newfydog
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Pamplona-Santiago, Le Puy- Santiago, Prague- LePuy, Menton- Toulouse, Menton- Rome, Canterbury- Lausanne, Chemin Stevenson, Voie de Vezelay
Ten years ago we were just about to start our first Camino. We arrived September 10. Our baggage arrived September 11th. No more planes flew for a week.
We watched the second plane hit the towers live, on the TV at a gas station. We scoured the media for news---did they say 40,000 worked there, or 40,000 died? Derrumbo’….does that mean the buildings collapsed?
A few days later, leaving Pamplona I read in my guidebook:
Since then, we have done pilgrimages every other year. Thousands more people have died. Relationships between cultures are worse than ever.
Maybe with the Arab spring we can reach out and make some progress. We couldn’t do much worse than our past history. There must be some way to do better.
We watched the second plane hit the towers live, on the TV at a gas station. We scoured the media for news---did they say 40,000 worked there, or 40,000 died? Derrumbo’….does that mean the buildings collapsed?
A few days later, leaving Pamplona I read in my guidebook:
We stopped, overlooking the plains and dwelled on how such horrors could occur, and how they could continue today.
Since then, we have done pilgrimages every other year. Thousands more people have died. Relationships between cultures are worse than ever.
Maybe with the Arab spring we can reach out and make some progress. We couldn’t do much worse than our past history. There must be some way to do better.