marilyn van graan
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Hi, Marilyn,I walked the LaLana September 2019 from Alicante and had to stop for a few days in Alpera because of a painful foot. Then the rains came and was advised not to walk for a couple more days so decided to train to Cuenca where it was drier. Walked from there and just before Siguenza the foot problem raised its nasty head again - after much deliberation and soul searching I decided I had to abandon my camino -it was a very hard decision but I think at the end of the day the wise thing to do. It is now a couple of months later - foot is healing well after surgery and I am itching to get myself back on the road again. Without a doubt I have to go back and finish what I was not able to do so would like to know if there is anyone out there who will be walking the Lana in April. Still need to make the decision as to where I will start again - perhaps Alpera or Siguenza. It is a very solitary walk so that is why I am wondering who else will be out there. Buen camino XX
I walked the LaLana September 2019 from Alicante and had to stop for a few days in Alpera because of a painful foot. Then the rains came and was advised not to walk for a couple more days so decided to train to Cuenca where it was drier. Walked from there and just before Siguenza the foot problem raised its nasty head again - after much deliberation and soul searching I decided I had to abandon my camino -it was a very hard decision but I think at the end of the day the wise thing to do. It is now a couple of months later - foot is healing well after surgery and I am itching to get myself back on the road again. Without a doubt I have to go back and finish what I was not able to do so would like to know if there is anyone out there who will be walking the Lana in April. Still need to make the decision as to where I will start again - perhaps Alpera or Siguenza. It is a very solitary walk so that is why I am wondering who else will be out there. Buen camino XX
Hi Chrissy - yes it is me - I was not able to walk with my dear friends last year as my husband was very ill and had to spend 9 weeks in hospital then rehab etc etc so that is why I went on my own in September - also dearest Maggie had her hip problem - we now call ourselves the wonky donkeys - her hip and my foot!!. This year we are both - or certainly I am - going to finish the Lana and then I plan to meet up with them to do the Olvidado - we have had some wonderful caminos together. She is the best camino buddy. Buen camino to you if you are walking this year XXHello Marilyn,
I am wondering if you are the Marilyn that walked a year ago (or more) with @Magwood in southern Spain. I followed her blog and really enjoyed seeing the photos of the ladies she was with.
Thank you BP - yes I just feel in my heart I have to finish what I started and get rid of all those horrible things in my head about this camino - you know what I mean. I will certainly keep you posted about my journey and hope the rains stay away this year - they were certainly hectic in September and was horrified to see the lovely little towns that I has passed through become raging torrents. Thank you for your interest - buen caminoXXHi Marilyn,
I am so glad to hear you are walking the Lana again. April must be perfect! May I suggest that you start from Alpera, so you don't miss out on Alcalá del Júcar (super-pretty town). Other places like Alatoz and Monteagudo de las Salinas are really tiny, but the standard of the albergues/casas rurales alone make them worth a visit, ha ha!
Will you keep us informed here, or can we follow you on a blog??
/BP
Hi Bruce,Hola Marilyn,
We are three Kiwis starting from Alicante on 22 April (actually Elda as we will train out to there first day) heading to Burgos. We have pre-booked most of our accommodation - AirBnb, Casa Rurals etc as well as using Albergues. Plus we tend to walk 3-5 days then take a day off to have a good look round some of the bigger towns. So we are due at Alpera on 26 April if you happen to be around at that time?
Feel free to touch base... fone 6421730705 and on Whats App
Adios
Bruce
Will you be traveling backwards in a "time machine"?Hi, glad to hear so many are starting before and after me on La Lana. Maybe I will meet someone starting the same time as I, Wednesday April 29 from Alicante. Hope to make it to Bugos April 26 or 27. Starting to get excited to get going on my 9th camino. Marianne
I figured.My head is on slow mode, May 26 or 27 is my plan for Burgos.....
I would love to walk with you, but I do want to start in Alicante. Presently I am looking at a departure date of mid-April so I would be behind your schedule. I can understand the need to finish what you have started...'been there, done that' as 'they' say.I walked the LaLana September 2019 from Alicante and had to stop for a few days in Alpera because of a painful foot. Then the rains came and was advised not to walk for a couple more days so decided to train to Cuenca where it was drier. Walked from there and just before Siguenza the foot problem raised its nasty head again - after much deliberation and soul searching I decided I had to abandon my camino -it was a very hard decision but I think at the end of the day the wise thing to do. It is now a couple of months later - foot is healing well after surgery and I am itching to get myself back on the road again. Without a doubt I have to go back and finish what I was not able to do so would like to know if there is anyone out there who will be walking the Lana in April. Still need to make the decision as to where I will start again - perhaps Alpera or Siguenza. It is a very solitary walk so that is why I am wondering who else will be out there. Buen camino XX
Hi Ella - thank you for your reply and yet again our dates do not co-incide. I want to leave before Easter to be well on the road before the crowds hit the towns. I was in Portugal on route over the Easter weekend and it was lovely so would be happy to enjoy that again in Spain during the Holy Week-end. I am busy trying to work out my dates and how many days left to walk - at this stage cannot decide if I should repeat my days from Cuenca. I did meet up with the most wonderful 83year old Frenchman on my first day and we walked together all the way till I stopped - I then planned to meet him in Burgos as he walked in and it was a joyous time for us. I was truly blessed to have had such a special companion to walk with - maybe I will get that lucky again. I wish you a really lovely camino and lots of happy planning. Much love and buen caminoXXXI would love to walk with you, but I do want to start in Alicante. Presently I am looking at a departure date of mid-April so I would be behind your schedule. I can understand the need to finish what you have started...'been there, done that' as 'they' say.
Easter is indeed the watershed. I started walking the Mozárabe on Easter Saturday (2018)...and if it had not been for the efforts of the fantastic Cofradía, I would have been sleeping on the streets! However, I didn't get home from last year's saunter along the Camino Francés until October, so a March start would be unseemlyHi Ella - thank you for your reply and yet again our dates do not co-incide. I want to leave before Easter to be well on the road before the crowds hit the towns. I was in Portugal on route over the Easter weekend and it was lovely so would be happy to enjoy that again in Spain during the Holy Week-end. I am busy trying to work out my dates and how many days left to walk - at this stage cannot decide if I should repeat my days from Cuenca. I did meet up with the most wonderful 83year old Frenchman on my first day and we walked together all the way till I stopped - I then planned to meet him in Burgos as he walked in and it was a joyous time for us. I was truly blessed to have had such a special companion to walk with - maybe I will get that lucky again. I wish you a really lovely camino and lots of happy planning. Much love and buen caminoXXX
Rock on, Marilyn. Hopefully, foot / knee / back / hip willing, see you on 28th April in Bilbao and am setting off on the 29th. Glad to see you are going back to finish off the Lana. You'll have fun - may the weather Gods be with you! The target is to complete the Olvidado by the 21st May and catch the flight I booked today back to the UK on the 22nd from Madrid, so not sure how many mountain passes I can do. Two months to go. Woo hooooo .....
Hi Ella - just going over my plans to walk and wondered if you had decided on a date to start yet - I may start around the 16th April now - just waiting to hear from my amigo. Hope you are well and I send warm hugs and happy planning XXXXI would love to walk with you, but I do want to start in Alicante. Presently I am looking at a departure date of mid-April so I would be behind your schedule. I can understand the need to finish what you have started...'been there, done that' as 'they' say.
Ok, I have ordered a repeat of last year's weather, @Undermanager. Not that I am hoping for rain for Marilyn of course. If all goes well, I will start the Lana on May 14, later than I would have liked, but the best I can do. And I see that you started on May 8, so I won't be that far behind your dates.I hope you remember the lovely weather I enjoyed on the Lana last May☀ and the not so lovely weather others endured last April ⛈.
Decisions!! Given all the upheavals re Covid-19, I had kinda sorta deferred the Lana to next Spring and I would walk Caminos Olvidado/Invierno starting in late August and Alicante to Burgos next year. My concerns are not health-related, it is just the uncertainty around travel arrangements etc while the powers that be get to grips with the situation. However......you have sown the seed again that I thought I had killed off! Around April 16 was my start date...ACK! However, sober consideration would be that I stick with my revised schedule...for a start there is still too much snow on the ground to get any serious walking in and I would rather do my 'I should have got myself in shape before I started' crawl in private without the attending audienceHi Ella - just going over my plans to walk and wondered if you had decided on a date to start yet - I may start around the 16th April now - just waiting to hear from my amigo. Hope you are well and I send warm hugs and happy planning XXXX
I walked the LaLana September 2019 from Alicante and had to stop for a few days in Alpera because of a painful foot. Then the rains came and was advised not to walk for a couple more days so decided to train to Cuenca where it was drier. Walked from there and just before Siguenza the foot problem raised its nasty head again - after much deliberation and soul searching I decided I had to abandon my camino -it was a very hard decision but I think at the end of the day the wise thing to do. It is now a couple of months later - foot is healing well after surgery and I am itching to get myself back on the road again. Without a doubt I have to go back and finish what I was not able to do so would like to know if there is anyone out there who will be walking the Lana in April. Still need to make the decision as to where I will start again - perhaps Alpera or Siguenza. It is a very solitary walk so that is why I am wondering who else will be out there. Buen camino XX
Disappointing indeed, but the Way will be waiting for us! Another Camino site is indicating increasing closures of albergues etc and recommending that pilgrims hold off for at least two months. I still intend to wander around in the North later this year and Lana next SpringPostponing my Camino la Lana walk of April 29. Have been thinking of it for some time - todays advocera from the moderators made the decision easier At the moment very disapppointed and sad - bit it is for the best! I will be back!!!
Postponing my Camino la Lana walk of April 29. Have been thinking of it for some time - todays advocera from the moderators made the decision easier At the moment very disapppointed and sad - bit it is for the best! I will be back!!!
The reply to the question at the top of the thread should be... almost no one! :O(
If the Lana was solitary before...…. It must be empty by now.
My Camino plans are thwarted as well. :O(
I hope you will be able to walk the Lana as soon as possible….! It is such a wonderful route.
/BP
Hi, BP, so turning our thoughts to better days to come, I am now debating whether to try to walk the Lana this fall or postpone till spring 2021. I have not walked southern caminos in the fall, but I assume they will be kind of bleak and brown. In fact that was definitely my impression of Sara’s videos last fall. I know you have walked it several times, were you ever there in fall?
Ha, it’s hard to believe that as recently as three months ago I was naïvely thinking I could walk in the fall. Nothing for me till next year at the earliest, how about you?Wow, I totally missed this post. No, I only walked the Lana in Summer. It's basically 50 shades of brown, at least around Alicante. But i like it. Have you decided if you will go this Fall or wait to next year?
Ha, it’s hard to believe that as recently as three months ago I was naïvely thinking I could walk in the fall. Nothing for me till next year at the earliest, how about you?
Just curious what country you are from that allows you to leave?I have crazy thoughts about going in July already. My country allows me to leave; Spanish authorities say I can come... So why not. But I don't know. Right now I'm kind of preparing and not preparing at the same time; I'm really torn. I have read others are already up and running, like
so I'm like "Why wouldn't I try"!
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