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... from a 22 year-old song.arrogant, loud mouthed, racists, and talentless murderers.
sillydoll said:I think that the main problem was Hape Kerkeling's portrayal of the camino (which he walked in 2001) and the type of people he inspired to walk in Spain - not necessarily 'to go on a pilgrimage'.
I´m sure Her Kerkeling's fascinating ideas on this subject are well worth the time he has spent on his analysis and research, but I would suggest that the Catholic pilgrimage has existed for a thousand years and more precisely because people went on this journey to prepare for a change in their lives, and every time you go on a retreat or a pilgrimage (which amount to much the same thing), you are open to the possibility of change. The change is sometimes small, sometimes great.sagalouts said:i hope i'am not stereotyping pilgrims too much gareth,but one of herr kerkelings thoughts on the camino was not to spend too much time with the religious pilgrim as he would be no different at the end of his camino than he was at the start.
You may say that. I'm here in Pamplona and I've just come back to the refugio from an evening with various nationalities including the German kommediekamminotourists. The Americans and the Canadians have had a good laugh at Hap Kerkeling's expense, as they tend to express a more direct Catholic viewpoint, and I hardly got a word in edgeways, so the counter position is neither coming exclusively from me nor from my large horse.sagalouts said:gareth
i have a lot of respect for what you are doing, but having read your latest blog somewhere along the way you seem to acquired a high horse, may i respectfully suggest you dismount and continue your walk.
regards Ian
The latter, the decrease in the emphasis on religion, is bothersome only to those who want others' Camino to conform to their own. Life is a solo journey no matter how much each of us tries to involve others in it.
shell said:I will never forget the Camino or the wonderful people I met there, but without my wonderful German friends, with whom I am still in contact with, I truly believe I would not have enjoyed my experience half as much.
falcon269 said:I now agree completely with RocketZ. This is an inane topic
I certainly won´t be repeating this walk, don´t worry! :wink: It´s a once-in-a-lifetime three-month pilgrimage that I can only just about manage once. Certainly never again. Some days, I just do not want to begin walking any longer. But this was they way they did it in medieval times, from home, all the way. Now I´ll know what that really means.sagalouts said:too many people repeating it year after year...
Thank you. That´s kind. I´ll not contribute more to this thread, however, as nobody seems to be providing any happy solutions to resolve the various anxieties on the subject: I certainly can´t, whatever I write! By the way, I suppose you realise you have just assumed I don´t read German? Luckily you´re right, so I don´t need to correct you! But there are Germans on the Camino with copies of the book and I have managed to overcome my obvious and crippling prejudices and actually speak to them... :lol: I hope you enjoy it in English when you have a chance.sagalouts said:i hope your shins recover gareth and that you can finish your epic journey in style,a truly great walk and one worthy of respect
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