Top Ten Things Not To Bring On the Camino de Santiago
Hey, I know…there are plenty of lists out there, telling you what to pack, and so on.
This is a different kind of list…
Top Ten Things Not To Bring On The Camino de Santiago:
1. The idea that you are going to be doing it alone. You are not. Be prepared for the challenge of a lifetime, as you will now be sharing your personal space-and the Camino itself-with hundreds of other people who think they are going to be doing it alone too.
2. A Timetable. Oh, my goodness. How many people have I seen wandering around the refuges in the evenings, fretting becasue they are running behind on their timetable. This applies mostly to people trying to do the whole thing, not one stage of the journey. I say, get done what you can and for once in your life, be content with the results.
3. A Competitive Attitude. Um..if this is you(and you know who you are), please don´t come do the Camino. Please. It´s great if you can walk 45 kilometers in one day, but..that´s not really the point here. I would suggest you try some mediation first and mellow out, then do the Camino.
4. A lack of Spanish skills. One thing my many new Spanish friends have told me is that they don´t understand why people come to their country and then don´t even speak a word of Spanish. Please, learn a few, just a few. You will find you have a better experience and that the Spanish people will warm up to you so much more. You may find yourself recieving invitations to do outragegeous things(as I have) which is so much more fun than actually walking and getting anywhere. Come to think of it, set aside a few days with the express purpose of getting nowhere at all. You´ll enjoy it tremendously, and, as an added plus, when you actually get somewhere, you´ll have good stories to tell at the pilgrim dinners.
5. A lack of mindfulness towards the environment. How many pilgrims have I seen, littering all over the place? Smoking and throwing their stubs on the ground? Eating and tossing the wrappers on the Camino itself? Hey, who is supposed to pick up all that trash, anyway?How many hundreds-no thousands-of plastic bottles litter the path? Perhaps you might consider picking up others peoples trash as you walk rather than adding to it. Just a thought.
6. Bad manners. Remember the words thankyou and please, and be gracious to everyone who helps you-especially at the refuges. Those people are working hard to help you have a wonderful Camino, the least you can do is thank them, fold up your blanket when you leave and wipe down the bathroom sink when you are done.
7. Modesty. Oh yes, you´ll be sharing your personal space with hundreds of other people, as I said. did I mention that also includes the bathroom? the shower? and guess what? As an added plus, most of the time, it´s coed-sometimes even with the added joy of open stalls. You also get to change your clothes in front of everyone, as everyone else is doing it too, and you´ll all pretend like you are not looking at the other person and that you are thinking about something else entirely. Practice at home first.
8. Small black bikini underwear. Guys, this one is for you. I have noticed a great number of men outfitted in these, hanging out in them-no, lounging in them, in the refuges. They seem to appear mid afternoon, and no pants appear to cover them up until dinner time. It is hard for me to talk to you if I am in the bottom bunk, and you are standing there with your parts scantily encased in a bit a of black fabric at my eyelevel. Please, take note.
9. A hankering for vegetables. Um, yes, well, good luck. It´s slim pickings on many parts of the Camino. The new magic word for you, the thing that will sustain you, is a called a bocadillo, and it´s sort of an enormous amount of bread paired with a few thin slices of ham or cheese. Unless you are very rich, in which case you will have a mini van meet you at each stop with a nice picnic lunch.
10. Judging people who take a tour or take a bus harshly-including yourself. Hey, when did you get to decide what makes a Camino a Camino or not? In the rest of your life, you are a pretty easy going person, let´s not start getting all righteous(or self defeating) now. The fact is, it´s still a Camino, even when it´s by tourist bus or whatever. One woman actually apologized to me at Arroyo san Bol, as she got off the bus. ¨I´m not a real pilgrim¨, she said. ¨You´re not?¨, I said. Of course she was a real pilgrim. and, I found out later, she was on that bus because she was recovering from cancer. So think about what you say and how you judge others.
gigi
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Well, I cannot add a single thing. That is sage advice for life, yes?
Gigi
Still, and evermore, know how welcome you are here at the Peaceable Kingdom in Moratinos! I am so impressed with your impressions of the camino. and am evermore welcoming you and your ilk to chill out here before/during/after your journey.
Life is short.
Live while you can.
Rebekah
Damn you’re right about number 8…! It’s kind of part of the latin culture though, the extend the intimate frontiers to social life… =)
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How do you reconcile your comments in paragraph 3, with those you make in paragraph 10? “Hey, when did you get to decide what makes a camino a camino or not?”
I’ve just re-read this page of top ten things not to bring and it really is more than a little hypocritical. On the one hand, you mention more than once the need not to be judgemental, but in another sentence advise people who walk long distances in a day not to come on the camino, but to seek psychiatric assistance! you should, in your own words, “think about what you say and how you judge others”.
What if, for example, someone had only twenty days holiday and wanted to walk the whole camino Frances in a single session? What if they simply enjoy walking. Who are you to insist that they “mellow out” before coming on a camino which you, probably because you claim to have walked it so many times, appear to regard as your own.
As for modesty, why put at the top of the blog the number of your camino? That seems more than a little boastful. Open your eyes and look at the hypocrisy apparent on this site.
Oops! The number at the top of the post indicates the number of the entry, not the number of caminos, which gives pause for thought about the basis for your advice. About what not to bring on the camino.
Truly, I hope your life is going well, with all that is in it and on all your travels and in your bliss and peace expressed herein. Just stop giving advice to others which contradicts itself at every turn and seeks to impose a view based on a pretty slim cache of experience.
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