El camino de Santiago
When I got to realize that I love hiking!
Many people decide to do the Camino, every person has his own reason - for me it was a good way to challenge myself physically and mentally and to connect with nature again (since I live in a big city and felt the need of it).
At the beginning I wanted to do the trip all by myself, since I belive it is very important to do at least one vacation on your own. But when I told my friends that I was planning to do it, my very good friend Caterina asked me if I would mind she joing me. I thought it is a nice occasion to be closer and share this experience! — We booked the flight for Bilbao were we visited the Guggenheim Museum and Jeff Koons’ Puppy statue.



The museum was AMAZING!
We had just 2 hours which is defenetly NOT enought, if I could go back in time I would have spend all the afternoon in it.
After spending the night in Bilbao (and had a great breakfast!) we went to León…..well I wish it would have been so easy!
We had train tickets from Bilbao to Leon, BUT we missed the train.
- bye bye train and 50€ train ticket!-
the “funny” thing is that we took our time at the train station since we had to wait 1 hour. Not to bad because in this way we met Alejandro!
Like us, he just lost the train and since the first train stop was in Miranda De Ebro, we spontaneously decided to get a taxi alltogher till there — so we did.
The journey strarted with improvisation, mix between “oh no, we have missed it!” and “ohhh we are lucky we can still catch the next train”, and meeting a new friend.
Alejandro was going back home in Barcellona, he had a train concidence in Miranda de Ebro. It was good to hear from him what kind of vision spanish people have from italians — well yes, the typical sterotipe of italian man being very masculine and having a certain kind of macho-attitute is there.

From there we took our train (finally) and got to Leon!! As soon as we walked from the train station to the city center we were in love with this city

Here we got our “Credencial del Peregrino” which is important for all the trip since you need to get everyday at least 2 stamps on it from the places you go (hostel, church, bars) so when you arrive at Santiago’s cathedral you can recieve the COMPOSTELA (it is the original religious certificate written in Latin, expended by the Church when pilgrims prove they have either walked 100km or cycled/travelled on horseback 200km to Santiago de Compostela).

I have to admit that I was very naive in thinking it would be an easy trip, just pack the backpack and go!
Luckily I am a “light-traveler”, my backpack was around only 3 or 4 kg which literally saved me.
We did more than 100 km walking and every day was a completly brand new day — nothing was programmed, we didn’t know were and what we would eat, where we would sleep, which village we would arrive.
Every day was a SURPRISE and it was great to live like that, to just walk and enjoy everything you can see around the road, using just your feet and legs.

it is YOU and the NATURE, and other people like you. There are no barriers, everybody is just walking and is sweating, smelly and bad dressed like you.You meet nice people that are on the way. You get to share many nice stories, create connections and share a part of the walk with them.


It happens that your legs and feet hurts so much that you just end up sleeping in the middle of nowhere under a 180 degree sky full of stars. 8 hours later you wake up with the sunrise like this:

Everything is so far from the daily routine.

After some days Caterina and me decided to split and try to do a part of the Camino alone. This ended up to be a really great idea!
It is imporant to have some time just by yourself

Your brain and your mind are free and your thoughts become simple. You get to realize how simple life can be and how beautiful it is to be in harmony.


I started to think more about the societies problems, why humans are making life so complicated, why everything must be around money and power.. this things makes me truly mad.
