Lhollo
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- CF pt2, Belorado to Sarria, May 21 – June 12, 2022
You may know that my partner and I have been doing our first Camino, the Frances, in stages: Aug/Sept 2021 was SJPDP to Belorado; this May/June (2022) was Belorado to Sarria, and our plan is to reach Finisterre next year.
We intended to walk the rest of the Frances, Sarria to Santiago then on to Finisterre.
But now we’re wondering… do we really want to return as part of the ‘100km crowd’?
To clarify, I think in many ways, the ‘100km crowd’ must be very interesting to experience and be a part of. I imagine we’d meet many people with profound reasons to walk. However, I also think it might be a much busier experience for us and I’m not sure how important that would be.
That said, on our last day walking—just last week!—we found Sarria very quiet! I was surprised. And then again, we spoke with just one new pilgrim there, a lady from Iceland who was there with a group of friends and pretty unprepared for everything to do with the Camino. Suddenly the next sections seemed a long way from the Camino we’d experienced so far.
Long and short of it… we’re also now looking at next year doing the Invierno instead of the Sarria to Santiago bit. We’d have to skip back to Ponferrada, of course.
We have to stay in private rooms because of my health condition, so that’d be a consideration.
What do you think? Should we do the last bit from Sarria, because it would complete the Frances, and maybe everyone should walk it once?
Or should we forget the ‘should’ and walk the Invierno, because we love the landscape and culture, and because I enjoy using my Spanish whilst there?
(Edit: Just to add… when I say ‘finish this thing’ I really mean “Reach Santiago so that I can get started on the Via de La Plata” Although that dream seems logistically a long way off).
We intended to walk the rest of the Frances, Sarria to Santiago then on to Finisterre.
But now we’re wondering… do we really want to return as part of the ‘100km crowd’?
To clarify, I think in many ways, the ‘100km crowd’ must be very interesting to experience and be a part of. I imagine we’d meet many people with profound reasons to walk. However, I also think it might be a much busier experience for us and I’m not sure how important that would be.
That said, on our last day walking—just last week!—we found Sarria very quiet! I was surprised. And then again, we spoke with just one new pilgrim there, a lady from Iceland who was there with a group of friends and pretty unprepared for everything to do with the Camino. Suddenly the next sections seemed a long way from the Camino we’d experienced so far.
Long and short of it… we’re also now looking at next year doing the Invierno instead of the Sarria to Santiago bit. We’d have to skip back to Ponferrada, of course.
We have to stay in private rooms because of my health condition, so that’d be a consideration.
What do you think? Should we do the last bit from Sarria, because it would complete the Frances, and maybe everyone should walk it once?
Or should we forget the ‘should’ and walk the Invierno, because we love the landscape and culture, and because I enjoy using my Spanish whilst there?
(Edit: Just to add… when I say ‘finish this thing’ I really mean “Reach Santiago so that I can get started on the Via de La Plata” Although that dream seems logistically a long way off).
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