Adrian Chaffey
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- First: Camino Frances: July/Aug 95 StJean to Burgos, then March/April 96 Burgos to SdC.
Second (uncompleted): Camino Aragones: Aug/Sept 04 Somport to Burgos.
Third Leon to SdC on Camino Frances March/April 16.
I'm coming back to walk the camino again and I'm rather in two minds whether to go for the Frances (again) or to try the Primitivo. We will have just over 2 weeks and will be starting on Maundy Thursday or Good Friday - from either Oviedo or Leon.
I'm really attracted to the Primitivo, but my 14 year old daughter is coming with me this time, and I'm wondering whether for her the Frances will offer a richer experience.
My own camino experience is rather old, and I'm not really sure what to expect anymore. I'm a bit concerned, on the one hand, that the Frances might be rather busy, and conversely that there might be very few people on the Primitivo, particularly early in the year and perhaps none that are more my daughter's generation than mine.
I'm kind of mindful that when I began my first camino in 1995 there were 1/10 of the pilgrims today, and yet in the first week in August it still felt quite busy at times, and also that returning in 2004, having walked the Aragones, after Punta la Reina it seemed all a bit hectic.
But then I also remember that when I had returned to complete my first camino in the spring of the following year, until I fell in with 3 Gallegos after Astorga, I was very often the only person in the albergues. It was great, but probably not what we're looking for this time.
I guess looking back the times which probably meant most to me were those when the numbers of fellow pilgrims were fairly small, and when as a consequence you didn't get to choose your companions and ages and nationalities really mixed.
I'm hoping my daughter can have to have something of that experience, and I'm kind of leaning to the Frances, figuring that it won't be that busy in March /April.
But any thoughts?
I'm really attracted to the Primitivo, but my 14 year old daughter is coming with me this time, and I'm wondering whether for her the Frances will offer a richer experience.
My own camino experience is rather old, and I'm not really sure what to expect anymore. I'm a bit concerned, on the one hand, that the Frances might be rather busy, and conversely that there might be very few people on the Primitivo, particularly early in the year and perhaps none that are more my daughter's generation than mine.
I'm kind of mindful that when I began my first camino in 1995 there were 1/10 of the pilgrims today, and yet in the first week in August it still felt quite busy at times, and also that returning in 2004, having walked the Aragones, after Punta la Reina it seemed all a bit hectic.
But then I also remember that when I had returned to complete my first camino in the spring of the following year, until I fell in with 3 Gallegos after Astorga, I was very often the only person in the albergues. It was great, but probably not what we're looking for this time.
I guess looking back the times which probably meant most to me were those when the numbers of fellow pilgrims were fairly small, and when as a consequence you didn't get to choose your companions and ages and nationalities really mixed.
I'm hoping my daughter can have to have something of that experience, and I'm kind of leaning to the Frances, figuring that it won't be that busy in March /April.
But any thoughts?