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- First one in 2005 from Moissac, France.
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Hi - I was just idly thinking about those two pilgrims who became lost trying to get to Roncesvalles and although there were roads and farm tracks all around them they stayed lost for five days ....
.. we had fun with posting about them .. but I was thinking how, as humans, we all do stupid/silly things every now and then ..
I mean .. take a look at these two workmen. Think they could get to Santiago??
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Or perhaps it's a good thing I'm not working with them.It took me forever to figure this out. Too early in the morning perhaps!!
I don't get it.Hi - I was just idly thinking about those two pilgrims who became lost trying to get to Roncesvalles and although there were roads and farm tracks all around them they stayed lost for five days ....
.. we had fun with posting about them .. but I was thinking how, as humans, we all do stupid/silly things every now and then ..
I mean .. take a look at these two workmen. Think they could get to Santiago??
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Try and figure out how they are going to get the van out of the space once they have fitted all the bollards..............I don't get it.
Maybe it's hard to see on my phone?
Thanks. I see it now.Try and figure out how they are going to get the van out of the space once they have fitted all the bollards..............
Hey, don't let the truth get in the way of a good story!Some of the bollards come up so that vehicles can access the area.
I didn't know about those pilgrims lost for five days between SJPdP and Roncesvalles.Hi - I was just idly thinking about those two pilgrims who became lost trying to get to Roncesvalles and although there were roads and farm tracks all around them they stayed lost for five days ....
.. we had fun with posting about them .. but I was thinking how, as humans, we all do stupid/silly things every now and then ..
I mean .. take a look at these two workmen. Think they could get to Santiago??
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Me too! I've already had three coffees.It took me forever to figure this out. Too early in the morning perhaps!!
ok, then i want to share one of my old favorites (please don't tell me if it's photo-shopped)...i think of it often when we are discussing the Primitivo
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edit: I also wonder about it as I drive down the highway from my house and see the bear crossing signs
I didn't know about those pilgrims lost for five days between SJPdP and Roncesvalles.
Damn, one would have to work really hard to get lost in the first place, let alone stay lost that long. It's hardly a wilderness.
Briljant, keep them busy.Hi - I was just idly thinking about those two pilgrims who became lost trying to get to Roncesvalles and although there were roads and farm tracks all around them they stayed lost for five days ....
.. we had fun with posting about them .. but I was thinking how, as humans, we all do stupid/silly things every now and then ..
I mean .. take a look at these two workmen. Think they could get to Santiago??
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So great.ok, then i want to share one of my old favorites (please don't tell me if it's photo-shopped)...i think of it often when we are discussing the Primitivo
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edit: I also wonder about it as I drive down the highway from my house and see the bear crossing signs
I think it is great that you have bear crossing places where you live, but who taught the bears to read?
This radio phone call is about deer crossings
I think it is great that you have bear crossing places where you live, but who taught the bears to read?
This radio phone call is about deer crossings
Of course it's a prank initiated by the radio station. Snopes is again your friend: http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/deercrossing.asp
why do I get the feeling @Kathar1na is the aunt that tells the little ones all about Santa ClausOf course it's a prank initiated by the radio station. Snopes is again your friend: http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/deercrossing.asp
I've heard redheads have tender skin...you should be more carefulI was starting to wonder who we would eat first.
there's actually a deer crossing sign with the bear crossing sign...i keep waiting for deer to go running past followed by the bears, and having to explain to my insurance what happened to my poor tiny carI think it is great that you have bear crossing places where you live, but who taught the bears to read?
This radio phone call is about deer crossings
mama and her crew just cooling off on a hot day...ok, then i want to share one of my old favorites (please don't tell me if it's photo-shopped)...i think of it often when we are discussing the Primitivo
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edit: I also wonder about it as I drive down the highway from my house and see the bear crossing signs
I know its been covered on a forum thread before, but my understanding is that the two lost pilgrims this past August deliberately left the path. Very foolish.If you are surrounded by snow and for that reason in the middle of the Pyrenees and not knowing where you are, yes you would get lost, I remember in 2013, after peaple where warned by the authority not to go to Roncesvalle via the Napoleon route but to take the lower road, (there was a snow storm going on at the top), three pilgrims that didn't act on the warning, had a sad end; two died and one had his feet cut off course frost. Whe you get that sort of weather, you loose visibility and not knowing the territory you are lost, you stop and you could die. So those two peaple they where very lucky.
Be careful and buen camino
I would agree, but perhaps add 'if it is safe to turn around'...if the road and markers are obscured in both directions, before possibly wandering even further from the path it may be best to set up shelter and wait for rescue.There is a point when an intelligent person turns around and saves the walk for another day.
I got lost leaving Granon. There I was ... outstanding ... in a field.
This radio phone call is about deer crossings
If this is a prank initiated by the radio station, is this a prank too?Of course it's a prank initiated by the radio station. Snopes is again your friend: http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/deercrossing.asp
Hi Kanga -We had a Darwinian moment on our recent trip outback. There we were on a remote unsealed bush track, in the middle of no-where. The car was a well equipped, so we though, four-wheel drive. We stopped (can't remember why) and decided to have a nice hot cuppa. That electric coil so beloved by some forum members got plugged in and a decent size jug of water boiled; enough for our four person excursion. All good. Time to go. Key turned in ignition. Silence. Nothing. Not even a cough.
Do Not Plug Electric Coil Into Car Battery Outlet when the engine is off. Because if you do, and you leave it on to boil a large jug of water, you may have no battery left.
Which was interesting as we were far from help, had no mobile phone reception, no emergency power pack, and not even jumper leads.
Luckily a car did eventually come along and gave one of us a lift into the nearest centre of population (ie 10 people) and a mechanic was found who drove out and got us going again.
I was starting to wonder who we would eat first.
Not their own problem if they got lost and resources need to respond to rescue them. Their problem becomes other's problem. There is always some risk in rescuing someone, not to mention the cost (helicopters don't fly cheap).Perhaps they saw a deer crossing or a bear?
Don't you think it's their own problem that they got lost? At least they were rescued.
LOL>>>LOL>>>LOL....love it.ok, then i want to share one of my old favorites (please don't tell me if it's photo-shopped)...i think of it often when we are discussing the Primitivo
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edit: I also wonder about it as I drive down the highway from my house and see the bear crossing signs
Not their own problem if they got lost and resources need to respond to rescue them. Their problem becomes other's problem. There is always some risk in rescuing someone, not to mention the cost (helicopters don't fly cheap).
Exactly, if it were the latter here, she was pretty darned near spectacular!!......That's the trouble with fools - you sometimes just don't know for sure whether they are fools or fooling you ....
Ain't judging..... Besides, to judge someone means one reaches a conclusion about them. For instance, good or bad. Moral or immoral. Any criticism on someone for walking across the Pyrenees in bad weather is based on that specific action, not the person. Doesn't mean one thinks the person is bad, but instead it's an opinion on that specific action they did. The action does not necessarily define the person.No helicopters are not cheap but there is a reason they are available for those who make mistakes. People get lost everywhere and it's not nice to judge - people make mistakes. Don't mean to be personal.
Hi Jill - now you know why the real 4x4 drivers have two batteries - one isolated from the other for situations such as yours!!No tim tams. Coincidentally the person who gave my friend a lift into town was Spanish, a teacher who had been in Wilcannia for 8 years. She said she loved it, in spite of the isolation.
Hola Don - if you are going to be on the Frances in May 2017 I could bring you a pack??My sister visited me once in Sydney and she still wants me to send her Tim Tams every Christmas long after I left there.
Took me a while too.Try and figure out how they are going to get the van out of the space once they have fitted all the bollards..............
Took me a while too.
But also i did see bollards in Spain Burgos actually by the cathedral which disappeared into the sidewalk when cars were needed to get in. Just a thought.
this is soooo funnyHi - I was just idly thinking about those two pilgrims who became lost trying to get to Roncesvalles and although there were roads and farm tracks all around them they stayed lost for five days ....
.. we had fun with posting about them .. but I was thinking how, as humans, we all do stupid/silly things every now and then ..
I mean .. take a look at these two workmen. Think they could get to Santiago??
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I get it very good ☺It took me forever to figure this out. Too early in the morning perhaps!!
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