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This is a Service of camosdigitalnomadservices.com which explains why I am "ghosted in" (from active duty in Naxos Greece with camera on hat) to this rare pano by another DIY Trekker Street View Photographer in an "iconic" section of the Camino Frances (which I title "Tilting at Wind Turbines" in Tribute to Don Quixote) to signify that IF I was to walk a Camino I would be doing something USEFUL for others, rather than just "passing time" and bitching about blisters. It is an Index of all the Camino Trails (in Spain) that I "compiled" over a year or so for reasons hinted at below. However as will be seen these Web-Apps totally eclipse what is/has been on offer as "guides" for those who have been "induced" to spend a great deal of time and expense (usually several times) in actually walking the Camino trails. Plus they can be used as "virtual tours" by those prevented from walking because of health/wealth deficiencies or the tyranny of distance. An examination of the "motives" of such "perpetual Camino walkers" is the subject of my further planned project, provisionally titled "How the Camino was Woked". I plead guilty to taking my own Camino (via making these Web-Apps) as part of "therapy" to recover my "heart's ease" following a legal battle over an illegal Woke Capital Eviction of myself and 15 other families from the former Pinnacle Village Resort (Daintree FNQ). The therapy started with the continuation of a series of Web-Apps for UK/Wales/Portugal Walking/Train Trails and that took me to a newly waymarked Camino from Reading to Southampton which provides a UK "starter trail" to the Camino network in Spain. Here is the Web-App (Selecting the Image opens the Web-App in a New Window). ![]() This Web-App was compiled in September 2023 and the associated Spanish Camino is the Camino Norte (from Santander) so I needed to make a decision at that time if I really wanted to "get involved" in this "thing" which smelt very much like the Santorini/Mykonos/Navagio Beach social media hyped nightmares in Greece. But in a strange sort of way I came to "love the smell of Caminos in the morning". So for better or worse I started the Norte in October 2023 and completed it in August 2024 (on a stop-start basis because of the boredom factor). ![]() The boredom relief involved slotting in the main Camino, the Camino Frances, from November 2023 to May 2024 ![]() Cumulative boredom relief then involved slotting in the Camino Portuguese (from Tui) in February 2024, ![]() as well as a tribute to the Estevez Clan with a slight Variation Trail from Salceda de Caselas per, ![]() Then in October 2024 I added the Spiritual Variant of this route, per ![]() And in June 2024 I added the Camino Ingles, per ![]() Because of the "Santorini style" hyped status of Santiago de Compostela (but with little information) I then made some specific Web-Apps to assist both those arriving there and those doing a Virtual Tour. The first concentrates on the Cathedral itself (including museums) with an array of multi-media features, ![]() The second looks at the various entries/exits to the Cathedral and Santiago itself, both for pilgrims and "others". ![]() The third answers the All Important question for a modern pilgrim which is what are the options for trails of the minimum 100kms that will GET one that Compostela (for that selfie!). ![]() So Buon Camino - an expression used by "us" (in the "us and them" expression) in the "Real Camino Familia" fraternity, the epitome of which is congregation in Abracadabra Square on the West side of the the Cathedral as seen in the drone image (2 images above). The strange "crop circles" of people (that would have had Russell Crowe's Beautiful Mind flummoxed) can not be explained by the us, but would seem to suggest to me there is some "Ancient Alien thing" going down here. I am very much a "them" (and a PITA for the "us"). How does that smell to you soldier? |