How long
I spent ages contemplating this question.
When I do the pilgrimage it will be all the way from Helston,Cornwall,and back.I might just fudge a Boulogne start so I can spend a last weekend with my wife.
I'll be on a bicycle or tricycle.
Anyone can do the camino as many times as they like,but I think the first time is always bound to be the most important.
I cannot therefore believe that it matters how long it takes.
This should be an escape from the humdrum false priorities of life,and it cannot do that if one has to race against the clock.
I have already turned down several potential partners, purely because of this senseless"I must be back by...........". Because,of course,they must'nt,there is nobody alive that will be significantly missed for a month,even two.
My wife only today questioned me on this,I was able to give a likely start date,but not a finish date,although some time after one of the Festivals is probable............
Anyway,its much harder to find a way of getting a tricycle back from compostella to helston than it is cycling it there..................unless.................now there's an idea..........I pedal it back again,on a different route,meet The Dragon in,say,Bordeaux,spend a fortune on a hotel room and dinner and then pedal on..............
Is this a book?
robin