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If life was like the Camino

  • 03-07-2016 8:55pm
    #1
    alma73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭


    Did the camino last month. Started walking alone and met up with 7 other walkers who started alone and we formed a group and finished 400km together. A topic that came up a lot was, why life could not be like the the camino? We were from all walks of like, we had an amazing experience. I would say life changing. Why is something so simply as walking a couple of KM's with people you just met so life changing?

    Maybe if any of you have done the camino you can share your experiences.


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  • #2
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,917 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Was it your first time doing it, alma?

    An uncle of mine does some of it every year :)

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #3
    hinault
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    alma73 wrote: »
    Did the camino last month. Started walking alone and met up with 7 other walkers who started alone and we formed a group and finished 400km together. A topic that came up a lot was, why life could not be like the the camino? We were from all walks of like, we had an amazing experience. I would say life changing. Why is something so simply as walking a couple of KM's with people you just met so life changing?

    Maybe if any of you have done the camino you can share your experiences.

    The Camino is something which I would like to do properly.

    I've cycled the Camino and while that was a very enjoyable experience, it passed by much too quickly doing it by bike.

    How was the Camino life changing for you?


  • #4
    alma73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭alma73


    I've done different routes, 4 walks, over 1000Km. The scenery, towns and People are incredible.

    I support the life changing aspect is that I keep going back and the friends I have made over the years.

    Cycling you don't see much as you can't really share the same experiences as when you walk it.


  • #5
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    alma73 wrote: »
    A topic that came up a lot was, why life could not be like the the camino?

    Maybe the more time you spend on it, the more it will start becoming true. Before having kids, myself and my other half spent as much time as we could manage walking around rural Europe and North Africa. With the kids getting a bit older now, it is something I look forward to doing again as a family and even more so in retirement. I've yet to walk the camino, but look forward to it. There's a lot to be said for the simplicity of it in an increasingly complex world.


  • #6
    Wesser
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    I did a stretch of the Camino recently, not all of it. I had a lovely time!!!
    I went with a group of very very athletic people. I am fit and healthy but not at their level. They tried to push the distance everyday.
    In short we did over 30 km a day, it was too much, we all got injured and had to stop.

    What I learnt was that you have to live life on your own path at your own pace, not someone else's path or pace. If you try to follow someone else's pace you'll just get injured.

    I stuggle sometimes with my hand in life!

    But I learnt that my path in life, which is different to the crowd, has to be followed by me.


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  • #7
    alma73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭alma73


    We only did 2 of the 11 days walking over 30km. I had no injuries, we just took our time and enjoyed the route.


  • #8
    hinault
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    alma73 wrote: »
    We only did 2 of the 11 days walking over 30km. I had no injuries, we just took our time and enjoyed the route.

    It seems from your answers that walking the route, as opposed to cycling the route is far more beneficial.

    I cycled the entire route in 2 days (I do long distance cycling and when I was a youngster I raced). I met a couple of English lads young lads cycling the route too. I was kind of surprised that two young English public school educated lads were doing the camino. They told me that they were doing so in thanksgiving for completing their A levels and getting a place at Oxbridge.

    Another person I met doing it was from America. They were doing the Camino as a penance.


  • #9
    alma73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭alma73


    On the last camino there were lots of it that you can only do on foot.

    One thing that can up in conversation was how while were all started the camino alone we all came together, we had a great time eating, lots of vino and beer. 2 guys had survived cancer so it makes you think about life.


  • #10
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I haven't done the Camino, and I have absolutely no intention of ever doing it. However, having read the above comments what I get from it is that it's up to you now. What you found on Camino, take it back with you and pass it on in whatever way you can. If its that wonderful, don't leave it there, pass it on.


  • #11
    alma73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭alma73


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I haven't done the Camino, and I have absolutely no intention of ever doing it. However, having read the above comments what I get from it is that it's up to you now. What you found on Camino, take it back with you and pass it on in whatever way you can. If its that wonderful, don't leave it there, pass it on.

    You really need to experience it first had. In one of the hostels there was a guests book and there were hundreds of testimonials similar to what I experenced. Its a little sad that many peope live despressed lives when some so simple as the camino is there. You can live on 25 euros a day and feel liberated and fully content.


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  • #12
    tommy2bad
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    Haven't done the Camino myself, on the bucket list as they say. Did love the movie by Martin Sheen about it though.

    https://youtu.be/o5VZKWcgw6c


  • #13
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    That film looks great! Hope to see it sometime.


  • #14
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,917 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Great movie :)

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #15
    brian_t
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    tommy2bad wrote: »
    Haven't done the Camino myself, on the bucket list as they say. Did love the movie by Martin Sheen about it though.
    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    That film looks great! Hope to see it sometime.
    Delirium wrote: »
    Great movie :)

    The Way is on tonight on UTV Ireland at the rather late time of 11.30pm
    Onesimus wrote: »
    Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his ''California bubble life'' behind.

    Armed with his son's backpack and guidebook, Tom navigates the 800 km pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees, to Santiago de Compostela in the north west of Spain, but soon discovers that he will not be alone on this journey.

    While walking The Camino, Tom meets other pilgrims from around the world, all broken and looking for greater meaning in their lives: a Dutchman (Yorick van Wageningen) a Canadian (Deborah Kara Unger) and an Irish writer (James Nesbitt) who is suffering from a bout of ''writer's block.''

    From the hardship experienced along ''The Way'' this unlikely quartet of misfits create an everlasting bond and Tom begins to learn what it means to be a citizen of the world again, and discovers the difference between ''The life we live and the life we choose''. THE WAY was filmed entirely in Spain and France along the actual Camino de Santiago.


  • #16
    Mancomb Seepgood
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    The TV listings in yesterday's Irish Times has it listed as a comedy, bizarrely enough. Regardless, well worth seeing.


  • #17
    Skommando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Skommando


    nah, deliberate enough, you know the way things are these days. Still, try as they might . . . they can't suppress the spirit.


  • #18
    lmaopml
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    The Camino is quite an old pilgrimage-many different people from many different walks of like have met on that path over the course of time, running, walking, cycling or just taking it in stages.

    They meet up and become part of a journey. It's commonly known as 'The way of St. James' and 25th July St. James Day in Santiago is a good final destination if you're lucky enough to finish on that day. There is a something special about it.

    Highly recommend the 'Camino' to anybody no matter who you are, religious or not, it's a lovely route with some very special people along the route.


    http://caminoways.com/camino-de-santiago-facts-you-need-to-know


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