onal's Camino Walk
Made slight miscalculation with my distance today and had to do an extra 8 Km to get to my Gite. This made a total distance of 24 Km. The Gite that I am staying in is run by donation only and you can give what you like and its just put into a box. We will get dinner and breakfast as well. I'd say that there is a religious motivation behind the running of it. lt was a lot like the one in Estaing.
Today was hard again but I got here much earlier than I had planned.There was a lot of road walking today and that I do not like.
Today I was thinking as I walked how I would advise people thinking of doing the Camino.
1. You should be a regular walker
2 You should be fit
3. If you have problems with your knees, the Camino would be very dfficult for you but not impossible. A visit to a Phsio some time before you go to ensure that your knees were brought up to the standard necessary for such a walk.
4 Learn to walk using two walking poles.
5 You should practice with your back pack with the expected things packed in it that you propose to take and you should play around to get the best weight distribution suitable for you.
6 If you plan to do the Le Puy Route learn to speak French as it is a distinct disadvantage not to be a French speaker.
7. Get a French Sim Card for your mobile for ringing up to reserve your bed for the night
8 If you are doing the Camino France which is the usual one undertaken which starts in St. Jean Pied De Port from just over the Spanish border you should learn some Spanish as well.
9. Who should do the Camino?---everyone--it is your life revealed to you as you walk
Where I an staying tonight is a very relaxed , pleasant place. The whole atmosphere here encouraged by Fabian, our host, was very communal. Before dinner we had apperitifs and in my honour, I think they got an Irish beer, which tasted nice. It was called George Killian, brewed in Enniscorthy. Fabian told me that I was the first from Ireland to stay with him in Le Suelie.
The dinner consisted of Soup, Salad, main course like Shepherds' pie and a lovely desert to finish off things and of course we had the red wine as well.
Over all it was a very pleasent and relaxed evening and in honour of the occasion of being the first Irish person to pass through I sang Grace, the song about the marriage of Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford, on the night before he was executed in 1916. It went down very well.
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