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    Mental Health Issues

    I haven't been here for a very long time - I walked the Camino may 2015. I walked it hoping for healing for my grief, depression and feelings of isolation from others. When I got to Santiago I was in despair. My hopes and expectations had been so high and I felt I'd failed. A nun took me aside...
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    Silly me, wanting to fall in love on the Camino

    Ha ha this whole thread made me smile! It's good to be a bit silly sometimes. Blessings to all the romantic souls here! :) By the way I don't think its an American thing - it's universal! And universally doomed most of the time!
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    Silly me, wanting to fall in love on the Camino

    (-: Pathfinder u just described my own Camino experience and state of heart exactly.... What a shame I didn't meet you. (-: But we would have been too tired and having too hard a time to be able to speak. it would have lightened my load to know there was someone similar trudging along the...
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    Silly me, wanting to fall in love on the Camino

    Hey Damien I wish this to happen for you too! Let's be honest finding the one can happen anywhere and at any time! On or off the Camino. I think what happens with s lot of people is the looking too hard and trying too hard, whereas the real thing, in my experience snyway, takes time - free time...
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    Peregrinos vs. Cheap Tourists

    I think I was a cheap tourist when I walked the Camino, although I had hopes for spiritual insights and life changing experiences. I loved the lady I met on several stops who was always laughing and drinking wine - a glass, she said, made the journey harder, but a whole bottle made it almost...
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    Mental Health Issues

    So happy to find this thread! And grateful to those who have been so open here. I struggled emotionally on the Camino and have struggled since. I've searched and searched for similar posts to this one just to know I was not alone! I don't think I have a mental illness, but I had a lot of...
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    Re-inspiration...

    Hi Pattii, I think it was four-ish years from wanting to go on the Camino before I actually got there - and I didn't have as good a reason as you for not going. Now that I've been and come back I realise that one of the reasons I didn't go immediately was because I had such high expectations of...
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    Jews on the Camino

    Than you! That makes sense, as unfair and awful as it is. I've akways wondered why ...
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    Jews on the Camino

    I'm happy to hear this. I went to Barcelona after the Camino and saw Jewish headstones that had been used as building materials in many buildings in the old city. I will never understand why history has been so harsh on the Jewish people - even the title of this post sets them apart somehow...
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    Hearing the call, again

    Hi Maggie (hope you don't mind if I shorten your username!) I have only just returned two weeks ago and am already feeling like I need to do it again! I'm not sure what's happening to me and was going to start my own post but feel a bit nervous to do that. I was happy to be coming home, but...
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    Worried about walking alone

    Hi HPalola, I have just returned home from walking the same route, and I was scared also before I left - in fact I cried for three days beforehand! I wanted to go, but I was scared to go. My fears were not necessarily of being a female alone, but of travelling alone and being lonely, and being...
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    Panicking...

    Ha ha! I was like you, just packing my bag to go, when a friend came over and gave some advice about what to pack - and I panicked! I hadn't thought about that. So I bought some gear - some of it I never used, just had to lug around, some of it I lost (the walking poles) and some of it I was...
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    Tour operators

    I'm happy to do that! I'm not sure how to send a private message though! If you send me one I'll reply
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    Tour operators

    Heh heh yeah I really should have read thd whole post! That makes sense then to use s tour operator !
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    Tour operators

    Hey chase I'm a new member too and just finished my own camino, short version of sarria to santiago. I did use a tour operator and I have to say I kind of regret it. I was going alone and felt I needed that support but I feel like some of the accomodation they arranged took me right off the path...
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    Disappointed with my hiking shoes

    I wore pretty cheap one planet cobbler shoes two sizes too big! I thank the guy who urged me to buy them, and buy them two sizes bigger because I may be one of the few camino walkers who did not get a blister!! And the two sizes too big mesnt that going downhill didn't bother my toes either...

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