- Time of past OR future Camino
- Fr (17), Prim (19), CF/Norte ‘21, Le Puy/Inv22
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I LOVE this advice... you can walk appropriate sections with your son and rest when you need to. Every morning and evening you will be together on the Camino. No need to listen to any judgements. This may be the only time to go with your son and you should enjoy it, as you can. I suspect the mountainous sections will be wise to skip, in light of your serious knee injuries.De nada, Mary!
What about letting your son walking but you taking a public transport on steep sections (downhill mostly of course)? And while waiting for him enjoying architecture, the peace of all those old churches, visiting museums, enjoying the food. Or just lingering somewhere with a good read.
It's not your age the reason that you have to rush anything. On the contrary, it's your age you shouldn't or you may ruin your prospects for later! Anyway at 60's you're still a young gurl
Be well!
I LOVE this advice... you can walk appropriate sections with your son and rest when you need to. Every morning and evening you will be together on the Camino. No need to listen to any judgements. This may be the only time to go with your son and you should enjoy it, as you can. I suspect the mountainous sections will be wise to skip, in light of our serious knee injuries.
Ooops- I should have kept reading! Looks like you are done and back already. I hope it was grand
Don’t allow the age thing to get you! I began “Camino-ing” at 82. Guess my theme song would be “I did it my way”. Had read books but did not yet know about this website. Had Brierly and had used Booking.com in the past and thought I could again if needed. Although I had lived in Europe, I forgot about the May 1 holiday and cleverly arranged to arrive in Bayonne that day. So the first couple of days were more interesting than I had planned, but full of helpful people. If you can walk and can keep from thoughts like “but, they will think...” —- or anything similar, you can have a glorious time whatever comes up. Crying is okay. Cursing is okay (silently perhaps!). Singing is REALLY okay.... Bushels of thanks to all here who help me keep on doing all I can. And who share your joys and “not so much”!Thanks for sharing this Kinky One - it really touches me and I can see I have some hard thinking to do. I am so disappointed, and maybe there’s a lesson to be learnt there about my expectations. Maybe I can rest up somewhere nice and walk a stage later (I have 2 months), and return to other stages in years to come. I’m in my 60’s and have this sense of urgency that I’ll have to try and let go of it. As you say, the Camino will still be thereThanks so much
I know this thread is a bit old, and the OP had particular circumstances, but I'm with @alexwalker! The Meseta is probably the most memorable part of my CF, looking back on it now. I just wrote an article about it called Six Reasons Not to Skip the Meseta. Hopefully you all agree!I will never give advice on skipping the Meseta...
I disagree.I know this thread is a bit old, and the OP had particular circumstances, but I'm with @alexwalker! The Meseta is probably the most memorable part of my CF, looking back on it now. I just wrote an article about it called Six Reasons Not to Skip the Meseta. Hopefully you all agree!
I salute your great article! Wish all newbies would read it! Congratulations!I know this thread is a bit old, and the OP had particular circumstances, but I'm with @alexwalker! The Meseta is probably the most memorable part of my CF, looking back on it now. I just wrote an article about it called Six Reasons Not to Skip the Meseta. Hopefully you all agree!
Absolutely. But everyone has their own opinion. @Dinah Shaw , can you say more, or do you just want to be the dissenting voice?Hopefully you all agree!
You might be surprised that it's actually possible to walk with some sense of solitude on the meseta, even now. The secret is staying in small places between traditional stages — especially places that do not have Wi-Fi or even electricity. Last year I walked across the meseta in late May/early June and had a lot of time to myself, between the waves of pilgrims staying in more popular destinations.I am not sure I would get the same sense of magic if I were on the moving sidewalk that the Francés has become
I salute your great article! Wish all newbies would read it! Congratulations!
Thank you both!Great writing, @jungleboy.
Of course, that was tongue in cheek!Absolutely. But everyone has their own opinion. @Dinah Shaw , can you say more, or do you just want to be the dissenting voice?
Off-stage is an interesting discussion. When Wendy and I walked our first camino (the Francés), we planned to stay off-stage because we'd done this on other multi-day hikes like the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal and been very happy that we'd done so. But we didn't 'get' what the camino was at that stage, and soon we found that a) the shared experience with other pilgrims was a big part of it, and b) unlike in the Nepal example, where the traditional end-of-stage villages were just the larger ones that could better accommodate groups, some (though not all) traditional end-of-stage places on the Francés are part of camino lore and have sites to explore that are harder to appreciate/enjoy if you're just passing through on your way to the next town (e.g. early on the Francés: Puente la Reina, Estella etc). Now that we've walked a couple of solitary caminos (the Madrid, the CP from Lisbon during the pandemic), I'm not sure how I'd feel about the enormous (non-COVID) crowds on the Francés.You might be surprised that it's actually possible to walk with some sense of solitude on the meseta, even now. The secret is staying in small places between traditional stages — especially places that do not have Wi-Fi or even electricity. Last year I walked across the meseta in late May/early June and had a lot of time to myself, between the waves of pilgrims staying in more popular destinations.
Perhaps we passed on the meseta, I was walking there at that time too.You might be surprised that it's actually possible to walk with some sense of solitude on the meseta, even now. The secret is staying in small places between traditional stages — especially places that do not have Wi-Fi or even electricity. Last year I walked across the meseta in late May/early June and had a lot of time to myself, between the waves of pilgrims staying in more popular destinations.
Ships passing in the night, perhaps? I was in Burgos on the 29th of May.Perhaps we passed on the meseta, I was walking there at that time too
I was a day behind you.Ships passing in the night, perhaps? I was in Burgos on the 29th of May.
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