Monday 28 April 2014

The Way

Hi Everyone!

I haven't been here for quite long time! It's difficult to start writing so today I would like to recommend you another movie but in this case it is really related to one of my topic which I trying to describe you in this time. This movie is titles "The way" (in polish "Droga życia") and basically is about Camino de Santiago. One of the aspect which this film presents is the relationship between Daniel and his father Tom (Martin Sheen). Daniel dies on the Camino de Santiago in the Pyrenees and his father comes to France to take his reamains. Unexpectedly he decides to finish what his son has started.
I rcan really recommended that movie. Ofc it is a typical hollywod movie, I don't say that not but the history is presented in really interested way and what's the strong point of that film is that you can really go into the world of Camino de Santiago becouse it shows it quite well. Ecpecially you can focus on details  like shelter for pilgrims, credencial etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueDALC6E8_0

Thursday 10 April 2014

1st day on Camino de Santiago

Today, I would like to share with you my first day's experiance on Camino de Santiago. As I wrote it started in Irun. We had 25 km of walk to San Sebastian. We woke up around 6 o'clock. Los hispotalieros (refuge's hosts) put some religious music which was a little bit scarry and to be honest not a perfect music to wake up enthusiastically. Then we had breakfast, some cookies, muffins and coffee so it was really spanish. At 6.30 our first day on the camino started. When you are pelgrim on Camino de Santiago you need to follow yellow seashell which are painted on trees, sidewalks etc. They're really easy to find  especially in Basque Country. It was really hot day so we were really sweating but the good thing is that every 3-4 km you have a spring, really fresh and cold. 
After 4-5 hours we got to beautiful, picturesque villiage named St Pedro. From there we had to take a boat to other side of coast. Ofc we stopped there for more than hour to take rest and eat lunch. Then we had 10 km to San Sebastian. It was really hard becouse we had to climb and then walk down all the time. When we got to San Sebastian we didn't do nothing except into the Ocean:)