How do I get my hat back

[Ewald Schmidt]

Hi friends, I finished today and got my Campostela
There was just one tradegy, I left my favourite hat hanging over the chair on the last day between Pedroza Arca to Santiago, in Hotel Restaurante Amenal, just after jou went under the highway trough the bridge. It is brown canvas, and has a South African flag on it. If anyone finishes tomorrow or SUNDAY, please bring it along? I will be in Roots and Boots on Sunday, but Monday will be on my way back home. If you can find it, and would be prepared to post it to me, I would naturally repay your costs.

 

[grayland]

I feel your pain!
I lost my favorite hat in 2009. I had taken it off and tucked it under my pack strap as I came thru Villafranca from Cacabelos. I didn't remember it until Vega de Valcarce.
I really miss that hat. It had been with me all over the world. :|

Good luck on getting lucky and someone on the forum finds it.

 

[jpflavin1]

Ewald:

Seems simple to me. If the hat was that special, I would, first, call the Hotel restaurant and make sure it was there. If they said yes, I would then do one of two things. Go get it (less than 20km) or ask them to give it to another Pilgrim to bring to Santiago.

Ultreya,
Joe

 

[GilbertJ]

Ewald-

I feel for you, as we have all had similar experiences in our lives. However, one of the lessons that may be learned from your great accomplishment is that, while there are many important things to us (and rightly so), in a sense this loss may help you to realize that things-even ones very important to us-are not as significant as we may think. This is the part about letting go.

This was brought to me very forcefully on my Camino. I had brought a pebble from home to leave on the Camino to commemorate the loss of a son a number of years ago. When I came to the place, I could not find the pebble. I was obviously shaken by this, but not for long. The point was not that I had lost the pebble-it was that I was standing where I was, for a purpose important to me. The pebble was not that important-the reasons were.

So-how important is the hat loss in proportion to your success?

 

[grayland]

Ewald-

snip....-are not as significant as we may think. This is the part about letting go....snip

:shock: I have never let go of that hat...except that I somehow must have let go long enough to lose it. I still miss that hat and will not forget it easily. :shock:

 

[Ewald Schmidt]

I had brought a pebble from home to leave on the Camino to commemorate the loss of a son a number of years ago. When I came to the place, I could not find the pebble. I was obviously shaken by this, but not for long. The point was not that I had lost the pebble-it was that I was standing where I was, for a purpose important to me. The pebble was not that important-the reasons were.

So-how important is the hat loss in proportion to your success?

Hi Gilbert, thanks for a very good contribution to my question, and you are completely right. You just put it in perspective again, and thanks for that. I am sorry for your loss, but it seems that you also have discovered some healing along the way?

 

[Caminando]

"Imagine no possessions"......

John Lennon

 

[Br. David]

Three years ago I gave my hat to a Swedish (or was it Norwegian?) chap who had lost his. He was almost bald and already quite red. It was at one of my first aid halts. He took my address and promised to post it back to me.

I never heard a thing .. then, a year later, two days before going to the Camino Frances to set up I received a parcel from Sweden (or was it Norway?) with my hat in it.
Not only that but a series of photographs of my hat going all the way to Santiago! Plus 20 euros to help me with the first aid/tea-and-sympathy halts I was just leaving to do - what a great surprise, what a great guy! :lol:

 

[Ewald Schmidt]

"Imagine no possessions"......

John Lennon

Hi CAminando- are you one of those legendary people I just heard about, walking the Camino naked? No possessions? :lol:

 

[Caminando]

Aw Ewald! Relax, it's only a hat!

The idea of a naked camino will surely be tried one day. :wink: Among the costume pilgs, unicyclists, joggers etc. Life's rich tapestry!

Buen camino!

 

[Deleted member 3000]

I will have to think about nude caminos, but I am pretty certain that airport security lines would disappear if everyone wore a Speedo.

 

[SabsP]

Aw Ewald! Relax, it's only a hat!

The idea of a naked camino will surely be tried one day. :wink: Among the costume pilgs, unicyclists, joggers etc. Life's rich tapestry!

Buen camino!

Already in Germany : walking paths for nudists...
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail ... 110601_068
Don't click on the article if you don't want to see graphic pics!