Frankybaby66
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Last Camino June 24 Camino Ingles/Finisterre
Hi fellow wanderers,
I would like a bit of input on this one please.
I have finally decided to revisit the Camino Frances next year. I walked SJPDP to Santiago solo in 2016 and walked from Roncesvalles to Villafranca Montes de Oca (just short of Burgos) the following year with my wife. I've done several Caminos since then - Porto to Santiago twice, Camino Ingles and Santiago to Finisterre, but still have a feeling of 'unfinished business'
My idea is to pick up my 2017 Camino where I left off, and then make a decision at Ponferrada whether to continue on the Camino Frances or switch to the Camino Invierno.
I'm trying to strike that (impossible?) balance between not wanting to be too isolated ( heart history) and not be in a position where I feel overwhelmed with pilgrim numbers.
I'll be setting out on my own and plan on starting sometime between mid-June and early September, and short of tossing a coin, can't make my mind up when to start walking. (the joys of early retirement!)
I'm conscious that it's 8 years since I was on that particular Camino route, and have heard conflicting accounts of numbers of pilgrims there now. (Everything between 'it's absolutely packed - don't do it!' to 'numbers of crowds are overstated'.
I've just been watching the latest vlog from 'The Fast Hiker' who walked this summer and it didn't look to bad to me.
Any insight on when you would set off (given my time frame and starting point) and why, would be really useful .
Thanks in advance,
Frank
Buen Camino
I would like a bit of input on this one please.
I have finally decided to revisit the Camino Frances next year. I walked SJPDP to Santiago solo in 2016 and walked from Roncesvalles to Villafranca Montes de Oca (just short of Burgos) the following year with my wife. I've done several Caminos since then - Porto to Santiago twice, Camino Ingles and Santiago to Finisterre, but still have a feeling of 'unfinished business'
My idea is to pick up my 2017 Camino where I left off, and then make a decision at Ponferrada whether to continue on the Camino Frances or switch to the Camino Invierno.
I'm trying to strike that (impossible?) balance between not wanting to be too isolated ( heart history) and not be in a position where I feel overwhelmed with pilgrim numbers.
I'll be setting out on my own and plan on starting sometime between mid-June and early September, and short of tossing a coin, can't make my mind up when to start walking. (the joys of early retirement!)
I'm conscious that it's 8 years since I was on that particular Camino route, and have heard conflicting accounts of numbers of pilgrims there now. (Everything between 'it's absolutely packed - don't do it!' to 'numbers of crowds are overstated'.
I've just been watching the latest vlog from 'The Fast Hiker' who walked this summer and it didn't look to bad to me.
Any insight on when you would set off (given my time frame and starting point) and why, would be really useful .
Thanks in advance,
Frank
Buen Camino