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Sat 12 Dec 2008Mi casa, tu casa
Go Spain: A tortuous journey across northern Spain, following an old part of the Camino de Santiago, is enlivened when Manchán Maganstumbles across the true origins of the Irish
PILGRIMAGE invariably involves suffering, and on a recent coach trip through northern Spain, loosely following an old pilgrimage route along the Camino de Santiago, I suffered plenty: not from the usual pilgrim privations of blisters or bad weather but from the inane nattering of tour guides, bleating endlessly through the coach's loudspeakers, a constant mindless disembodied voice driving down from the roof, gradually unravelling my sanity.
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