Dancing Rain
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances (2015)
Camino Salvado (2017)
Camino Frances (2018)
My beloved and I have started our April Meseta Camino. At our careful slow pace we were doing really well - Burgos-Rabe de las Calzadas-San Bol-Castrojeriz.
However, probably as a result of heavy mud on his shoes, carrying a pack, and the downhill slope into Hontanas, my beloved has developed a shin splin, on a leg that has previously been severely affected. We’ve now been “resting” in Castrojeriz for two nights. (A good way to avoid walking in snow!)
I strongly suspect he’s not going to be up to walking easily tomorrow, and possibly quite a few days longer. We’re in Spain for about another two weeks, which was supposed to be all camino time. Only schedule is a plane to catch in Madrid on Apr 26th.
All thoughts about our best options for proceeding valued! I would love to be on the road again, but there are two of us involved in this. I’m our organiser and main communicator. My beloved is partially deaf, gets overwhelmed in new places where English isn’t spoken, and doesn’t have a smart phone.
Options we’ve come up with
- him bussing, taxiing from town to town, while I walk - but is this practical and will he manage?
- both go to Leon and I explore Leon on my own
- both keep walking while he takes lots of ibuprofen, and possibly get his pack transported
- keep staying in Castrojeriz
However, probably as a result of heavy mud on his shoes, carrying a pack, and the downhill slope into Hontanas, my beloved has developed a shin splin, on a leg that has previously been severely affected. We’ve now been “resting” in Castrojeriz for two nights. (A good way to avoid walking in snow!)
I strongly suspect he’s not going to be up to walking easily tomorrow, and possibly quite a few days longer. We’re in Spain for about another two weeks, which was supposed to be all camino time. Only schedule is a plane to catch in Madrid on Apr 26th.
All thoughts about our best options for proceeding valued! I would love to be on the road again, but there are two of us involved in this. I’m our organiser and main communicator. My beloved is partially deaf, gets overwhelmed in new places where English isn’t spoken, and doesn’t have a smart phone.
Options we’ve come up with
- him bussing, taxiing from town to town, while I walk - but is this practical and will he manage?
- both go to Leon and I explore Leon on my own
- both keep walking while he takes lots of ibuprofen, and possibly get his pack transported
- keep staying in Castrojeriz