- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2009-2022: CFx6, CP, VdlPx2, Mozarabe, more later.
Time to leave the Forum and getting myself a life: I am too addicted in here and need some air.
All right: So, first I need to go as a skipper (yes, I am) up here in the Arctic ( http://havcruise.no/) with some sports fishermen within 2 weeks, spending 5 fun days at sea, but after that, the Camino awaits me. I cannot resist. The calling is too strong, so I surrender, once more.
So, tonight I booked a plane from Arctic Norway to Oslo, another plane from Oslo to Madrid, a hostel in Burgos after a train ride of 2.5 hours from Madrid, and getting out on the Way on Sept.2. No procastination; just Easy. Total price: Arctic Norway-Oslo: 90 Euros. Oslo-Madrid: 80 Euros. All with www.norwegian.no . Train Madrid-Burgos: 36 Euros. Hostal in Burgos (arriving in the evening; albergue certainly full at 19.00): 36 Euros. Total travel cost to the Camino: 200 Euros + 36 more for a quiet bed before I get on with it.
So in total, for max. 250 Euros (wine, food, along) I am back on the Camino. How cool is that. Thank you, higher powers. I need to sleep in the airport in Oslo before going to Madrid, during the night, but I don't care: I am on my Way and I can take anything thrown at me as long as I end up on the Camino, walking.
Edit: By writing this, I realize how much many good people from much farther away have to pay to reach the Camino; My feelings are with you, because I am convinced you are as crazy as I am, but may have more restraints, economically/time, to enjoy the life on the Camino.
I am aware that I am lucky, being "close" to the Camino (Europe). However, I am not that close: I have to cross almost all of Europe to get there: I am starting out from the Arctic: https://www.visittromso.no/en , and then I have to sleep in a chair at the airport of Oslo; my plane leaves at 7.15 for Gatwick, England, and then another plane for Madrid, then a train to Burgos. Oh well, I am a good sleeper; I will fare well.
You know, the Camino is very much like in the Hotel California song (And also this forum, methinks): "You can check out any time you like; but you can never leave." Suits me fine. I will be refreshing my Camino experiences one more time (for now). I need another fix.
Hope to see some of you good folks out there.
BTW: No return ticket (I am retired, thank God: The guy who invented work could not possibly have had much to do!).
I am done when I am done, and it won't be soon. I will smell the roses and absorb where I am and how lucky I am.
I may even do a Finisterre and/or Portuguise walk: Who knows. Don't care.
Buen Camino!
All right: So, first I need to go as a skipper (yes, I am) up here in the Arctic ( http://havcruise.no/) with some sports fishermen within 2 weeks, spending 5 fun days at sea, but after that, the Camino awaits me. I cannot resist. The calling is too strong, so I surrender, once more.
So, tonight I booked a plane from Arctic Norway to Oslo, another plane from Oslo to Madrid, a hostel in Burgos after a train ride of 2.5 hours from Madrid, and getting out on the Way on Sept.2. No procastination; just Easy. Total price: Arctic Norway-Oslo: 90 Euros. Oslo-Madrid: 80 Euros. All with www.norwegian.no . Train Madrid-Burgos: 36 Euros. Hostal in Burgos (arriving in the evening; albergue certainly full at 19.00): 36 Euros. Total travel cost to the Camino: 200 Euros + 36 more for a quiet bed before I get on with it.
So in total, for max. 250 Euros (wine, food, along) I am back on the Camino. How cool is that. Thank you, higher powers. I need to sleep in the airport in Oslo before going to Madrid, during the night, but I don't care: I am on my Way and I can take anything thrown at me as long as I end up on the Camino, walking.
Edit: By writing this, I realize how much many good people from much farther away have to pay to reach the Camino; My feelings are with you, because I am convinced you are as crazy as I am, but may have more restraints, economically/time, to enjoy the life on the Camino.
I am aware that I am lucky, being "close" to the Camino (Europe). However, I am not that close: I have to cross almost all of Europe to get there: I am starting out from the Arctic: https://www.visittromso.no/en , and then I have to sleep in a chair at the airport of Oslo; my plane leaves at 7.15 for Gatwick, England, and then another plane for Madrid, then a train to Burgos. Oh well, I am a good sleeper; I will fare well.
You know, the Camino is very much like in the Hotel California song (And also this forum, methinks): "You can check out any time you like; but you can never leave." Suits me fine. I will be refreshing my Camino experiences one more time (for now). I need another fix.
Hope to see some of you good folks out there.
BTW: No return ticket (I am retired, thank God: The guy who invented work could not possibly have had much to do!).
I am done when I am done, and it won't be soon. I will smell the roses and absorb where I am and how lucky I am.
I may even do a Finisterre and/or Portuguise walk: Who knows. Don't care.
Buen Camino!
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