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Why not do something completly different. Bike ride or walk somewhere else. Don't know where you are but the world is full of beautiful, moderate hikes. There are pilgrimages in other countries, coastal walks in the UK, Hadrians Wall, sections or all of the AT, PCT, Great Divide. Why limit yourself to Iberia?After a quiet afternoon in Fisterra, a visit to the faro and a night in a comfy bed at albergue Oceanus (highly recommended), I decided to send my backpack ahead to Lires, only 15 km away. I packed my day bag, had breakfast, ordered a serrano bocadillo with letuce and tomato to go and headed out. Made it up the hill, turned right at the San Roque restaurant, walked uphill ... and turned back.
It's a splendid day to walk, I am tired but not in pain (voltaren last night, Advil this morning), but I have had it talking to myself about how to make it, and why I should.
I am now waiting for the mochila service to hop on board with my bag to Lires where a room is waiting for me.
I had already been thinking that 2 weeks, and not 3, would be just fine, if not also more motivating. But the 3 annual weeks away on the Camino are key to my weight management (otherwise far from managed). Also thinking that I may have had enough of walking alone, yera after year. And then there's the fact that the Portugueses does not share the beauty of my last two walks. Although the views of Fisterra yesterday were beautiful and I'm sure the walk to Lures would be as well.
Is it time to find another way to unplug, lose weight, challenge the body and the mind, while healin the heart while on vacation? Could my next Camino be a stationary one, working as a hospi somewhere? Or do I try 2 weeks? Let's say a combination of two of the Salvador, Invierno, Ingles, and epilogue? It has been a few years since I've spent time diving off a livaboard... And that ticks all the boxes, except for budget.
Clouds are slowly coming in into the bay. It will rain tomorrow. Perhaps I will walk tomorrow, or not.
Will walk number 7 be the lucky one that doesn't have me fighting my mind?
Fingers crossed for your healing so you can walk again this fall. If not we may need to assign an albergue somewhere for "fallen pilgrims as hospies only"Understood your message , sort of:
I was scheduled to start Camino number six earlier this week but then my doctor said two weeks ago I needed some tests because he was concerned about my hiking in Spain far away from health resources.
Pain has been part and parcel to my walks since 2013, but I have found walking for long hours is the best therapy for the neuropathy in my right foot. Now the nerve pain has moved to my abdomen.
I am hoping to be back in September 2016 and I am considering doing the Camino from Pamplona or Burgos on a bike.
I totally sympathize with your wishes. Is there a good place for us to hang out and serve pilgrims?
Mine was San Anton but that is only a temporary assignment.
And it does fit beautifully, minus 16 inches, if I do say so myselfYea for you @Anemone del Camino. So glad you got your groove back. You worked too hard getting your Macabi just right to give up long distance walking now.
I also have one of the lady who was having her highlights done at the local salon while the music was playing: she stepped outside the salon with her foil bits in her hair to enjoy the music!Love to see a photo of that dance
And there there was Muxia... Teared up as I came in again. ... A band is playing in town. Actually it played for an hour and will be back this evening ... at 11pm!!! Loved watching a 70 plus pilgrim dancing on his onw and as I was about to join him a local lady did and I got to take the best pilgrim pics ever. I need a Muxia every 5 Camino days, but then It may no longer be the Camino. My heart is filled again.
Fingers crossed for your healing so you can walk again this fall. If not we may need to assign an albergue somewhere for "fallen pilgrims as hospies only".
Thanks Rachel.Anemone, I'm happy for you that you found reconnection in Muxia. I felt the fullness and joy in your heart come through, reading your words.
Don, I was disappointed for you about the change in your Camino plans, reading about what happened in another of your posts as well. I hope you're back later this year too! I often think about the night my friend Mia and I spent at San Anton with you and Ollie last year. I actually just realised it's you a few days ago, when I saw your post in the other thread and took in your profile picture! I'm not sure if you know it's me, the pilgrim who was after a Camino metro map t-shirt like yours, haha! So I'm attaching one of my favourite photos from that night. View attachment 26720
And also, Fisterra can be a great place for a longer-term stint as hospitalero, and it's a beautiful landscape in which to stay physically active. When I'm there I usually walk about 6-8km every day, visiting the beaches and trekking other places around town too. I don't know whether that would appeal to either you or Anemone (and Ollie might have a different take on it than me), but it's at least a possibility.
Continued Buen Camino!
Rachel
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