- Time of past OR future Camino
- some and then more. see my signature.
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Without having read the articles... I think it is easy for them to blend in (if they are not walking with their crowns, suits and gala dresses. High heels down to Zubiri is not advisable). I for one would never recognize them. Just thinking about the entourage; if the security staff gives them away in any way?
They have done a pretty good job in keeping their Camino walks low-key. And the press seem to have been helpful by running their stories mostly after the family have finished their walking for that year.
The Belgian royals started in 2017 with walking parts of the Camino Frances. ... I do not doubt their sincerity.
I am in the peculiar position of doing both! I am very fortunate in having the time to travel more or less at will with very few obligations to tie me to home. A very good friend has a demanding job and so has to fit his pilgrimage journeys into limited holiday times. Although I mostly walk solo for many years now Andy and I have met up once a year to walk a pilgrim route for a week or 10 days or so. Last summer we started together from SJPDP and walked as far as Logroño. We are booked to return for more this summer - perhaps as far as Fromista. At this rate it may be another three or four years until we reach Santiago together though I may have made the journey several times alone in that period.And, whether one walks for a week at a time over many years or 'in one go' is not relevant to the sincerity of one's Camino ...
Aah ... to be so young.Thank you @Pelerina for your thoughtful words.
Most working people in Belgium I know walk the Camino that way.It is also my intention to start next year that way seeing earliest date for getting me pension is only in 2033.
Yes! I hope they can walk without being bothered or pursued. I'm sorry they have to miss out on communal Pilgrim meals and albergue life, but I hope they benefit from the Pilgrimage.European royals, in fact all Europeans, have a right to private life and to be left alone when they are not in an official function.
Yes! I hope they can walk without being bothered or pursued. I'm sorry they have to miss out on communal Pilgrim meals and albergue life, but I hope they benefit from the Pilgrimage.
miss out on communal Pilgrim meals and albergue life
Thank you, and apologies: I realise I phrased my previous post rather badly - of course you still benefit from a Camino, regardless of where you sleep or eat. I think I was trying to say something about being left in peace to walk as one wishes, whatever that looks like, regardless of one's "day job." And I was probably projecting a bit of my own ego, mea culpa. Bon Chemin!Well I can only speak for myself but more often than not I choose private places and no comunal meals and I still benefit from a Camino.
I guess they don't want the question "What do you do for a living" at the table since it would out them...
Or maybe they just tell it how it is if they are asked? What do I know...
He is retired from the military and now a painter. She is a speech therapist.
He is retired from the military and now a painter. She is a speech therapist.
I guess they don't want the question "What do you do for a living" at the table since it would out them...
Or maybe they just tell it how it is if they are asked? What do I know...
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