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Bonjour. I am Frida. This is where I write about anxiety, art, trying to make art, anxiety associated with trying to make art, and other highly marketable stuff like that.
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Day 42 – wait. It’s over, isn’t it?
Drying your face with an actual terrycloth bath towel after six weeks of quick-dry microfiber malarkey – – – wow. I mean I like sex but....
Oct 18, 202210 min read
Day 39: As Seixas to Arzúa (29,6k)
Day 39 is a piss-up. No two ways about it. I get to Arzúa and all my faves are there. Aya Babe with posse, Waffles, even Fake Vegan and...
Oct 15, 20222 min read
Day 38: San Roman to As Seixas (13,7k)
Day 38 is another Female Energy Day. Waffles and Beard Braid walk ahead in the morning. My plan is to go sola but I start chatting to an...
Oct 13, 20223 min read
Day 36: A Cadavo to Lugo (30,7k)
Spoiler alert: my new self-image as Mother Theresa doesn’t last all that long. I wake up at seven thirty to find that almost everyone has...
Oct 12, 20223 min read
Day 35: Fonsagrada to A Cadavo (27,6k)
That kind of day. Six hours. Relentless. Two pairs of socks. Two failed plastic bag experiments. No albergues. Just kilometre upon...
Oct 11, 20222 min read
Day 33: Berducedo to Castro, plus the birth of Coffee Like Giraffes (28,5k)
Two things, amigos. One, we are now a WordPress! I guess it was totally time I left the lands of totally teenage aesthetics anyway. But...
Oct 9, 20225 min read
Day 32: Borres to Berducedo (26,5k, but OVER A MOUNTAIN)
Day 32 is beautiful, enchanted, hard. We decide to go via Hospitales, so all books and apps tell us to load up on supplies and stick...
Oct 8, 20224 min read
Day 31: Tineo to Borres (18,8k)
I sleep like a baby in the €5 Tineo public albergue (or “muni” as it is called in Camino; short for “municipal”), which, after two days...
Oct 8, 20223 min read
Day 30: Paradise to Tineo, via my twenties, Julio Cortazar’s back catalogue and the doctor’s office
Day 30! My Camino is all grown up. So yesterday’s notations were: Space – the holding of it, the taking up of it Art is everything Wear...
Oct 8, 20224 min read
Day 29: Paradise to Paradise, via the sky (3,8k)
“Art is everything. Wear leg jewellery!” That’s about it from today. #soulsearching #psychedelics #CaminodelNorte #travel #plantmedicines...
Oct 5, 20221 min read
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