• Right I've got it

    19 September 2019, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    I've been struggling to get my head around the whole thing about people talking about their Camino Family in that I thought they meant folk they choose to walk with even though they choose to come alone but no it actually refers to the folk you engage with often briefly but quite often because you are on the same stages at the same time . So I reckon I have a Camino family with lots of people greeting one along the way and sharing stuff ... It's really nice when some one shouts your name as you pass them as they sit in a coffee shop or turn up at the same albergue . Random acts of Kindness seem to be the currency everyone sharing advice . Sweets wine and even hugs and kisses . People are very open too telling their stories many of which are fascinating funny and few even very sad . I sat with a Pastor from Church of Scotland last night who is convinced her partner is going to propose when he meets her in Santiago next weekend and she has her doubts . Another French lady had planned to do the Camino with her husband but he passed away in March and she's doing it for him ..Then you meet the guys who stop at every bar /cafe on the way and rock up at Alberques last thing usually full of life and laughs .. Life is all here yet it almost in a little cacoonBaca lagi