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There is no doubt about #1 - very comfortable shoes or boots (whichever you prefer) that are well-tested at home. #2 is a comfortable backpack that is preferably 35-45 L in size (smaller gets tight; larger is tempting to fill). #3 is all the rest.1. What is the single most important item I should bring with me?
Kris,Greetings Fellow Pilgrims!
Recently, I lost my 29 year old son in a tragic accident. He died less than 2 months before his 30th Birthday. His death has had a very profound impact on me and my family and has shaken me to my core.
As a result, I am planning on traveling to Portugal and completing the pilgrimage along the Coastal Route, from Porto to Santiago, in May. This is my first time on the Camino and I have a few questions:
1. What is the single most important item I should bring with me?
2. Whats is the best way out of Porto - I am trying to get to the Coast and walk along the water. From my understanding, there are multiple routes out of Porto that run nearly parallel.
3. Is it necessary to start trekking early in the morning to secure a bed/spot in a hostel
4. What is the consensus regarding the BEST GUIDE BOOK? Recommendations?
I think that is a good start. Thank you all in advance for your advice and suggestions!
-K
Your bruised heart--carry it tenderly.What is the single most important item I should bring with me?
Hi Kris,Greetings Fellow Pilgrims!
Recently, I lost my 29 year old son in a tragic accident. He died less than 2 months before his 30th Birthday. His death has had a very profound impact on me and my family and has shaken me to my core.
As a result, I am planning on traveling to Portugal and completing the pilgrimage along the Coastal Route, from Porto to Santiago, in May. This is my first time on the Camino and I have a few questions:
1. What is the single most important item I should bring with me?
2. Whats is the best way out of Porto - I am trying to get to the Coast and walk along the water. From my understanding, there are multiple routes out of Porto that run nearly parallel.
3. Is it necessary to start trekking early in the morning to secure a bed/spot in a hostel
4. What is the consensus regarding the BEST GUIDE BOOK? Recommendations?
I think that is a good start. Thank you all in advance for your advice and suggestions!
-K
Greetings Fellow Pilgrims!
Recently, I lost my 29 year old son in a tragic accident. He died less than 2 months before his 30th Birthday. His death has had a very profound impact on me and my family and has shaken me to my core.
As a result, I am planning on traveling to Portugal and completing the pilgrimage along the Coastal Route, from Porto to Santiago, in May. This is my first time on the Camino and I have a few questions:
1. What is the single most important item I should bring with me?
2. Whats is the best way out of Porto - I am trying to get to the Coast and walk along the water. From my understanding, there are multiple routes out of Porto that run nearly parallel.
3. Is it necessary to start trekking early in the morning to secure a bed/spot in a hostel
4. What is the consensus regarding the BEST GUIDE BOOK? Recommendations?
I think that is a good start. Thank you all in advance for your advice and suggestions!
-K
thank y ou for sharing this experience.Kris, hello. Such pain, such utter pain, that the mind gnaws at the way a tongue searches out a broken tooth. Such pain.
There are only two things that help; openness to allow the grief, and time. You will not forget but the pain will go.
There is also often rage - so do not be afraid (or guilty!), when you find yourself at the top of a hill and really isolated, to shout and scream - to let it out ... it can be a good thing. Such pain .... trust me on this, you will laugh again, you will make love again, you will heal you know - going on Camino is a marvellous idea - just ... well ... do not be afraid to cry, to scream, to rage, to be silent ... let the painful process of healing be the painful process of healing.
You know .. I don't know if this will help or not and am hesitant to write it, but I will, and I apologise if it is inappropriate ...
no one dies, in the sense of 'not being' ... the body breaks but the person doesn't and I have direct experience of this. Some years ago I attended a man who had had a heart attack on a bus. He had fallen, cut his head, and, as with many heart attacks, was producing phlegm so it was all rather messy. His heart had stopped and I started doing cpr - rather, I got a volunteer to do the chest compressions whilst I did the mouth to mouth - no mask so face to face, skin to skin, touch to touch. He was dead, then we brought him back - he literally 'popped in', eyes suddenly open and startled .. then we lost him again, brought him back again, he 'popped' in again, looking startled again .. and through all this time I was working on what felt like a living person .. and then - and I was mouth to mouth with him, total contact, I felt him 'withdraw' ... leave the body ... I felt this absolutely clearly .. that he hadn't died but had somehow withdrawn .. and at that moment his body for the first time went dead to the touch, the life force had left it. I glanced across to the woman at his chest and we looked at each other and had both felt it. We had to carry on until the ambulance finally arrived (they went to the wrong place so were very late) but we both knew that he had gone.
I felt this Kris, I felt him withdraw from his body - I felt a whole person move elsewhere and leave behind a shell, a spacesuit I guess. So I know, with utter certainty, that we do not die, we withdraw, whole and complete and alive, we merely withdraw.
In a religious sense we fall up out of our broken bodies and into the arms of angels.
Does this help you? I don't know, I hope so - I wish you well Kris - and all others who have lost a loved one, especially a child, grown to adulthood or not, I wish you well - enjoy your Camino, let it be all that it can be, and however alone you may feel, you will not be alone, not at all.
Buen Camino Kris xx
Thank you Colleen...but the pilgrim in the video is not me...it is a YouTube video I watched. She has a number of Camino videos that are very helpful. Regarding you and which Camino to walk this year...have you considered the Norte? That's the next one on my list. Buen Camino my friend.Debora!
You are as cute as a bug's ear! Thank you for all the information! I am playing a game of Pong in my head about my upcoming Camino. I did the Frances in 2015, but got the Brierley's for Portuguese and cannot decide. So, it's Pong, and until I land in Lisbon in August I'll just paddle back and forth, and where she stops nobody knows. Do I want new scenery and adventure or do I want to relive a wonderful time?
I am glad you let Kris know that first timers have little or no problems taking Portuguese rather than the usual Frances. Sometimes we walk with the crowd, and sometimes we need solitude.
Darn. Now I have to buy another book.Thank you Colleen...but the pilgrim in the video is not me...it is a YouTube video I watched. She has a number of Camino videos that are very helpful. Regarding you and which Camino to walk this year...have you considered the Norte? That's the next one on my list. Buen Camino my friend.
Greetings Fellow Pilgrims!
Recently, I lost my 29 year old son in a tragic accident. He died less than 2 months before his 30th Birthday. His death has had a very profound impact on me and my family and has shaken me to my core.
As a result, I am planning on traveling to Portugal and completing the pilgrimage along the Coastal Route, from Porto to Santiago, in May. This is my first time on the Camino and I have a few questions:
1. What is the single most important item I should bring with me?
2. Whats is the best way out of Porto - I am trying to get to the Coast and walk along the water. From my understanding, there are multiple routes out of Porto that run nearly parallel.
3. Is it necessary to start trekking early in the morning to secure a bed/spot in a hostel
4. What is the consensus regarding the BEST GUIDE BOOK? Recommendations?
I think that is a good start. Thank you all in advance for your advice and suggestions!
-K
Kris, hello. Such pain, such utter pain, that the mind gnaws at the way a tongue searches out a broken tooth. Such pain.
There are only two things that help; openness to allow the grief, and time. You will not forget but the pain will go.
There is also often rage - so do not be afraid (or guilty!), when you find yourself at the top of a hill and really isolated, to shout and scream - to let it out ... it can be a good thing. Such pain .... trust me on this, you will laugh again, you will make love again, you will heal you know - going on Camino is a marvellous idea - just ... well ... do not be afraid to cry, to scream, to rage, to be silent ... let the painful process of healing be the painful process of healing.
You know .. I don't know if this will help or not and am hesitant to write it, but I will, and I apologise if it is inappropriate ...
no one dies, in the sense of 'not being' ... the body breaks but the person doesn't and I have direct experience of this. Some years ago I attended a man who had had a heart attack on a bus. He had fallen, cut his head, and, as with many heart attacks, was producing phlegm so it was all rather messy. His heart had stopped and I started doing cpr - rather, I got a volunteer to do the chest compressions whilst I did the mouth to mouth - no mask so face to face, skin to skin, touch to touch. He was dead, then we brought him back - he literally 'popped in', eyes suddenly open and startled .. then we lost him again, brought him back again, he 'popped' in again, looking startled again .. and through all this time I was working on what felt like a living person .. and then - and I was mouth to mouth with him, total contact, I felt him 'withdraw' ... leave the body ... I felt this absolutely clearly .. that he hadn't died but had somehow withdrawn .. and at that moment his body for the first time went dead to the touch, the life force had left it. I glanced across to the woman at his chest and we looked at each other and had both felt it. We had to carry on until the ambulance finally arrived (they went to the wrong place so were very late) but we both knew that he had gone.
I felt this Kris, I felt him withdraw from his body - I felt a whole person move elsewhere and leave behind a shell, a spacesuit I guess. So I know, with utter certainty, that we do not die, we withdraw, whole and complete and alive, we merely withdraw.
In a religious sense we fall up out of our broken bodies and into the arms of angels.
Does this help you? I don't know, I hope so - I wish you well Kris - and all others who have lost a loved one, especially a child, grown to adulthood or not, I wish you well - enjoy your Camino, let it be all that it can be, and however alone you may feel, you will not be alone, not at all.
Buen Camino Kris xx
My wife and I will arrive in Porto on April 24. I did the French route in October, and most important thing is comfortable shoes and high quality socks. Second most important is an adventurous spirit. You will have no worries and plenty of support. Walk 6 hours a day and you will always find a bed. Hope we get to meet.Greetings Fellow Pilgrims!
Recently, I lost my 29 year old son in a tragic accident. He died less than 2 months before his 30th Birthday. His death has had a very profound impact on me and my family and has shaken me to my core.
As a result, I am planning on traveling to Portugal and completing the pilgrimage along the Coastal Route, from Porto to Santiago, in May. This is my first time on the Camino and I have a few questions:
1. What is the single most important item I should bring with me?
2. Whats is the best way out of Porto - I am trying to get to the Coast and walk along the water. From my understanding, there are multiple routes out of Porto that run nearly parallel.
3. Is it necessary to start trekking early in the morning to secure a bed/spot in a hostel
4. What is the consensus regarding the BEST GUIDE BOOK? Recommendations?
I think that is a good start. Thank you all in advance for your advice and suggestions!
-K
Greetings Fellow Pilgrims!
Recently, I lost my 29 year old son in a tragic accident. He died less than 2 months before his 30th Birthday. His death has had a very profound impact on me and my family and has shaken me to my core.
As a result, I am planning on traveling to Portugal and completing the pilgrimage along the Coastal Route, from Porto to Santiago, in May. This is my first time on the Camino and I have a few questions:
1. What is the single most important item I should bring with me?
2. Whats is the best way out of Porto - I am trying to get to the Coast and walk along the water. From my understanding, there are multiple routes out of Porto that run nearly parallel.
3. Is it necessary to start trekking early in the morning to secure a bed/spot in a hostel
4. What is the consensus regarding the BEST GUIDE BOOK? Recommendations?
I think that is a good start. Thank you all in advance for your advice and suggestions!
-K
Hello Chris,Greetings Fellow Pilgrims!
Recently, I lost my 29 year old son in a tragic accident. He died less than 2 months before his 30th Birthday. His death has had a very profound impact on me and my family and has shaken me to my core.
As a result, I am planning on traveling to Portugal and completing the pilgrimage along the Coastal Route, from Porto to Santiago, in May. This is my first time on the Camino and I have a few questions:
1. What is the single most important item I should bring with me?
2. Whats is the best way out of Porto - I am trying to get to the Coast and walk along the water. From my understanding, there are multiple routes out of Porto that run nearly parallel.
3. Is it necessary to start trekking early in the morning to secure a bed/spot in a hostel
4. What is the consensus regarding the BEST GUIDE BOOK? Recommendations?
I think that is a good start. Thank you all in advance for your advice and suggestions!
-K
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