[Gocamino] nitpicking

[John Rafferty]

I must confess I thought  the exchange was interesting and nothing more than 
a debate on the facts and interpretation of history from people passionately 
interested in it.

Let's hope they always have the freedom to debate - it is a learning point 
for all of us.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Caroline Mathieson" <caroline.mathieson at hotmail.com>
To: <gocamino at oakapple.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] nitpicking


>I suspect like all things, that the camino has changed (modernised?) a 
>great deal since the time being written about in both Walter Starkie's and 
>the one causing the fuss.
>
> We all know what the situation is today regarding quailfying for 
> compostelas, shells etc so why argue about it?
>
> Caroline
>
>> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:14:54 +0200
>> From: sillydoll at gmail.com
>> To: eileen.hamer at insightbb.com
>> CC: gocamino at oakapple.net
>> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] nitpicking
>>
>> Sorry Eileen - the double post came from me - don't know why that 
>> happens?
>> And, the Wiki info I copied and posted also came out funny.  No more
>> nit-picking over scallop shells!
>> But, I *would* like to recommend Walter Starkie's classic account of his
>> pilgrimages to Santiagio to anyone who hasn't already read it.  His book,
>> more than any other, switched historians, art critics etc onto the old
>> camino path.
>> In the book - The Pilgrimage to Santiago by Linda Davidson and David
>> Gitlitz, Linda says: "David's imagination had been fired by Walter 
>> Starkie's
>> vivid account of his pilgrimage experiences in the 1950's.."
>> Abrazos,
>> Sil
>>
>>
>> On 06/12/2007, eileen.hamer at insightbb.com <eileen.hamer at insightbb.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Opened my email this morning and thought "Great, lots of Gocamino mail,
>> > yum!"
>> >
>> > But sadly, much of it was repeat, don't know why that sometimes
>> > happens.  And most of it sounds like a bunch of pissy old maid 
>> > bureaucrats
>> > having a rather malicious gossip session.  Can't we do better?
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