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I live in Muxia and walk all around. Sounds like you don’t want to do anything too strenuous so 2 nights in Finisterre, walk the Camino to Lires, an easy 12k, stay the night, and walk another easy 12k to Muxia. Optionally you could walk parts of...
Today 13k in the muddiest of the most possible mud. I fell , though luckily without any harm, only a bruised ego.
It was falling in a big puddle or falling in a streaming brook. Still not sure what was the worst option 😊.
I chose the puddle...
A wonderful reflective question.
Mostly I've experienced an incremental increase in confidence - so the Caminos I'm drawn to now are ones I would never have considered before, not in a million years.
I began, like most, with the Francés, in...
Laurie,
Thanks for your thoughts. I always enjoy meeting you whenever we cross paths. I started my Camino experience 10 year later than you did but after 3 or 4 years of the grind, I too began doing the solitary trails, off season, and began...
My first Camino was the Frances at a time when it was (a) the only recognised route and (b) a very solitary experience. I have walked the Frances more recently in peak season and decided that "community, the sharing, the intense short-lived...
Each Camino has been different for me.
My first Camino was very much about connecting with medieval culture and identifying with the medieval pilgrims who had walked (or rode) the route before me.
My second was very much about spending quality...
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