Budget Bucket List

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I was a tad nervous for week 3 of the Camino Frances… as that accounts for the Meseta. And the Meseta, ladies and gentlemen, stands in the Camino World for going inwards, reflecting, breaking it all down and picking up the pieces. 🤯 Endless stretches of empty, alluring, yet monotonous lands divert the attention to all those random bits flying through the consciousness and subconsciousness of the brain like a raging hurricane, eager to be organized and made sense of somehow. Something rather scary, but highly necessary in my life, as 2019 has all but been friendly to me (and my family). In for a rollercoaster ride? Ready, steady, go! 🇪🇸🌪

👣 www.budgetbucketlist.com/camino-week-2 👣 Where the first week had an overall “oh-my-god-I’m-on-the-camino-vibe”, the second one exchanged hysterical excitement with a more neutral acceptance that this is my life now. Yeah, I’m a pilgrim, so what? I live on the damn Camino, bitches! My body kind of overcame the shock of the daily flogging I personally keep on subjecting it to, my pack became one with my body. The legs stopped hurting as much as they did in the first week, my blisters slowly grew into permanent protection layers of rough callus. 🇪🇸I noticed I came closer to myself, my body and my capabilities. Fun and merriment got occasionally alternated with reflection and problem-solving. I started seeing how the Camino is a mini-version of how I live my life. Intense, fast, passionate, merciless, hedonistic and entirely independent. Full of fire. Traits I consciously developed and admire in myself, but also leading to the same old pitfalls and disruptions in balance. This Camino started to feel like somebody took my entire life story and crammed it into a dramatic yet compact theatre piece, acted out entirely by me, while I simultaneously watched it all unfolding itself as an audience. Bizarre, but insightful. 🗺 Camino Report Week 2: About beating weaknesses, sleeping in churches, 10PM night clocks and dealing with cancer in your family. 🍀www.budgetbucketlist.com/camino-week-2 #camino #caminodesantiago #caminofrances

Updated blog: Cameron Highlands for Free - incl. a full HIKING TRAIL GUIDE

Finally I got to try out one of those capsule hotels. Hostels, but better! A bit of privacy and more snore-protection 💤

Hashemite Kingdom, check!

I had a festival summer planned at Rockstadt (Romania), Summer Breeze (Germany) and Bloodstock (UK)... until life happened and I just go straight back to the Netherlands after half a Rockstadt to be there for my family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧🇳🇱

New blog: All the free things to do in Aachen! Check it out and start your free Germany trip.

Honduras. A place of interest, not of fear.