An Emotional Rollercoaster
My first Camino was an emotional rollercoaster for many reasons.
It was a journey based on searching.
For meaning, for purpose, for me...
Two or three times I felt like quitting.
It all came to a head at the Cruz de...
My young escorts on VDLP, making sure I didn't miss my left turn....
When I entered their space, dozens and dozens of young pata negra were (I suppose) conditioned to ignore me. But then I stopped and turned around to take in the bucolic scene...
Villar d'Arène-la Grave, France
photo taken January 11, 2018
Facing La Meije
Six years ago my husband and I walked into a mountain paradise in the southern Alps west of Grenoble/east of Briançon off route D1091.
We mainly walked for 2 weeks...
El BurgonRanero. Just had breakfast and when stepping out for my day’s walk, and I was greeted with the most gorgeous, fiery sunrise I’ve ever seen. I had already seen many beautiful sunrises by this point, but this one takes the cake. It’s now...
Jeanne, Julian, and Sepia on 30th September. Our paths crossed for the first time shortly after Estella. They had a dog, so obviously, they became like a magnet. Our paths crossed serendipitously over the next week to 10 days until we became...
If you plan a pilgrimage on the Camino Francés during the winter you need to keep an eye on this website http://www.aprinca.com/alberguesinvierno/ to get up to date info about closed/open albergues.
BC SY
A very different time. I was grilled at both ends of the Camino. In SJPDP I was refused a credencial partly because I arrived without a letter of introduction from a Catholic priest and was not a member of a recognised confraternity. The priests...
I think it’s excellent that people with a shared interest in all things ‘Camino’ can recognise each other.
I do wonder, however, what the good Lord makes of the layers of complexity which ‘we’ have created to mystify and categorise degrees of...
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