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  1. koilife

    Talking about work while on the Camino

    I think you should come up with an answer that is so outrageous that no one will pursue it and those of us here in the forum will immediately know it's you. Inquisitor: "So what do you do for a living?" @Dani7: "I'm a seven-time black widow spending my inheritance." [or something even more...
  2. koilife

    Tacky or Cool?

    As in so many other areas of human devotion and passion, Catholicism has it own kitsch fringes that sadly cross into sacrilage.
  3. koilife

    Tacky or Cool?

    But you have to keep it secured at night inside your sleeping bag alongside your passport and money, or someone might steal it.;)
  4. koilife

    Tacky or Cool?

    Did anyone get their husband/wife this fabulous comforter for Valentine's Day? Nothing quite says I love you like clinical obsession!
  5. koilife

    Tacky or Cool?

    Really? A thread debating Camino fashion? Really?! From people who walk hundreds of miles in the same two shirts and pairs of pants, sunburn turning tan on only one side of their body, hair like a crow's nest, stubble to make Don Johnson wince, ponchos flapping in the wind like death's...
  6. koilife

    Is anyone doing the Camino without any specific purpose

    I think you'll fit right in. There's lots of different reasons (and non-reasons) for pilgrims to walk. The only real requirement (and even that's too strong a word) is to respect the reasons of others. A loose community forms readily among even those walking for wildly different reasons. The...
  7. koilife

    The time slows down and stretches on the Camino?

    Just now, I came across the following from a text we're using in my pastoral counselling class. I thought it relevant: In kairos time, we shift from busyness to events of meaning that happen in time. In kairos time, we become sensitive to the right moment for action, or see the wonder of events...
  8. koilife

    The camino is boring landscapes, paved roads, traffic…

    It sounds like the real issue is that you "need" your friend to understand that part of you and he doesn't. Sounds like you might have to make another Camino to let go of that need . . . ;)
  9. koilife

    The time slows down and stretches on the Camino?

    This reminds me of one of my favorite books. Written for teens, but very clever for adults. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0545838290/?tag=casaivar02-20
  10. koilife

    The time slows down and stretches on the Camino?

    Welcome and congratulations. Yes, time for me seems to pass very differently while on pilgrimage, almost as if I stepped out of the dimension of time and moved roughly parallel to it, but not in it. It hasn't been like that for me on other long-distance hikes, so I think it's more than the hiking.
  11. koilife

    Thread posts oblivion.

    And if you click the "latest posts" text, the hyperlink will take you to a several page list of dozens upon dozens of them.
  12. koilife

    Any Resolutions for repeat Pilgrims?

    Ditto to the above. Also, I started looking ahead to local cultural events and made decisions on where to stop based on that. If it was night life, I stayed at a pension or other inexpensive (non-alburgue) option so I could stay out. Edit --- Oh, and to drink more vino tinto! Edit x2 --- And...
  13. koilife

    O Cebriero - the worst place to stay ...??

    I enjoyed the town and the Sunday Mass. The tourists, I expected. The surprise was just how big a deal it is for the Birth of St. John (had I known, I would have stayed in other lodging than the xunta so I could stay out late). I recall my issue being the rising hordes of pilgrims . . . like...
  14. koilife

    Leaving the Camino

    You're right, of course, and it's easy to forget. Thank you for helping us to remember. My son and I spent one afternoon helping an 81 year old Austrian woman (Marie, I think) who twisted her knee right in front of us on a descent. We did all the right field first aid to try and salvage things...
  15. koilife

    Reading book worth carrying?

    My original plan was to read Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle from the Kindle app on my phone, but I found, as others above, that I had little interest in reading at the end of the day's walk. So, I changed up and downloaded the Audible version of it and listened as I walked. I found that, as...
  16. koilife

    Accomodation...or lack of

    It It will be busy. Read the entire thread and similar ones for advice on when "waves" of pilgrims form and how to avoid them. Also, the post you're responding to is 700K after where you're starting, so not really relevant for many weeks, at which time the advice above will still apply.
  17. koilife

    Accomodation...or lack of

    Of note, you started on a weekend in Sarria, which is about the worst possible time for volume; passing through on a Monday or midweek and stopping at smaller albergues is a good way to avoid the Sarria waves.
  18. koilife

    Hi, I saw dolphins in Finisterre, but I don't remember the name of the beach the dolphins were in.

    Was it a long crescent moon beach on the inside of the peninsula?
  19. koilife

    Accomodation...or lack of

    Weekends in the big cities are often like that. If you have the luxury of timing your arrival or stopping just prior, then walking into the city in the early morning and checking your bag in a locker, you can mostly mitigate the impact. Edit: I just booked for Sunday and Monday night in Leon in...
  20. koilife

    Accomodation...or lack of

    For the record, yes, I made a judgement, as in the actual meaning of the word --- the use of reason to form a sensible conclusion --- and my judgement is that there is a material difference between the type of tour pilgrim that I saw and an earlier tour group that @sillydoll led of devout...

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