Great post, Rebecca, I love how you make it accessible for all. I have just started wild camping in my fifties in order to be able to go on affordable pilgrimages in England. But you never know, one day maybe the great Camino! I wrote a post about my preparations if anyone is interested and I hope you don't mind me sharing it here, in case any one else wants to do the pilgrimage carrying it on their back. Thanks again for sharing, Rebecca and have a great day :) Mark
I just finished my third Camino, walking from Porto, Portugal into Santiago. Camino walks are not like anything else you have ever done and Rebecca is right, anyone can do it. I am 70 and not super fit but I love to walk and there is something very special about getting up each morning to walk, eat and sleep.. and then do it again the next day. Your body adjusts and eventually you may start to feel like a lean mean walking machine… a mindful walking machine mind you! We have met so many interesting people, generally stay in a private room and hire luggage transfer to move our bags- that is our Camino and with these supports, we just walked 270 km, our shortest so far! Do it!
It is my heartfelt wish that anyone who desires to walk the Camino de Santiago knows just how open it is to so many. I appreciate you adding your voice to this conversation. Buen Camino, wherever you are.
Thank you for this! I’m deciding which Camino I want to do and I’m very excited. My maternal grandfather’s side is from Galicia (Vigo) & I’m sure none of them did this 😂 but hopefully the ancestors will be with me.
I walked 160 miles from St Jean Pied de Port to Burgos a few years ago alone. I am now 70 and longing to walk again… maybe the Portugal or the one through France. I was healing from the fracture and implosion of a 30 plus year friendship and was a husk of a person from the pain of it ( and the insensitivity of someone I once called “ my North Star”).It did not heal me all the way, but definitely set me on the path of believing in my own worth again.
I am better for walking it, and want to walk again now that I am feeling healed and even grateful for leaving that friend behind.
Thank you for your reflections, Cindy. It is a good reminder that a walk across Spain is not necessarily going to make everything better, but certainly gives us the time and space to start that process of healing.
There are many that go to the place they last left on the Camino and continue on. Whatever you decide, I wish you a Buen Camino.
The examples of different lifestyles you provide are so good. I can definitely see myself wanting to go through this experience!
Thanks, Josh!
This is great! How inspiring!
Great post, Rebecca, I love how you make it accessible for all. I have just started wild camping in my fifties in order to be able to go on affordable pilgrimages in England. But you never know, one day maybe the great Camino! I wrote a post about my preparations if anyone is interested and I hope you don't mind me sharing it here, in case any one else wants to do the pilgrimage carrying it on their back. Thanks again for sharing, Rebecca and have a great day :) Mark
https://www.whichwayhow.com/p/wild-camping?r=3kch7a
Love this, Mark. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to seeing you in the Camino someday:)
I just finished my third Camino, walking from Porto, Portugal into Santiago. Camino walks are not like anything else you have ever done and Rebecca is right, anyone can do it. I am 70 and not super fit but I love to walk and there is something very special about getting up each morning to walk, eat and sleep.. and then do it again the next day. Your body adjusts and eventually you may start to feel like a lean mean walking machine… a mindful walking machine mind you! We have met so many interesting people, generally stay in a private room and hire luggage transfer to move our bags- that is our Camino and with these supports, we just walked 270 km, our shortest so far! Do it!
It is my heartfelt wish that anyone who desires to walk the Camino de Santiago knows just how open it is to so many. I appreciate you adding your voice to this conversation. Buen Camino, wherever you are.
Thank you for this! I’m deciding which Camino I want to do and I’m very excited. My maternal grandfather’s side is from Galicia (Vigo) & I’m sure none of them did this 😂 but hopefully the ancestors will be with me.
Glad you found it helpful! Buen Camino!
I walked 160 miles from St Jean Pied de Port to Burgos a few years ago alone. I am now 70 and longing to walk again… maybe the Portugal or the one through France. I was healing from the fracture and implosion of a 30 plus year friendship and was a husk of a person from the pain of it ( and the insensitivity of someone I once called “ my North Star”).It did not heal me all the way, but definitely set me on the path of believing in my own worth again.
I am better for walking it, and want to walk again now that I am feeling healed and even grateful for leaving that friend behind.
Buen Camino!
Thank you for your reflections, Cindy. It is a good reminder that a walk across Spain is not necessarily going to make everything better, but certainly gives us the time and space to start that process of healing.
There are many that go to the place they last left on the Camino and continue on. Whatever you decide, I wish you a Buen Camino.