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I have told this "story" on a reply to someone on the forum,but it may be of use.My name is Philip and I have walked SJ to SDC twice,once from Porto and 3times Burgos to P,onferrada and hoped to make it 4 next Sept (Please God)A few weeks ago I had an vague idea of a project but now I'm in isolation at home in France I thought it would be a great time to start it.
I’d love to compile a book of stories from pilgrims who have walked to Santiago; I’m going to call it Chapter and Verse.
There are a few events that I can clearly recall from many of my caminos and often these events aren’t necessarily anything amazing. The night we shared our favourite funniest youtube vidoes with other pilgrims in the albuergue and we laughed until salty tears ran down our faces. Or the very quick stop at the worst bar ever on any camino and the plague of flying ants we met when we left. Or the beautiful mass that brought tears to my eyes and evoked memories of days gone by. Or my Camino Buddy hiding behind bins as she waited for stampeding cows… learning about Thin Spaces, meeting people with life altering stories or just standing in the mountains and seeing nature at it’s very best and realising how beautiful our world is… I could go on but you get the idea. Every pilgrim will have a story.
I am asking pilgrims to share those stories and anecdotes with me. It can be anything, something spiritual, something funny, or bizarre, or peaceful, or a camino angel, or the opposite, a night of snoring or illness or cold or a storm, a great meal, a coincidence… anything… we all have standout stories and moments that we can recall.
I plan to compile stories in location order along the towns and villages of any of the caminos. As you read you'll move closer to Santiago.
This is the most important part :
ALL PROFITS FROM OUR BOOK OF STORIES WILL GO PEACEABLE PROJECTS; A CHARITY THAT SUPPORTS THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT PILGRIMS
I would love to hear from you. I simply need :
I am so excited to start this project, I know that I am totally naive about what's involved and how to do this but I have perhaps a few months at home not working... so I can learn! But to get started I need your stories.
- your first namev
- the camino you walked
- the location (roughly) where your story happened
- and of course your story
I created a little free website which you can share with other pilgrims... and I want to stress... this is not for me or for profit... it's just a way of helping and being part of a camino community when I cant walk.
Message me here or via the website... https://caminostories497698117.wordpress.com/
I have told this "story" on a reply to someone on the forum,but it may be of use.My name is Philip and I have walked SJ to SDC twice,once from Porto and 3times Burgos to P,onferrada and hoped to make it 4 next Sept (Please God)
Last year when I reached Hontanas I went in as usual to the Church to light candles
and remember loved ones in the amazing atmosphere there,when a young pilgrim came in,pack on her back and sticks in her hands.There was a Spanish Hymn playing quietly in the background.The young girl began to sing in the most beautiful voice and I was moved to tears.When I looked,the girl had tears running down her face and so had I.When the Hymn finished she bowed towards the Altar and left.I never saw her again but I will never forget her.
Leaving Cée, September 2011, just before dawn. A friend and myself left the town and started to climb upwards along a narrow lane with high walls either side, heading for Fisterra. We walked in silence. About a third of the way up, I heard the sounds of feet on stone, low, murmuring voices and rustling clothes behind me. I remember saying to myself that people were out early despite the weather. I increased my pace, as there was little room for anyone to pass. Got to the top, turned around and to my utter astonishment, there was no-one except my friend behind me. We walked on together for a short bit, remarking on the first light coming into the sky. I couldn't let what I had experienced pass and joked about the hordes coming behind us. She stopped-literally thunderstruck-and said she had experienced the same thing. We both had the sense while walking up the passageway of walking within a crowd-as if there were people all around us. Make of it what you will but we are still talking about it nine years down the road.
My name is Anik and I walked SJPP to Fisterra in July 2017. When I got to Fromista, I had a fever, went to bed early and woke up late. My Camino friends were walking a 30+km that day, so I knew, sadly, I had lost them. I walked alone to Carrion de los Condes and got a bed at the albergue del Collegio Espiritu Santo. The sister told us about the rio Carrion where we could swim. I decided to go, even though I don’t like to swim. There I Met Nicoletta, who was also at my albergue. We ended up walking together a few days later, til Santiago, and are still friends to this day. The way has a way of putting things together for the better! And, I found one of the friends I had walked with in the first weeks still in Fisterra when I got there. How could it be more perfect?!
I bet it was!wow! @Anniesantiago ... maybe it was the same lady that gave us water? this was from my blog
Eventually we made it. But Guillena is bigger than we anticipated so we then faced more walking to find the hostel.
We had no water and we were so so hot… we passed a row of houses and an old lady called to us… agua agua? Si Si por favor we replied and she returned with a huge bottle of cold water. Then a chair and then another chair and then another. And so we sat outside her house, in the shade, drinking water, while she chatted away to us in Spanish. I have no idea what she said but I loved her.
She left us with directions to the hostel and a little card each, a bit like a cigarette card from a collection only these have pictures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. She wants us to say a prayer for her in Santiago… and I intend to.
Feel free to use my "short story" about being lost on the Camino
@Davey Boyd, please let @LesBrass use your story "Meeting an incredible person". It is the most moving story I have ever read on this forum.
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