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That's really such a personal question. It depends on each individual's personality and relationships with those that they meet.Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
Just a query that floating in my head!! Am due to start in St Jean 5th September.
How difficult is it to part from new friends that one might have walked and shared with for days if not weeks? Maybe not difficult but it seems to me that I might find it difficult; maybe I am dreaming!!
Just curious as to how you Camino vets have dealt with this situation.
Thanks a million.
Liamn
Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
Just a query that floating in my head!! Am due to start in St Jean 5th September.
How difficult is it to part from new friends that one might have walked and shared with for days if not weeks? Maybe not difficult but it seems to me that I might find it difficult; maybe I am dreaming!!
Just curious as to how you Camino vets have dealt with this situation.
Thanks a million.
Liamn
by all means exchange contact info. I often think of people from around the world that I met on the Camino. Some are on this forum. I'm still in regular communication with two friends from Ireland and we have visited each others homes in the US and Ireland after the Camino. There are others that I wish I had made a greater effort to exchange info, but the memories are always there. Buen CaminoHi Ladies and Gentlemen,
Just a query that floating in my head!! Am due to start in St Jean 5th September.
How difficult is it to part from new friends that one might have walked and shared with for days if not weeks? Maybe not difficult but it seems to me that I might find it difficult; maybe I am dreaming!!
Just curious as to how you Camino vets have dealt with this situation.
Thanks a million.
Liamn
I think that’s a great question, and you don’t seem to have received any answers yet, so I’ll chip in with “hard”! The situation for me, on a bike, is obviously different, since any walkers I meet today I will usually leave in my slow wake tomorrow. What strikes me most about it is that the people you often connect with are so very different to those you meet in your “normal” life, particularly in my case because they are almost inevitably from other countries and cultures. Your question made me reflect on who they were, and in order of appearance that would be: a Spanish professor, a young Berliner, a Japanese engineer, a Dutchman who’d ridden from his home and was riding back, an American photographer, two French students who rented me a room - and I could go on. What has amazed me is how instant it is to recognise like-minded persons so easily on Camino. You obviously meet lots of people, usually interesting, but the ones you (or I) especially connect with in the brief moment of time available are actually few. And the final Buen Camino has always been poignant for me.How difficult is it to part from new friends that one might have walked and shared with ….
How difficult? In my experience with certain people it was very difficult. For instance, I met someone on day three in Cizor Menor whom shared a couple of boiled eggs with me. He was also my bunkbed mate, he was on top.How difficult is it to part from new friends that one might have walked and shared with for days if not weeks?
Just curious as to how you Camino vets have dealt with this situation.
It is always nice to get comfortable with whomever you are walking with along this path. Yet the beauty of this adventure is meeting people, making connections, and then letting go. It seems I would walk with a few people a few days or a week, then I would decide to stay some place for an extra day or the pace changed for me or them, etc. Things change. I was always surprised that somehow I ran into them again. And during my 3 Caminos I exchanged much contact information. Some I have kept up with and some not. I have one friend who lives in Norway and I have visited twice and will again on my next Camino. Be present and embrace the moments. Maybe this is time to look at attachment and how it serves you.Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
Just a query that floating in my head!! Am due to start in St Jean 5th September.
How difficult is it to part from new friends that one might have walked and shared with for days if not weeks? Maybe not difficult but it seems to me that I might find it difficult; maybe I am dreaming!!
Just curious as to how you Camino vets have dealt with this situation.
Thanks a million.
Liamn
I guess this is a difficult question to answer as it is such a personal thing. However I have done 3 Caminos since 2013 and exchanged contact details with quite s few people. I am still in email contact with a number of Camino friends and some of us have even visited each other if we have been travelling in the other person's area or country. As you progress you mix with various groups and you see people for a few days and then not see them for a few days. It is amazing that people will come to you and say I have seen so and so and they were asking about you. Then you meet up with them again a few days later.Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
Just a query that floating in my head!! Am due to start in St Jean 5th September.
How difficult is it to part from new friends that one might have walked and shared with for days if not weeks? Maybe not difficult but it seems to me that I might find it difficult; maybe I am dreaming!!
Just curious as to how you Camino vets have dealt with this situation.
Thanks a million.
Liamn
Happily this is one of these things that are easier in these days of social media. On my first Camino - CF in 2016, I had the great good fortune to walk for 8 days with a fantastic tribe of people from Scotland, England, USA and Australia. I had to stop at Burgos to go home while they all continued on to Santiago. I was desperate to go home to my wife but I felt I was betraying my tribe by deserting them. Once we all got home we kept in contact through FB and since Covid periodic Zoom chats. Some of us have subsequently gone on other Caminos. Goodbye doesn't have to mean Adieu.Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
Just a query that floating in my head!! Am due to start in St Jean 5th September.
How difficult is it to part from new friends that one might have walked and shared with for days if not weeks? Maybe not difficult but it seems to me that I might find it difficult; maybe I am dreaming!!
Just curious as to how you Camino vets have dealt with this situation.
Thanks a million.
Liamn
This. It's really important not to walk at a pace that might be pushing it, just so that you don't lose contact with people you've met.Yet the beauty of this adventure is meeting people, making connections, and then letting go
Delicious!The the delight at that encounter is difficult to describe.
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