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  1. K

    Will I be bored out of my mind?

    Rest assured, the sections where I was taking the most leisurely approach were the parts I enjoyed most, you will not be bored. It is a totally new experience, every step of the way. I would say though that you may wish to treat yourself on a few occasions to a private room in a hostal or even a...
  2. K

    How many days did it take you? why? did you take rest days?

    You should have no difficulty I would imagine, I am 50 and did it in 36 days, but was sick on two occasions and had to have 2 days 'infirmario', ie laying up getting over the bug that laid me low..Take it easy at first, and generally I found that only when I pushed myself beyond 30km a day did I...
  3. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    Sorry Falcon I was incorrect to include you in that last reply, you are speaking good sense, I thought you were saying that you should pay less cos you give to charity...but being a klutz and utterly fallible I misunderstood your point...Mea Culpa.. :lol:
  4. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    Listen Hermanita and Falcon...surely you do not need to be 'guided' by a consensus that 3 euros is ok, just use your common sense of decency.. :roll: It is self evidently worth far more than this paltry sum to have access to safe, clean, and relatively comfortable accomodation when on the...
  5. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    [/i] Let me just say Hermanita....it is amazing to me to hear anyone suggest that three euros is a 'fair' donation...when most who state a charge come in at about 7 or 8...If you think that there is a 'general consensus' about 3 being correct....may I have the temerity to challenge it, by...
  6. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    Oh come now now boys and girls...I am not a troll at all. I just enjoy a bit of light hearted banter now and again...the observant amongst ye will have noticed the wink smiley at the end of the last 'diatribe'...and frankly the thread has succeeded, since my intention, was to lighten the...
  7. K

    Can I indulge in a little pity party just for now?

    Perhaps you should consider postponing your trip until your husband is well? Or am I missing something? I would have thought that this merits a full refund for tickets purchased given the nature of what has occurred...I am sure he would appreciate your presence by his side, and you would feel...
  8. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    Hey lets get it all out there, better out than in 8) ..another phrase which I would prefer is not used with such deadening regularity is ' what is the camino trying to tell you??' usually delivered in a soulful and wondering tone of voice when you casually report on something as innocuous as...
  9. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    So glad that my post provoked such a refreshingly spirited and 'un-nice' discussion, sorry if it offended anyone but I get the feeling that the people who were erring on the side of uneasiness about my observations were 'protesting' a bit 'too loudly' to paraphrase Shakespeare. I accept that we...
  10. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    That is simply the most amazingly fascistic statement that I have read for a long time, and is redolent of the conversations that I had with a number of 'new age' pilgrims who felt that I was 'not in the spirit of the camino' (whatever that means) when I observed that some of their brethren...
  11. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    One other point I wished to make, is that some new age believers are often guilty of paying scant regard to the Christian and Catholic nature of the Camino. Speak to many of the Spanish volunteers who man the churches about how so many of these folk, seem incapable of observing even a modicum of...
  12. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    Excuse me, since when was it in any way impermissable to either 'judge' or 'criticise'...I am sorry but we are given a rational mind and we are permitted to use it...In my opinion any prescription on criticism is another aspect of these belief systems, ie 'I believe in it so you can not subject...
  13. K

    Breaks during walks.

    Hey Br David....don't spoil my fun...I adored them cafe con leche's and at about one 50 a cup was a cheap and very enjoyable bit of much deserved luxury en route...Anyway lets not forget the duty we have to put something back into the local economies we are tramping all over... 8)
  14. K

    safe to travel alone for female?

    Annie that sharp quip by your pal walking on the bridge was very amusing; I wonder though about whether the women walking in the remote and rural areas where these incidents occurred would have been quite so confident or fearless? I met two of the women who had this experience on the Camino and...
  15. K

    Not as good as I thought...

    That opera singer guy would not have been one of my favourites either :) what an incredibly ego-centric way to behave, but sadly not at all uncommon amongst the 'peregrino's'. Br David is absolutely correct, I have no problem with the beliefs of anyone, people are free to believe what they wish...
  16. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    Many thanks for the comments. I think that the Rosary idea is a cracker,thanks Rebekah, and will adopt it next time that I am in that position. As regards the possibility that the bores might have found me a bore too, that is I agree entirely possible, but to be fair when there was a dialogue it...
  17. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    John,so it must be a uniquely summer phenomenon then, count yourself lucky. :D
  18. K

    'New Age' bores on the Camino

    Did anyone else find like me, that whilst the camino was a wonderful and hugely rewarding spiritual experience, that it was marred at times by having to listen to an emerging 'new age' orthodoxy on the camino...Was anyone else bored rigid by people who felt it their obligation to bang on about...
  19. K

    Not as good as I thought...

    I have just completed my first Camino and I found it to be a great experience, better than I thought it would be despite falling ill no less than 4 times with a re-occurring illness that I first contracted in China. I had no problems with the Camino once I realised that it was an individual...
  20. K

    safe to travel alone for female?

    Just back from the Camino Frances, and as a male walker I heard of no less than 4 incidents of a predatory sexual nature happening to solitary female walkers in June and early July , all of which were confirmed to me by the women themselves...One happened near Lorca, another in the tail end of...

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