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[QUOTE="Pieces, post: 93892, member: 11188"] Its not really hard to meet people on the camino. One doesn't even have to go to measures such as cooking or inviting oneself to sit at the table. I get that some people will find it hard to invite themself into a group but I find that if you just walk and smile and say hi to everybody you encounter and then at reststops, make polite & short conversation or ask questions with the people at the bar/table next to you/bathroom line/whatever. Then a lot of times the short will turn longer and people will come over or invite over. Next rest stop you will see the same people and eventually you will not sit alone and if you do offer the next solo walker a chair... Also, we hear all this stuff about the "camino families" (had one myself on the portuguese, and we still talk all of us occationally) but it is not a given. I think what is important is not to try too hard or worry too much. We all know of those desperate mateseeking people (who sometimes may be ourselves) and how everybody takes off and runs, same thing with friendseeking people really... Also, I find that the occational chat at reststops and the greeting & repeat greeting of people on the way, will go a long way towards fulfilling the human contact need, top up with hanging at the albergue common room and chatting to the hospitalero and you are mostly doing quite well and it will give you patience while waiting for the more substantial connections to happen (which they may not, but you will be ok cause the basics were met) But above all, smile... [i]A smile is the shortest distance between two people (Victor Borge)[/i] (and actually smiling also makes you happy) [/QUOTE]
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