Starting tomorrow 13th Sep 2024 in SJPDP!

[24greendoor]

Hello all,
Been reading all your very valuable posts and advice for a few weeks now in anticipation of starting tomorrow!
Can only get a portion of Francés done on this trip (probably as far as Logrono), but I’m already wishing I had time for more!
Worrier, planner and over-thinker by nature, so have been fighting off my ‘Will I make it over the mountains’ thoughts, and hoping to just sink into The Way and put one foot in front of the other.

Buen Camino to all!

 

[bestfootforward]

Hello all,
Been reading all your very valuable posts and advice for a few weeks now in anticipation of starting tomorrow!
Can only get a portion of Francés done on this trip (probably as far as Logrono), but I’m already wishing I had time for more!
Worrier, planner and over-thinker by nature, so have been fighting off my ‘Will I make it over the mountains’ thoughts, and hoping to just sink into The Way and put one foot in front of the other.

Buen Camino to all!

Hello! You'll be fine, you'll have a ball.....and while you're putting one foot in front of the other, you'll find you're planning your next Camino adventure.
Buen Camino!

 

[Lexicos]

It’s perfectly natural to worry and over-think and to plan well. I think most of us go through that and if this is your first, there’d be something odd if you didn’t feel that way. When I first did the Frances I thought it was damn well impossible! Day one is physically challenging, especially that initial climb, but it’s stunningly beautiful. Take your time and take it all in. Stick close to other pilgrims if you have any doubts at all. But it is well marked and it is doable if you’re relatively fit and practised.
Take a deep breath. Relax. Don’t rush. You’ll be fine.
Buen Camino.

PS: I’ve been back 5 times, to different ones, in 7 years. Enjoy!

 

[Sd217]

Dont overthink just walk, live in the moment and enjoy wish i was there , Buen Camino

 

[naplesdon]

Friday the 13th!

 

[Tincatinker]

Friday the 13th!

An auspicious day! Give your best regards to the Goddess as you pass and spill a little red wine to thank her for your safe arrivals.

(the puzzled might like to consider Fria and the 13 periods of the lunar cycle)
(the very puzzled might like to read my by-line )

 

[naplesdon]

The Templars has a rendezvous with this date.

 

[Tincatinker]

The Templars has a rendezvous with this date.

Don, thanks for that reminder. A bad day for a Templar in France. A good day to kick a black cat between two hollen trees. A great day for knicker twisting amongst the un-enlightened. I’ve no doubt that the mathematicians amongst us will be able to tell us what day we have now would have been Friday 13th if Gregory hadn’t intervened in 1582. To late for the little brothers I’m sure

 

[24greendoor]

The Templars has a rendezvous with this date.

Off to look up this reference!

 

[24greendoor]

Dont overthink just walk, live in the moment and enjoy wish i was there , Buen Camino

Have started as mean to go on with an impromptu meal with lovely pilgrim we met en route, the Camino has already delivered a meaningful experience.

 

[lettinggo]

September 13 2024 would be August 31 2024 - if we still were using the Julian Calendar
So September 26 will be the September 13 - if anyone want to commemorate the Tempalars downfall in 1307.
@ Tincatinker - wolframalpha.com is an amazing tool that will find answers to complexe questions.
Lettinggo - the mathematician

 

[Tincatinker]

Off to look up this reference!

Friday 13th 1307 is the date generally accepted as when Philip IV of France initiated the arrest, and destruction of the principals of the Knights Templar. Trouble is Friday 13th 1307 does not correspond with any Friday 13th in our current calendar. In 1582 Pope Gregory and some of his mates moved the day by ten days (there were riots (“give us back our days”)) but it does confuse the superstitious amongst us. Should we throw salt over our left shoulder; should we always protect our groin when a priest walks passed; is a contract sealed on Friday 13 sealed by the Temple?

My unlucky day is Monday. I know this because no matter what I tried I had to go to work every Monday. The date was irrelevant

 

[Tincatinker]

September 13 2024 would be August 31 2024 - if we still were using the Julian Calendar
So September 26 will be the September 13 - if anyone want to commemorate the Tempalars downfall in 1307.
@ Tincatinker - wolframalpha.com is an amazing tool that will find answers to complexe questions.
Lettinggo - the mathematician

I was typing the waffle above while your post landed. Thank you. At least now the remaining Templar know when to duck

 

[naplesdon]

September 13 2024 would be August 31 2024 - if we still were using the Julian Calendar
So September 26 will be the September 13 - if anyone want to commemorate the Tempalars downfall in 1307.
@ Tincatinker - wolframalpha.com is an amazing tool that will find answers to complexe questions.
Lettinggo - the mathematician

Friday 13th 1307 is the date generally accepted as when Philip IV of France initiated the arrest, and destruction of the principals of the Knights Templar. Trouble is Friday 13th 1307 does not correspond with any Friday 13th in our current calendar. In 1582 Pope Gregory and some of his mates moved the day by ten days (there were riots (“give us back our days”)) but it does confuse the superstitious amongst us. Should we throw salt over our left shoulder; should we always protect our groin when a priest walks passed; is a contract sealed on Friday 13 sealed by the Temple?

My unlucky day is Monday. I know this because no matter what I tried I had to go to work every Monday. The date was irrelevant

Wow, incredibly insightful. I never made the connection between the old and new calendar dating back to 1300 until just now. I seem to remember there is church on the Left Bank in Paris, Saint-Sulpice??, that has some mysterious connection to the Templars and a conspiracy to change the Gregorian calendar.

 

[naplesdon]

I will be in Paris on Monday and report back about the specific church and it's history.

 

[24greendoor]

Friday 13th 1307 is the date generally accepted as when Philip IV of France initiated the arrest, and destruction of the principals of the Knights Templar. Trouble is Friday 13th 1307 does not correspond with any Friday 13th in our current calendar. In 1582 Pope Gregory and some of his mates moved the day by ten days (there were riots (“give us back our days”)) but it does confuse the superstitious amongst us. Should we throw salt over our left shoulder; should we always protect our groin when a priest walks passed; is a contract sealed on Friday 13 sealed by the Temple?

My unlucky day is Monday. I know this because no matter what I tried I had to go to work every Monday. The date was irrelevant

Extremely interesting, thank you! I think a podcast or audiobook about the Templar’s may be a good shout for the coming week.