Rediscovering the realities of Camino life

[HighlandHind]

Like many on this site I'm hooked on the camino and look back with a "rosy glow" on my month on the Frances in 2012 and last year's continuation of the journey to Finisterre and Muxia.

However I'm currently walking from Porto to Santiago on the Portuguese and rediscovering the aspects of camino life that slowly grind you down. You know... the aching, the sleeplessness, the bugs, the heavy pack, the squashed together beds ... all.the stuff that magically disappears once you're home and have had a bath.

This time I'm writing a blog as I walk so that I don't forget! It's at www.highlandhind.wordpress.com

 

[IngridF]

Buen Camino and darn those bugs.

 

[HighlandHind]

Buen Camino and darn those bugs.

Haha, no option but to keep plodding on!
Looks like we walked the Camino Frances at the same time, Ingrid. I left St Jean at the end of August 2012 and arrived in Santiago at the end of Sept.

 

[Anemone del Camino]

Camino and child birth, How quickly one forgets. Good luck with the bed bugs ans thank you for your blog.,

 

[Kanga]

Interesting to know the bugs are on the Portuguese route as well. I remember a hospitalero in Pamplona who claimed that they had all been brought into Spain from France. Sounds like they are migrating west!

 

[IngridF]

Haha, no option but to keep plodding on!
Looks like we walked the Camino Frances at the same time, Ingrid. I left St Jean at the end of August 2012 and arrived in Santiago at the end of Sept.

You are a much faster walker. I arrived on Oct 20..2012 .my 6th birthday. I am following your journey...l walked the Portuguese this past July...but was eaten by bedbugs on the Sanabres in August...they just adore my blood.

 

[IngridF]

Interesting to know the bugs are on the Portuguese route as well. I remember a hospitalero in Pamplona who claimed that they had all been brought into Spain from France. Sounds like they are migrating west!

I think all Caminos were blessed by those little critters this year. Someone said that the climatic conditions were perfect. I was in Miraz hospitalera. ...first time they shut for fumigation...

 

[Ianhooper]

Like many on this site I'm hooked on the camino and look back with a "rosy glow" on my month on the Frances in 2012 and last year's continuation of the journey to Finisterre and Muxia.

However I'm currently walking from Porto to Santiago on the Portuguese and rediscovering the aspects of camino life that slowly grind you down. You know... the aching, the sleeplessness, the bugs, the heavy pack, the squashed together beds ... all.the stuff that magically disappears once you're home and have had a bath.

This time I'm writing a blog as I walk so that I don't forget! It's at www.highlandhind.wordpress.com

Buen Camino,

My partner and I walked the Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago arriving on 27th September this year, we met lots of lovely people on our walk but we didn't meet any bedbugs. Try it, you'll like it.

 

[Hugh Hertfordshire]

Like many on this site I'm hooked on the camino and look back with a "rosy glow" on my month on the Frances in 2012 and last year's continuation of the journey to Finisterre and Muxia.

However I'm currently walking from Porto to Santiago on the Portuguese and rediscovering the aspects of camino life that slowly grind you down. You know... the aching, the sleeplessness, the bugs, the heavy pack, the squashed together beds ... all.the stuff that magically disappears once you're home and have had a bath.

This time I'm writing a blog as I walk so that I don't forget! It's at www.highlandhind.wordpress.com

Don't forget the Espritual Variant. It was wonderful less than 100 did it last year. The first hostel has six of us and the second I was alone