Just completed the Ingles

[Maybeth]

Greetings from Santiago
I just completed the Camino Ingles and want to report that I only met 1 other pilgrim in 5 days of walking and then only for 1 hour! At this time the Camino France is extremely busy so if you are looking for solitude and don´t mind your own company for 5 days, the Ingles is the way to go.

I found it difficult due to so much gain and loss of elevation especially in the heat. It felt like an enforced fast combined with boot camp due to lack of cafes, and markets. I am certainly leaner after my walk. My footwear was too light for the terrain with a pack, so my feet were not happy either.

I am eternally grateful for the guidebook which was extremely helpful and detailed. I will send a couple of updates when I am back home early in Nov. after doing more walking and being a hospitalera voluntaria. I am off to walk to Finnisterre and Muxia starting tomorrow and am looking forward to a swim in the sea.

Thank you to everyone who contributed comments earlier that helped with my planning. However, the Camino Ingles is definitely not a walk in the park and I should have taken it more seriously. I thought, ¨Five day walk, piece of cake¨.....Definitely not. Oh well, now I have another compostela for my efforts.

 

[Tia Valeria]

Congratulations. We too enjoyed the Inglés. Someone said 'When Johnnie says there is a view there is a hill. A wonderful view, a steep hill.' :lol: Some truth in it I think. We have some wonderful memories of the views and of the friendliness of the local people.

 

[daesdaemar]

Congratulations! I have done the Ingles twice and it is the solitude which is so wonderful about that particular route.

 

[cmsmith]

Congratulations! Yes, those hills are higher than expected. As we were landing in A Coruna, my son commented on how high they were. Of course, anything looks high to those of us from the flat Midwestern US. If others from the US are planning their camino and want a sense of comparison, think Pittsburgh hills.

CMSmith