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- Are You looking for Meaningful Travel Experiences? Maybe An Active Holiday for Adults?
If you wonder if there are alternatives to beach holidays for adults, rest assured, there are meaningful travel experiences for grown-ups who are bored of beach resorts but have been traumatised by tents — especially the 5-day Camino de Santiago option you didn’t know existed What This Article Is About There are two types of … - Could Walking the Camino de Santiago Help Me Process My Grief? – Walking Through Grief
When the ordinary tools of healing aren’t working, sometimes the answer is to put on your boots and start walking — as this ancient French pilgrimage route has been proving for a thousand years What This Article Is About This article is for anyone who is carrying a loss that refuses to fade. Not a … - Walking Shoes for the Camino de Santiago: Recommendations for durable and comfortable shoes for varied terrain
A Simple Guide to Finding The Perfect Camino de Santiago Walking Shoe Walking Shoe Buying Checklist : free downloadable document (pdf) There is a particular kind of optimism involved in lacing up a pair of walking shoes and heading out the door. You don’t know exactly what the ground will throw at you — rain-slicked … - Walking Together as a Couple: Can Walking The Camino de Santiago Together Improve our Relationship?
Couples who walk the Camino together don’t just survive the blisters — they start talking to each other in a different way. What This Article Is About This article is for the couple who is fine. Not in crisis, not miserable, not in need of urgent intervention — just fine. Fine in the way that … - Why So Many Women Book Camino de Santiago Walking Breaks On Their Own
And why they rarely regret it – because somewhere between the silence, the vineyards, the blisters, and the breathtaking relief of not having to take care of absolutely everyone else for five whole days, many women rediscover the version of themselves they thought life had quietly swallowed whole. Some women book Camino walking breaks because …Continue reading “Why So Many Women Book Camino de Santiago Walking Breaks On Their Own”
- Book Review: An Immense World by Ed Yong
★★★★★ Reviewed by Margaretha Montagu, host of the Book Lovers’ Binge Reading and Camino de Santiago Walking Retreats There are books that make you smarter, and then there are books that make you feel like you have been walking around half-blind your entire life — not in a crushing, existential way, but in the most … - We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
Why the Wisest Thing You Can Do Right Now Is Admit You Might Be Missing the Whole Picture What this is: A raw, honest, occasionally funny exploration of what we don’t know and why the most transformative thing you can do for your life is acknowledge what you cannot yet see, and what happens when … - Yearning for a Simpler, Slower, Savoured Life
. Six years ago, I suddenly had a strong desire to stop the bus and simply get off. But not in a dramatic “sell everything I own and move to an isolated cabin with an open fireplace in the Pyrenées mountains” sort of way. Although admittedly, after one particularly absurd day recently involving bureaucracy, passwords, …Continue reading “Yearning for a Simpler, Slower, Savoured Life”
- Using The Camino As A Mirror: An Ancient Pilgrim Path Reveals An Uncomfortable Truth
A frank, funny, and surprisingly practical guide to using an ancient pilgrimage as a reset button for anxious, overwhelmed souls, helping them to reconnect with what actually matters What this is: A candid, warm, and occasionally cheeky article about what happens when stressed, switched-on people stop consuming the news and start walking ancient pilgrim roads. … - From Couch to Camino: Discovering Inner Peace, One Step (and One Insight) at a Time
How a Long Walk Can Short-Circuit Your Existential Crisis I’ve been wondering about two things. Firstly, why nearly all of my Camino de Santiago walking retreats guests, often weary from the demands of modern life when they arrive, within just two or three days of treading this ancient path, experience what I call “life-changing incidents …