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Hi everyone,
Now that I have had a chance to look at Kevin's walking guide, I am very tempted to walk the Camino Mozárabe from Almería, through Granada, then to Mérida and onward to Santiago. This is, according to one estimate, 1370 km. I am planning to retire in May 2016, so this would be a celebratory camino. I am still not certain whether I will get all the way to Santiago or whether family commitments will keep me at a 6 week limit as it did this year. But in any event, is there anyone else out there who is tempted and possibly interested in walking from about May 18?
Buen camino, Laurie
Hi Laurie:
Thanks to your posting it, I have now also looked at Kevin's guide from Almeria to Granada. I am formulating a trip involving the Camino Mozarabe, Via de la Plata and Camino Sanabres in 2016 - but am hoping to coordinate the start to celebrate at least part of Semana Santa in Seville (March 20-27). After that I am thinking of going to Almeria and starting from there. I would love to have company, but unfortunately reckon you will have to bring forward your retirement (I am retired already) to accommodate my dates. I also have time constraints because my wife imposes a 6-week limit on my "mad walks" without her!! So I don't think I will make it all the way to Santiago. Let me know if you decide to retire early
Hi LaurieHi, Geoff,
Well, I've decided that since I can't start till May 18 or 19, the Mozárabe from Almería could be too hot for me. So I'm going to start a bit north, at the mouth of the Ebro and walk the Ruta del Ebro/Castellano-Aragonés-Lana into Burgos. But at the very top of my Camino 2017 list is an early May start from Almería on the Mozárabe. Have you worked out your plans yet? Buen camino, Laurie
Has anybody come across a variant that leaves the main Mozárabe at Campaniero, a couple of days short of Mérida, and instead continues north to Guadalupe? It's about 3 days from Campaniero, passing through some fairly empty-looking countryside.
Yes, I wondered if anybody here had personal experience of it?
Hi AlStaring from Almeria on May 5th 2016. Guess we will all miss each other!
I'm thinking about this one for next autumn.
Has anybody come across a variant that leaves the main Mozárabe at Campaniero, a couple of days short of Mérida, and instead continues north to Guadalupe? It's about 3 days from Campaniero, passing through some fairly empty-looking countryside.
From Guadalupe it should be relatively straightforward to follow the "camino visigodo" back to the VdlP at Alcuéscar, not forgetting to call in at lovely, serene Santa Lucía del Trampal.
Hi Al
How is your prep going?
Missing your usual pre Camino excitement.
I keep looking at these threads to 'walk in spirit'. I have some travel to family in first half of this year (off caminos, sad, but good too) however always intending to get back! Retirement looming for me in early 2nd half of this year so big smiles there!
Do you plan to spend a little time pre walk anywhere this time or get right to it?
Buen Camino Al
Annie
Hi Al.Well I don't do any prep really these days. I don't have the pleasure of agonising about what to buy or what to take any more. It all just sits there waiting for me to add clean clothes and go. Now I just decide where I am going, look at the guides, decide on the duration and dates needed and then book flights. That having been done before Christmas it is an interminably long wait!and my PC reminds me how many days left every morning.
I hope your retirement is as full of joy and freedom as mine and that of some of our forum buddies. I think that it's mindset adds favourably to the Camino experience. As I didn't walk my first one until a few years after retirement I wouldn't know. Perhaps afterwards you can tell us? Enjoy your last months at work and then just let it all go! (It takes a while to get used to). In 2013 I walked with a Canadian who had just retired from their navy and was using his Camino as a way of finding his way forward. Over the 2 weeks we walked together I could see the change in him as he discovered his way forward. I wonder how his Camino would be if he walked again.
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