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I will be passing through Montreal on April 5th via Air Canada to London. Starting from SJPP on April 8th. Buen Camino!Going to pick up our Credentials on Saturday 5th of April during a small Ceremony sponsored by our local "Québec to Compostelle" Association. Our flight to Paris leaves Montréal on the 18th of April and we will start walking on the 20th of April 2014.
Going to pick up our Credentials on Saturday 5th of April during a small Ceremony sponsored by our local "Québec to Compostelle" Association. Our flight to Paris leaves Montréal on the 18th of April and we will start walking on the 20th of April 2014.
I start my first camino on April 27th, 2014.
Can I ask what these credentials are that you are picking up on April 5th?
As far as I am aware of all I need to bring with me in my travel passport. All other documents are acquired at Saint Jean at the pilgrim office such as the pilgrim passport.
Am I missing something?
He will find many Francophiles on the Camino. My advice to him would be to quickly find his Camino family among them so that he may start with one less worry. I predict that he'll be picking up basic Spanish phrases very quickly once he gets started. Buen Camino to all in the photo.... youngest is 18 years old (his first solo trip abroad and he is a bit nervous with no Spanish and very little English...
That's funny -- while I now live in Colorado, I grew up and spent most of my life in Texas. I never saw or heard the term "Texas Gate" until I was in the campground at Lake Louise in Banff National Park in British Columbia. In Texas, we called them cattle guards. If you walk the Napoleon route from SJPP to Roncesvalles, you'll pass one at the border between France and Spain -- I wonder if the Spanish call it a "French Gate" or the French call it a "Spanish Gate"?...The Canadian Gate also known as the Texas Gate in the USA has its origin in Western Areas of North America.
I start my first camino on April 27th, 2014.
Can I ask what these credentials are that you are picking up on April 5th?
As far as I am aware of all I need to bring with me in my travel passport. All other documents are acquired at Saint Jean at the pilgrim office such as the pilgrim passport.
Am I missing something?
My wife Lynne and I are also starting April 27 th.
We'll probably run into each other. We live in London On.
You are never behind schedule on the Camino. Listen to the pace the Camino is giving to you.Not a spiritual or religious journey for us anymore. It is now just a matter of survival, looking down three feet ahead of us and putting one foot ahead of the other. We are now in Viana, 2 days behind our schedule.
Ultreya, JP!Not a spiritual or religious journey for us anymore. It is now just a matter of survival, looking down three feet ahead of us and putting one foot ahead of the other. We are now in Viana, 2 days behind our schedule.
JP,Not a spiritual or religious journey for us anymore. It is now just a matter of survival, looking down three feet ahead of us and putting one foot ahead of the other. We are now in Viana, 2 days behind our schedule.
Mary,JP,
You have been on my mind ever since I read your post. I don't know what you are going through physically because I have not yet done my Camino. It is coming in September. I have read, though, that the first third of the Camino purifies our bodies. At first a pilgrim is only aware of his physical nature and discomfort. The second part purifies our minds. Our bodies have become physically adjusted to the rigors of the path and our minds and emotions are free to process whatever is troubling or deeply buried. Finally, the third part, the spiritual part, surfaces after our bodies and minds have been purified. As I said, JP, I can't speak from experience, but I expect that might be the truth. Hopefully very soon your body will be adjusted. Wishing you a Buen Camino!
Mary
Hi, Indyinmaine.Mary,
Where did you read this? I'm not sure how Sarria fits into the third part but other than that, I like the simile.
Pace e bene!Hi, Indyinmaine.
The first time I came across the idea was in a YouTube video. It's a 75 minute video, so I checked for you. The description I mentioned came at 19:20 and lasts about a minute.
I believe I have encountered this same concept in my readings, too, but can't think where exactly. If you have read Father Kevin Codd's book To the Field of Stars: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela (Thanks, @RobertS26 for the recommendation!) you will find the theme at least is similar, if not expressly stated.
I'm not sure how the pilgrim experience from Sarria works as I very much doubt one can condense the "cleansing" experience. I imagine from Sarria one would just experience the physical, but not having walked a mile of the Camino, I am not at all qualified to say!
Mary
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