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Hello everyone!
New to the forum here. I've planned for 5 weeks for Camino Frances including Finisterre and then an extra week. So what to do with the extra week that would not cost more than 400 euros? Portugal? Ireland? I was in Ireland about 5 years ago and have fond memories. Ideas and input welcomed.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Gary
Oh that sounds fantastic too!In 2009 i went to Paris
In 2013 i went to Portugal (Porto, Nazare and Lisbon)
I would just suggest....where ever you go to not plan to do too much or to cram in sight seeing.
I found I was super tired the day after I got to Santiago and pretty much fall asleep over my Spanish omelet in a cafe in 2009.
When I got to Paris....i pretty much ran everywhere to then wait in a line...and fit everything in. When I got home I was exhausted. I kinda felt I had disrespected my Camino experience.
In 2013...although my Camino ended early due to injury I had allowed for chill out time at the end and I spent 10 days at the beach in Nazare and loved it. I slept in...sat on the beach....had late lunches and pottered around tthe village. It was bliss.
But beware, if you go to Porto and see a yellow arrow, you may find yourself irresistibly drawn to starting to walk again! buen camino, Laurie
But beware, if you go to Porto and see a yellow arrow, you may find yourself irresistibly drawn to starting to walk again! buen camino, Laurie
Hello everyone!
New to the forum here. I've planned for 5 weeks for Camino Frances including Finisterre and then an extra week. So what to do with the extra week that would not cost more than 400 euros? Portugal? Ireland? I was in Ireland about 5 years ago and have fond memories. Ideas and input welcomed.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Gary
I think the one thing you can never predict is whether you will feel like jumping into "tourist mode" when you finish walking. It would be a shame to have a big trip planned and to then find when you reach Santiago that you really aren't up for it. It happens to me and many others I know. Lise T's experience resonates with me. But then I know lots of people who have arrived in Santiago, picked up their stored suitcase of "real world clothes" and gone happily on their way as a tourist. But beware, if you go to Porto and see a yellow arrow, you may find yourself irresistibly drawn to starting to walk again! buen camino, Laurie
very wise allowing for time ...
in my experience, after arriving in santiago and having to stay longer due to sudden health-hic up, i craved for silence and stillness.
i found that out by fancy-ing a return trip to Porto to do things i did not feel inclined to do while walking from lisbon to SdC. - but once i was back in Porto, i was not amused. too loud, too noisy, too busy ... thus after one night i packed up again and took the train south, towards lisbon.
but stopped over in two places where I had already stayed on the way north.
i 'parked' myself for five days on an old horse-farm/Quinta, in the Tejo region, doing nothing besides 'de-pilgrim'.... listening to the stillness, the reeds in the wind along the river, ... i did not want to be entertained, or see things, or do anything.
the pilgrimage had a very profound effect, and i just wanted to be with THAT, alone, ....to let it linger, expand, plunge ...
after that i was for 3 days in Cascais before flying to Manchester.... and even then i felt like blasted from the 'wilderness' into 'civilization'.
i felt grateful that i planned for all that extra time, as a buffer of sorts.
hope you'll find the suitable location / place.
perhaps don't plan ... and see what draws you after the pilgrimage. trains can get you far ... or perhaps you find a last minute flight-deal for a good rate.
best wishes! y buen camino ...
i'd be living in montana or WY as well if i could handle the long winters and had a good income job. - living in the bay area, in the hills beneath the redwood and cedar trees is the only way i'd handle this area. lots of lovely trails here ...Where do you live in California? My family lives in San Francisco and honestly I can not imagine going back to the city after the camino. But then again, maybe that's why I chose to live in Montana.
Hello everyone!
New to the forum here. I've planned for 5 weeks for Camino Frances including Finisterre and then an extra week. So what to do with the extra week that would not cost more than 400 euros? Portugal? Ireland? I was in Ireland about 5 years ago and have fond memories. Ideas and input welcomed.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Gary
i'd be living in montana or WY as well if i could handle the long winters and had a good income job. - living in the bay area, in the hills beneath the redwood and cedar trees is the only way i'd handle this area. lots of lovely trails here ...
swoon !! and thank you! a very kind offer ...If you ever venture up to Montana, look me up. I've you love the mountains, I'm about 15 mins from the west entrance of Glacier National Park, and I treat it like my back yard. As a matter of fact I'll be cycling there today.
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