaneously and profoundly walking the Aragonese portion of the Camino Frances from Somport, or Jaca, to Puente La Reina; it might be because of the cool, blue-clean, air and atmosphere flowing down from the white-capped Pyrenees  that almost parallel it.
 
Thank you all for your very welcome good wishes and prayers.  They are working and I'm on the mend, hoping to be sufficiently ambulatory by Thanksgiving. 
(Since you asked:  I injured my back pretty badly by attempting to lift a 200-pounds four-poster-with-canopy-double bed; not a wise thing to do for a woman in her mid-sixties who weighs 100 pounds and has bones as consistent as dry clay, owing to a life time of careless vegeterianism.  We all know, or should know, that, aside from moral considerations, a vegetarian diety is the best of them all, as witness the healthiest and longest lived humans in the universe who do not eat dead animals... but the effectiveness of a vegetarian diet consists of attentively mixing this with that....a need to which I never paid attention.   By the way, the life expectancy in New York statistics have just been released:  Asian women, primarily vegetarian, living in Queens and Brooklyn - for crying out loud-  have a life expecrtancy of 92 (ninety-two) years, which is fifteen years longer than the average.)
 
Big hug!
 
Rosina 
 
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: maywah at berkeley.edu
To: gocamino at oakapple.net
Cc: mcrescimbeni at gmail.com
Sent: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:44 AM
Subject: [Gocamino] Via de la Plata




Hello all,

I live in California, and have plans to walk part of the Via de la 
Plata next April/May.  My friend and I have about 2-3 weeks to walk 
starting from Sevilla.  I would be pleased to talk to someone who has 
walked this route.  I have walked parts of the Camino Frances in 2001 
and 2003.  The vdla appeals to me because I believe it will be less 
crowded thus more solitary.  I don't have specific questions at this 
moment although I know I will later. I have already looked at several 
web sites as well as have read books including the Confraternity 
guide.  Many thanks.

Warm regards,
                          May
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