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Reading your post made me laugh and then I cried. I love your journey, attitude and thoughts to pen. May you continue your life’s journey with the same spirit and spirit walking beside you. You are a beautiful soul and I hope you continue to...
I am 68 and walked solo Porto to Santiago. I got so much wrong, but so much right too. I had trained - somewhat.
I began 27 March in run up to Easter and walked into terrible weather on Coastal route. Poncho ripped in the 40 kms wind day one...
Hello, we walked from Los Herrerias to Fonfria in a storm - high winds, muddy / stream- like track, cold & rainy day. Had snowed the day before. Was exhausted & the day I burst into tears when finally got to Fonfria! We said we would...
I have to admit that amongst all the pilgrims I’ve met, I have a special sympathy for New Zealanders.
Excuse me all the rest, you’re my pilgrim brothers and sisters too, but I’m going to explain why.
I’m Spanish, and I live in Madrid. For me is...
Greetings all! I'm going to be starting my first Camino Frances from SJPP at the end of May and have been avidly reading here (as a lurker), but this thread really connected with me and I felt it was a good time to dive into the forum.
My...
Actually, what pushed you to hit send on booking tickets to take you to 'The Camino'?
Why I wanted to press the button is easy to answer... in the summer of 2010 a distant friend visited me... and at some point, he talked about his Camino... and...
For my first Camino (1989), I was living in Spain, so booking tickets wasn't a big thing. I was driven by my interest in medieval history and culture, and aware of the Santiago de Compostela and the pilgrimage road to it through a number of...
My mother passed away in January of 2017. I fell into a deep funk which comtributed to a separation with my long term partner.
During the inevitable fallout, my aunt offered to take me on pilgrimage from Sarria to SdC.
I knew NOTHING about...
I walk for many reasons. For my first, I was walking out of gratitude mainly.. gratitude of still being alive, after having survived a large subdural hemorrhage that required surgery and I almost "coned", I survived 4 years at that time of...
It has somehow always been there in my consciousness - my mother (now 93, Methodist, Celtic origins) had never been, but the book Pilgrims Progress & pilgrimage as a journey to a special destination in all of its senses had been something in...
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