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YES.
If your health condition allows, get vaccinated.
Vaccination does NOT prevent you from getting sick.
It is not a covid-germ-repellent.
It teaches your immunity system to face the real thing, so that with high probability, when you eventually get sick [which does require stronger infection...
It has been almost half a year since I finished my first Camino from Pamplona via Santiago to Finisterre.
The walk changed me, hopefully for good. At least that is what I am being told since I came back.
Walking on my own, and in a great company for almost 800km cleared the mind, and brought me...
So, here it comes. Tonight I am taking a cab, a bus, a plane and a train to Pamplona, and the stroll to Santiago starts tomorrow (i.e. Wednesday).
I am more nervous/psyched up/excited than I thought I would be.
I guess Ultreia is the word for me now :)
Many thanks for all the useful advice and encouragements!
I am kind of looking forward to waking up super early just to walk for the better part of the day, having feet on my blisters from day 1, drizzle and rain all-the-way, and the rest of the fun :)
Hello everyone :)
I am Peter from Slovakia, and I am about to start my first Camino from Pamplona to Santiago de Compostella on September 7th this year, not really caring when it may end: I have all the time I need.
I am skipping the Pyrenees part due to my physique - or, rather lack of it. I do...
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