There’s not many walks which provide you with a certificate at the end of it written in Latin!
Jill and Peter obviously took a lot from this walk and were honest enough to admit how much of a difference it was to walk for more than a 2 week break.
As Peter rightly says, walking and all the small activities relating to it, does become the only thing on your mind. Keeping dry, keeping warm, keeping well fed and keeping to the timetable can infect the mind with a completely different level of importance to normal ‘domestic’ life.
Travel and the people you meet on your ‘journey’ influence us all and it can make the difference between pleasure or pain. To undertake such a trip as this must be a joy and truly fascinating as the people you meet, must all have very different reasons for doing it.
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Great 2 part series! We’re planning on doing the Camino in May 2014. I’m wondering about the guidebook that Jill referred to in this series – It’s not one we’re familiar with and would like to look for it. Is anyone aware of the name and/or author?
I think you’ll find this was the book they referred to; http://www.cicerone.co.uk/product/detail.cfm/book/372/title/the-way-of-st-james-spain
I’m walking The Way in Sept this year. Can you tell me what female walkers do about nightwear when staying in communal Albergue?
If you listen to the podcasts you’ll here what the conditions are like. You’ll hear that the sleeping sections are mixed and sometimes the beds are almost touching so common sense suggests you choose something practical.