Leila99
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- LePuyenValey - Pamplona 2022
Pamplona - SdC 2024
Hallo everyone,
first of all, thank you to you all for being so generous sharing your questions and experience. When I was not sure when my next camino would start reading about socks choice, rainy days and open albergue in Winter kept me sane
Now I have booked my flights for the CF and I am ready to pick up my backpack.
I walked the Via Podensies (le Puy-Pamplona) in August 2022 on my own. It was my second camino experience, after 2 weeks in the Via Francigena with a friend. I absolutely loved it. It turned me into a hard-core camino addict. Last year I did the Camino Portugues with my daughter and it was fantastic, although more in terms of bonding than as a pilgrim experience.
Next month I am going to take up the CF from Pamplona and finish it. After agonising about what bits I should not miss out (great tips btw), and what alternatives were good to avoid too long along a busy road, I have decided to continue with my approach "the less I know, the better it is". I don't know what the towns are looking like and apart from the usual Meseta picture of two pilgrims in the brownish desert, I don't really know what expects me and it is good so. I purposely avoid watching videos on the camino and read about what, say, Burgos has in store. I have booked my first night in Pamplona and after that, we'll see how each day goes.
I know that the via Podiensis and the Camino Frances are quite different, which is good. I had such an amazing experience in France (scenery, villages, people, food, gite, "vibes", hard days, good days....) that I am afraid I come with some expectations, even if I don't want to. And I might compare the two at the beginning. My question to you is, how do you let go of a previous camino and fully embrace the new one? Especially those of you who do the CF again, how do you really start afresh every time?
Buen Camino
first of all, thank you to you all for being so generous sharing your questions and experience. When I was not sure when my next camino would start reading about socks choice, rainy days and open albergue in Winter kept me sane
Now I have booked my flights for the CF and I am ready to pick up my backpack.
I walked the Via Podensies (le Puy-Pamplona) in August 2022 on my own. It was my second camino experience, after 2 weeks in the Via Francigena with a friend. I absolutely loved it. It turned me into a hard-core camino addict. Last year I did the Camino Portugues with my daughter and it was fantastic, although more in terms of bonding than as a pilgrim experience.
Next month I am going to take up the CF from Pamplona and finish it. After agonising about what bits I should not miss out (great tips btw), and what alternatives were good to avoid too long along a busy road, I have decided to continue with my approach "the less I know, the better it is". I don't know what the towns are looking like and apart from the usual Meseta picture of two pilgrims in the brownish desert, I don't really know what expects me and it is good so. I purposely avoid watching videos on the camino and read about what, say, Burgos has in store. I have booked my first night in Pamplona and after that, we'll see how each day goes.
I know that the via Podiensis and the Camino Frances are quite different, which is good. I had such an amazing experience in France (scenery, villages, people, food, gite, "vibes", hard days, good days....) that I am afraid I come with some expectations, even if I don't want to. And I might compare the two at the beginning. My question to you is, how do you let go of a previous camino and fully embrace the new one? Especially those of you who do the CF again, how do you really start afresh every time?
Buen Camino