From 22aca9f917a1da4a92809f67274eab8a77316695 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert McGovern Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 01:48:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Article was missing and set wrong layout --- _posts/2020-05-27-camino-de-santiago.md | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2020-05-27-camino-de-santiago.md b/_posts/2020-05-27-camino-de-santiago.md index 3b952b0..cdd6099 100644 --- a/_posts/2020-05-27-camino-de-santiago.md +++ b/_posts/2020-05-27-camino-de-santiago.md @@ -1,5 +1,62 @@ --- -layout: post -title: camino-de-santiago +layout: single + +title: A short look back on my Camino de Santiago journey + +tags: +- life +- camino +- caminodesantiago +category: camino + date: 2020-05-27 01:45 +0100 --- + +A year ago tomorrow I began the most gruelling, yet immensely satisfying, journey of my life. I set off from my home in Buchholz in der Nordheide Germany, to fly to France to walk the Camino de Santiago. + +Ostensibly the point of the walk was to find myself, to seek out something that had been missing in me for a long time. But it was also about trying to make a decision about what I was doing and my relationship with my wife. + +I kinda failed at the latter point. I found while walking that often my brain zoned out and I wasn't thinking about what I should have been. I did however find something that (mostly) made me feel good. + +My original intention was to take time along the way to stop for an extra day here and there to see places that I was walking through, but it never really happened. I kind of regret that, although the point of the walk was not to be a tourist. + +I had fully intended to go back on the Camino this year (2020), but the unthinkable happened and the world entered a state of lock down that for now has no end in sight. The intention was to walk (mostly) different routes this time, because there are a heck of a lot of them. + +I didn't want to end when I did, I wasn't ready to back and quite honestly, I'm still not ready to. + +## Some Stats, Dates, and Figures + +- I walked 2 camino's. The Camino Frances & Camino Portuguese (Porto; More Costal Route + Espiritual Variente) +- I flew from Hamburg to France on the 28th of May 2019 +- I started the Camino de Santiago, leaving Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on the 31st of May 2019 +- I finished the Camino on the 8th July 2019, when I arrived in Santiago de Compostela +- I left the next day for Finisterre +- I arrived in Finisterre on the 11th of July 2019 +- I start the Camino Portuguese on the 18th July 2019 +- I arrived in Santiago de Compostela on the 31st of July 2019 +- I flew back to Hamburg from Porto on the 6th of August 2019 (walking 14km to the airport from Porto) + +- I took 3 rest days (3rd, 8th and 23rd of June). The first 2 where not because I actually needed to rest, but because I had the wrong shoes and they where messing my feet up. (which gave me a couple of nasty blisters) +- I bought a new pair of shoes on the evening of the 7th of June, which I then used the rest of the way. +- I sent roughly 2kg of stuff home on the 8th of June, stuff I thought I needed but didn't + +Originally I was track my steps / distances using a Fitbit HR and my iPhone 6S. However because of issues charging the HR (connector area broke), I gave up using it on July 6th. + +In total I walked at least 1643km. This was a combination of the daily Camino walks, plus any extra after I arrived at my destination. + +| Section | Stage Distance Walked | Total walked that stage | +| ------- | -------- | ------- | +| Camino Frances | 793.04km | 972.3km | +| Santiago to Finisterre | 96.16km | 105.9km | +| Camino Portuguese | 299.14km | 402.9km | +| **Totals:** | **1,188.34km** | **1,481.1km** | + +The remaining 160km was days walking around Finisterre, Muxia, Santiago and Porto. + +## Photos + +Over the next little while I am going to post photos from my journey, more than I did at the time on Instagram (which had a limit of 10 per post). + +I'll try and add context to them, and a bit about where they where taken. + +Anyway, enough for now. I intend, body willing, to locally repeat the Camino distances over the next 2 months. \ No newline at end of file