- Time of past OR future Camino
- First one in 2005 from Moissac, France.
For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here. (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation) |
---|
Good morning, Dougfitz - and a Joyful and Merry Christmas to you too. I see that even Christmas Day hasn't stopped your habit of taking the opportunity to have a dig at me.
Well, Doug, I think that one cannot start a discussion without posting the information - what do you think? As for my not being certain about it - well, how can I explain? Oh, I know; that is a position of not being certain about it - I am neither for nor against (simple really).
As for putting the "advertising" info up - well, what else was I suppose to put up, considering my subject is the Saga Tour?
This is a forum about pilgrims and the Camino isn't it? So anything to do with the Camino can be shared? Or do I have that wrong somehow?
Having thought about it I think it is rather a nice tour. Those interested will go and may return to walk the Way. Those too infirm to walk the Way will be able to get a Camino experience.
I am tempted to say "Bah Humbug" to you DougFtiz but I won't - actually, yes I will, BAH HUMBUG Doug
Merry Christmas.
My parents would love this. There's no way my Mum could walk it, so it's the only way she would see the places I rattle on about. My Dad, on the other hand, was caught looking at a map of the 100km routes the other day...
Nice one Tyrrek!
8) two Germans to enter their room at 5am each morning wearing head torches, which they shine in their faces, and scrunching plastic bags, who then leave noisily.
Don't forget the pasta, which can be summed up like this!9) every meal to be an unidentified piece of thin meat, machine cut chips (fries) with tinned veg, dessert to be something frozen in a plastic pot with a stick sticking out of it.
My favorite thing about the people on Camino tours is how many experts there are on each bus. While pilgrim-ing, I can't tell you how many times kindly tourists (from all different countries) at the next table enlightened me on exactly what I was doing. (For some reason, it usually happens at plaza terraces in Galicia, after a long lunch.)
Ha ha! Poor things.Hi tyrrek -
Your Mum and Dad are going to need a 'tyrrek's tours' welcome pack! Here's one which contains several Camino 'creature comfort essentials'!
View attachment 15474
Going clockwise from the top :
Electric coil - so they can have a cuppa anytime ;
Pegless clothesline to string across a hotel bathroom, or to share at any albergue ;
Universal sink plug for any kind of washing, whether it be clothes or dishes ('hope for their sake it's not dishes! 'Sounds a bit too much like singing for your supper!) ;
Waymarker star bumper sticker (actually, this is for the tour bus!) ;
'Bounce' energy ball for a protein-filled snack attack ;
and, finally, drum roll please! The One Luxury Item ... of course, it's The Buff!
Ha ha! Poor things.
The thing is, although my post about banning tea etc was tongue in cheek, they genuinely would want to have some 'pilgrim disciplines' as part of the tour, my Mum especially. Things like early nights, fairly simple food and accommodation and regular mass etc would help to make it a pilgrimage if not a Camino. I guess they'd be a different type of tourist and a different type of pilgrim.
That happened to us at Santiago and was most disconcerting and intrusive. Tour guide pointing to us sitting on the stones outside the cathedral after walking in to Santiago, as genuine tourists and encouraging the tour group to take photos! Maybe if they hadnt spoken in English we would not have understood. We did, and promptly left to find accommodation, feeling like an exhibit. Weird to think we will turn up as tourist souvenir photos somewhere.It's still on the schedules this month according to the Saga pullout I found in a newspaper and it features a photograph of gen-u-ine pilgrim crossing Puenta La Reine. There you have it now, not pilgrim as tourist but pilgrim as tourist attraction.
Just returned from Burgos-Santiago,tourists tourists and yep you've guessed it more tourists,the smell of aftershave/perfume was overpowering,it was difficult to smell the nature around me,I was craving for the smell of cow poo !!!!!
Hi @Irish Bernie if it's the smell of cow poo you're after then Galloway in SW Scotland is the place to be - think of Galicia but with more rain. When we moved here many years ago from London I had the fantasy of sitting outside on a sunny evening here in the countryside and sharing a bottle of wine - but of course a fine evening is considered just perfect by local farmers who rush to get out the muck spreader and ensure that the bouquet of a fragrant chardonnay is overlaid with that of nicely matured manure. Mmm.!
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?