Back in 2011 me and Becky wrote a list of things that we found annoying on the Camino. Here it is:
Bag rustlers - the people who get up at four in the morning and then spend the next hour in the room packing their things away in the noisiest plastic bags in the world
Snorers - those who are like an orchestra all by himself ... like Dad who got a cold on the Camino that make his snoring so bad that the only other person in our room swore at him in German, stormed out of the room and spent the rest of the night sleeping ng on the sofa in the kitchen. He left me and Becky laughing and Dad sleeping on oblivious!
Cyclists who approach you silently and then almost run you over - get a bell, say, 'Buen Camino,' or just, 'hi,' anything at all so that we know you're coming and don't have to dive off the path out of your way!
People who wait until the lights are off to switch on and play with their phones - at home we probably all text in bed or check on Facebook but at home there aren't 20 or more other people in the room
Going uphill only to go straight down again or visa versa - sometimes I wish there were more bridges on the Camino!
Places that don't have sellos - I admit it, I'm one of those Pilgrims who loves sellos, I collect them and feel a bit sad when the bar I've stopped at to have a drink has doesn't have one
People who shine their tourches in your face as they get up in the morning (even worse if they're bag rustlers too!)
All of these don't compare to what we love on the he Camino though: meeting new people and forming a Camino family (and still being friends with them years later), walking every day (even if once or twice that might just end up on the list of annoying things), spending time together, getting sellos, passing through villages, the daily break for hot chocolate and tortilla, seeing new cities, getting a smile or buen Camino as you pass other Pilgrims, playing Camino tag with one or two pilgrims as you pass each other several times a day ..... and so many more things!
Bag rustlers - the people who get up at four in the morning and then spend the next hour in the room packing their things away in the noisiest plastic bags in the world
Snorers - those who are like an orchestra all by himself ... like Dad who got a cold on the Camino that make his snoring so bad that the only other person in our room swore at him in German, stormed out of the room and spent the rest of the night sleeping ng on the sofa in the kitchen. He left me and Becky laughing and Dad sleeping on oblivious!
Cyclists who approach you silently and then almost run you over - get a bell, say, 'Buen Camino,' or just, 'hi,' anything at all so that we know you're coming and don't have to dive off the path out of your way!
People who wait until the lights are off to switch on and play with their phones - at home we probably all text in bed or check on Facebook but at home there aren't 20 or more other people in the room
Going uphill only to go straight down again or visa versa - sometimes I wish there were more bridges on the Camino!
Places that don't have sellos - I admit it, I'm one of those Pilgrims who loves sellos, I collect them and feel a bit sad when the bar I've stopped at to have a drink has doesn't have one
People who shine their tourches in your face as they get up in the morning (even worse if they're bag rustlers too!)
All of these don't compare to what we love on the he Camino though: meeting new people and forming a Camino family (and still being friends with them years later), walking every day (even if once or twice that might just end up on the list of annoying things), spending time together, getting sellos, passing through villages, the daily break for hot chocolate and tortilla, seeing new cities, getting a smile or buen Camino as you pass other Pilgrims, playing Camino tag with one or two pilgrims as you pass each other several times a day ..... and so many more things!
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