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Do I as a Canadian need a visitor visa for Spain?
Thanks for the thoughtful replies. I've loved reading about your experiences.
From what you've said and what I've seen elsewhere, I'm going to aim to give myself some more stationary and quiet time before I get on a plane to meet my husband in Britain, just to start absorbing the experience and preparing for the transition. I'm approaching the Camino very open to how it will unfold in terms of timing and distance. I know I'll need to bus/taxi a bit in order to get to Santiago in time, as I've got four weeks and not five. Perhaps I'll try to do that enough to allow myself several days or even a week in Santiago or Finisterre for reflection and contemplation. That way I won't go directly from walking to flying to London.
Like Wanderer64, I feel like coming all this way, it would be a shame not to take advantage of the opportunity to travel. I don't know when I'll have this length of time off again before retirement. (It took a lot of negotiating at work.) So I just need to think of the second trip as part of the whole experience. Plus, it's a gift to get to do this and to spend time with my husband reconnecting before we arrive back at home with its responsibilities and dailiness. I want to enjoy that as fully as possible.
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Hello! I start my first Camino in Pamplona about five weeks from now, and I've loved reading these forums and preparing for my trip. My question is about traveling after completing the Camino.
I'm walking alone, and my husband is planning to come out and meet me after I finish. We're from the US, so it's a significant trip. It'll also be our anniversary. We've debated options, but right now I think I'll fly Ryan Air to London and meet him there. Then we'll visit some friends and hit a few places in Britain.
I'm wondering if anyone can share their experience of traveling after the Camino. I'm excited to do this with my husband, but I also wonder if the intensely personal experience of walking for a month will jibe with big cities and more moving about. I know no one can tell me this, but I'd love to hear if you traveled after being a pilgrim and what the experience felt like for you. Thanks!
dad and i started in sjpdp and had only one week, i had to remind him that we MUST stop walking and start thinking about getting back to the airport,on the bus back as we looked out the window for a little way we could see pilgrims walking and we pointed some out in the distance thinking maybe they were people we had spoken with,in short we were deflated ! our happy bubble had been burst !i said to dad it was like coming almost to the end of the the best book ever and someone takes it away before you finish it,really hard to explain to family n friends when we got back,,Personally I found the transition a difficult one. My Camino ended abruptly en route to Finnesterre when my wife came down with a severe bout of the vomits. We bussed back to Santiago and tried again in a car. Every track crossing and every walker that we passed caused pangs of longing and a swelling of the throat along with the feeling of being a good deal betwixt and between. A peregrino no more! Not yet a tourist, or wanting to be one, although of course it sort of came with the car.
Having a few more weeks we then continued travelling in the car through Spain and for a while felt quite displaced it is such a different experience, fuelled by such a contrasting intention.
We come form Oz and had planned to continue our Spanish experiences trip post Camino, it is such an effort to get there, and I am not sure what one can do. We had decided to walk first otherwise the preceding weeks would have been spent 'chaffing at the bit.' Eventually I came to the realisation that there is no 'post camino' and that remains so still a month later.
This an excellent post, the part of the walk not often spoken about ~ cheers.
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