Frank Mestre
Let’s Camino
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 1st. Camino coming up 29th. April
Camino Frances here I come.
I completed my 920k in June this year from SJPDP to Finestierre. Wow! Wow wow! I’m enjoyed every step. So many pilgrims I met on the journey had their very personsal
reasons for embarking on such a arduous and at times thankless trek. At 62 I have been with my now wife for twenty odd years and we had been doing everything together. She was/is my sole mate in fact my only true friend. But at 62 I am ready and in a good position to go and explore the world, take time out away for months if necessary. But she at 52 is not. She is happy with two weeks in a posh hotel etc. So we were st a massive crossroads in our lives/relationship. Which way should I go? was the question. We argued and argued about her not wanting to do the
camino with me. I had never spent time on my own and I was terrified. In fact so much so that I aborted the same trek which I had planned with flights paid for the year before. So on the 31st.Msy I left on my own, still terrified. I can honestly say the moment I arrived in Biatitz airport and came across three others people with packs on their back and ended up sharing a cab with. I never looked back. I can now truly say I am
100% glad my wife didn’t come with me as we would have probably been separated by now. In fact and she knows this. I truly love her but I didn’t miss her at all. Often I forgot about my life back home as I was so absorbed in my life in the present. That and the amazing people I met were by far the highlights of my camino. I am now back and our relationship is very much on track. I have at last ‘grown up’ and come to terms that I’m ok on my own. I’ve realised that it’s ok for her not to want to do ALL the things I want. Thank you so my Camino. I’m so looking forward to my next Camino ( del Norte) next year.
reasons for embarking on such a arduous and at times thankless trek. At 62 I have been with my now wife for twenty odd years and we had been doing everything together. She was/is my sole mate in fact my only true friend. But at 62 I am ready and in a good position to go and explore the world, take time out away for months if necessary. But she at 52 is not. She is happy with two weeks in a posh hotel etc. So we were st a massive crossroads in our lives/relationship. Which way should I go? was the question. We argued and argued about her not wanting to do the
camino with me. I had never spent time on my own and I was terrified. In fact so much so that I aborted the same trek which I had planned with flights paid for the year before. So on the 31st.Msy I left on my own, still terrified. I can honestly say the moment I arrived in Biatitz airport and came across three others people with packs on their back and ended up sharing a cab with. I never looked back. I can now truly say I am
100% glad my wife didn’t come with me as we would have probably been separated by now. In fact and she knows this. I truly love her but I didn’t miss her at all. Often I forgot about my life back home as I was so absorbed in my life in the present. That and the amazing people I met were by far the highlights of my camino. I am now back and our relationship is very much on track. I have at last ‘grown up’ and come to terms that I’m ok on my own. I’ve realised that it’s ok for her not to want to do ALL the things I want. Thank you so my Camino. I’m so looking forward to my next Camino ( del Norte) next year.
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