MY FEET WERE MY VEHICLE #1

Last September,  I suddenly decided to go for a long long walk. To be precise, I wanted to hike a long stretch of the French Way of St. James. Not because I'm religious, not because I believe in spirits, not because I love Spanish cuisine and not because I needed to be punished. I just wanted to spend many days doing nothing else but hiking.

I organised the whole hiking schedule - not easy but I had fun doing it -, accommodations, luggage pick & drop offs, etc. When you are a solo hiker everything has to be carefully arranged... hiking requires calculated risk, doesn't it?

Luckily, all went smoothly and I returned back home safely and happily for having never had fear of injury, fear of not completing or any other kind of fears (being face-to-face with a cow, excluded).

After a full day's journey with several changes of bus and of train, in the evening I reached the destination for my starting point.

Hotel check-in done, shower taken, clothes changed and off I went, strolling through the small town in search of a restaurant for a light meal.

I step into a small one, yet cosy. As it was full, the table was shared with a Korean young woman who had been on the Way for some days, already.

Before start showing you what the experience was like to me, I would like to have you following me.  Hiking can clear your head and make you appreciate the majesty of life in a way that you rarely do while at home.

Mist and thick fog that reduced the visibility and obscured everything at a very little distance, was a frequent presence on most mornings.

I had no sore feet, no blisters, no pain and was a pleasure each and every day. The trail was perfectly marked and here and there footwear, maybe left behind, was resting on the milestones. 

As I saw the cow getting closer and closer to me, I became almost panicked... For a long while, I and the cow stood still face to face. Luckily a hiker came by and together with him I overtook the cow. What a relief!!!

And writing about the cow, fellows of which I saw several times, other animals were captured by my camera lens.

After hiking for many hours, a room at a mountain lodge had been prepared to provide the necessary rest...


Good night!

Every photo costed me innumerable steps, so you have better enjoy the first slideshow whose cover photo pictures a woman who lived near the trail. As she saw my camera she asked me to take a picture of her and the baby.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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