We often hear, during presentations or while addressing people's queries directly, the same questions popping up repeatedly. Am I fit enough? Will I make it? What if I can’t finish? Safe to say, then, that many people are intimidated by the Camino de Santiago. And why wouldn’t they be? Twenty-plus kilometres in one day, same the following day, and the day after that, and so on...It's a daunting prospect. Sin dolor no hay Camino... The above is a traditional Camino expression, loosely translated as, ‘There’s no Camino without suffering.’ Basically, ‘No pain no gain.’ So, there’s always going to be some degree of difficulty along the Camino. It’s an integral feature of the experience, inextricably connected to the notion of pilgrimage, both historic and modern. And, you know, we think people are okay with that. If it was a cinch, they wouldn’t do to it, right? Camino walking days are somewhat challenging, true, but we at CaminoByTheWay make sure they’re not oppressively so. There are several key features of our Camino trips that alleviate the demands of walking over varied terrain for five to six hours per day. We're going to discuss these features in a new series of blogs, entitled ‘Overcoming the Challenges of Walking the Camino.’ Here, in the first outing of the series, we'll explain a service that helps you tackle the physical and mental challenges of completing one Camino stage after another, without ever diminishing the achievement of making it to Santiago de Compostela. We're talking about luggage transfer. CaminoByTheWay provides daily luggage transfer services between hotels. We do this for guided group tours as well as for self-guided walkers. Here's how it works. After breakfast, simply drop your luggage at the reception of the hotel where you stayed the night. Your luggage will
We often hear, during presentations or while addressing people’s queries directly, the same questions popping up repeatedly. Am I fit enough? Will I make it? What if I can’t finish? Safe to say, then, that many people are intimidated by the Camino de Santiago. And
