Seriously!?

[VNwalking]

Santiago intends to graduate from little white trains.

Spain announces plans for flying taxi service in Barcelona

First air taxis to fly in Catalan capital and Santiago de Compostela in 2022, says Enaire

www.theguardian.com

Gosh.
This will amp up the Disneyfication just a little bit.

 

[C clearly]

Potential new options for bag transport and for skipping those dreary bits!

 

[natefaith]

Wow

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I'll have to see it work to believe it...just call me "Thomas".

 

[Bad Pilgrim]

Beware the Heligrinos...

Imagine the pilgrims arriving by helicopter catching the last two bunkbeds......................................

 

[Former member 49149]

After you...

 

[Richmond Gardner]

I'll have to see it work to believe it...just call me "Thomas".

As in “Doubting”

 

[grayland]

I have been expecting to see the little white tourist trains operating between stages all along the way. They could combine taxi and luggage transport.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

As in “Doubting”

Exactly!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

After you...

Amen to that, Kirkie...after anybody that lives to tell of their experience!

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Because there is no finer way to travel than being up in an aircraft that you have no control over and no pilot to rely on if something goes wrong.

How far would you have to go to qualify for a Compostela?

 

[Bristle Boy]

Single passenger drones?

I dont think this idea will take off.

 

[malingerer]

Potential new options for bag transport and for skipping those dreary bits!

Sigh! As a pilgrim I don't find dreary bits: I just find different ones
Samarkand.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Single passenger drones?

I dont think this idea will take off.

I don't think this idea will "take off" either...until Amazon perfects it's package drop off first.

 

[trecile]

Sigh! As a pilgrim I don't find dreary bits: I just find different ones
Samarkand.

Same here!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Same here!

I agree...The industrial sections are a bit dreary...but so what!

 

[alexwalker]

A new shortcut to Finisterre...

 

[Bob from L.A. !]

Potential new options for bag transport and for skipping those dreary bits!

After sitting home as long as we have I will take even the dreary bits!

 

[malingerer]

After sitting home as long as we have I will take even the dreary bits!

SITTING at home? you idler! Try climbing the walls!

Samarkand.

 

[VNwalking]

This is only in Santiago, so you can all forget your pack transfer fantasies.

I find myself wondering where they will take off and land, imagining the scene in front of the cathedral with this added to it.

 

[trecile]

This is only in Santiago, so you can all forget your pack transfer fantasies.

I find myself wondering where they will take off and land, imagining the scene in front of the cathedral with this added to it.

And how is it going to navigate and land on those narrow streets?

 

[VNwalking]

And how is it going to navigate and land on those narrow streets?

And who's gonna risk life and limb?
Like @kirkie, I'd be saying, "After you..."

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

This is only in Santiago, so you can all forget your pack transfer fantasies.

I find myself wondering where they will take off and land, imagining the scene in front of the cathedral with this added to it.

They will probably land at the airport.
Sorry , couldn't resist.

 

[Dsavid Keyte]

As in “Doubting”

Or the Tank Engine

 

[Ernesto.IT]

Beware the Heligrinos...

Imagine the pilgrims arriving by helicopter catching the last two bunkbeds......................................

Nowadays you could still "walk" the Camino using the train, bus, taxi as it is a normal practice nowadays, sending your backpack forward with the new services, even this website it has become more and more like a tourist office where the only things you can ask for freely are those that the tourist office can give you. What was once a pilgrimage has now become more of a tourist excursion, most people would not agree with this, after all is only the opinion of someone that has started the Camino from different part of Europe from 2012 to 2018 "walking" more than 15000Km and obviously has noticed the changes especially how most Spanish people see us "Pilgrims" wanting a cheap holiday. I was talking to my friend Angel, the permanent ospitalero of the Bella Muxia in Muxia about all of this and I did say to him that the tourism was killing the " Holy Pilgrimage" he replayed that he was hoping that it would at least last for another 10 year.In the future if I feel the need to renew my respect to Sant James I will take a plain to Santiago De Compostela or to any Spanish city that i wish to explore.
For my point of view, the pilgrimage to Santiago as it was, is now dead.

 

[Former member 49149]

Ernesto, wait! Yesterday is gone. Every day is a new day. Give meaning to today, from what you know of yesterday. Dead? No, please. Hope springs eternal. I am serious.

 

[David Tallan]

For when the rooftop tours of the cathedral are fully booked.

 

[Bob from L.A. !]

SITTING at home? you idler! Try climbing the walls!

Good one! Oh soooo true.......

 

[lt56ny]

I'll have to see it work to believe it...just call me "Thomas".

So I guess you "doubt it"????

 

[JennyH94]

The flying taxi service might have an interesting looking sello!
Cheers from Oz everyone -
Jenny

 

[Bad Pilgrim]

The flying taxi service might have an interesting looking sello!
Cheers from Oz everyone -
Jenny

Something like this in our credencial...?
Oh and you have to have 2 of them each day to get your Compostela in Santiago!!

 

[JennyH94]

View attachment 87001Something like this in our credencial...?
Oh and you have to have 2 of them each day to get your Compostela in Santiago!!

That’s gonna be expensive @Bad Pilgrim!

 

[malingerer]

The flying taxi service might have an interesting looking sello!
Cheers from Oz everyone -
Jenny

Strange it is, but it was as a cheap way of seeing Spain that got me into Camino in the first place.! The Camino had other ideas and plans for me back in 2003 and I can view the changes now with regret but I am still a pilgrim. I still would like to finish that bit of the veedlepee that damn near finished me but it'll have to wait. I think the trick of tackling modernity is not to over dwell in the past but see it like a change of drawers One's arse is ever so grateful and it doesn't stop you from walking!

For me it'll have to be a change of starting point like the Levant but at 83 it WOULD have to be a combination of buses, trains, taxis and two feet AND PARADORS. Oh bliss! I think I am about to have a senior moment so Buenos noches. Stay safe.

Samarkand.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Problems of the future.

 

[Ernesto.IT]

Ernesto, wait! Yesterday is gone. Every day is a new day. Give meaning to today, from what you know of yesterday. Dead? No, please. Hope springs eternal. I am serious.

kirkie,
keep dreaming.

 

[VNwalking]

kirkie,
keep dreaming.

She's right, though.

 

[Ernesto.IT]

She's right, though.

So am I

 

[Mike Wells]

I appear to have slept right through the winter and woken up on the first of April.

 

[Joejoe]

Potential new options for bag transport and for skipping those dreary bits!

No dreary bits, it's a Camino.

 

[wayfarer]

For my point of view, the pilgrimage to Santiago as it was, is now dead.

The pilgrimage to Santiago as it was died every year since its beginning, every year brings a new and different pilgrimage, everything changes with the times we live in.

 

[Ernesto.IT]

The pilgrimage to Santiago as it was died every year since its beginning, every year brings a new and different pilgrimage, everything changes with the times we live in.

Of course,
for example even today the Appalachian Trail can be covered by taxi, bus, train, especially in this new era in which we live.
I believe that in this commino you can send your backpack forward, but if you can't finish it then you can ask for help and they will bring you back.
True?

 

[MichelleElynHogan]

JUST DROP IN HERE SO I CAN GET A SELLO, THEN WE CAN CONTINUE!!! Oh wait, there is a drink vendor....

 

[ginniek]

I'll have to see it work to believe it...just call me "Thomas".

I agree. Since I was in high school (back in the early 60s) I have been reading stories like this...and nothing.

 

[Nev Sheather]

Santiago intends to graduate from little white trains.

Spain announces plans for flying taxi service in Barcelona

First air taxis to fly in Catalan capital and Santiago de Compostela in 2022, says Enaire

www.theguardian.com

Gosh.
This will amp up the Disneyfication just a little bit.

We had a trial last year of Google delivery drones here in our suburb of Bonython, Canberra, Australia - very noisy, intrusive and unwelcome by 80% of people surveyed - we drove them to an early finish of their trial.

 

[MichelleElynHogan]

OPEN BOMB BAY DOORS!