Not walking on terrible weather

[diana88]

Today my experience of walking in terrible cold and such a strong wind was a really unpleasant one. I will be lucky if I haven't caught a cold! I could never thought Spain will be like this in may. How do I avoid such days if every albergue requires to check out before 8 and cannot get in another one until 12? I guess I could not sit at a bar for hours and stay in the same town for 2 days?

 

[wayfarer]

Its all part of the great Camino experience, just go with the flow. If you wait for good weather you could be waiting for a week.
Buen Camino.

 

[enerol]

Be careful. Be safe.

 

[tyrrek]

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
And you‘ll never walk alone.

Now you're going to tell me your cycling it.

Hope things improve soon and look out for the rainbow!

 

[mspath]

"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light.
Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky.
Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not,
and what beyond is in Eternity." Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 1c AD

Carpe Diem!

MM

 

[newfydog]

Some of our best days were vegging out in a nice hotel, resting up and watching the rain pour down.

ps: You catch a cold from other people, not from bad weather!

 

[naplesdon]

Some of our best days were vegging out in a nice hotel, resting up and watching the rain pour down.

ps: You catch a cold from other people, not from bad weather!

This morning the 23rd of May would have been just one of those mornings in western Spain to take your advice. A super cell storm hit Biarritz about 7:30 with high winds and driving rain. There is a mountain south of me near La Rhune covered in white, I'm not sure if it is hail or snow.

 

[naplesdon]

Here is a photo of a storm that rolled in off the Atlantic this morning (23/5) around 7:30, by noon the skies were crystal clear.

 

[Felipe]

In my experience, hospitaleros usually give us some leeway when the weather is really awful. Anyway, I feel restless after some time, and I leave, raining or not. But it is true, I have walked with terrible weather, and when I look back from distance, a couple of hours later, I can see a clear sky. You never know what's around the corner.

 

[koilife]

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind [super cell storm in Biarritz],
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;"

Shakespeare, As You Like It

 

[bystander]

Westron wynde, when wilt thou blow,
The small raine down can raine.
Cryst, if my love were in my armes
And I in my bedde again!

16th century

 

[newfydog]

"when the rain comes, do you run and hide your head?
you might as well be dead"

---- The Beatles

 

[Olivares]

..and this too shall pass.

Unless unsafe, put one foot in front of the other. The Camino will take care of you. Buen Camino!

 

[lettinggo]

The sun is always shining
above the skies
day and night

Lettinggo

 

[bystander]

A few years ago on this on another Camino website a traveller/pilgrim questioning his journey and the difficulties ahead was given this advice (if I remember it correctly) by a priest -
"uno paso mas"

 

[alansykes]

In Santiago you can buy a t-shirt with the phrase "sin dolor non hay gloria" written on it.

 

[xin loi]

We were hit by same weather. Once we started putting rocks on the cairns for the mountain Gods, we never had any more rain. People in front of us and behind us got wet, but not us.

 

[amorfati1]

In Santiago you can buy a t-shirt with the phrase "sin dolor non hay gloria" written on it.

There is plenty of glory without pain.... But hardly without effort or steadfastness. And not every pain brings glory....
Hence i never quite "get" this ' no pain no gain' business....
Growth often involves/ includes pain.... But glory??
What am i 'missing'?
Do i dare ask?