domigee
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2022 CF
doesn't mean you will necessarily have to upset the other people in the albergue!
Just to put new pilgrims' minds at rest and to clarify, after having read a few comments on other threads...
It can be done, quietly, without anyone noticing.
Just prepare your stuff the night before so you leave just carrying your rucksack and your sleeping bag. No ghastly torches in the night - even the red lights are a menace for other sleepers. No rustling of plastic bags. Just take yourself and your things out of the dormitory and do any last minute packing outside the bedroom area.
I have woken up to find whole groups of pilgrims had left (very early) without anyone of us noticing and yet we were packed like sardines!
I have also started walking very early without anyone knowing I had gone.
On the other hand, I have plenty of grrrrr.... memories of people making such a racket they would have woken up the dead! Soooo unnecessary.
So to anyone new to walking the Camino, don't worry, start as early as you wish ...just organise yourself the day before and leave the sleeping area quietly
Buen camino to all.
Just to put new pilgrims' minds at rest and to clarify, after having read a few comments on other threads...
It can be done, quietly, without anyone noticing.
Just prepare your stuff the night before so you leave just carrying your rucksack and your sleeping bag. No ghastly torches in the night - even the red lights are a menace for other sleepers. No rustling of plastic bags. Just take yourself and your things out of the dormitory and do any last minute packing outside the bedroom area.
I have woken up to find whole groups of pilgrims had left (very early) without anyone of us noticing and yet we were packed like sardines!
I have also started walking very early without anyone knowing I had gone.
On the other hand, I have plenty of grrrrr.... memories of people making such a racket they would have woken up the dead! Soooo unnecessary.
So to anyone new to walking the Camino, don't worry, start as early as you wish ...just organise yourself the day before and leave the sleeping area quietly
Buen camino to all.