[Gocamino] Camino Changes

[Kathy Gower]

I walked originally in the Holy Year of 1999, and most recently last month....there's more bicyclists and fast walkers....and in Santiago you can only go set ways through the cathedral...and no touching the handprint or knocking your head.  Any attempt to go around or back through without going outside is met with the Guardia Civil security...you can enter another way after showing your credential to the people at the door, but forget the backpacks...much different from before.
...and there are many, many more bus pilgrims and long waits at the pilgrim office.  It's all as wonderful, though, as it ever was...

> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:32:48 -0800
> From: rebrites at yahoo.com
> To: gocamino at oakapple.net; guha2005 at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Camino Changes
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> The camino is ever more commercial, and the pilgrims are more hurried and less likely to stop and hang out and chat along the road. They´re as friendly and fun as ever in the evenings, after they´ve secured a place to stay. But out on the road there´s a lot less dawdling and lollygagging going on. 
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> Rebekah Scott 
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> --- On Thu, 11/11/10, Glenn Jilek <guha2005 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Glenn Jilek <guha2005 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Gocamino] Camino Changes
> To: gocamino at oakapple.net
> Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 4:43 PM
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> Just Curious.....
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> >From those Camino veterans who have walked the Camino before this current Holy Year and also during this year....what were the notable changes ?  Sure there have been a lot more people walking, but besides that were there differences that stuck in your mind?
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> Glenn
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