On The Camino De Santiago De Compostela Today we walked from Puente La Reina to Ayegi. It was the most physically demanding day I have personally had on the camino so far. There were quite a few steep hills to walk up and for the final few kilometre which was all up hill, I carried Indigo as well as my monstrous backpack, which was 40kg in all.

When I finally unloaded the weight at the albergue in Ayegi, I was unable to walk properly. It was like my legs had a mind of their own and were going off in different directions. Physically, I had reached threshold. I didn’t know how I was going to break through, but I just thanked my body for all it’s hard work and asked if it was ready to step up to another level to be able to keep going.

There was a German man called Peter, who was the hospitalero at the Ayegi Albergue. He was quite eccentric and told us that he had walked the camino 27 times and 12 times in 2012 alone, back and forth, non-stop! He said that it took him 300 days and each of the 12 camino’s that he walked, was for each of the 12 apostles.

Many people we met had mixed points of view on Peter. Some though that he was just plain awesome for his 27 camino’s and epic 2012 marathon, while others thought that he may be mad or obsessed. He was probably a little of all those, but he gave us his personal electric heater that night to keep Indigo warm in the cold albergue, so peter gets the thumbs up from us.

I knew that I could learn something from Peter, so I asked him about his foot care while on The Camino De Santiago. He said that he never had one blister on all his 300 days of walking over 30 kilometres each day. “I wore 1 pair of good hiking socks, good boots and when my feet sweated or my boots were wet I would take them off and hang them on my pack and wear my crocs, while walking on roads. It is very important to keep the feet dry”! He said.

I had asked he universe for some help as I was getting unusual pains and twinges in my muscles all up and down my legs and in my back. I was in no state to walk the next day. The blisters on my feet were still causing me to be in agony every step I took. just to get through the day I had to meditate while walking and put myself into a trance state to be able to bare the pain and keep going.

That evening we went to Aldi supermarket to buy some juice and food. Aldi have a small section of various products they will bring in such as garden tools, clothes and electrical devices. It just so happened that they had 1 pair of boots left in a footware offer they had going. What would be the chances that they would be my size?

The last pair and perfect fit. Amazing, the universe answering my call. The boots radically reduced the pain I was feeling in my feet from the outrageously inappropriate footware that I had been wearing up until this point.

I still did not know how I was going to carry my rucksack with my jelly legs, but the next morning a spanish group came up to me just as I was about to heave my rucksack onto my back and asked me if I would like to put it in their taxi to be brought to the next albergue 20 kilometres away. “You have a heavy rucksack, we are sending our rucksacks to the next albergue, would you like to share a taxi with us” was what the guy said.

For a moment my pride and ego wanted to say “No” but then I realised that it was the help that I had asked the universe for, answering my call once again on The Camino De Santiago De Compostela.

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