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Santiago De Compostela, Spain: Official end of Camino del Norte 2019
I’m sitting here in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral main square staring at the cathedral and the pilgrims and I feel nothing … even with the scaffolds down from last year.. I feel no emotion no focus on the cathedral, no tears, no sadness. My thinking is pretty clear but I am perplexed.So many people yet I feel nothing, in fact I have a headache, and the crowds make me uneasy. The sun is shining and the cold breezes blowing and I still feel nothing. This time in Santiago I booked an apartment outside the main area just above the cathedral but I believed the hype. No more albergues and hostels…
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2018 Camino Frances Campion Peregrina… The Adventures of a Cyborg Turtle
Am I nuts,what am I about to do?The Camino Santiago pilgrimage has been in existence since Saint James (Santiago) the apostle first made his way from the Holy Land to Spain. It’s been called the camino, the walk, the pilgrimage and the most popular “the way”. This descriptive term was made famous by the 2010 movie with Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez entitled “The Way” and also through a popular television travel series in USA by Rick Steves. Presently some 200,000 plus pilgrims or peregrinos, from all nationalities, races and countries take the pilgrimage, on some version of the camino each year. The ultimate destination is the Cathedral in Santiago…