tillyjones
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If you want a story about love, read I'LL PUSH YOU. If you want to know what it is about, go into YouTube and search I'LL PUSH YOU. There is a terrific 1 hour video (approximately) filmed at Calvin College where Justin and Patrick talk about their trip. Justin is in a wheel chair and Patrick pushed him from SJPdP to Santiago where they reunite with their wives. The entire journey was filmed and a movie is due to be released later this year if it is not already out. I'LL PUSH YOU is also a Facebook page.
I spent a week on the Camino with the lads,I turn up on page 159
My hairdresser was convinced I would find my wife on the Camino. She said all her clients who walked it fell in love! So far I'm not married though.. ^^
Maybe you need to change yer hairdresser
Lol, maybe, but it ain't over yet..
She's very good, but might be a little journey for you.Maybe I need to start using your hairdresser!!
Or hire a fortune teller.....Maybe you need to change yer hairdresser
I’ve sort of wondered about and hoped for the same thing.I am convinced that the right person for me would be someone in the Camino family.
(If it's you, call me!!)
There must be many stories of love found on the Camino. Would love to hear some.
I read the book and saw the film. Incredible, absolutely incredible! I also met Justin and Patrick when they came to speak at a local university. They are among the most joyful people I have ever met.If you want a story about love, read I'LL PUSH YOU. If you want to know what it is about, go into YouTube and search I'LL PUSH YOU. There is a terrific 1 hour video (approximately) filmed at Calvin College where Justin and Patrick talk about their trip. Justin is in a wheel chair and Patrick pushed him from SJPdP to Santiago where they reunite with their wives. The entire journey was filmed and a movie is due to be released later this year if it is not already out. I'LL PUSH YOU is also a Facebook page.
Jenny yours is a lovely story. I'm back in October & although I'm 64 I welcome love and companionship so will keep my eyes peeled, my heart open and see what this Camino brings!!Hi Tilly.
Well I don’t know if it happens often, but it does happen.
In April 2014, I was walking the Camino Le Puy, solo. It was my third camino, having walked the Frances in 2011 and 2013. On the afternoon of my 19th day on the Le Puy route I met a Frenchman - we were staying in the same gite. I am Australian. I spoke little French and he had a little more English. Around the dinner table were all French and Spanish pilgrims. He kindly translated for me, as best he could.
We walked together, more or less, for the next 10 days or so, to SJPP and over the Napoleon route and on to Pamplona. It was time for me to head home to Australia. He continued to SdeC. Ours was not a romance - not a hint of that - just camino friends.
Long story short, some time later we began to correspond. And 6 months after that first meeting, we flew from Sydney and Paris respectively to Oviedo to walk the Camino Primitivo together. By the end of that walk and a few days in magical Barcelona, we had decided to see if we could build a life together. And we have. Since then we have lived mostly in Sydney but in October last year we came to live in France for a while ( our dog came too!). Through a series of small serendipities, we found a place to rent just a few kilometres from the town where we’d first met and less than one kilometre from The Way.
In between then and now The French and I have had many wonderful adventures including many long walks - Camino Arles, Aragones, Mozarabe, Portuguese, some time of the Del Norte, the Chemin du Stevenson and Cami de Ronda.
The Camino has given me many, many gifts - but none so entirely unexpected or special as my beautiful husband.
I was almost 57 years old when I met him. I had never been married or had children. The possibility of finding love - let alone a deep romantic love - at that stage of life - on the camino or anywhere else - was not in my thoughts at all. Who would imagine such a thing?
Serendipity? The Magic of The Way? Fate? I don’t know. All I can offer is - open mind, open heart, and the courage to be yourself, follow your intuition and take a chance.
I hope you find your love Tilly, as you make your way in the world. As my Frenchman often says to me, ‘Tout est possible’.
With best wishes
Jenny
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I believe in that, too. All the best.I am convinced that the right person for me would be someone in the Camino family.
(If it's you, call me!!)
There must be many stories of love found on the Camino. Would love to hear some.
I have had pelegrinas ask to walk with me the next day, and a couple of times walked a few days with them. I never knew if that was due to interest/attraction or perhaps they just wanted, and I by no means intend to sound sexist by saying this, a man to walk with them for safety, or maybe both. Of course with that shared walk comes coffee together, perhaps a lunch break, long talks about anything and everything. Anyway, like I said in an earlier post on this thread, no romance ever developed. I did reconnect with a couple of them on facebook.I asked him if he wanted to walk together the next day (I feel like that’s the Camino equivalent of asking someone out)
Thanks. That’s part one.Wow quite a story ! (Well written)
I have had pelegrinas ask to walk with me the next day, and a couple of times walked a few days with them. I never knew if that was due to interest/attraction or perhaps they just wanted, and I by no means intend to sound sexist by saying this, a man to walk with them for safety, or maybe both. Of course with that shared walk comes coffee together, perhaps a lunch break, long talks about anything and everything. Anyway, like I said in an earlier post on this thread, no romance ever developed. I did reconnect with a couple of them on facebook.
In 2013 I met a young lady half way up the Pyrenees,she was married n I was in a relationship so nothing untoward happened but there was definately something quite strong happening,we didn't meet again for 4 years and only kept in touch periodically.However she was never far from my thoughts day to day and she has said same about me,so this year we will marry and once again walk the Camino,together this time.
PS I blame the red string
Hi Tilly.
Well I don’t know if it happens often, but it does happen.
In April 2014, I was walking the Camino Le Puy, solo. It was my third camino, having walked the Frances in 2011 and 2013. On the afternoon of my 19th day on the Le Puy route I met a Frenchman - we were staying in the same gite. I am Australian. I spoke little French and he had a little more English. Around the dinner table were all French and Spanish pilgrims. He kindly translated for me, as best he could.
We walked together, more or less, for the next 10 days or so, to SJPP and over the Napoleon route and on to Pamplona. It was time for me to head home to Australia. He continued to SdeC. Ours was not a romance - not a hint of that - just camino friends.
Long story short, some time later we began to correspond. And 6 months after that first meeting, we flew from Sydney and Paris respectively to Oviedo to walk the Camino Primitivo together. By the end of that walk and a few days in magical Barcelona, we had decided to see if we could build a life together. And we have. Since then we have lived mostly in Sydney but in October last year we came to live in France for a while ( our dog came too!). Through a series of small serendipities, we found a place to rent just a few kilometres from the town where we’d first met and less than one kilometre from The Way.
In between then and now The French and I have had many wonderful adventures including many long walks - Camino Arles, Aragones, Mozarabe, Portuguese, some time of the Del Norte, the Chemin du Stevenson and Cami de Ronda.
The Camino has given me many, many gifts - but none so entirely unexpected or special as my beautiful husband.
I was almost 57 years old when I met him. I had never been married or had children. The possibility of finding love - let alone a deep romantic love - at that stage of life - on the camino or anywhere else - was not in my thoughts at all. Who would imagine such a thing?
Serendipity? The Magic of The Way? Fate? I don’t know. All I can offer is - open mind, open heart, and the courage to be yourself, follow your intuition and take a chance.
I hope you find your love Tilly, as you make your way in the world. As my Frenchman often says to me, ‘Tout est possible’.
With best wishes
Jenny
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It is posts like this that make me wish one could hit the "like" button multiple times.
I love your story of love found on camino.
May God and Santiago continue to bless your union.
Buen camino.
I don’t think it’s always romantic, but if you like (romantically or platonically) someone, you have to act fast otherwise you may not see them again.
Or maybe get a new hair style??Maybe you need to change yer hairdresser
I always say ride the wave when it comes.I don’t think it’s always romantic, but if you like (romantically or platonically) someone, you have to act fast otherwise you may not see them again.
I always say ride the wave when it comes.
Nothing magical about the Camino and finding love. The magic happens when the person you chose to love, choses to love you in return.
Attractions are fleeting, fickle and tons of fun, but often end when it comes time to chose to love when the attraction is no longer so powerful.
Oh i'm getting shivers! I'm so happy you found your Frenchman!Hi Tilly.
Well I don’t know if it happens often, but it does happen.
In April 2014, I was walking the Camino Le Puy, solo. It was my third camino, having walked the Frances in 2011 and 2013. On the afternoon of my 19th day on the Le Puy route I met a Frenchman - we were staying in the same gite. I am Australian. I spoke little French and he had a little more English. Around the dinner table were all French and Spanish pilgrims. He kindly translated for me, as best he could.
We walked together, more or less, for the next 10 days or so, to SJPP and over the Napoleon route and on to Pamplona. It was time for me to head home to Australia. He continued to SdeC. Ours was not a romance - not a hint of that - just camino friends.
Long story short, some time later we began to correspond. And 6 months after that first meeting, we flew from Sydney and Paris respectively to Oviedo to walk the Camino Primitivo together. By the end of that walk and a few days in magical Barcelona, we had decided to see if we could build a life together. And we have. Since then we have lived mostly in Sydney but in October last year we came to live in France for a while ( our dog came too!). Through a series of small serendipities, we found a place to rent just a few kilometres from the town where we’d first met and less than one kilometre from The Way.
In between then and now The French and I have had many wonderful adventures including many long walks - Camino Arles, Aragones, Mozarabe, Portuguese, some time of the Del Norte, the Chemin du Stevenson and Cami de Ronda.
The Camino has given me many, many gifts - but none so entirely unexpected or special as my beautiful husband.
I was almost 57 years old when I met him. I had never been married or had children. The possibility of finding love - let alone a deep romantic love - at that stage of life - on the camino or anywhere else - was not in my thoughts at all. Who would imagine such a thing?
Serendipity? The Magic of The Way? Fate? I don’t know. All I can offer is - open mind, open heart, and the courage to be yourself, follow your intuition and take a chance.
I hope you find your love Tilly, as you make your way in the world. As my Frenchman often says to me, ‘Tout est possible’.
With best wishes
Jenny
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It was a lovely story!Oh i'm getting shivers! I'm so happy you found your Frenchman!
This is just so beautifulHi Tilly.
Well I don’t know if it happens often, but it does happen.
In April 2014, I was walking the Camino Le Puy, solo. It was my third camino, having walked the Frances in 2011 and 2013. On the afternoon of my 19th day on the Le Puy route I met a Frenchman - we were staying in the same gite. I am Australian. I spoke little French and he had a little more English. Around the dinner table were all French and Spanish pilgrims. He kindly translated for me, as best he could.
We walked together, more or less, for the next 10 days or so, to SJPP and over the Napoleon route and on to Pamplona. It was time for me to head home to Australia. He continued to SdeC. Ours was not a romance - not a hint of that - just camino friends.
Long story short, some time later we began to correspond. And 6 months after that first meeting, we flew from Sydney and Paris respectively to Oviedo to walk the Camino Primitivo together. By the end of that walk and a few days in magical Barcelona, we had decided to see if we could build a life together. And we have. Since then we have lived mostly in Sydney but in October last year we came to live in France for a while ( our dog came too!). Through a series of small serendipities, we found a place to rent just a few kilometres from the town where we’d first met and less than one kilometre from The Way.
In between then and now The French and I have had many wonderful adventures including many long walks - Camino Arles, Aragones, Mozarabe, Portuguese, some time of the Del Norte, the Chemin du Stevenson and Cami de Ronda.
The Camino has given me many, many gifts - but none so entirely unexpected or special as my beautiful husband.
I was almost 57 years old when I met him. I had never been married or had children. The possibility of finding love - let alone a deep romantic love - at that stage of life - on the camino or anywhere else - was not in my thoughts at all. Who would imagine such a thing?
Serendipity? The Magic of The Way? Fate? I don’t know. All I can offer is - open mind, open heart, and the courage to be yourself, follow your intuition and take a chance.
I hope you find your love Tilly, as you make your way in the world. As my Frenchman often says to me, ‘Tout est possible’.
With best wishes
Jenny
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