Buen Camino – 20 km – Pamplona
The journey makes you a pilgrim. Because the way to Santiago is not only a track to be walked in order to get somewhere, nor is it a test to reach any reward. El Camino de Santiago is a parable and a reality at the same time, because it is done both within and outside in the specific time that it takes to walk each stage, and along the entire life if only you allow the Camino to inhabit you, to transform you and to make you to a pilgrim.
The Camino makes you simpler, because the lighter the backpack the less strain to your back and the more you will experience how little you need to be alive.
The Camino makes you brother/sister. Whatever you have you must be ready to share because even if you started on your own, you will meet companions. The Camino breeds about community, community that greets the other , that takes interest in how the walk is going on for the other, that talks and shares with the other.
The Camino makes demands on you. You must get up even before the sun in spite of tiredness or blisters, you must walk in the darkness of night while dawn is growing, you must get the rest that will keep you going.
The Camino calls you to contemplate, to be amazed, to welcome, to interiorise, to stop, to be quiet, to listen to, to bless … nature, our companions on the journey, our own selves, consciousness,
20 Kilometers to walk today. In the end I will be in Pamplona. It’s different every day, the nature, the villages, new people showing up, others I meet nearly daily. David booked a double bed room in Pamplona for this night, my feet need to recover, need some silence, the hostels are quite busy, although the people on the Camino are quite caring with the noise when with 20 or more people in a room. Fortunately everybody is tired in the evening.
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