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  1. gigibarry

    How much and how long did you train?

    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. God bless and buen camino. :)
  2. gigibarry

    Any crime reports between Belorado to Burgos this week

    A prayer said for the health and wellbeing of both you and your daughter. I hope you hear from her soon. Please keep us posted.
  3. gigibarry

    Feeling a little judged from other commenters so...

    Oh my yes. Met a man who had walked the whole way from Belgium and booked into a hotel for his first, much deserved, private room of the trip in Villafranca because he was feeling a bit worn down and ... you guessed it...bedbugs. I could have cried for him. :(
  4. gigibarry

    How much and how long did you train?

    Hi, Brenda. While all are correct that you can't really replicate the Camino very easily with training and you can't accurately predict the effect the Camino will have on you - physically, emotionally, and mentally- I think Seabird is spot on: whatever problems you may not anticipate, you also...
  5. gigibarry

    I'm new, please forgive me...

    Living in Ireland, we fly from Dublin to Biarritz and then a short bus/ train or taxi journey to Saint Jean, but I've heard of pilgrims from North America being able to get reasonable flights to Dublin and then flying onward from here. Try options on skyscanner.ie. They often have good prices...
  6. gigibarry

    Need some help thanks

    Hi, Abigail The first time we went we started from Saint Jean and walked as far as Santo Domingo. The next trip we picked up there again and got as far as Astorga. The third trip we walked from Astorga to Santiago and on to Finisterre but got lazy and didn't continue on to Muxia! Maybe next...
  7. gigibarry

    Need some help thanks

    Hi, Abigail. I did the Camino Frances in stages and am in Ireland too. If you want to chat, send me a message and I'll help in any way I can.
  8. gigibarry

    Sad

    Oh, Lee, I feel for you and your family. I too am childless and an only child since my brother died 26 years ago and understand the sense of responsibility to parents. Life throws things at us suddenly and, in the moment, we don't know if we can cope with it all. But luckily we don't need to...
  9. gigibarry

    Nice essay

    Beautiful. Thank you, Falcon269.
  10. gigibarry

    not the Camino I had envisioned

    Oh Katie, my heart goes out to you and your husband. I pray that you will both find the strength and healing you need to see you through each day. Glenda
  11. gigibarry

    Monkey Wrench Thrown in my Camino

    I can kinda feel the wheels spinning in your brain from here. I went through a fairly weird period in life a few years ago too and it helped when I was finally able to get out of head and into my heart where I could stop asking the (probably) unanswerable why's and just be amazed at the...
  12. gigibarry

    Monkey Wrench Thrown in my Camino

    My thoughts are in a whirl. About how the Camino chooses us (how many people on this forum know exactly what this means, even if none of us can entirely explain it?), about that stone you could never throw away, about how life suddenly slams into us and everything becomes just a little bit...
  13. gigibarry

    Stones from home, stones from the heart....

    Lee and Michael, thank you both for sharing your lovely expressions of your intentions for the Camino. We all have reasons that we walk, whether we share them with others or not. Sometimes the reasons find us on the way. But regardless I think we all have these "little spirits" as you put it...
  14. gigibarry

    Semana Santa is Upon Us

    Hi Scruffy! A couple of years ago we were in Santo Domingo de Silas for Palm Sunday which involved collecting our palms in one chapel, following the priest around the town carrying said palms and entering the church in the monastery for the remainder of the service which included predictably...
  15. gigibarry

    Newbie needing advice

    Hi, Tony! Welcome. Although I'm from PA, I've not walked the AT but have walked the Camino. I think having "a feeling" that you need to do this (the Camino) is great! I can think of no better reason to do it because, IMO, it means you are being drawn to it. Say yes and don't overthink it...
  16. gigibarry

    What do you think: Can I just wing it??

    When we walked that week we found that most of the Spanish went home on the Wednesday to spend the rest of the week with their families (we were in Burgos at that point and everyone was doing a mass evacuation to the train station!) leaving just us foreigners for the rest of the trip and making...
  17. gigibarry

    What do you think: Can I just wing it??

    My two cents... a couple of years ago we were walking during Semana Santa. We flew to Madrid and rented a car so that we could stop in Santo Domingo de Silos on the way to Burgos. We were there for Palm Sunday which was amazing. From the glimpses through the dark on the way there, we were...
  18. gigibarry

    any moments of "what the heck am I doing here" ?

    YES! YES! YES!
  19. gigibarry

    any moments of "what the heck am I doing here" ?

    Been there too, my friend! I think we may have taken a wrong turn (no arrows for a surprisingly long time) and the track was basically a 3 foot deep ditch between fields. The ruts were full of water to over-the-top-of the-boot depth and the center was that slippy, sticky mud (the lesser of the...
  20. gigibarry

    Scruffy's Countdown Checkoff List

    I remember Ben Gay! We used to put that on the outside of dog's bandages when they got hurt so that they wouldn't chew the bandages off. Don't know if it was the taste for the smell that put them off! Have a great trip, Scruffy!

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