Lhollo
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Pt3: > Sivil > SdC > Finisterre > Muxia, 06/24
As I type, I’m back on the Camino. But I feel I owe this lovely forum an apology, or at least an explanation, for my sudden abandonment of the Camino since August 2023, when I was considering returning.
Put simply, life got in the way, both the best and worst of it. I’m now married, and am a carer. We had a honeymoon, which meant rescheduling the Camino to this year. My mum, who we lived with, died suddenly. The world has been topsy-turvy.
But I’ve found my Camino feet again. I’m hoping those feet will see me to all the way to our end point of Muxia. It’s a hope because I’ve done no training this time, and am not at my strongest. I’m also half-prepared to drop my backpack and return home quickly, because of the situation there with my dad, who’s been unwell for a few days.
I’m writing this post from Casa Cruceiro de Ferreiros. We walked here today from just east of Sarria, where we’d spent a magical night in Sivil, at A Fonte das Bodas. Isabel, the owner, left an indelible impression on me when we stopped there for lunch in 2022, just before ending our Camino in Sarria. I’ve been determined to return and stay with her. We had the place to ourselves last night, and several long conversations with her. I couldn’t have hoped for a better start to this bid to finally reach SdeC and then the coast.
We’re doing off-stages from here to SdeC. Tomorrow night we’ll be at Ventas de Narón, then on to Coto, A Calle, Lavallos, and at last to SdeC. After that, our stages to Finisterre and then Muxia will be more typical ones. We’ll have two rest days in Finisterre because one will be our anniversary.
Today has been overcast and humid but also somehow fresh. A pleasant temperature and breeze. I’ve been surprised by how undulating the area is. The landscape is lovely but one turn and hill has seemed to blend into the next. I was prepared for Sarria onwards to be very busy with people but we’ve encountered very few and had many stretches of the way entirely to ourselves and the sparrows. I hadn’t expected our plan with the off-sections to enable this at such a peak season.
I’m filming it all, fingers firmly crossed that my new microphone set-up doesn’t let me down. I hope that this record of the places will bring out their differences, and jog my memory in the future. All being well, I’ll edit it all and put it on my YouTube channel when I’m home, so there’ll finally be a ‘complete’ Camino Frances there as well as Finisterre and Muxia.
I’m *still* writing the book. I don’t know where it will end nor how all of these diversions to ‘the way’ will ultimately play out in text. There’s likely to be more than one book!
I’ll try to post here, but I’m also going write much more in my notebook. There’s a lot I hope to make sense of while I walk and rest.
If our plans go smoothly, we’ll reach SdeC on Thursday 13th June, leaving for Finisterre on Saturday 15th June. It feels surreal!
Put simply, life got in the way, both the best and worst of it. I’m now married, and am a carer. We had a honeymoon, which meant rescheduling the Camino to this year. My mum, who we lived with, died suddenly. The world has been topsy-turvy.
But I’ve found my Camino feet again. I’m hoping those feet will see me to all the way to our end point of Muxia. It’s a hope because I’ve done no training this time, and am not at my strongest. I’m also half-prepared to drop my backpack and return home quickly, because of the situation there with my dad, who’s been unwell for a few days.
I’m writing this post from Casa Cruceiro de Ferreiros. We walked here today from just east of Sarria, where we’d spent a magical night in Sivil, at A Fonte das Bodas. Isabel, the owner, left an indelible impression on me when we stopped there for lunch in 2022, just before ending our Camino in Sarria. I’ve been determined to return and stay with her. We had the place to ourselves last night, and several long conversations with her. I couldn’t have hoped for a better start to this bid to finally reach SdeC and then the coast.
We’re doing off-stages from here to SdeC. Tomorrow night we’ll be at Ventas de Narón, then on to Coto, A Calle, Lavallos, and at last to SdeC. After that, our stages to Finisterre and then Muxia will be more typical ones. We’ll have two rest days in Finisterre because one will be our anniversary.
Today has been overcast and humid but also somehow fresh. A pleasant temperature and breeze. I’ve been surprised by how undulating the area is. The landscape is lovely but one turn and hill has seemed to blend into the next. I was prepared for Sarria onwards to be very busy with people but we’ve encountered very few and had many stretches of the way entirely to ourselves and the sparrows. I hadn’t expected our plan with the off-sections to enable this at such a peak season.
I’m filming it all, fingers firmly crossed that my new microphone set-up doesn’t let me down. I hope that this record of the places will bring out their differences, and jog my memory in the future. All being well, I’ll edit it all and put it on my YouTube channel when I’m home, so there’ll finally be a ‘complete’ Camino Frances there as well as Finisterre and Muxia.
I’m *still* writing the book. I don’t know where it will end nor how all of these diversions to ‘the way’ will ultimately play out in text. There’s likely to be more than one book!
I’ll try to post here, but I’m also going write much more in my notebook. There’s a lot I hope to make sense of while I walk and rest.
If our plans go smoothly, we’ll reach SdeC on Thursday 13th June, leaving for Finisterre on Saturday 15th June. It feels surreal!
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