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Hey all, I just thought I'd post this new discussion for anyone on here who has done at least part of the camino so we can chat and share experiences. Has anyone else on these forums done the Camino?
Let me tell you a bit about my experience:
I was walking the camino across Spain in the summer of 2013. I flew from Toronto to Paris early in June, then took the TGV tren south to Bayonne, and then a bus from there to my starting point at Saint Jean Pied de Port in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, close to the Spanish border.
On my first day of walking, crossing the Pyrenees into Spain, I met all these students part of a Philosophy class that were doing the camino together as a class which was really cool! We ended up becoming great friends and I walked with them the entire way! I miss them. Along the way, this group included a beautiful young couple from Argentina and some Dutch friends we met and we all traveled together and became like family for those weeks we were together.
Well all together, it was 6 weeks of walking across northern Spain en route to Santiago de Compostela, and then from Santiago our group walked another 3 days to Muxia and Fisterra on the coast, where we partied for a week before going back to Santiago to party for a few more days!
The day that we arrived back to Santiago from the coast was the same day that high speed train crash in Santiago happened in late July 2013, if anyone remembers that. Sadly, the parents of the one of the guys in our group were gonna meet him in Santiago and were on that train... and their son's name is Santiago. It was deeply tragic...
And when it was all over, we all took a bus to Madrid airport where we parted ways. I ended up flying from Madrid to Florence with this Dutch guy I met and had become good friends with on the camino. From there we hitchhiked and train-hopped (and got kicked off a train for not paying!
) down to Rome and then to Ancona where we were gonna take a ferry to check out Greece, but the ferries were closed so we got on the ferry to Split, Croatia instead!
Gawd, I miss those lovely people! I really need to go on another adventure like that again soon!
Let's hear other people's experiences too!
Let me tell you a bit about my experience:
I was walking the camino across Spain in the summer of 2013. I flew from Toronto to Paris early in June, then took the TGV tren south to Bayonne, and then a bus from there to my starting point at Saint Jean Pied de Port in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, close to the Spanish border.
On my first day of walking, crossing the Pyrenees into Spain, I met all these students part of a Philosophy class that were doing the camino together as a class which was really cool! We ended up becoming great friends and I walked with them the entire way! I miss them. Along the way, this group included a beautiful young couple from Argentina and some Dutch friends we met and we all traveled together and became like family for those weeks we were together.
Well all together, it was 6 weeks of walking across northern Spain en route to Santiago de Compostela, and then from Santiago our group walked another 3 days to Muxia and Fisterra on the coast, where we partied for a week before going back to Santiago to party for a few more days!
The day that we arrived back to Santiago from the coast was the same day that high speed train crash in Santiago happened in late July 2013, if anyone remembers that. Sadly, the parents of the one of the guys in our group were gonna meet him in Santiago and were on that train... and their son's name is Santiago. It was deeply tragic...
And when it was all over, we all took a bus to Madrid airport where we parted ways. I ended up flying from Madrid to Florence with this Dutch guy I met and had become good friends with on the camino. From there we hitchhiked and train-hopped (and got kicked off a train for not paying!
Gawd, I miss those lovely people! I really need to go on another adventure like that again soon!
Let's hear other people's experiences too!
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