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Buen Camino for the pilgrim’s last journey.I started today on the Camino Frances. At the Albergue in Roncesvalles a man in his bed was unresponsive to medical care. By coincidence I met some people who first tried to revive him with CPR. It was a very sad day for all involved. I have no other details. God bless him and his family.
Sad news for the family concerned and his friends. I've occasionally heard of people passing away while on the Camino, some by natural causes and some due to accidents. When you think of the sheer number of people walking Caminos through Spain then it's bound to happen occasionally.I started today on the Camino Frances. At the Albergue in Roncesvalles a man in his bed was unresponsive to medical care. By coincidence I met some people who first tried to revive him with CPR. It was a very sad day for all involved. I have no other details. God bless him and his family.
So sad. May he rest in peace after this last Camino.I started today on the Camino Frances. At the Albergue in Roncesvalles a man in his bed was unresponsive to medical care. By coincidence I met some people who first tried to revive him with CPR. It was a very sad day for all involved. I have no other details. God bless him and his family.
Such sad news. RIPI started today on the Camino Frances. At the Albergue in Roncesvalles a man in his bed was unresponsive to medical care. By coincidence I met some people who first tried to revive him with CPR. It was a very sad day for all involved. I have no other details. God bless him and his family.
I hope his family have been notified by now. The pilgrim that died in Roncesvalles that morning was @Dorpie , a veteran forum member that has been a member of this forum since 2015. May he rest in peace.
I should add that I did get this news from another forum member that stayed with him at the same albergue in SJPP and had breakfast with him (in SJPP) the day they both walked to Roncesvalles.
I roomed with Rob (Dorpie). at St Jean. Jack, another forum member was also in our room at the Albergue. At breakfast before heading out the door for the first stage, I had a picture taken at the breakfast table. Rob is against the wall. He was a great guy. God Bless him and his family.
I roomed with Rob (Dorpie). at St Jean. Jack, another forum member was also in our room at the Albergue. At breakfast before heading out the door for the first stage, I had a picture taken at the breakfast table. Rob is against the wall. He was a great guy. God Bless him and his family.
I’m hoping his family gets this! Thank you for sharing.
As soon as you leave on your first day you are a full member of the camino family. Today I have lost a family member God bless.Buen Camino on your next journey my fellow pilgrim. For now rest in peace. May your family be blessed and all the Angel's of the Camino wrap around his family to bring them eventual peace.
Thank you very much for doing this. Thank you.With such a high number of forum members, many posters are just a name and you never meet in real life. @Dorpie had chosen a picture of himself at the Irache wine fountain as his avatar. He often signed his forum posts with his name Rob. He gave quiet and accurate advice and had a lovely sense of self-depreciating humour. As a tribute to him and to jog my memory, I skimmed through his forum posts. These are mostly his words, I just replaced first-person singular by third person singular:
He had a bit of a thing for making sure information we propagate on the internet is accurate. He knew Spanish and was interested in Spanish gastronomy and culture. Once, during a forum discussion about carrying pocket knives, his curiosity had been piqued and he went to his friendly neighbourhood police station to enquire about the legality of Opinel type knives. When he explained his purpose for carrying it (he had actually taken a picture to the station for fear of getting into trouble) he was assured that hiking in Europe would be regarded as a legitimate reason to do so. I can so relate to all this. A guy after my own heart. ☺
He was about 40 years old when he walked his first camino in May 2015, starting in SJPP. He had walked Santiago to Finisterre and to Muxia a couple of years earlier as a taster for the big walk. He walked his second camino in July 2017, again from SJPP; both times in a little over 30 days. In about 70 days in total he only ever once had to walk to the next village to find a bed, he said.
He had walked a spring camino and a summer camino and in September 2019 he took the Eurostar from London and the TGV to Bayonne to start an autumn camino from SJPP. He was thinking of walking eventually a winter camino and later the Henro Michi in Japan. It was not meant to be. He loved the social aspect of the camino francés and once he said that community is the word he'd use to describe the camino for himself.
On his first camino, he took over 100 pairs of earplugs to give out to others which was perhaps overkill, he said, and he was leaving handfuls at albergue receptions by the end but he did become known as the guy who had earplugs ☺. Another time he mentioned that he was camino famous as the maniac who wouldn't stop walking despite the entirety of both soles of his feet being entirely blister, not to mention other ones elsewhere and losing 8 toenails, he’d not seen anyone with worse. He switched from boots to lighter shoes eventually. ☺
A year ago, in September 2018, he took is aging father, who cannot walk very far, for 8 days on a road trip, as his 80th birthday present. They started in Bilbao and then zig-zagged to San Sebastian, Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Orisson, Pamplona, Burgos, Gijon, Melide, Astorga, Leon, Salamanca, Avila, Segovia and Madrid. He had asked the forum for recommendations of places to visit or to stay or to eat there and when he came back he reported where they had been and thanked those by name who had given tips.
Farewell, forum buddy @Dorpie.
Just a few days ago he had posted a thread about his train ride from Paris and he sounded so happy to be going back on the Camino. It is very hard to believe he has left us.I hope his family have been notified by now. The pilgrim that died in Roncesvalles that morning was @Dorpie , a veteran forum member that has been a member of this forum since 2015. May he rest in peace.
I should add that I did get this news from another forum member that stayed with him at the same albergue in SJPP and had breakfast with him (in SJPP) the day they both walked to Roncesvalles.
This will be a special photo for his family, it is good that there is one of him doing this special Camino.I roomed with Rob (Dorpie). at St Jean. Jack, another forum member was also in our room at the Albergue. At breakfast before heading out the door for the first stage, I had a picture taken at the breakfast table. Rob is against the wall. He was a great guy. God Bless him and his family.
The pilgrims of the past firmly believed that if you died while doing the pilgrimage, you would be assured a spot in heaven. That is why so many went when they were ill or old and why so many towns are named Hospitale as they needed to cater for the many who walked knowing and hoping that death would claim them. If there is some truth in this, then Dorpie has truly joined those special pelegrinos. R.I.P.So sad!
Undoubtedly, this last Camino he does to Jesus with Santiago holding his hand.
Our love for his family and friends and all the forum.
Ohh...A year ago, in September 2018, he took is aging father, who cannot walk very far, for 8 days on a road trip, as his 80th birthday present.
With such a high number of forum members, many posters are just a name and you never meet in real life. @Dorpie had chosen a picture of himself at the Irache wine fountain as his avatar. He often signed his forum posts with his name Rob. He gave quiet and accurate advice and had a lovely sense of self-depreciating humour. As a tribute to him and to jog my memory, I skimmed through his forum posts. These are mostly his words, I just replaced first-person singular by third person singular:
He had a bit of a thing for making sure information we propagate on the internet is accurate. He knew Spanish and was interested in Spanish gastronomy and culture. Once, during a forum discussion about carrying pocket knives, his curiosity had been piqued and he went to his friendly neighbourhood police station to enquire about the legality of Opinel type knives. When he explained his purpose for carrying it (he had actually taken a picture to the station for fear of getting into trouble) he was assured that hiking in Europe would be regarded as a legitimate reason to do so. I can so relate to all this. A guy after my own heart. ☺
He was about 40 years old when he walked his first camino in May 2015, starting in SJPP. He had walked Santiago to Finisterre and to Muxia a couple of years earlier as a taster for the big walk. He walked his second camino in July 2017, again from SJPP; both times in a little over 30 days. In about 70 days in total he only ever once had to walk to the next village to find a bed, he said.
He had walked a spring camino and a summer camino and in September 2019 he took the Eurostar from London and the TGV to Bayonne to start an autumn camino from SJPP. He was thinking of walking eventually a winter camino and later the Henro Michi in Japan. It was not meant to be. He loved the social aspect of the camino francés and once he said that community is the word he'd use to describe the camino for himself.
On his first camino, he took over 100 pairs of earplugs to give out to others which was perhaps overkill, he said, and he was leaving handfuls at albergue receptions by the end but he did become known as the guy who had earplugs ☺. Another time he mentioned that he was camino famous as the maniac who wouldn't stop walking despite the entirety of both soles of his feet being entirely blister, not to mention other ones elsewhere and losing 8 toenails, he’d not seen anyone with worse. He switched from boots to lighter shoes eventually. ☺
A year ago, in September 2018, he took is aging father, who cannot walk very far, for 8 days on a road trip, as his 80th birthday present. They started in Bilbao and then zig-zagged to San Sebastian, Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Orisson, Pamplona, Burgos, Gijon, Melide, Astorga, Leon, Salamanca, Avila, Segovia and Madrid. He had asked the forum for recommendations of places to visit or to stay or to eat there and when he came back he reported where they had been and thanked those by name who had given tips.
Farewell, forum buddy @Dorpie.
I had no idea it was him. This is terrible news. He posted something only in the last weeks or so saying he was about to commence a camino.I hope his family have been notified by now. The pilgrim that died in Roncesvalles that morning was @Dorpie , a veteran forum member that has been a member of this forum since 2015. May he rest in peace.
I should add that I did get this news from another forum member that stayed with him at the same albergue in SJPP and had breakfast with him (in SJPP) the day they both walked to Roncesvalles.
I hope his family have been notified by now. The pilgrim that died in Roncesvalles that morning was @Dorpie , a veteran forum member that has been a member of this forum since 2015. May he rest in peace.
I should add that I did get this news from another forum member that stayed with him at the same albergue in SJPP and had breakfast with him (in SJPP) the day they both walked to Roncesvalles.
Thank you to everyone on this forum for the kind words. I met Rob 7 years ago as a flatmate in London. I had the honour and privilege to know him and call him one of my best friends. I have notified his nearest and dearest, all of whom are shocked and lost for words. I am more than devistated by the news. However so grateful he died in a place doing something he loved.Hello dear Pilgrams,
I am seeking my friend Robert. He started the Camino from St Jean Pied de Port on Thursday, 26 September 2019 and has already completed two of these trips. He's a lovely, very likable character. Tall with blue eyes and a big beard.
We (my friends and I) are concerned as we haven't heard from him since last Thursday morning and he is not receiving WhatsApp messages and his phone goes straight to voicemail. He's usually very prompt at responding.
This is his third trip, so we are confident he hasn't got lost!
He mentioned that he had met Guillermo & Iris from Puerto Rico on the evening of 25 September.
If anyone has seen or is with Rob, please ask him to turn on his phone, or reply to this post!
Thanks and have a safe pilgrimage.
Catherine
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Hello, Russ,It has been heartwarming to read the supportive comments re my very close friend Rob. You truly are a community and reading the kind words has inspired me to walk in 2020. The Camino was Rob’s passion, he talked about it frequently and was very excited for his third.
Perhaps one can feel better in the thought that this was where he was meant to be and ultimately he fulfilled his destiny and his spirit will be ever eternal on the camino.
Catherine, thank you for this message. Far many more of us than will be able to attend will be aware and attentive, when we know the time and place, and will be joining you and all who are Rob’s friends and family for the farewell service that is being arranged.Dear Pilgrims
Thank you to everyone for your kind words and writing your stories and memories of Rob.
We are all still in a great deal of shock and are processing the reality with which we are now facing. A world without Rob.
A few of you have reached out directly and through this thread to say that you would like to know about any services that will be taking place.
As soon as I have information that I can provide, I will post it on this thread.
Thank you again for your kind words and reaching out in this difficult time. We are very grateful.
Safe pilgrimage to you all.
Catherine
Will do. ThanksMake a stop at Irache please.
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Catherine, thank you. Thinking of Rob's friends here when you are processing your own grief is kindness above and beyond. I hope you and Rob's family know we are thinking of you with a lot of sympathy and heartfelt condolence. It is such a shock when someone young passes unexpectedly, as Rob did.As soon as I have information that I can provide, I will post it on this thread.
Wow...so young.I started today on the Camino Frances. At the Albergue in Roncesvalles a man in his bed was unresponsive to medical care. By coincidence I met some people who first tried to revive him with CPR. It was a very sad day for all involved. I have no other details. God bless him and his family.
Catherine, thank you. Thinking of Rob's friends here when you are processing your own grief is kindness above and beyond. I hope you and Rob's family know we are thinking of you with a lot of sympathy and heartfelt condolence. It is such a shock when someone young passes unexpectedly, as Rob did.
He left a hole here on the Forum - but though we appreciated him, most of us only knew him from his posts. Any one of you actually close to him would be feeling his loss even more keenly .
All possible kind wishes coming your way.
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