Qwertyberty
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Le Puy - Santiago 2016
St Olav's - 2017??
Well, I'm sure this has been addressed many times before, but.....
Why do we do it?? Why do we keep on coming back to the camino, despite (in my case, vowing "never again") ?
Next September (planning already) will be my 11th walk on various camino paths - this must be some kind of treatable addiction, surely? (I confess my initial introductory post on here may have been somewhat misleading)
Should I see my GP, or more like, my counsellor?
Well, for me, for all that I am not "religious", I do feel a strong spiritual connection with The Way; the millions of previous pilgrims walking those paths over the last thousand years must surely have left some kind of aura.. or prescense. Hard to explain. Whilst trekking up a dire hill in the pouring rain, I try to imagine some poor medieval pilgrim in his cloak and sandals with just a hard straw palliasse to lie on at the day's end, and no chance of a menu del dia con vino.
Undoubtably, the Camino de Santiago does carry a much wider swatch than, for example, The Pennine Way. OK, the AT/PCT in the US would come close, I guess, but my experience is that everyone you talk to has heard of the camino, more so of course since the film.
I have walked the Frances 3 times now, and still need to do it again.
Is this sad?
Why do we do it?? Why do we keep on coming back to the camino, despite (in my case, vowing "never again") ?
Next September (planning already) will be my 11th walk on various camino paths - this must be some kind of treatable addiction, surely? (I confess my initial introductory post on here may have been somewhat misleading)
Should I see my GP, or more like, my counsellor?
Well, for me, for all that I am not "religious", I do feel a strong spiritual connection with The Way; the millions of previous pilgrims walking those paths over the last thousand years must surely have left some kind of aura.. or prescense. Hard to explain. Whilst trekking up a dire hill in the pouring rain, I try to imagine some poor medieval pilgrim in his cloak and sandals with just a hard straw palliasse to lie on at the day's end, and no chance of a menu del dia con vino.
Undoubtably, the Camino de Santiago does carry a much wider swatch than, for example, The Pennine Way. OK, the AT/PCT in the US would come close, I guess, but my experience is that everyone you talk to has heard of the camino, more so of course since the film.
I have walked the Frances 3 times now, and still need to do it again.
Is this sad?
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