{"id":103,"date":"2016-05-04T23:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/?p=103"},"modified":"2021-08-30T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:07:23","slug":"4th-of-may-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/4th-of-may-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of May &#8211; Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, we left <em><strong>Arzua<\/strong><\/em> and we&#8217;re doing about 16 kilometres to <em><strong>Rua<\/strong><\/em> and that will leave us two more days to get to Santiago, two more easy days, 16 kilometres to\u00a0<em><strong>Lavacolla<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>and then a short 10 kilometre day to <em><strong>Santiago<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I think our final two days will be raining, but we&#8217;ve been very lucky with the weather so far, so we can&#8217;t complain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Long Hot Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5T9t7p3FUBo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think another Camino may have joined us at\u00a0Arzua, because there seems to be a lot more people on the road today.<\/p>\n<p>Although this could also be due to the fact the we left earlier today, to try and avoid the hottest part of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst I&#8217;m enjoying the walk from <em><strong>Sarria<\/strong><\/em>, I think I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that this is not really a Camino.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean that in too negative a way. It all depends on what type of experience you&#8217;re looking for, and we all have different expectations.<\/p>\n<p>But I think just walking from Sarria, lacks two things from my point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, there just isn&#8217;t enough time on the road to go through the typical transformations that people talk about.<\/p>\n<p>That is; going through overcoming the physical strain, and once you&#8217;re getting used to that, then emotionally being able to handle the walk, and then finally, if you&#8217;re lucky enough, to get to that meditative and perhaps more spiritual stage.<\/p>\n<p>For me at least, I think I&#8217;ve got to be on the road two to three weeks to reach that third stage.<\/p>\n<p>The other element that detracts slightly for me, is just the sheer numbers of people on this section of the Camino.<\/p>\n<p>Sure you can try to block that out and stay in your own little world, but it&#8217;s difficult sometimes when there are dozens and dozens of people on the same section of the trail.<\/p>\n<p>So whilst this is certainly an enjoyable walk, I think if I were to walk another short Camino in the future, I would certainly walk one that is a lot more remote. And if possible, one that might keep me on the road for two weeks or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, we left Arzua and we&#8217;re doing about 16 kilometres to Rua and that will leave us two more days to get to Santiago, two more easy days, 16 kilometres to Lavacolla, and then a short 10 kilometre day to Santiago. Unfortunately, I think our final two days will be raining, but we&#8217;ve been very lucky with the weather so far, so we can&#8217;t complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,15,14],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-arzua","tag-lavacolla","tag-rua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}