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BUSKING TO SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA Our brassy pilgrim has a scary brush with dogs, walks in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson and enjoys bun fights and drinking bouts

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990829
Author:BEN NIMMO

13 August

Southwards from Le Puy along the upper Loire. Suddenly a dog charges from a hedge. Prepare to sell my life dearly: he bounds past, looks back, waiting. An hour later he's still leading the way. Christen him Dog Friday. Then the Kamikaze Collie. He attacks anything, even a 52-seater bus. Eventually he takes off after a 2CV, snapping at its tyres. I wait. He doesn't reappear.

14-16 August

Continue alone along dusty trails. This feels like the south: brown, bony, dry, stony. Scent of pines fills the air. Robert Louis Stevenson came here once with a donkey. Locals still remember it. ...

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