Via del Plata Camino Experience to Santiago de Compostela
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Автор: Mike Davey Mr
Год: 2012
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What is the Silver Way peregrino? Peregrinos (or pilgrims as most probably know them) have walked the country paths (caminos) to Santiago Compostela to pay homage at the tomb of the Apostle St James since the 9th century. In those early days many a poor peregrino perished on the way. Even today some people still do, but the probability, like the hardships are much less now as we hike in good boots, carry a lightweight packs, eat good food and are better prepared. I had already walked 700 km, that's most of the well-known French Camino from Pamplona to Santiago, the year before. On that, my first camino I 'd had my feet washed, kissed and blessed, and had other strange experiences and suffered terrible blisters! Yet here I was wanting more, it was like a drug! It was a holy year and the French way would be crowded I was told. Ok, I would walk the route that many an ancient peregrino had undertaken to get to Santiago. That is to start from Seville and is known as the Via del Plata Camino or The Silver Way. I thought some surely must have walked from Cordoba, so why not start from there, it’s a little longer but it's such a lovely city! How unprepared I was for this next adventure! This Camino was to test my strength to the limit, and yet at times fill me with so much joy! I was to learn what it could mean, just to light a candle in a cathedral! I was to meet and befriend locals and people from around the world making friendships that have lasted to this very day. I am a modern pilgrim. I carry a camera and hope to show as well as tell you what the experience was like on my Via del Plata Camino. There are many route books and if you are thinking of attempting to walk this Silver route you need to get a good one. This book is not a guide, it is to give you a look at what difficulties you might have to overcome, a little insight as to what the country is like that you will have to travel over. It covers mostly the joyful experiences that I had, that may or may not happen to you on the way, so that you may be better prepared than I was.