Are you a secret Julie Andrews????

[David]

Just asking ......

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

I did this last week , exept for the dancing part.

Wish you happy dancing , Peter .

 

[hel&scott]

Um no, though I did once inadvertently roll down a hill and face plant in a ditch full of nettles. Nothing really hurt other then my pride.

 

[SabsP]

Just asking ......

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Ah David : Is it already the Christmas holidays? No, I don't think so... So restrain yourself...

 

[Annie Little]

Ah David : Is it already the Christmas holidays? No, I don't think so... So restrain yourself...

No need to restrain ourselves EVER ...

 

[Annie Little]

AND YES !!! I did sing and dance on Camino ... why not !!!

 

[HedaP]

“Kathryn walked a way down the mountainside and staggered up, arms outstretched and all we could hear was a faint, “The hills (puff) are (puff) alive (puff, puff), with (puff, puff, puff) the (puff) sound of (puff, puff), moooosicc”

Excerpt From
The Kiwi Sisters' Camino de Santiago
Sue Dwan

This is from day 1 to Orisson. Can sooo sympathise.

 

[edandjoan]

Yep!

 

[Dave2525]

Absolutely. We were singing a bouncy Christmas tune in September when we got overtaken by a fellow peregrino. I don't think we were dancing at that particular time though.

 

[aisbr]

I sang the whole way along my recent trip on the via de la plata. Felt safe in doing so because I thought there was no one near. Many a cyclist caught me out!! and I think I scared a few spanish farmers and animals along the way too!! Hard not to sing as I was in such good spirits.

 

[yaying]

hmmm...how i wish to sway with capt von trapp... lalalalala

 

[LesBrass]

well... somewhere between Roncevalles and Zubiri... I couldn't stop myself

 

[rappahannock_rev]

On my first Camino in 2012, cresting the high ground between Manjarin and El Acebo, I was simply overcome by the beauty of God's creation, and how blessed I was to be able to walk the Way. Some lines from the Morning Office, from the Benedicite, omnia opera Domini, came spontaneously into my head -- and I sang them all the way down the mountain!

A rare, precious, ecstatic, charismatic moment for someone normally buttoned-down very tightly!

 

[Aidan21]

In July 2016, on a number of occasions between Ponferrada and Sarria, one Italian man, one French lady, one Spanish lady, one German man and myself were lead by two Norwegian primary school teachers (both ladies) in singing the following song as we walked/danced our way along the road. It was like something out of the Pied Piper, but a moment I will always remember and treasure (Does that count??)

I love the mountains.
I love the rolling hills.
I love the flowers.
I love the daffodils.
I love the fireside.
When all the lights are low.

Boom dee ah dah. Boom dee ah dah.
Boom dee ah dah. Boom dee ah dah.
Boom dee ah dah. Boom dee ah dah.
Boom dee ah dah. Boom dee ah dah.

 

[Jen Fawkes]

I certainly do, in my head. But the sound that comes out of my mouth is never as beautiful

 

[nycwalking]

In 2002, sang commercial jingles with fellow pilgrims. But, when I am alone: Ninja warrior I become. My trek pole becomes a sword and I am slaying dragons at every turn.

 

[DavidJ1215]

My solo singing is usually only heard in the bath but found myself happily singing on the way especially when not within earshot of others !

 

[Anniesantiago]

In July 2016, on a number of occasions between Ponferrada and Sarria, one Italian man, one French lady, one Spanish lady, one German man and myself were lead by two Norwegian primary school teachers (both ladies) in singing the following song as we walked/danced our way along the road. It was like something out of the Pied Piper, but a moment I will always remember and treasure (Does that count??)

I love the mountains.
I love the rolling hills.
I love the flowers.
I love the daffodils.
I love the fireside.
When all the lights are low.

Boom dee ah dah. Boom dee ah dah.
Boom dee ah dah. Boom dee ah dah.
Boom dee ah dah. Boom dee ah dah.
Boom dee ah dah. Boom dee ah dah.

Lol! That's an old camp song I sang in Brownies about half a century ago!
(before they kicked me out)

 

[jerbear]

Da hills are alive wit da sound of music

 

[Icacos]

Yesterday, while hiking, I found myself humming 'You take the high road, and I'll take the low road.' Or is it the other way around ....?

 

[CdnDreamer]

I sang, I twirled, I tap danced all while singing loudly and hoping no one caught me! On my first camino my friend and I sang the brownie song "I met a bear" when we needed more energy to finish off the day's walk. On my second camino I was often dancing to the songs "Happy" and "Say What You Wanna Say" - sometimes dancing right behind other pilgrims who never turned around. I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one having fun on the trail!

 

[VNwalking]

This whole thread makes me smile this morning.
All that warbling along the way. I do it too, sometimes, which is one reason I like to walk alone. Things come out of the deep recesses of the mind that I haven't thought about for decades. "For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies........" Things like that.
If I ever come around a corner to find a Ninja warrior, I'll know it's you @nycwalking .
And @hel&scott . . . ouch.

 

[hel&scott]

Scott used to get our packs ready a week or two before the Camino and leave them by the door ready to go... And then he could be heard signing "Our bags are packed and I'm ready to go, the taxis called for the early morn, cause we're leaving on a jet plane, leaving on a jet plane" for days. When we finally did get into the taxi to take us to the airport the pair of us would come out of the house singing that song at the top of our lungs.

 

[Rebekah Scott]

I ALWAYS get songs stuck in my head when I walk. Singing is the only way to work them out. And when/if I ever pass that way again, that song always comes back to me! Thus: two weeks ago I walked a bit of the Camino Madrid with Kanga and a merry little troupe, and me and an upright lawyer from Hong Kong sang every word of "Just One of Those Things."
For me, the road into Villalon de Campos will forever echo with that tune.

 

[Jersey]

If anyone comes across me whirling on the Camino,
please call a doctor for me lol

 

[GreatDane]

No but I do know most of the words to most Julie Andrews Broadway and movie songs and sing them while I hike! (Camelot, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Souud of Music)

 

[Carlos Santiago]

It would be ...

Freude, schöner Götterfunken
Tochter aus Elysium
Wir betreten feuertrunken
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!

(repeat and repeat)
Oh boy! I better memorize the rest of this ode.

 

[nycwalking]

If anyone comes across me whirling on the Camino,
please call a doctor for me lol

No, NY, NY renditions a la Sinatra? Pooh!

 

[Turga]

I ALWAYS get songs stuck in my head when I walk.

Me too. But I only sing silently in my head. A friend of mine once said that when I sing aloud my voice sounds “like a goose fart on a muggy day” (she is still my good friend )

 

[Prentiss Riddle]

I'm not Julie Andrews, but I confess I've considered walking with a travel uke...

http://www.ukulelemag.com/gear-reviews/roundup-and-video-of-3-go-anywhere-plastic-ukes

 

[HeidiL]

So far, I haven't sung and danced at the same time on the Camino - but I did dance at the 100 km marker on our first Francés, and I've done a lot of singing, all over the place...

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Surely all pilgrims secretly desire to whirl like Julie Andrews hiking through alpine meadows.

Just asking ......

Not me. Here she is explaining why:

 

[Bala]

Not me. Here she is explaining why:

Great story!!

 

[suzie Gibbons]

Just asking ......

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Absolutely! Every time I saw a mountain range ahead!!

 

[Saunterr]

Glad to know I'm not the only one who sings and dances when she thinks she's alone. I used the time alone hiking the VDLP to learn some Kirtan songs in Sanskrit--no wonder the cows gave me wide berth!

 

[MichelleElynHogan]

Actually, I had that outfit made for me. And I am also a singer and a ginger.

"The hills are alive....."

 

[Tracying]

I get a desire to sing in small churches....and have done when I know I am alone. Usually Marble Halls something in Irish or some Enya.
I did get "caught" having a Sound of Music moment but it wasn't dancing. I made myself a casual sheer top for a holiday, to make my jeans and vest top look respectable, it went over the vest top to posh it up without adding an extra heat layer. We were checking into a hotel and I got really weird stares from everyone. My new top was made from the same fabric as their curtains...yep, I was wearing the curtains.