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Songs to workout and trek to for your Camino!

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Looking for some music to add to your track listings?  Songs with beat that are fun to venture outdoors to?  Since 2019 we have released a soundtrack of music that we enjoyed while training and preparing to trek across Canada on the world's longest recreational pathway - the 27,000 km long Great Trail. We used many of these songs preparing to get in shape to hike on the Camino Frances in 2016, GR65 / Via Podiensis in 2017, and Camino Portuguese in 2019!  We have been sharing them one month at a time over the past two years as we have crossed 7 provinces and 6500 km of Canada. As you listen you'll likely find that many of these songs have a distinctly Canadian feel to them!  Regardless, here is a year's worth of our soundtrack choices to keep you going until we can all return and meet again on the Camino!    As spring is here, and many might be headed outdoors for a bike ride, a jog, or hike we thought we would take opportunity to re-release our complete song listings – in

Homeward Bound : Santiago Spain to Toronto Canada

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Today involved our long return to the supposedly 'normal' or 'civilized' world.   This is always one of our hardest and least favourite days of any Camino.   Perhaps this simply means we need to work harder to keep the spirit of the Camino alive in our daily lives.   Despite our best intentions, in a world that moves so quickly, is so goal oriented and narrowly focused, and in which people seem increasingly focused on their own needs and oblivious to each other, we still find this difficult.   We awoke at 4 am, and headed downstairs to the 24 hour buffet in the lounge to select some breakfast.   We found fruit, yogurt, toast, jam, orange juice, and coffee.   Although we weren't really too hungry yet, we ate breakfast in anticipation of the longish day ahead.   By 5 am we had checked out and were getting into the taxi the hotel had called to take us to the airport. One aspect of the Camino that people value is that it provides a different perspective