The camino tan

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

Yesterday another football mum thought I had sun tan coloured leggings on me. No it is just my "beautiful" camino tan.

 

[Al the optimist]

Is that a blister?

 

[Anamya]

Ooohhh, that's indeed a pretty colour! I'm kinda envious.

I came back home with 50 shades of pink, even with lots of sunblocker

At least my camino freckels were awesome.

 

[KinkyOne]

A few days ago when I was returning home from Santiago I had intermediate stop at Dusseldorf airport. Automatically I said "Hola!" to first three backpackers there and only after they glances suspicious at me I remembered that not every backpacker is a pilgrim. From that moment on I was looking for their natural "white socks". Not to mention that I'm now main attraction in different groups of my friends and family due to those "socks"

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

A few days ago when I was returning home from Santiago I had intermediate stop at Dusseldorf airport. Automatically I said "Hola!" to first three backpackers there and only after they glances suspicious at me I remembered that not every backpacker is a pilgrim. From that moment on I was looking for their natural "white socks". Not to mention that I'm now main attraction in different groups of my friends and family due to those "socks"

He he!
I also said hola to some backpackers in Helsinki airport.

 

[Al the optimist]

In the dim and distant past I used to have ginger hair and so have the delicate fair skin to match. So every Camino I go through days of bringing out the mothering instincts with many getting concerned about my red legs, arms and face and telling me what I should do. Now I am no longer a spring chicken and you would think they would realise that I kind of know how my body works wouldn't you? After a week or so I turn a traditional pilgrim brown and white and they stop teaching granny to suck eggs. Still I now consider it my duty to allow them the opportunity to show kindness and consideration for another.

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

Is that a blister?

Yes it is a dried out blister that never bothered me. I got it one of the first days when going down a steep hill and the heal sling on my sandal got out of place.

 

[Al the optimist]

Actually I have oneupmanship in this area as I wear sandals in the evening so I also have zebra feet!

 

[Deise]

Surely the "camino tan" is mostly one side of the body only ,
Depending on the route the tan may be on different side

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

Actually I have oneupmanship in this area as I wear sandals in the evening so I also have zebra feet!

I wear socks all the time so no zebra feet.

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

Surely the "camino tan" is mostly one side of the body only ,
Depending on the route the tan may be on different side

My right side is more tanned than my left but the feet are evenly white

 

[GettingThere]

It's 10 weeks today since I finished my camino (so long! Oh no!) and I still have a clear "watch stripe" on my wrist and tan marks on the backs of my upper arms (and no it hasn't been "topped up" since getting home, as we're in the depths of a wet Southern winter). My trousers were quite long so the legs stayed lily-white!

Love those camino "white socks". We had great fun in the last part of the camino (post-Sarria) identifying the new arrivals by the colour of their legs - mostly very white on the first day and then very pink!

 

[Icacos]

We met the owner of these hands near Los Arcos in mid-April. He had walked from Munich.

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

We met the owner of these hands near Los Arcos in mid-April. He had walked from Munich.
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Wow. That is a real camino tan.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

In 2013 I walked for a while with a French girl called Lu.

She'd often wear a tee-shirt dress but complained about getting tanned just on the back and left hand side of her legs (Camino Frances) and wondered if she could even it out by doing the revuelta!

 

[CaminoJohn]

Yesterday another football mum thought I had sun tan coloured leggings on me. No it is just my "beautiful" camino tan.