Read “Life After the Camino – The Discussions” here. Read “Life After the Camino – The Yearning to Return” here. Does it ever end? Will I ever be able to speak of certain Camino experiences without getting teary-eyed? Do you? For those who have done the Camino, once, twice or maybe even 28 times (I met a couple …
Read part two here. Read part three here. The three of us are in no hurry to leave the warmth of the earthy albergue after a full night of bonding, but we do because this is what we came to do – walk. “I want to walk alone to have my morning cry,” Steven asserts. …
Celebrating milestones with girlfriends is nothing new, but the preoccupation with footwear before this journey was surprising. My good friend was planning a different way to celebrate her 50th birthday, to walk a section of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. After an innocent email suggesting that a spring walk in Spain might be fun, …
Walking the Camino, a documentary film about the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a medieval pilgrimage route that crosses the north of Spain from the French border to within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, begins with a close-up shot of bare feet pounding the soil and then moves to a pilgrim sterilizing a needle …
Read “Life after the Camino – The Tears” here. Read “Life After the Camino – The Yearning to Return” here. Before I left for my first Camino I let everyone know about my plans. I talked about it to many, wrote about it in my blog. During the journey itself I lived so many amazing experiences, some …
Time flies when you’re having fun. I walked to Santiago via the Camino Francés in 2011. Time to look at what I’ve learned from it. Always when you study or learn something, after a while you can see which things are still in your mind and which are not, which are now a habit and …
Many of the pilgrims in the film, as with most of us I think, are walking the Camino searching for something, even if it’s just a simple adventure. They share with us what they’re longing for, what they’re seeking . . . but I wonder, if the Camino could speak to us, what would it …
Read part one here. Read part two here. After my hour at the Cruz de Ferro during which I paid homage to my parents, my second dad Louis and my mother-in-law Marjorie, I set out for the rest of my day’s walk. The Cruz de Ferro is a sacred place where many pilgrims seek to …
Read part one here. Read part three here. In September of 2009, we lost a dear person in our lives; my husband’s mother, my mother-in-law and grandmother to my children. Marjorie was a kind, loving person who loved us very much and whose presence was always a joy to us all. One of the things …
One day while walking in France on the Chemin de Saint Jacques, we stopped to rest in the shade of a tree. A passerby noticed our packs on the ground and said, “Ah, vous portez votre maison à votre dos” — “Oh, you carry your house on your back.” That is pretty much what many …
