Spain
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Hasta la vista, Camino del Norte!
The first two stages of my Camino del Norte I proudly showed off to my “friends” on Facebook. Many of them really are my friends, of course, but you know what I mean by the quotation marks.…
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“The best view in the world”
The first stage of my Camino del Norte in September 2025 was from Irun in Spain, just across the border from France, to San Sebastian, a major city in the Basque region in northern Spain. I had…
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Arrietara, Sopelana, Bizkaia, Spain
Finally, in July 2021 I made it to the northern coast of Spain. The Bizkaia region had been in my sights for several years, ever since a glorious evening in Girona, on the Mediterranean side of Spain,…
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Selective memory at the Costa Brava
On one of our walks in Dijleland, among numerous topics that crop up in our discussions, I once mentioned the concept of selective memory. This was provoked by the closure of our path with barriers to allow…
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Besalú: it’s mostly about the bridge
Having explored the best parts of Girona the day before, it was time to move further afield. In my research I had read about Besalú, a sleepy medieval village with a magnificent bridge which was worth visiting and…
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Hobbling around in Girona
So finally and thankfully here we were, my son Gianluca and I, after much indecision, in Girona, Spain. Or maybe I should say: Girona, Catalonia. They don’t feel so Spanish in Catalonia. You won’t see the Spanish…
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