After walking on the Camino six times now I'm certain that it can gt under your skin, that something about it keeps pulling you back so that once is often not enough. Friends that me and Becky made two years ago, who swore that they were walking for their last time, have just returned and another friend we made this year has just reached Samos on his second Camino of the year! And me and Becky are planing another Camino (although this one will be on the Portuguese route rather than the Frances).
So if it is possible to become 'addicted' to the Camino what would be the 'symptoms' of this?
1. A desire to walk everywhere even though the buses are quicker. And you have a car, why not just drive?
2. Upon seeing a yellow arrow you are seized by an urge to follow it wherever it leads
3. When a cyclist passes you you want to shout out 'Buen Camino!' loudly (I actually have had to stop myself a few times!)
4. Checking people's backpacks for badges or patches from the Camino - made worse when you are at a train or coach station because someone could just be setting off
5. You want to talk about the state of your feet all of the time
6. Getting to bed and missing the sound of snoring
7. Looking at distance signs in miles and wondering just how far that actually is or else looking at signs in kilometers and knowing that it would take weeks to walk that far
8. Wishing every time you stayed in a hotel, hostel or B and B you could get a sell
9. Trying to tell your friends and family just how special the Camino is and failing completely
10. Trying to go on other walks in your own country to recapture the Camino feeling (possibly with friends/family) but failing completely
11. Deciding to take friend/family member with you on Camino so that they can understand what the Camino's like
12. Constantly being in one of three states: 1. Walking the Camino, 2. On your way back home from walking the Camino, 3. Planning your next walk on the Camino
So if it is possible to become 'addicted' to the Camino what would be the 'symptoms' of this?
1. A desire to walk everywhere even though the buses are quicker. And you have a car, why not just drive?
2. Upon seeing a yellow arrow you are seized by an urge to follow it wherever it leads
3. When a cyclist passes you you want to shout out 'Buen Camino!' loudly (I actually have had to stop myself a few times!)
4. Checking people's backpacks for badges or patches from the Camino - made worse when you are at a train or coach station because someone could just be setting off
5. You want to talk about the state of your feet all of the time
6. Getting to bed and missing the sound of snoring
7. Looking at distance signs in miles and wondering just how far that actually is or else looking at signs in kilometers and knowing that it would take weeks to walk that far
8. Wishing every time you stayed in a hotel, hostel or B and B you could get a sell
9. Trying to tell your friends and family just how special the Camino is and failing completely
10. Trying to go on other walks in your own country to recapture the Camino feeling (possibly with friends/family) but failing completely
11. Deciding to take friend/family member with you on Camino so that they can understand what the Camino's like
12. Constantly being in one of three states: 1. Walking the Camino, 2. On your way back home from walking the Camino, 3. Planning your next walk on the Camino
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