{"id":1179,"date":"2015-06-01T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robscamino.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2021-10-26T16:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T05:08:34","slug":"1st-of-june-another-lesson-portomarin-to-ventas-de-naron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/1st-of-june-another-lesson-portomarin-to-ventas-de-naron\/","title":{"rendered":"1st of June &#8211; Another Lesson? | Portomarin to Ventas de Nar\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Us and Them on the Camino<\/h1>\n<h2>The Long Walkers and The Short Walkers&#8230;&#8230;.and the Cyclists<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about 8 kilometers from <a href=\"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/day-35-portomarin-to-ventas-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portomarin<\/a>, so I only have another 4 or 5 kilometers to go today.<\/p>\n<p>The road has been very busy so far today, but as normal, I&#8217;m falling back through the groups of pilgrims until I don&#8217;t really see anyone else behind me. This generally means that I&#8217;ll have quite a peaceful journey from here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1808\" src=\"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sarria-to-Portomarin-1.jpg\" alt=\"The road from Sarria to Portomarin\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My mind wants me to push on and try to get to <a href=\"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/7th-of-june-exploring-santiago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santiago<\/a> in 4 days so that I can complete my journey and go home.<\/p>\n<p>But I have planned to get there in 6 days with\u00a0shorter stages, because I know my feet and legs can no longer walk a &#8216;full&#8217; day.<\/p>\n<p>It feels a little bit frustrating to be travelling this slowly, but I know at least at this pace, I should be able to complete the journey.<\/p>\n<p><em>Maybe this is another lesson?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I need to start to slow down a bit in other aspects of my life, and not try to take on too much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Us and Them<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about 8 kilometers from <em><strong>Portomarin<\/strong><\/em> just taking a breather.<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting at dinner last night, and at breakfast this morning, the conversation turned to the many new walkers who have joined since <a href=\"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/day-34-morgade-to-portomarin-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarria.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those who have walked much longer distances tend to jokingly call them <em><strong>&#8216;tourigrinos&#8217;<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is due to the fact that not only are they just walking a shorter distance, but tend to be supported with buses carting their luggage, and they just walk in running shoes, maybe carrying a bottle of water.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">I knew to expect this influx of people walking a slightly different Camino, and I&#8217;m coming to terms with it. But it&#8217;s not easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6yExzY_jiUo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to keep an open mind and really enjoy every moment of this last hundred kilometers, but it&#8217;s not easy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just so different. But the weather is great and the sun has just come out.<\/p>\n<p>I really want to avoid having\u00a0an &#8216;<em><strong>Us and Them attitude&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>. But these new pilgrims do seem to be on a very different <em>Camino<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost like they&#8217;re just on a casual country walk rather than a pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>But of course that raises a question, <em>what exactly is a pilgrimage? And what differentiates a pilgrim from a\u00a0tourist on a country walk?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who knows, maybe that will be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying a couple of different tactics. One is to leave\u00a0a lot later to allow the crowds to get ahead of me by a couple of hours, but the crowds are so vast that it&#8217;s not quite easy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that leaving at the crack of dawn would be a solution either.<\/p>\n<p>I think one\u00a0has to accept that these much larger crowds are just a part of this final stage of the <em>Camino<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps it&#8217;s actually a very important part?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is a transition back into the real world and reality of day to day life. Learning to cope with distractions, crowds, and a lot more noise.<\/p>\n<p>But I do long for those days <a href=\"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/10th-of-may-emotional-overload\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walking alone from Granon<\/a>\u00a0or through the <em>meseta.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Looking back, those were the best days of my Camino so far. But, let&#8217;s keep an open mind because maybe there are even better parts still to come?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>The Village in the Evening<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8CbzNs2npFs?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about 8 kilometers from Portomarin, so I only have another 4 or 5 kilometers to go today. The road has been very busy so far today, but as normal, I&#8217;m falling back through the groups of pilgrims until I don&#8217;t really see anyone else behind me. This generally means that I&#8217;ll have quite a peaceful journey from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,17,13,5],"tags":[22,59,61,138],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-gallery","category-places","category-reflections","category-videos","tag-camino-de-santiago","tag-portomarin","tag-tourigrinos","tag-ventas-de-naron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}