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I understand your pain. I had planned my 6th camino for mid April-mid May this year, bringing newbie family members, and of course it came to a screeching halt due to covid. I started a thread in April titled "I'm Plummeting" and was blessed with over a hundred replies offering kindness and encouragement from this pilgrim community and I'm sure you will experience the same.I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
Even more frustratingly, I booked my flights with Virgin Australia who have since gone into voluntary administration so it's highly unlikely I will get a refund.Well if we know anything, we know misery loves company. I would have been leaving in four days to walk the CF for the third time...I can't bring myself to put away all of my gear, shoes pack, etc.... I feel fortunate that I was able to have all of my flyer miles reinstated and refunded the actual cash I had put into the flight tickets. You're young...I know it feels so disappointing, but trust that you'll get there. ( I didn't walk my first until I was 54 and have walked 6 after that ) I wholeheartedly believe that over all of those years and all of the planning and 'perfect times', and rescheduling...The Camino is in charge. All will unfold as it should and the Camino will call you again when the time is right <3 Try to enjoy your birthday and know you'll go...not quite sure when, but you'll go!
I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
The Camino is waiting for you - it may just take a little longer.I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
I was planning to depart for St. Jean on April 26th to walk the Camino for my third time and to celebrate my 75th birthday. I know how you feel.I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
On the other hand, I am inclined to say that if that is how Eibhlis feels, that is how Eibhlis feels. If we can't feel "devastated" so long as anyone has it worse than us, then only one out of almost eight billion people will be able to use the word. I don't see the need to measure one person's pain against another. We don't have a scale that is useful for that. I'm willing to take each person's pain as they feel it.This is definitely not meant to be trolling you or attacking you in any manner, shape or form. In our world today that is filled with hyperbolic headlines and hysterical rantings on social media, or dog whistles and hate spewed actions or words of politicians. I believe we really need to tone down the adjectives we use especially when we are talking about something like a postponement to walk the camino. I have been looking forward to walking the VDLP since about a week after I finished my fifth camino in December. I was looking to start in mid October. I am saddened, disappointed and bummed that I can't walk. But devastated? I am totally blessed. I have my health where hundreds of thousands have died and will die and many more will have permanent lung damage due to Covid. There is real devastation throughout the world and it takes so many forms. Racism, war, starvation, desperate refugees in camps. The list goes on. I know you are not putting your disappointment in terms of real desperation. I just believe that when so many misuse and elevate the slightest slights or disappointment by using extreme terms, we cheapen the meaning of these words and people become more desensitized to what is truly devastating around us. As someone else send you are young, you still have time on your side. You are sad and disappointed but you have health and resources to make your dream come true in the near future. Be thankful.
We thoroughly covered that topic in this thread in early April, and it didn't go well. Let's not revive that discussion here!I believe we really need to tone down the adjectives we use
I feel you! I am meant to be in Santiago today after Portuguese Coastal and off to Oviedo to walk the Primitivo. Here I am stuck in Auckland in the winter, going to work for a 7 am start...it is dark outside, not to speak of my mood!I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
If it is any comfort,you are not alone. I should be sitting in Santiago tonight with tapas and red wine at Taberna Do Bispo...Tomorrow is a new day and I am not going to feel sorry for myself any longer. I will count my blessings and look forward to the day when I will be flying to France to begin my Camino whenever that may be.
Or as @Robo has suggested, perhaps my Camino has already begun!
Goodnight everyone and thank you again!
Thanks and I have replied to you.I have moved my remarks here to a private conversation. If you are interested, follow the link to the thread provided by @C clearly earlier.
same here only from Sydney and March departure! It will happen, 2021 it will beI should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
I am so sorry. I know how you feel. I did my first Camino in 2016 and planned one for every year after that and had to cancel them all due to physical problems. It has been so hard. I was really ready this year even with a friend to walk with me. I pray that this Covid thing will be under control so I can go in 2021. Hand in there and Happy Birthday anyway.I should have checked in at the airport in Adelaide by now. Due to fly in an hour to France. Planned to start walking from St Jean Pied de Port on Tuesday which will be my 44th birthday. 20 years planning this. Devastated!
So sorry to hear about your four unfulfilled caminos! Yes let's hope that 2021 will be a good year to do the camino...for all of us who desire!I am so sorry. I know how you feel. I did my first Camino in 2016 and planned one for every year after that and had to cancel them all due to physical problems. It has been so hard. I was really ready this year even with a friend to walk with me. I pray that this Covid thing will be under control so I can go in 2021. Hand in there and Happy Birthday anyway.
Hoping to be able to meet up soon after our buff masks arrive.We are slowly learning to live with this disease. There is still half a year to go and I am still hoping for an October Camino. Wearing a mask when required, washing hands frequently and being respectful of others.
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