Buniontrotter

For the past 10 years I have been walking the camino in different stages. I love, love, love it! My first camino began in Dublin Ireland, where I live. I walked from my home to the harbour one day in August 2005. The following October-break I took a ferry across to Wales, from where I started walking towards Bristol, from there south to Weymouth from where there used to be a ferry going across to France, St Malo. From St Malo I made my way south to St Jean Pied de Port. Then I was on the pilgrim 'highway' and dreaded it, until that moment I had been pretty much alone. Turned out I loved it! In June 2009 I arrived in Santiago for the first time and was totally upset that it was all over...Continued on to Finisterra to get away from too much of everything
In October of the same year I started my second camino, this time from a small village in the north of the Netherlands, where my grandmother was born. The name of the village is St Jacobi Parochie (parish of St James) I walked through the Netherlands, Belgium and again France, this time the other side of the country, by Reims, Vezelay, le Puy en Velay and then veered off it to follow the Somport Pass. In May 2014 I arrived in Santiago for the second time, again had to get out of there. Went on to Muxia and spent a lovely week of recovering there.
I started my third camino last October, this time the Via de la Plata, from Seville. I finished 3 days short of Salamanca, almost halfway there. This coming April I will return and hopefully arrive in Santiago sometime in early May, by Ourense, because I feel that the French camino has become somewhat overloaded.
I cannot express enough what the camino has done for me, it has given me back my faith in people, in God and in myself. The beauty of nature in so many different forms and weathers, the smells, it has all been so positive and real and good. The goodwill and love and helpfulness and generosity of people on the way has blown me away. We lose the varnish, the true self as (I think) we are are meant to be, comes to the fore again. The true gift of life, becomes clearer etc etc. I could go on and on....
Live it...and feel it...