Some quick scenes – Ponte de Lima onwards

Professor of Psychology College of Coastal Georgia Interested in the psychology of long walks on the Camino Portuguese. Walked 230 miles/370 K -- from Tomar Portugal to Coimbra, Portugal, then Porto to Viana do Castelo Portugal. then Ponte de Lima to Pontrevedra, then "Spiritual Variant" to Vila de Amorosa Spain to Santiago do Compestela (took sea camino option from Vila de Amorosa to just south of Pardon - video on my blogs shows more about that option). If interested, I have blogged here about the benefits of "slow walking" and of "female solo walking the Portuguese Camino" "social/human aspects of the Camino experience" and "tourist vs traveler" “An author who composes while walking, on the other hand, is free from such bonds; his thought is not the slave of other volumes, not swollen with verifications, nor weighted with the thought of others. It contains no explanation owed to anyone: just thought, judgement, decision. It is thought born of a movement, an impulse. In it we can feel the body’s elasticity, the rhythm of a dance. It retains and expresses the energy, the springiness of the body. Here is thought about the thing itself, without the scrambling, the fogginess, the barriers, the customs clearances of culture and tradition. The result will not be long and meticulous exegesis, but thoughts that are light and profound. That is really the challenge: the lighter a thought, the more it rises, and becomes profound by rising – vertiginously – above the thick marshes of conviction, opinion, established thought. While books conceived in the library are on the contrary superficial and heavy. They remain on the level of recopying.” ― Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking View all posts by Carla Bluhm / Andorinha