Camino Norte, Day 28 => Luarca

Easy day. 11 miles with 900’ ascent and 1150’ descent. (Tomorrow a Hard day with 19+ and a lot of climbing)

Met Diane and Kim from Vancouver at breakfast. Kim, a retired banker/professor 74. Diane a retired accountant 65 lost her husband very shortly after he was diagnosed with cancer in 2018. Very angry for 2 years until one day she went out on her porch and shouted at God “Why did you do this to me!! Just take me now!!!!” Her daughters were concerned and suggested she do a Camino like they had done in their early 20s. She met/married Kim and convinced him to do the Camino. (It’s like therapy)

Met Rose, 63, from Kenya (living in England now) at a cafe on the side of the road. It’s her third Camino. She is constantly amazed at how fellow pilgrims can open up about very personal things in minutes (things you can know people in normal life for many years and never know). She has made many deep connections. She said in Santiago at the end of her first Camino, she cried herself to sleep because she knew she would never see some of these people again with whom she had shared so much, and together had endured the 40 days and 40 nights of a Camino.Læs mere