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Out for a walk - or can't I just go on Camino now!

If you've been on Camino then you've felt it - in a difficult time you recall the times on the Way, the people who you met and the ease of doing nothing but walking (yes, there were blisters and other troubles but at times like these we don't remember them do we?) and you want nothinmg more than to be back on the Camino.


Image from http://johnssketchjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2013_04_01_archive.html (check out this Blogger's sketches for his Camino in May 2013 - they are gorgeous - John Wright is a talented guy!)

Or Spring comes with a certain change somehow in the quality of the light, a slightly warmer day with only a bit of breeze and you just know that this would be a great day for walking, for being THERE on the Way.

Because once you have been there it never really leaves you does it? That desire to walk that can just about be satisfied by taking a stroll around town or into your local countryside, that desire to shout out 'Buen Camino! as you pass other people or to nip into a bar for a quick Cafe con leche or Cola Cau. The feeling that yes there may be 200 other people sleeping in this albergue but this bunk is your space and if you unpack your bag again you can take out your clothes and smell the Camino again - that brown disinfectant that comes in the yellow bottles, hand washed clothes and the other things that you have never quite been able to identify but that you know the smell of so well.

And at times like all of these you want nothinmg more than to pin a note on your door and to set off into the known unknown and meet new people, face some challenges, learn from your experiences and yes, to have some fun.

Buen Camino everyone, I think I'll just go for a quick walk around the block!




















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