Blog Update – 31 May 2022 – Home and miserable!
All the smart literature (i.e. the Brierley Guides) on the Camino make a strong point about how hard it is to land after doing a Camino. How hard it can be to adopt back to normal life. And of course, they’re right. Last time was a bit of a bump; but I had two Courier trips within the following week to look forward to. This time we adopted the approach of having a few days R & R in Porto to attempt to acclimatise to crowds of people etc. We booked ourselves onto the Alsa Bus that makes the 4.5 hour journey from Santiago down to Portugal’s second city. Leaving at 10am, we’d be there in time for most of the afternoon and the evening. The journey was uneventful, the Galician countryside remained lush, green and hilly. The area near Pontevedre was particularly beautiful; Vigo much less so. We crossed the border into Portugal over the Rio Minho and stopped briefly to drop of some people at Valenca. It was a bit weird as we were driving directly south, but moved back an ...