Have we started our camino?

[rector]

Yesterday we drove from Belfast to Dublin and walked to St James Church and the Guinness Storehouse. We had our credentials stamped with three different stamps for our camino next month. My question, is aimed at the experts, those with learned and informed opinions. We had to drive the one hundred miles but we walked about 4-5 miles across Dublin from our very comfortable hotel. I do hope we have started because as has been stated on this forum Lent does not count when you are on the Camino, and we had some rather tasty, non Lent like tit-bits on the way. I hope for a positive response to this plea for absaloution for our actions. If were are already on our camino, does that mean we can eat what we want now?

 

[tpmchugh]

Yesterday we drove from Belfast to Dublin and walked to St James Church and the Guinness Storehouse. We had our credentials stamped with three different stamps for our camino next month. My question, is aimed at the experts, those with learned and informed opinions. We had to drive the one hundred miles but we walked about 4-5 miles across Dublin from our very comfortable hotel. I do hope we have started because as has been stated on this forum Lent does not count when you are on the Camino, and we had some rather tasty, non Lent like tit-bits on the way. I hope for a positive response to this plea for absaloution for our actions. If were are already on our camino, does that mean we can eat what we want now?

Of course you have started YOUR Camino. I started the second part of mine the same way last August although I didn't fly out until Sept. Only difference was I drove down in my motorhome to St James's church. In my record of my journey I have a photo of the scallop shell high up on the front wall as the first pic of my camino. As for lent. Dont know who told you it didn't count on the camino. You will put up with more hardships and penance than you have ever done in any lent in your life so in fact its lent all year round over there. Only three meals a day if you are lucky and a bottle of cheap but tasty wine with dinner but if you have just walked up to 30k a day, its not exactly over indulgence. As to what you can eat now, enjoy your lenten rations, its probably more than you will eat in Spain

 

[rector]

I have add this is our second Frances we did it in 2011 but we just bought boots and a rucksack each jumped on a plane and started waking we did not know that you had to do all this planning

 

[weekjchammings]

Yesterday we drove from Belfast to Dublin and walked to St James Church and the Guinness Storehouse. We had our credentials stamped with three different stamps for our camino next month. My question, is aimed at the experts, those with learned and informed opinions. We had to drive the one hundred miles but we walked about 4-5 miles across Dublin from our very comfortable hotel. I do hope we have started because as has been stated on this forum Lent does not count when you are on the Camino, and we had some rather tasty, non Lent like tit-bits on the way. I hope for a positive response to this plea for absaloution for our actions. If were are already on our camino, does that mean we can eat what we want now?

I maybe a purist when it comes to starting a Camino, but surely the first sellos on your credential is from where you started walking from. I have read about pilgrims on buses, taxis but never planes to ease their journey. How many pints of Guinness ?
May we need to call on a higher being for judgement.................John Walker Officina de Peregrinos Santiago.

 

[tpmchugh]

I have add this is our second Frances we did it in 2011 but we just bought boots and a rucksack each jumped on a plane and started waking we did not know that you had to do all this planning

When I started last St Patricks day, I did the same. Made plans ok but they all got thrown out as the weather had turned really nasty in the pyrenees so we had to start from Pamplona so when my son and I started it was as if we had no planning done. We didn't know how we were getting from Biarritz to Pamplona, what time we would arrive and no real idea of where we were sleeping. Made it all the more memorable. I only walked as far as Burgos and flew home on Easter Sunday. Went down to Dublin in August, flew to Bilbao in September and started walking from Burgos. That was on a whim as my original plan was to wait until this year to finish. Now on another whim I have cleared my diary for next April to go back again, not that there was anything in my diary and I have never kept one in my life except on the Camino . How far did you get the first time or did you make it all the way?

 

[tpmchugh]

I maybe a purist when it comes to starting a Camino, but surely the first sellos on your credential is from where you started walking from. I have read about pilgrims on buses, taxis but never planes to ease their journey. How many pints of Guinness ?
May we need to call on a higher being for judgement.................John Walker Officina de Peregrinos Santiago.

Start it anywhere you want, anyway you want cause its nobody elses, its all yours. I have a scallop shell on my front door and until I walked back through it, I was, as far as I was concerned, still on my camino. I read about a many time peregrino who always went to Dublin for his first sello and when asked in Santiago where he had started from, he said Dublin and the office happily accepted that

 

[rector]

I maybe a purist when it comes to starting a Camino, but surely the first sellos on your credential is from where you started walking from. I have read about pilgrims on buses, taxis but never planes to ease their journey. How many pints of Guinness ?
May we need to call on a higher being for judgement.................John Walker Officina de Peregrinos Santiago.

That's where my confusion starts as well. and why I asked for learned opinion because mere mortals such as you and I are on dodgy ground when dealing with such questions but bear this in mind, this is where the Irish pilgrims set out from the gate St James Gate was a gate in the old walls Dublin walked through on their way to the boat and the pilgrimage is not the walking but rather the external and internal journey that is made

 

[rector]

When I started last St Patricks day, I did the same. Made plans ok but they all got thrown out as the weather had turned really nasty in the pyrenees so we had to start from Pamplona so when my son and I started it was as if we had no planning done. We didn't know how we were getting from Biarritz to Pamplona, what time we would arrive and no real idea of where we were sleeping. Made it all the more memorable. I only walked as far as Burgos and flew home on Easter Sunday. Went down to Dublin in August, flew to Bilbao in September and started walking from Burgos. That was on a whim as my original plan was to wait until this year to finish. Now on another whim I have cleared my diary for next April to go back again, not that there was anything in my diary and I have never kept one in my life except on the Camino . How far did you get the first time or did you make it all the way?

All the way and it was great. great walks Great food, Great people, Great experience, why we are doing it all again

 

[weekjchammings]

When I started last St Patricks day, I did the same. Made plans ok but they all got thrown out as the weather had turned really nasty in the pyrenees so we had to start from Pamplona so when my son and I started it was as if we had no planning done. We didn't know how we were getting from Biarritz to Pamplona, what time we would arrive and no real idea of where we were sleeping. Made it all the more memorable. I only walked as far as Burgos and flew home on Easter Sunday. Went down to Dublin in August, flew to Bilbao in September and started walking from Burgos. That was on a whim as my original plan was to wait until this year to finish. Now on another whim I have cleared my diary for next April to go back again, not that there was anything in my diary and I have never kept one in my life except on the Camino . How far did you get the first time or did you make it all the way?

Being primarily a long distance walker rather than solely a Camino walker I always start at the recognised start and finish at the end each year.

My very first Camino 2011 started in Le Puy en Velay and went via Camino Frances to Santiago, Muxia and Finisterre.
My second 2013 I walked out my back door in South Wales walking on water from Poole to St Malo through France and on again the Camino Frances etc.
My third 2014 will not start from Wales by train & plane until I reach Seville to start the Via de la Plata to Santiago etc.
My fourth is still in the planning stage.

 

[tpmchugh]

All the way and it was great. great walks Great food, Great people, Great experience, why we are doing it all again

Can I come too. Seriously, envy you, wish I had planned it for this year. I am going on a cruise soon and in all honesty I can say that I wish I had planned to go on the camino instead. When I finished at the start of October last I said never again. Could not fathom what brought these headcases back time after time. I still dont know but the camino just seems to be calling me back. Funny thing is its not the nice flat trails that keep coming to mind. Its the trek up to La Faba and O Cebreiro where I thought lying down and giving up the ghost was a good option. I am sure you probably get the same things said to you. Walking the camino at your age, are you mad. I will be 66 when next I go and mad I may be but I cant wait

 

[tpmchugh]

Being primarily a long distance walker rather than solely a Camino walker I always start at the recognised start and finish at the end.

My very first Camino 2011 started in Le Puy en Velay and went via Camino Frances to Santiago, Muxia and Finisterre.
My second 2013 I walked out my back door in South Wales walking on water from Poole to St Malo through France and on again the Camino Frances etc.
My third 2014 will not start from Wales by train & plane until I reach Seville to start the Via de la Plata to Santiago etc.

Only one answer to that, WOW. Would love to start at LePuy but I fear that would be beyond my capabilities. But you are wrong about one thing, finishing at the end. The camino obviously called you back just as it is calling me back so if I am any judge of character, I would say you are not finished yet my friend Buen Camino

 

[weekjchammings]

Only one answer to that, WOW. Would love to start at LePuy but I fear that would be beyond my capabilities. But you are wrong about one thing, finishing at the end. The camino obviously called you back just as it is calling me back so if I am any judge of character, I would say you are not finished yet my friend Buen Camino

I am planning one for 2018 when I will be 75.......You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Age does not matter, attitude does.
You and the rector are still embryos compared to many. Yes as I said you are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream even if you will be 80.

 

[rector]

I am planning one for 2018 when I will be 75.......You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Age does not matter, attitude does.
You and the rector are still embryos compared to many.

You have jumped to a bit of a conclusion there!!!!

 

[rector]

I am planning one for 2018 when I will be 75.......You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Age does not matter, attitude does.
You and the rector are still embryos compared to many.

I'm planning one in 2030 when I'm 80