Irish man missing on Camino Frances - now found

[hynese4]

Hi to all currently on the Camino,

An Irishman, flew to Paris on July 17th and travelled to the Pyrenees to begin his Camino. This would mean that he prob started the Camino on July 18th or 19th. There has been no contact between him and his family since 19th July when he was at Privat D'Allier. He mailed unnecessary items to a friend on July 21st and nothing has been heard from him by anyone since. If you have seen, met or talked to Vincent since July 19th can you please the police in France/Spain know. They are treating him as a missing person and are liasing together and with the Irish embassies. His family are hoping that it is a case that he has lost his phone and has been without coverage.

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[wayfarer]

He has been found thank God. All is well.

 

[hynese4]

Good to hear Wayfarer

 

[Deleted member 3000]

All was, and always was, well. The Camino provides. Sometimes it provides nervous mothers. I am embarrassed for the man, and delighted he is well.

 

[clearskiescamino]

Great to hear the good news! Can imagine how relieved his family must feel

 

[micamino73]

Lots of people who do the camino go excomunicado for days. Just zone out. Its pretty normal. We live around technology, sometimes getting away from it is a good thing. He should have told his mother if he did not want her to worry,

 

[taozenqi]

On a lighter note... There is a lesson here. Talk to family and friends before leaving and give them a clear picture of when/if/ frequency of expected communication on the camino. My family has usually worked on the premise that "no news is good news." In other words, don't "expect " to hear from me. When I'm traveling/hiking it's usually in remote areas and I rarely have a satellite phone with me.
Very happy that all was/is well in this case of the not-lost man from Ireland.

 

[dougfitz]

Sorry @wayfarer, I cannot see that not updating Facebook or ringing home for 10 days is really sound reasoning for declaring someone missing if you know they are doing the camino. Most national consular services are very thorough - I think they could have been relied on should anything untoward have happened. Perhaps his mum should have accepted that whether deliberately or inadvertently, he was just out of touch.

 

[Snake]

My take on it, was the folks back home may not have understood the Camino and some of the dead spots of communications either by geography or pilgrim wanting solace.

I'm glad he was found and eased mom's mind.




Buen Camino

"Snake"

 

[pilgrim b]

My sentiments precisely Snake !

 

[grayland]

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Added: This thread was closed as there is another thread on the same subject.