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On a purely practical note, I walked SJPP to Santiago, then to Finisterre/MuxiaHi Jellycat
I had similar thoughts to you as I set off on my second camino last year. What I found was that the camino was so familiar but..... I was different! I was so much more relaxed and accepting of the 'ups and downs'.
It was nostalgic at times and utterly new and different at others.
Enjoy!
buen camino
Hi,
I did my first Camino (Frances) four years ago in 2011 and it was as perfect as it could possibly have been. Other than the usual aches and pains and occasional tears, I had the most incredible 5/6 weeks of my life. The weather was beautiful, very warm and sunny for March, I met incredible people and made 2/3 lifelong friends, I cried with happiness, laughed and sang and listened and talked and had so many 'I'll never forget this moment' moments I lost count. I became fit and strong and healthy while eating endless delicious food (and equally delicious wine!). I loved all the albergues I stayed in (almost - won't be staying in Larassoana this time!) - I could go on...
So, next week I set off for my second Camino. I've deliberated for the last 3 years on whether to do it again, I looked at other walks/experiences and they just didn't appeal as much and finally I just went with my gut feeling which was to go back and walk the same route again.
How do I avoid trying to recreate the experience of four years ago? Have others who have done the Camino more than once got any advice? I worry that there are times I will be overwhelmed with nostalgia and see the faces, hear the voices from those wonderful people I met last time and feel sad that I'm not with them. Should I intentionally stay in different albergues and take different forks in the road, despite the fact I loved the places I stayed and choices I made last time?
Any help and advice would be really appreciated,
Angela
I start again 15th April and was thinking along the lines of, where there is an option in the route, I take the one I did not take last time with the exception of Villar de Mazariffe. The paella in the St Anthony of Padua albergue is just too good to missHi,
I did my first Camino (Frances) four years ago in 2011 and it was as perfect as it could possibly have been. Other than the usual aches and pains and occasional tears, I had the most incredible 5/6 weeks of my life. The weather was beautiful, very warm and sunny for March, I met incredible people and made 2/3 lifelong friends, I cried with happiness, laughed and sang and listened and talked and had so many 'I'll never forget this moment' moments I lost count. I became fit and strong and healthy while eating endless delicious food (and equally delicious wine!). I loved all the albergues I stayed in (almost - won't be staying in Larassoana this time!) - I could go on...
So, next week I set off for my second Camino. I've deliberated for the last 3 years on whether to do it again, I looked at other walks/experiences and they just didn't appeal as much and finally I just went with my gut feeling which was to go back and walk the same route again.
How do I avoid trying to recreate the experience of four years ago? Have others who have done the Camino more than once got any advice? I worry that there are times I will be overwhelmed with nostalgia and see the faces, hear the voices from those wonderful people I met last time and feel sad that I'm not with them. Should I intentionally stay in different albergues and take different forks in the road, despite the fact I loved the places I stayed and choices I made last time?
Any help and advice would be really appreciated,
Angela
This was beautiful, thank you for sharing it, Peregrina2000.This is one of my favorite travel quotes, and I know others like it too (Margaret, I'm surprised you didn't post it in here.)
By Jose Saramago: ‘The journey is never over. Only travellers come to an end. But even then they can prolong their voyage in their memories, in recollections, in stories. When the traveller sat in the sand and declared: “There’s nothing more to see” he knew it wasn’t true. The end of one journey is simply the start of another. You have to see what you’ve missed the first time, see again what you already saw, see in the springtime what you saw in the summer, in daylight what you saw at night, see the sun shining where you saw the rain falling, see the crops growing, the fruits ripen, the stone which has moved, the shadow that was not there before. You have to go back to the footsteps already taken, to go over again or add fresh ones alongside them. You have to start the journey anew. Always. The traveller sets out once more’.
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