Even though the Camino is currently closed because of the coronavirus, we are still planning our pilgrimage for next year. Please read on and contact us if you are interested!
It’s a great time to plan an adventure on the Camino de Santiago in 2021!
In 2016, Herb Tierney celebrated his 70th birthday in a life-changing way by walking the Camino de Santiago Francaise. Over 500 miles, he and Dave Bryson experienced this soul-transforming pilgrimage. Next year, 2021, Herb will celebrate his 75th birthday by doing the other segment of the camino – the Camino de Santiago Portugese, which follows the Atlantic Coast from Portugal into Spain for about 260 miles – and he wants to share it with our community members. The pilgrimage will happen in late September or early October, 2021, which will be off-peak season in temperate weather.
Preliminary plans look like this:
*Fly to Lisbon.
*Take a train or bus to spend a few nights in Fatima.
*Begin walking to Santiago, averaging 10 – 15 miles per day.
*Take a day of rest in the middle of the walk.
*Spend a few nights in Santiago at the end of the pilgrimage.
*Take a train or bus back to Lisbon for the flight home.
*Total time of this pilgrimage would be 26 to 30 days, including flights and rest stops.
The commitment to train for this pilgrimage begins now! Are you interested in learning more? Contact Herb Tierney here or Dianne Gallagher here.
“Solvitur ambulado”
“It is solved in the walking.” St. Augustine
“When we joined this pilgrimage, we stepped into a lineage that stretches back a thousand years or more. Nobody knew if we were doctors or lawyers or housewives, if we had raised a first class laying hen or won a Pulitzer. We became just pilgrims, like all the other pilgrims there.”
“The Camino is a liminal space, set apart from ordinary time and place. Strangers connect instantly. Little family groups form, intensely supportive and intimate. Differences are overlooked, stupidities forgiven. Everyone lives and sleeps and works together toward the same goal. For many people, the walk is a profound, life-changing experience.”
Rebekah Scott, A Furnace Full of God, Peaceable Publishing, 2019
