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I have been informed by peregrinas by message that there are bed bugs both seen and have already bitten at Lourenza and Baamonde - both municipal albergues :(
I hope you are getting the support you need in your shock over the immediacy of death. Facing up to this possibility, really facing it, can be scary and have many repercussions, emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually.
Remember that it wasn't the walking up a hill that did it. That...
No, I haven't. I read one of Elizabeth's about them moving to France, but I didn't know about their daughter. Thank you, I will look it up. Nice book title :)
Thank you for your message. I can well imagine folk sharing the types of stories you refer to in the first part of your message. Walking side by side with a stranger can be exactly the right circumstances for such an exchange.
I also thank you for your personal story. I do not know what it...
Yes, thanks, I saw this and left a reply myself.
It is your sentiment exactly which got me to my first Camino. I read too many accounts of people on their death beds saying 'it' came sooner than expected and they didn't have time for what they wanted to do. So, off I went!
Thank you for sharing your memories. You have obviously been through such a lot and I salute you for the strength you have found.
For me, the Camino was about death even before I started the first one, and has continued to be so - not in a morbid way but as an opportunity to fulfil a dream...
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