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Wow it sounds fantastic !On the Way we have a love, love that feels on the Way, love for nature, birds, tree...... And of course, love for other pilgrims. So I will give you three testimonies of love, three concrete examples.
Franko is from Pula, Croatia and when he first go to Way St. James felt impressed that he was thrilled for the second time. On this other pilgrimage, he met Andreu, she was from southern Spain and also pilgrimage to St. Jacob. During the Way acquaintance has grown into love and they decided to marry. For the third time they went together to pilgrimage seeking a place on the Way where they would live. They found him at Bercianos del Real Camino, opened a bar, got a daughter and satisfied, happy and in love, live their Way farther.
The second story leads us to Labor del Rey, a small place where along the Way is arranged a small garden with a camping house turned into a catering facility. Guided by Mary, she is from Sofia, Bulgaria, who started pilgrimage four years ago, met Rodriga, walked and finished pilgrimages together and stayed together on the Way as Franko and Andrea did.
The third story is from Ambasmestas. I chose this place to stay when I was planning my Way and it was a little strange that the proprietress called Irina. When I came to the alberge I meet Irina and her husband Sergia. He is a Spaniard and she is Russians from Saint Petersburg. They met on pilgrimage, married, rented a place, still arranging it, and as they said, "Live our dream, stay on the Way all the time."
Do you know some love story from the Way?
On the Way we have a love, love that feels on the Way, love for nature, birds, tree...... And of course, love for other pilgrims. So I will give you three testimonies of love, three concrete examples.
Franko is from Pula, Croatia and when he first go to Way St. James felt impressed that he was thrilled for the second time. On this other pilgrimage, he met Andreu, she was from southern Spain and also pilgrimage to St. Jacob. During the Way acquaintance has grown into love and they decided to marry. For the third time they went together to pilgrimage seeking a place on the Way where they would live. They found him at Bercianos del Real Camino, opened a bar, got a daughter and satisfied, happy and in love, live their Way farther.
The second story leads us to Labor del Rey, a small place where along the Way is arranged a small garden with a camping house turned into a catering facility. Guided by Mary, she is from Sofia, Bulgaria, who started pilgrimage four years ago, met Rodriga, walked and finished pilgrimages together and stayed together on the Way as Franko and Andrea did.
The third story is from Ambasmestas. I chose this place to stay when I was planning my Way and it was a little strange that the proprietress called Irina. When I came to the alberge I meet Irina and her husband Sergia. He is a Spaniard and she is Russians from Saint Petersburg. They met on pilgrimage, married, rented a place, still arranging it, and as they said, "Live our dream, stay on the Way all the time."
Do you know some love story from the Way?
Bert, welcome aboard, your first post [and a good one]. Thank you, y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.On my first Camino, 2003 . . .
Simply beautiful!I had stopped to take a selfie. I was fiddling with my cell phone when I heard a sweet voice ask, "Do you need any help?" Since I was finished I replied, "No, but thank you anyway." I then put down my phone to see the most beautiful woman in the world. I introduced myself and we began walking. And that turned into lunch together. Which led to dinner that night. And more walking the next day. And the day after.
By the time we got to Santiago, we were in love. And my plans to travel around Portugal before I flew home were out the door. Instead I was on a plane to Frankfurt, Germany to meet her family and friends.
And that's how I met my wife.
Walked the Camino Frances for second time August and September 2016. Felt very uneasy in Church in Santiago and felt I must leave for Finisterre as soon as possible. At daylight the next morning I was walking east to the end Of the world. I was walking along a dirt path and saw a "Shell" lying in the leaves on the left of the path. Picked it up and put it in a pocket.
about an hour later I came upon a German woman rearranging her pack and stopped to talk to her. We walked together for a while and I noticed she did NOT have a "shell" on her pack. Asked her why she did not have a shell and she replied. "I have a friend who is a mystic and she told me to not buy a shell as a man who would be important in my life would give me a shell.
Pulled the shell out of my pocket and gave it to her.
On Easter Sunday, 2017, We left Santiago to walk to the End of the Earth again--- where I proposed to her.
She arrived here in Pennsylvania with her two children on Christmas Eve, 2017.
Today we are going to the local court house to pick up our marriage license.
So well said. My heart is broken leaving my beloved friends behind.These are wonderful stories, and I love reading them. Thanks for starting this thread. I do think, however, that there are many kinds of love besides romantic love, as you mention with nature. I fell in love over and over again along the Way. Not in the romantic sense, but in the real sense of true connection of souls, even if it lasted for a couple of hours. I also felt love coming from the earth below me and often felt my heart swell with goodness and light. This is what I call "peregrino love" and it's what draws me back to the mystical Way over and over again.
Ultreia!
elle
I miss Sailor."Do you know some love story from the Way?" No, I don't, but I like your stories and I look forward to reading more stories from forum members. Thank you, y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.
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