CarlaH
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- SJPP to Santiago 2014
SJPdP to Santiago 2015
Via Francigena (Italy: Aosta - Rome)2016
Camino Portuguese from Porto 2016
I walked my first Camino last year May... and am thrilled to be going back again this year May... planning, buying, weighing, packing, unpacking, weighing my backpack and all contents took months of over analytical planning last year... I am so happy I don't need to repeat this process this time around...
I live high up on the mountain in Noordhoek Cape Town... a fire had been raging on another mountain 6miles away.. fanned by 80km (50 mile) per hour winds the fire crept over to 'my' mountain - I was evacuated from my home at 2am on Monday 2 March... living in a largish house (650sqm or 7000 s ft) I grabbed my dogs, passports and photo albums of my daughter when she was little (this is pre digital age) and abandoned my home ... then realised with horror that all my Camino gear was still in my house... I argued with the fire fighters to get back into my house - I told them there was very precious stuff that needed saving... I walked out 4min later with my Backpack, all my special camino clothing, my camino walking shoes and poles... other than this, my passports and my dogs... the rest could burn...
I had to share this little story on this forum as my friends and family at home cannot believe I came back for a 'simple backpack and stuff'.... I thought 'my' Camino family may understand...
ps... the fires in Cape Town burned for 6 days....a number of houses burned down, firemen died... my house survived...as did my Camino Gear... rock on May
Re the video clip - it's written and composed by Verity Price - with the following message: The images of the devastating fires raging across the Southern Peninsula and the heroic efforts to control them are almost too much to fathom. I wrote Devastation about the Tsunami back in 2004, but it feels incredibly relevant as Cape Town pulls together to fight this disaster as one
I live high up on the mountain in Noordhoek Cape Town... a fire had been raging on another mountain 6miles away.. fanned by 80km (50 mile) per hour winds the fire crept over to 'my' mountain - I was evacuated from my home at 2am on Monday 2 March... living in a largish house (650sqm or 7000 s ft) I grabbed my dogs, passports and photo albums of my daughter when she was little (this is pre digital age) and abandoned my home ... then realised with horror that all my Camino gear was still in my house... I argued with the fire fighters to get back into my house - I told them there was very precious stuff that needed saving... I walked out 4min later with my Backpack, all my special camino clothing, my camino walking shoes and poles... other than this, my passports and my dogs... the rest could burn...
I had to share this little story on this forum as my friends and family at home cannot believe I came back for a 'simple backpack and stuff'.... I thought 'my' Camino family may understand...
ps... the fires in Cape Town burned for 6 days....a number of houses burned down, firemen died... my house survived...as did my Camino Gear... rock on May
Re the video clip - it's written and composed by Verity Price - with the following message: The images of the devastating fires raging across the Southern Peninsula and the heroic efforts to control them are almost too much to fathom. I wrote Devastation about the Tsunami back in 2004, but it feels incredibly relevant as Cape Town pulls together to fight this disaster as one
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