Just wanted to take a minute to say... I've been watching a lot of Camino videos lately. Some folks have already finished Finnisterre and Muxia, and others are just getting started. Your videos, (and theirs), provide me a real peace. Many times I have just given a little sigh and smiled at a particularly beautiful scene, or a great stone arch bridge, and imagine I'm there. Thanks for the respite. Buen Camino!
I've said it before...your thoughts, motivational sayings, music, content....is Thee Best! However, I just watched Camino Skies ....which everyone has raved about. I was disappointed because...of your videos! You truly have captured the sights, sounds and emotions....MUCH better than that film. Thank you Lindsey....can not wait for your next...even though I'll be sad when you finish as your videos won't be continuing. I plan to start the Camino from SJPdP April 02.....and have learned so much from you and taken many, many of your suggestions for gear.....and attitude!
What you are doing is very brave. I am doing the Camino year after year several stages, (vacation matter) I´m doing it with a brother, a sister and a brother-in-law. Just figure it out, two of them started at SJPP and my sister and I started at Roncesvalles (I thought that being Spanish it would be incongruous that it started in France and not in Spain). Each of us does it for some different reason, but what we do agree on is that the Way will be part of our lives from now on. The Camino is what happens to you while you are walking, I do not think about the end, but about the journey - I would start again a thousand times from Roncesvalles - I don't judge anyone, well yes, my brother-in-law who wants it to be like a guided tour ;D . Apologies for writing this a year later. Buen Camino !!
I know why you would walk all that way, and I’m not even walking there...yet! Thank you for sharing your reflections in each of your vlogs! I really appreciate it! I look forward to seeing the next few videos...hope you are well! ❤️
I felt the same way when we left Sarria. Who were all these people looking fresh and strolling leisurely. I walked from SJPDP and it showed. I came across this boulder on the way and on it was painted "Jesus didn't start in Sarria". I knew that I wasn't the only one who felt the difference.
You'd be surprised what the others around you understand. I only had time to walk from Sarria, and I totally get what the experience is, and how you feel. I can't wait to return and walk more, Finisterre/Muxia from Santiago next time. Not everyone walking from Sarria sees it as 'just a vacation'. Please do bear that in mind. It certainly gave me someting special and lasting along with lifelong friendships made, and was very spiritual for me. I cried buckets walking into Santiago. :-)
What you were describing about how it seems people are on a social vacation and not a pilgrimage reminds me of how I feel every single day in life. I believe life is a pilgrimage. Like many, I've been through some challenging times and subsequently I often find it difficult to connect with and understand my fellow "pilgrims" in this world (particularly Gen Z). But I guess that's the thing -- we're all walking our own way, everyone's experience is indeed different, and it looks different depending on that pilgrim's stage of life and the paths they chose to get there.
Re the crowds and the people who started from Sarria, I don’t have any great advice for anyone, other than to say to find your own quiet space. I’ve not yet walked the Camino (was planned for September 2021, now rolled back 6 months) but I do have a lot of experience traveling throughout the Holy Land. To parallel your comment about hikers not knowing the significance of Santiago, you would think that people who had traveled from the U.S. or Europe would know the significance of at least the major sites in the Holy Land. However, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, I actually had a woman ask me “So, what happened here?” Parts of the Via Dolorosa were more hectic than the most crowded souks in the Middle East (and I’ve lived there 25 years). You can’t even imagine the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Christmas Day! But you find special places such as The Western Wall, Sea of Galilee, and Shiloh where you can be alone with your thoughts. Finally, I suppose that if we truly are pilgrims and not hikers, we have to fight the temptation to be judgmental. I’m sure most of us have heard the story of the splinter in our neighbor’s eye, versus the plank in ours. Buen Camino.
I know your feeling about the hoards that descend on the Camino at Sarria, but you can take a step back and look at the bigger picture. If you start your Camino in Paris (AKA St Jacque de Compostelle) you walk over 1,000Klms and may not see another pilgrim; THEN you hit St Jean Pied de Port and the hoards that start their pilgrimage there! But if you take a step back and look at the Bigger picture. If you start in Brugensis, Belgium ……………. and go via Paris, Orleans, Tours, Bordeaux and Sorde-l'Abbaye - there is ALWAYS a BIGGER picture.
@@lindseyhikesandtravels I completely understand! It will give me something to look forward to. :) Thank you for all the tips in the meantime. My hubby and I will be going June 9! I can't wait!
These thoughts are similar to those arriving in Saint Jean after having traveled thousands of kilometers from Ukraina, Poland, Germany, Italy or from their places of residence. I think it is normal to be commercialized more as there are more pilgrims, with their limitations to start, economic, time only they know the reasons and from that place can obtain the Compostela. Keep enjoying. Buen camino.
Yes I met a number of people who had started before SJPP who had similar feelings when they arrived there. Everyone's journey is so personal and it's special when we can talk to each other about it and try to learn and understand.
My next Camino I will split the last 100on the French way with the north. Take a bus off the French way and head to the north and take the northern rout. I found the same issue in the last 100 from Sarria
I wonder if I'll feel the same way, and be able to look at those other pilgrims without judgement after having walked from SJPdP. I hope so. From where I am right now...almost ten months out...I wonder if I'll survive the Pyrenees left alone the 800KM lol
Not really sure why you keep saying nobody understands? Especially Spanish people really do understand what a big deal it is to go from St.Jean Pied-de-Port. I’m sorry that you didn’t have the chance to connect with your people, I walked the Camino this September and it felt like I was surrounded by one big family, people you would meet again and again and it was incredible, wherever I stayed whertever I made new friends. Yes for sure the last hundred K from Sario were different, I didn’t like the crowds either the many school classes that were in front or behind you, I decided to slow down, and walk my own pace.
Because the new people I met that day said they didn't understand. I met many amazing people along the way who I'm still in touch with...they are in my other videos.
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You are a brave woman and the Camino makes you free . Nothing else can top that!!! Thank you so much for sharing Lindsey!
Just wanted to take a minute to say... I've been watching a lot of Camino videos lately. Some folks have already finished Finnisterre and Muxia, and others are just getting started. Your videos, (and theirs), provide me a real peace. Many times I have just given a little sigh and smiled at a particularly beautiful scene, or a great stone arch bridge, and imagine I'm there. Thanks for the respite. Buen Camino!
Thanks so much! 😊
To be free Lindsey is amazing. Think how many people never get the opportunity to have that feeling in their lives, ever. You're very fortunate.
Indeed! In one of my videos I talk about how privileged I am to be able to walk the Camino. I thought about that a lot while I was walking.
I've said it before...your thoughts, motivational sayings, music, content....is Thee Best! However, I just watched Camino Skies ....which everyone has raved about. I was disappointed because...of your videos! You truly have captured the sights, sounds and emotions....MUCH better than that film. Thank you Lindsey....can not wait for your next...even though I'll be sad when you finish as your videos won't be continuing. I plan to start the Camino from SJPdP April 02.....and have learned so much from you and taken many, many of your suggestions for gear.....and attitude!
Awww thank you so much!! I will make some more videos soon...😁😁
What you are doing is very brave. I am doing the Camino year after year several stages, (vacation matter) I´m doing it with a brother, a sister and a brother-in-law. Just figure it out, two of them started at SJPP and my sister and I started at Roncesvalles (I thought that being Spanish it would be incongruous that it started in France and not in Spain).
Each of us does it for some different reason, but what we do agree on is that the Way will be part of our lives from now on.
The Camino is what happens to you while you are walking, I do not think about the end, but about the journey - I would start again a thousand times from Roncesvalles -
I don't judge anyone, well yes, my brother-in-law who wants it to be like a guided tour ;D
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Apologies for writing this a year later. Buen Camino !!
I know why you would walk all that way, and I’m not even walking there...yet! Thank you for sharing your reflections in each of your vlogs! I really appreciate it! I look forward to seeing the next few videos...hope you are well! ❤️
I felt the same way when we left Sarria. Who were all these people looking fresh and strolling leisurely. I walked from SJPDP and it showed. I came across this boulder on the way and on it was painted "Jesus didn't start in Sarria". I knew that I wasn't the only one who felt the difference.
He may have as that is a popular Spanish name.
You'd be surprised what the others around you understand. I only had time to walk from Sarria, and I totally get what the experience is, and how you feel. I can't wait to return and walk more, Finisterre/Muxia from Santiago next time. Not everyone walking from Sarria sees it as 'just a vacation'. Please do bear that in mind. It certainly gave me someting special and lasting along with lifelong friendships made, and was very spiritual for me. I cried buckets walking into Santiago. :-)
The people I had talked to didn't which was hard that day. But for sure many do!
What you were describing about how it seems people are on a social vacation and not a pilgrimage reminds me of how I feel every single day in life. I believe life is a pilgrimage. Like many, I've been through some challenging times and subsequently I often find it difficult to connect with and understand my fellow "pilgrims" in this world (particularly Gen Z). But I guess that's the thing -- we're all walking our own way, everyone's experience is indeed different, and it looks different depending on that pilgrim's stage of life and the paths they chose to get there.
What time of year? Please and thank you.
July
Re the crowds and the people who started from Sarria, I don’t have any great advice for anyone, other than to say to find your own quiet space.
I’ve not yet walked the Camino (was planned for September 2021, now rolled back 6 months) but I do have a lot of experience traveling throughout the Holy Land. To parallel your comment about hikers not knowing the significance of Santiago, you would think that people who had traveled from the U.S. or Europe would know the significance of at least the major sites in the Holy Land. However, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, I actually had a woman ask me “So, what happened here?” Parts of the Via Dolorosa were more hectic than the most crowded souks in the Middle East (and I’ve lived there 25 years). You can’t even imagine the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Christmas Day! But you find special places such as The Western Wall, Sea of Galilee, and Shiloh where you can be alone with your thoughts.
Finally, I suppose that if we truly are pilgrims and not hikers, we have to fight the temptation to be judgmental. I’m sure most of us have heard the story of the splinter in our neighbor’s eye, versus the plank in ours. Buen Camino.
I know your feeling about the hoards that descend on the Camino at Sarria, but you can take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
If you start your Camino in Paris (AKA St Jacque de Compostelle) you walk over 1,000Klms and may not see another pilgrim; THEN you hit St Jean Pied de Port and the hoards that start their pilgrimage there!
But if you take a step back and look at the Bigger picture.
If you start in Brugensis, Belgium ……………. and go via Paris, Orleans, Tours, Bordeaux and Sorde-l'Abbaye - there is ALWAYS a BIGGER picture.
Of course!
Loving your videos. Where is day 35 on?? :(
I haven't had the time to make more videos yet but hoping to be able to soon.
@@lindseyhikesandtravels I completely understand! It will give me something to look forward to. :) Thank you for all the tips in the meantime. My hubby and I will be going June 9! I can't wait!
Looking forward to your final videos, please let us see how your journey ended. I’ve loved all of the insights shared along the way ☺️
These thoughts are similar to those arriving in Saint Jean after having traveled thousands of kilometers from Ukraina, Poland, Germany, Italy or from their places of residence. I think it is normal to be commercialized more as there are more pilgrims, with their limitations to start, economic, time only they know the reasons and from that place can obtain the Compostela. Keep enjoying. Buen camino.
Yes I met a number of people who had started before SJPP who had similar feelings when they arrived there. Everyone's journey is so personal and it's special when we can talk to each other about it and try to learn and understand.
My next Camino I will split the last 100on the French way with the north. Take a bus off the French way and head to the north and take the northern rout. I found the same issue in the last 100 from Sarria
Great idea!
I wonder if I'll feel the same way, and be able to look at those other pilgrims without judgement after having walked from SJPdP. I hope so. From where I am right now...almost ten months out...I wonder if I'll survive the Pyrenees left alone the 800KM lol
You will! 😁
Matthew 7: 1-5
Not really sure why you keep saying nobody understands? Especially Spanish people really do understand what a big deal it is to go from St.Jean Pied-de-Port.
I’m sorry that you didn’t have the chance to connect with your people, I walked the Camino this September and it felt like I was surrounded by one big family, people you would meet again and again and it was incredible, wherever I stayed whertever I made new friends.
Yes for sure the last hundred K from Sario were different, I didn’t like the crowds either the many school classes that were in front or behind you, I decided to slow down, and walk my own pace.
Because the new people I met that day said they didn't understand. I met many amazing people along the way who I'm still in touch with...they are in my other videos.