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Sounds inspiring!Cool - you will have a great time - by the way, can't tell you how many pilgrims I have seen being helped down a hilly section!
I think walking from Sarria might suit you. There might be more opportunities for accommodation and rest stops. I am sure you will find your way and meet wonderful people no matter what you choose to do. I wish you the best for your Camino.Hello, I am starting to plan my camino. However, it is a bit of a challenge, as I suffer from spastic cerebral palsy, which affects both of my legs and my left hand. I do not use any walker or crutches or wheelchair, but I get tired easily, falls are as easy as getting tired and can walk approx 5 - 6 km a day. They say that for CP people the walking is cca 3 - 5 times more energy demanding than for folks without spasticity, so if you multiply the numbers, you can see that my 6 km are easily the same amount as 20 - 30 km of somebody else.I can manage stairs, if there is something to hold on to, but upper bunk beds are a no go.
So, walking the camino is a big deal, even if I only take the last 100 kilometres. I would love to do the Portugese way, but haven't decided yet. Is there anyone who tried to walk the Camino in this extra slow way? Any tips that you can share?
It is hard for me to answer that. I just have faith that you would find your way and I don’t think you will need to carry a tent but that choice is up to you. The Camino has a way or working things out. You should be able to book ahead though. It probably means you will have to plan a bit more as you go but you can do that. Have faith in yourself and have a go.I hope to be able to do it. You know, i was thinking about the Portuguese way, because I really enjoyed when I went to Portugal two years ago with my father and we had some great father - adult daughter time.
Also, I have almost no idea of what it will be like.... I just know I do not want it to be just a walking holiday.
On a more practical note, would public alberges take reservations from somebody with a legitimatedisability? It is going to take me a long time to complete the pilgrimage (no 6 days), I am thinking of something like a month or maybe more, if I go wild. And I need to be able to afford my accommodation and sleeping in a tent or outside would mean having to carry that, which would probably make it really hard, even though I am open even for that.
We have always said that it is best to walk the Camino that calls...Hello, I am starting to plan my camino. However, it is a bit of a challenge, as I suffer from spastic cerebral palsy, which affects both of my legs and my left hand. I do not use any walker or crutches or wheelchair, but I get tired easily, falls are as easy as getting tired and can walk approx 5 - 6 km a day. They say that for CP people the walking is cca 3 - 5 times more energy demanding than for folks without spasticity, so if you multiply the numbers, you can see that my 6 km are easily the same amount as 20 - 30 km of somebody else.I can manage stairs, if there is something to hold on to, but upper bunk beds are a no go.
So, walking the camino is a big deal, even if I only take the last 100 kilometres. I would love to do the Portugese way, but haven't decided yet. Is there anyone who tried to walk the Camino in this extra slow way? Any tips that you can share?
Not first-hand, but I met a man who had had polio as a kid and he could only walk 5k a day. After a few days he got over feeling guilty about taking a taxi if he needed to, but walked as much as he could. I have to say he was the most inspiring and courageous pilgrim I've met. As you will be to others. You have a lot of strength, and obviously heart, too. You'll need flexibility, as well, but you probably have that in spades already.Is there anyone who tried to walk the Camino in this extra slow way?
Hi Alinka:We'll see how it goes. At the moment, I am exploring both possibilities and see what it will end with. I have also started walking a little bit more to get more ready very, very slowly. I don't know if I can become fitter or not, as adults with my disability are not really the centre of physio attention, so nobody really knows anything about how we react to normal training, but if I try, I will find out.
Hi Alinka:
Go for it!
I have Parkinson’s and walked tha last 100km on September of 2018. My recommendation is to practice on hilly terrain and use the poles for support and balance.
Btw, I did it on six days, first timer mistake. Take your.time and plan for days of rest, which I didn’t and should have.
Buen Camino
I am partially disabled & can’t envisage me walking great distance every day!Hello, and thank you for your answers. I do plan to have my luggage forwarded. As for companions, if I find someone willing to take it this slowly with me, then I will be happy, but when I just asked at my Facebook profile about whether there would be someone willing to do it this way, what I got was... oh yes, I plan to walk this way when I retire and then the people started to exchange ideas about what it will be like when they retire. I cannot wait till I retire, as I might be physically unable to travel at all by that time. And it is a true pilgrimage for me, even though I am a Protestant, so I don't want to do it as a sport achievement. I want to walk slowly, pray in silence, give thanks and walk some more. What I think might work is ask several friends to join me, say for a week each. That way I would not bother anyone for a month with a speed that does not work for that person. So I am starting to plan from scratch, really, trying to work out the possibilities.In a way, this planning is already a way to the Way, if you understand what I mean. I would like to get a Compostella to have a physical proof I did something so "impossible"
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