SOME TRUTHS
Some pilgrims speak out and tell you some truths not many people know about the Camino de Santiago. It’s a trip with its lights and shadows and still a a great and high recommended experience! Hear what they have to say:
Sometimes you’ll hate walking.
Often you’ll curse your shoes, the rocks and the whole world but this outburst of anger magically will dissipate once you stop walking and sit with friends around the dinner table.
Your new favorite meal of the day will be second breakfast.
You’ll have a goal to keep all your toenails.
Most pilgrims end up experiencing purple, bruised toenails…
Vino tinto and café con leche will fuel you.
You’ll be in denial when you lose control of your bladder.
Most people are familiar with the urgent feeling of having to drop pants on the trail and the frantic lookout for tree cover that ensues when hiking. Well, this happens and quite often along the Camino…
You’ll be completely obsessed with feet.
Since ‘How are your feet?’ is more precise than ‘How are you doing?’, foot wellbeing will become the indicator of whether or not you are having a pleasant or a horrible day. Foot selfies will also become a thing.
You and everyone else will have watched the movie The Way before starting.
Watching The Way will be about all the preparation you and most of the other pilgrims will have had before the Camino, along with taking the stairs instead of the elevator for a solid month.
You’ll love collecting stamps in your pilgrim’s credential more than your actual passport.
You’ll feel excited when you see red plastic chairs in the distance.
It will mean there is a tiny bar on the way.
You’ll sing “row-row-row your boat” in rounds featuring several different languages.
Nonsense singing is contagious and (apparently) crosses language barriers.
You might need therapy after experiencing the Meseta.
Which is the truest test of the Camino, although many decide to take buses and trains to skip ahead to the other side.
You’ll be in total awe of people.
You will learn most from the strangers sitting next to you at the dinner table such as the man in a wheelchair rolling his way up a mountain, the intuitive woman who tells you the longer version of a story knowing it will help you forget the rain, the hermit on the side of the road giving free food to pilgrims, and all the others who may or may not realize that they are Camino angels.
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