LE PUY TO CONQUES ITINERARY
Day 1. Le Puy- St Privat d'allier 22 km
Day 2. to Sauges 18 km
Day 3. to Les Faux 25 km
Day 4. to Aumont Aubrac 27 km
Day 5. to Nasbinals 26 km
Day 6. to St Chely d’Aubrac 17 km
Day 7. to Espalion 26 km
Day 8. to Estaing 11 km
Day 9. to Espeyrac 25 km
Day 10. to Conques 13 km
Wow, I just stumbled onto this beautiful blog of photos by a 70 year old pilgrim. I had to look up this Camino and it is in France. The more I intend to walk the more Caminos come to me. Is that the Universe talking!!??
So I decided today that I will be in Spain in July. I will walk the Camino del Norte for as long as I can in the 4 weeks I will be away. I know this one will be tough but I also know that I will do what I can do and I will be "walking " for 4 weeks. O.K., some of that will be travel.
I feel so grateful that I can leave for 4 weeks and that no one says I should not. I know John, my husband, will miss me as will the dogs and cats but everyone else will just wait for me to return. I have lived an independent life and I still do.
Sometimes independent becomes loneliness, not lonely but aloneness of course. But over the years, aloneness has become a resting place. Meditation is aloneness. Walking is aloneness but neither have to be loneliness. There are times when I feel lonely, like during this damned long winter that is finally breaking, and John is away every day doing what he loves, ice fishing!
I think this is an important point to take with you on your Camino, especially if it is your first. Being alone does not have to be lonely. Alone on the Camino gives us time to think, sing out loud, tell ourselves jokes, cry and eventually say hello to yourself. What a concept.
So our 70 year old pilgrim is having the time of his life, hurt though he was on that Camino, he is full of joy. May there always be a place for joy in your life and mine.
Until the next time
Love and light.
Bev
Day 2. to Sauges 18 km
Day 3. to Les Faux 25 km
Day 4. to Aumont Aubrac 27 km
Day 5. to Nasbinals 26 km
Day 6. to St Chely d’Aubrac 17 km
Day 7. to Espalion 26 km
Day 8. to Estaing 11 km
Day 9. to Espeyrac 25 km
Day 10. to Conques 13 km
Wow, I just stumbled onto this beautiful blog of photos by a 70 year old pilgrim. I had to look up this Camino and it is in France. The more I intend to walk the more Caminos come to me. Is that the Universe talking!!??
So I decided today that I will be in Spain in July. I will walk the Camino del Norte for as long as I can in the 4 weeks I will be away. I know this one will be tough but I also know that I will do what I can do and I will be "walking " for 4 weeks. O.K., some of that will be travel.
I feel so grateful that I can leave for 4 weeks and that no one says I should not. I know John, my husband, will miss me as will the dogs and cats but everyone else will just wait for me to return. I have lived an independent life and I still do.
Sometimes independent becomes loneliness, not lonely but aloneness of course. But over the years, aloneness has become a resting place. Meditation is aloneness. Walking is aloneness but neither have to be loneliness. There are times when I feel lonely, like during this damned long winter that is finally breaking, and John is away every day doing what he loves, ice fishing!
I think this is an important point to take with you on your Camino, especially if it is your first. Being alone does not have to be lonely. Alone on the Camino gives us time to think, sing out loud, tell ourselves jokes, cry and eventually say hello to yourself. What a concept.
So our 70 year old pilgrim is having the time of his life, hurt though he was on that Camino, he is full of joy. May there always be a place for joy in your life and mine.
Until the next time
Love and light.
Bev
Here I was feeling low, niggles in my back and leg inviting me to think that I wasn't yet over my back operation and perhaps I was not on track for a return to the Camino next September.Negative thoughts invade my mine as I live alone, a widower for the last 4 years. To banish those negative thoughts I look up this wonderful Blog on Planning your Camino and low and behold here was my Blog being praised. People of different nationalities had been very helpful and friendly to me on my Camino and here was this Canadian who was not known to me, lifting my spirits and banishing my niggles.
ReplyDeleteThanks Beverly