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[QUOTE="zacattack909, post: 768860, member: 56888"] I quit halfway through the Norte last year {problems back at home really weighed me down and made me question why I was being so selfish} and am going back in october/november of this year to start again, hopefully in a better headspace and with the farm in better order at home. I agree with most of your comments in this thread, but would like to add a little if I can. One thing I really struggled with in the first two weeks or so of the Norte as I travelled up hill and down dale, was that if this Camino has been around for a thousand years or so, how come in all that time no-one has found a better route along the coast than to go up and over almost every steep hill in sight! At one spot, not sure where now but I think after Deba, or perhaps before Guernika, I had been climbing for over two hours only to take FOUR steps before starting a steep descent. I know it was 4 steps because I actually went back and checked. Surely, in all these years and after all these pilgrims, someone has considered a path AROUND a few of the higher hills? Especially the ones with no view, no services and especially, no water. I had walked the Frances in 2016 from ST Jean, and I started walking the Norte from Biarritz, but I found the Norte significantly harder. I just kept thinking, if the Frances was Spains way of showing us enlightenment, The Norte (at least in the first week or so) was Spains practical joke. I think I also struggled a little that you would have these hard long days, and yes, achieve lesser kms than on other routes, and then come out into tourist towns that werent based on pilgrims and cpuldnt care less that a sweaty exhausted Australian had just stumbled out of their mountains. No, I didnt expect rose petals and parades in my honor, I just didnt feel the same sense that Spain was helping us on our way as I had previously on the Frances. None of this, I will add, is Spains problem. It was MY problem, and I simply failed to adjust. [/QUOTE]
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