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[QUOTE="Profesora, post: 443974, member: 61925"] Hello, my first Camino was in 2004. I walked with my husband from Sarria to Santiago and there is a photograph of me beaming with delight as I arrived at the Cathedral. My first Camino was a wonderful, spiritual experience which I shall never forget. It made me want to do a longer pilgrimage, which I did over the next eight Summers in ten day or fortnightly stints because my husband couldn't get a longer time off work. Walking the Camino changed my life in all sorts of ways that are probably not obvious to anyone but me. To have been a pilgrim was probably one of the greatest experiences of my life, up,there with the births of my children. Seriously, it really was a wonderful experience. We walk a particular path, walking in the footsteps of those who went before and leaving footmarks for those who come after. There are no rules really and each person's pilgrimage begins at the moment they leave home, or maybe before then at the moment they decide to go on a pilgrimage. However long your pilgrimage is, I hope it will help you and inspire you. You are part of a chain stretching back a thousand years and stretching forward to those who will start a day or a week or a month after you. And by the way, there were occasions when I felt tired or when my husband had terrible blisters when we caught the bus. On one occasion, when I was truly exhausted, my husband, who had failed Spanish O level nearly 50 years previously, managed to telephone for a taxi, the taxi came and the kind landlady of the casa rural we were going to opened her restaurant two hours early for us. That was one of our Camino miracles. You will have yours. I could go on but you will be glad to know that I won't. Animo y buen Camino! [/QUOTE]
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