Awesome!! I like it.... LOL... no worries. But the excitement should be all positive. This is such an experience, but it is what you make it. So big precentage is attitude! Nervous to start, of the unknown, ... yes, normal. Excitement should be in the mix. You will have an experience of a lifetime, so embrace it and try and catch so sleep to be strong and ready!!
and on the third...and fourth .....
Thank Goodness it's "normal"!!! I'm up every morning between 4 and 5am and I was thinking my body was getting "Camino ready" but I'm getting pretty tired now!! I depart in 4 days and I do hope to get a good night sleep the night before I head out!! Buen Camino!!
Yeah, once you start walking the Camino and get into a routine or rhythm of sorts, you will sleep quite well after walking half the day. I slept like a log every night on the Camino, no problem. That's even after taking a nap in the afternoon.
Nornal normal normal, and you will probably feel like this until you take your first steps up the hill, after that it fades away and after a few days you won't even think about it. Its Camino fever, and can be treated by long walks, good company and vino tinto. There is no cure, you will have to come back again and again for treatment.
That is a natural reaction, once you walk a day or two and get into the routine of the Camino you will sleep just fine; believe me after walking 25 or 30 or more KM in a day, with a pack on your back, you will sleep!
Hee hee. If any of these things happen it won't be the first time and probably not the last. Except Gangrene. I've never heard of that one. And jail only happens in the films. The Spanish police know that sending you back to the albergue is more punishment than a prison cell.
Only joking. You'll all have the time of your lives and I'm just jealous.
BTW Don, I will be leaving from SJPdP on Thursday! We might run into each other along "The Way"!! Buen Camino!
I'm so glad to hear this as I am beginning to plan my second Camino for June 2015!! I definitely have had some fear that "it's never as good as the first time."
It's not only normal it is part of the experience. You will soon be sleeping deeply with a clear mind.
love it you made me smile,, cos you must have been reading my mind except you forgot to add WHAT IF YOU ARE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE WITH A BROKEN TOOTH AND THE ONLY OPTION IS THE LOCAL BUTCHER/HANDYMAN ?and what if yours house BURNS DOWN while you are away in the SPANISH JAIL?or you fall and BREAK YOUR KNEE/HEAD/ANKLE on the way out of san jean ?
Good luck Cate - I'm leaving for the airport in an hour (from Australia) Maybe we'll run into each other.
oh hell,, you have just given us more STUFF to worry about ,,
Sooooo understanding this!! One week to go... Already in Spain and feeling excited/anxious/nervous.... First steps from SJPP on Tuesday in a week! Meet you on the trail! Kate
The sections after Pamplona are some of my top favorites on the Camino Frances. Zarriquiegui, where scenes of "the Way" were filmed is beautiful. Who would know that this village was descimated by the plague in the Middle Ages and pilgrims avoided it like...well, like the Plague.I'm starting from Pamplona on friday too!!!
. It was repopulated in the 15th Century and remains a beautiful place. That said, CIRAUQUI, major WOW! as you approach from the Camino trail. The Roman road and bridge right after B-L-E-W my mind!! Buen Camino.
I also had two years of planning but now I leave TOMORROW! It seemed like it would never come and now suddenly my Camino is starting.
update....it only gets worse. I got on a plane this morning and last nigh I got zero sleep
Dear Pilar,I'm starting from Pamplona on friday too!!!
...and THAT's how is done!!!
capecorps-- I am 3 years away from "sitting on that chair"! Buen Camino!
Well Wayfairer font of all knowledge and discipline, you are for once wrong, because we got cured this year on our second Francis . on the way down into Acebo after an hour on scree she who walks with me uttered those imortal words"never again, thats it" and so I just had to accept that, and I did not want to see the woman I love suffer any longer and so that was that cured. we walked on to Santiago and hanging over a wall in the square and looking west on the camino Finisterre we caught it again We planned to do a wee walk this year to Finisterre, that had morphed into a Portuguese next year and a shortened Frances the next. Advice, if you feel cured get out quick before you catch it againNornal normal normal, and you will probably feel like this until you take your first steps up the hill, after that it fades away and after a few days you won't even think about it. Its Camino fever, and can be treated by long walks, good company and vino tinto. There is no cure, you will have to come back again and again for treatment.
I, too, have sworn off that stretch. It will be a taxi next time. But the rest...
