- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2021
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I’m finished for this year. Walked and Gopro’d from Seville to Salamanca. Probably will pick up the Salamanca to Santiago next year.
Headed back to the Camino Portuguese to video a couple of segments that I missed due to weather.
I've always wanted to go on the Camino, but I stay home, so that more of you get the bottom bunk.
Rolls are reversed in our house, my husband for the same reason as your wife stays at home. His duties of care also include looking after my dog and keeping an eye on my bees!!I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
Yes, indeed. My husband hates hiking, so he stays home and feeds the cats.I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
In praise of all those who don’t walk the Camino:I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
What a lovely thing to say, John.
Speaking as a wife who, like yours, sent her husband off with love and good wishes for a Buen Camino when we (his family) waved him off at Adelaide Airport, South Australia, three weeks ago to begin his pilgrimage from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela, may I say a very big THANK YOU!!!
My husband, Bill, arrived at Leon yesterday after foot-slogging his way, often through high winds, driving rain, squelching mud and rocky tracks, for the past 21 days, and to say I'm fit to burst with pride at 'my fella' is putting it mildly.
Not just because he's passed the half-way point of the 790km trek to Santiago de Compostela (he also intends walking on to Finisterre!!), which is a huge achievement for anyone, but because this husband of mine celebrated his 79th birthday on 7 May, the day he reached Burgos, where he spent two nights in comfort in an hotel (rather than an albergue) and enjoyed a few birthday beers with a few other pilgrims he'd befriended along the way!
What a man! What a fabulous adventure! Real Boys' Own stuff! And a long-held dream of his finally becoming reality. He WhatsApp calls me three times a day and lets me see where he is and who he's enjoying walking with, and I follow him religiously through a tracking app on my mobile phone, which pretty much feels like I'm there, too - only he's doing all the work!!
So, yes John, I really appreciate your lovely thought for those of us who stayed at home. Thank you very much!
And for those presently walking their Camino, or about to embark on one, I wish you all a BUEN CAMINO, each and every one!
Billy D's wife (married 59 and a half years), Babs x
True. My husband held down the fort at home while I walked last year. He doesn't care to walk either. Buen Camino!I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
So true. My 87 year old husband is a camino widower for several weeks a year. He walked with me a couple of times, while his health was still good, but now he can't.I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
DaveBugg, I was there Sept/Oct last year as well. Probably crossed paths. Trying to decide if I want to do the Frances again next year or the Portuguese. I am hooked.CoolI'm looking forward to seeing those videos.
You don't know what you are missing. Bottom bunk and all.I've always wanted to go on the Camino, but I stay home, so that more of you get the bottom bunk.
O, WOW!!! Happy 79th and Buen Camino to Bill and congrats Babs for your 59.5 years!!!!! All greater achievements than most of us will ever be able to claim!!!What a lovely thing to say, John.
Speaking as a wife who, like yours, sent her husband off with love and good wishes for a Buen Camino when we (his family) waved him off at Adelaide Airport, South Australia, three weeks ago to begin his pilgrimage from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela, may I say a very big THANK YOU!!!
My husband, Bill, arrived at Leon yesterday after foot-slogging his way, often through high winds, driving rain, squelching mud and rocky tracks, for the past 21 days, and to say I'm fit to burst with pride at 'my fella' is putting it mildly.
Not just because he's passed the half-way point of the 790km trek to Santiago de Compostela (he also intends walking on to Finisterre!!), which is a huge achievement for anyone, but because this husband of mine celebrated his 79th birthday on 7 May, the day he reached Burgos, where he spent two nights in comfort in an hotel (rather than an albergue) and enjoyed a few birthday beers with a few other pilgrims he'd befriended along the way!
What a man! What a fabulous adventure! Real Boys' Own stuff! And a long-held dream of his finally becoming reality. He WhatsApp calls me three times a day and lets me see where he is and who he's enjoying walking with, and I follow him religiously through a tracking app on my mobile phone, which pretty much feels like I'm there, too - only he's doing all the work!!
So, yes John, I really appreciate your lovely thought for those of us who stayed at home. Thank you very much!
And for those presently walking their Camino, or about to embark on one, I wish you all a BUEN CAMINO, each and every one!
Billy D's wife (married 59 and a half years), Babs x
O, WOW!!! Happy 79th and Buen Camino to Bill and congrats Babs for your 59.5 years!!!!! All greater achievements than most of us will ever be able to claim!!!
Need all good thoughts as am about to head off to walk the South West Coast in UK. All advice for that path gratefully received alsoOn behalf of BillyD, a big Thanks for his Happy Birthday wishes, HK, and from me, a huge hug!! Good thoughts coming atcha!! bx
But for the willingness and forbearance of our significant others, we would not be able to walk. I, for one, am thankful that my wife has also allowed me the time for a Camino and the possibility of going again. She even joined me from Sarria to Santiago, but is not a long haul hiker nor a person who will stay in albergues. I am sure we will find a way to walk again with a few nicer hotels and meals towards the end ...which, of course is not anathema to me!I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
Yes. My husband would NOT be into this, yet, he put his fears and concern aside, encouraging me to walk Porto to SdC, then the next year Tui to SdC, with my sister. We are both in late 60sI was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
Nice thought! I think all of us have loved ones back home whose "permission" we need, one way or the other, if we are to have the freedom to do the Camino. In my case it was my 89 year old mother, of whom I take care full time. And my son, who stayed with her during the month I was away. And my husband, the couch potato of all couch potatoes, who (at my request) flew 5,000 km. to Santiago just to walk the last half mile with me, so we could arrive at the Cathedral together. Thanks to all!!!!I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
A very nice story about doing the camino or not.I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
John, I feel the same my wife has let me venture out the last three years. She has never complained or made me feel guilty in other words she says go for it. Looking back maybe thats why we’ve been together for 50 years. I did take her to Spain last year Madrid, and Barcelona with a side trip to Santiago for two days. We went to the Cathedral for Mass on Sunday and she got to see the Butafumria. I was happy for her because I think she enjoyed the trip so much and saw what the Camino is about.I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
Are you finished with the VLDP, or are you still walking?I was talking to my wife and thanked her for letting me do the Camino VLDP. Not in the sense of giving permission but in the sense of enabling the freedom to do a Camino.
She doesn't enjoy walking and the constant change of rooms and places every night. But she is very willing to let me walk while she manages the home. I'm sure there are other cases that are the reverse so I'm not trying to be sexist in any way.
Just thought it was time to recognize those that don't walk.
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