Do it... but now! "El Camino"

Everyone, or almost everyone has something in mind which (at some point) would like to do, from visiting a place, going to a particular restaurant, a challenge...or even all of them together...but when to do it? the answer is...NOW!

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I visited the North of Spain (Cantabria and Asturias) in 2015 and very quickly I fell in love with the landscape, gastronomy, people...those classic feelings that make you realise that you want to come back. By the time, I had also a few friends who quitted their job and completed a pilgrimage route, called “El Camino”, all of them had something in common: "the incapacity to describe how great it was".

​El “Camino de Santiago”, also known by the English names Way of St. James, is the name of one of the most popular pilgrimage routes. Legend holds that St. James's remains were carried by boat from Jerusalem to northern Spain, where he was buried on what is now the city of Santiago de Compostela. Many take up this route as a form of spiritual path or retreat for their spiritual growth (personally a mix of all of it).

There are some kinds of adventures that you have to do immediately... You can start asking friends, researching...finding "the best" moment but the "best" moment many times in now. So that´s what I did although I did not have to quit my job as my friends, I just had to ask for a short break as a consequence of getting a new one.

With no planification even without a map I decided to cycle from Santander to Santiago during 8 days, around 500 km. For someone who even does not have a bike these are enough kilometers to make you realise the roughness of this “adventure-challenge”.

Day 1 - 7:00 am (San Vicente de La Barquera): I woke up very early to have make sure I complete my first stage with enough time although very soon I realised that this would not be very easy, I was not even able to set up the saddlebags of my bike, there was no way to do it while started raining very heavily, at that moment I started questioning if I was too brave... luckily that was only a quick thought! And I could begin my way...

During those days I had the feeling that you live a very short life, experiences all the stages of your life: Those days will be always remember as a short life: where you are brought up, grow up, learn fight, setbacks fall down and get up... and at some point you reach your destination or not!

On my way I met loads of people from everywhere, all of them with very interesting a different story behind, as someone told me: everyone has its own reason to walk, running or cycle “El Camino”, but all of them share the same kindness that makes this adventure unique.

**For further information about the "Camino": http://www.mundicamino.com/