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[QUOTE="Kanga, post: 590215, member: 143"] [USER=77465]@Gypsyqueen[/USER] my advice remains the same - the Camino Francés from St Jean Pied de Port all the way to Santiago de Compostela. I don't think you will get all the benefits of "the Camino" if you chop and change the route. Although you may well get a great holiday, and have a terrific time. From my perspective the Norte is lovely, but it is no more lovely than many, many coastal walks in Australia. And the Le Puy route is equally lovely. As are many other walks in Europe. You can't tackle them all at once. I can say as an Australia who also thought she would walk one camino and that would be it - if the Camino experience "grabs" you - it is amazing how easy it is to go back. Perhaps not immediately (life interferes) but eventually you will. And will be able to walk many of the different routes. For me the Camino is about starting and continuing to walk all the way to Santiago de Compostela. IMO. It is about letting the Camino itself make decisions for me, rather than me "managing" how it will be. It is about a community of people who form around me as the journey progresses and who share the journey with me and with whom I form friendships. It is about letting go of cares and worries and choices and decisions and just being. It is a precious time with a simple daily routine of getting up and walking, finding something to eat, finding a bed, talking to people around me. Nothing more complicated than that. It is about having the distant goal of Santiago in the back of my mind while living fully focussed on the present. It is about being at one with the sky and the soil and the landscape. It is about getting hot and getting cold, getting wet and getting dry, being hungry and being fed. It is all about simplicity. We spoil ourselves by trying constantly to find the "best" and being scared of missing out somehow. Let your Camino begin -as soon as you buy your tickets! [/QUOTE]
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