marian55
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- camino de madrif
hi everyone!
I am Marian (55), from Holland. My husband (59) and I are planning our first Camino. We will start at Madrid. This year we will walk to Segovia. After a long period of not walking due to an achille and ankle injury this will be my test....
At this moment I am training with a therapist to get my ankle and achille stronger. Very hopefull...
But old injuries and walking long distances....prove is always in reality ....
It's not our first pilgrimage. We did several long distance walks and many, many daywalks to different Sanctuaries. For 10 years we walked together with our daughter (in wheelchair). But also with her, we walked distances. In 2000 we walked for example from Holland to Beauraing, which is a Marial Sanctuary. (250 km in 14 days). For my daughter (5 years old at that time) it was the journey of a lifetime. Now she will be with us as our guardian angel....
She (10 years, almost eleven) died in 2005 on a ferry during a pilgrimage in Greece. (by car, because in that period she used oxygen etc.)
So, wish me luck! I very very much would like to do this. If I can walk to the Puerta de la Fuenfria...there is a good chance I can do it. Further, we have planned to do the Madrid part in 3 years. Each time one week. After that ...we hope that my husband will take his pension...so we can walk the part from Sahagun in one journey. So this journey is also a journey...towards his/our retirement...kind of a bridge.
"If we can"..... we have learned -at least twice- in a hard way, that life is not always as you wish....
Two years ago we wanted to make a pilgrimage to Cappadocia. While preparing for our leave which should be a few days later, I saw my husband becoming very grey in his face...just for a split second. A visit, to a doctor (which my husband only did to calme me, as he felt no problem) proofed heartproblems. In the hospital they told us, after an emergency operation, that he would never have returned from this pilgrimage to Cappadocia if we would have left.....
Now he is in good condition again...as new, like his cardiologist said.
So, for those who plan to take the road.... take care of yourself and others but travel with a heart without fear.
greetings! from...... just one of many pilgrims.
as were .....my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother
I am Marian (55), from Holland. My husband (59) and I are planning our first Camino. We will start at Madrid. This year we will walk to Segovia. After a long period of not walking due to an achille and ankle injury this will be my test....
At this moment I am training with a therapist to get my ankle and achille stronger. Very hopefull...
But old injuries and walking long distances....prove is always in reality ....
It's not our first pilgrimage. We did several long distance walks and many, many daywalks to different Sanctuaries. For 10 years we walked together with our daughter (in wheelchair). But also with her, we walked distances. In 2000 we walked for example from Holland to Beauraing, which is a Marial Sanctuary. (250 km in 14 days). For my daughter (5 years old at that time) it was the journey of a lifetime. Now she will be with us as our guardian angel....
She (10 years, almost eleven) died in 2005 on a ferry during a pilgrimage in Greece. (by car, because in that period she used oxygen etc.)
So, wish me luck! I very very much would like to do this. If I can walk to the Puerta de la Fuenfria...there is a good chance I can do it. Further, we have planned to do the Madrid part in 3 years. Each time one week. After that ...we hope that my husband will take his pension...so we can walk the part from Sahagun in one journey. So this journey is also a journey...towards his/our retirement...kind of a bridge.
"If we can"..... we have learned -at least twice- in a hard way, that life is not always as you wish....
Two years ago we wanted to make a pilgrimage to Cappadocia. While preparing for our leave which should be a few days later, I saw my husband becoming very grey in his face...just for a split second. A visit, to a doctor (which my husband only did to calme me, as he felt no problem) proofed heartproblems. In the hospital they told us, after an emergency operation, that he would never have returned from this pilgrimage to Cappadocia if we would have left.....
Now he is in good condition again...as new, like his cardiologist said.
So, for those who plan to take the road.... take care of yourself and others but travel with a heart without fear.
greetings! from...... just one of many pilgrims.
as were .....my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother
