What's the best way?

WGroleau

Wandering Weirdo aka 伟思礼

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2015–2018 (partial)

• Nov 15, 2017

• #1

After reading several (actually many) posts about how different people prefer to do a Camino, I thought I should share a story from last year.

I was standing near the wine fountain in Irache. Lady comes up to me and asks (in Spanish), "I heard it wasn't working. Do you know something about that?"

I pointed to the sign that said in English and Spanish that they put in one hundred liters each day, and said "they only put in one hundred liters each day; maybe they ran out."

She turned around and said in English to a group, "The nice gentlemen explained to me that there's only one hundred liters a day …" and some other words. Then the group took a lot of pictures, climbed into a van, and drove away. The punch line is the slogan on top of the van:

 

Peter Fransiscus

Be a Rainbow in someone else's cloud.

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

• Nov 15, 2017

• #2

Wish you well,Peter.

 

SabsP

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some and then more. see my signature.

• Nov 15, 2017

• #3

Brilliant. I saw such a van on our holidays in the Cevennes in France...made me chuckle too.

 

Purky

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Reality is frequently inaccurate

• Nov 15, 2017

• #4

Der beste Weg die Welt zu sehen, ist zu Fuß - Goethe

 

Rick of Rick and Peg

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Us:Camino Frances, 2015 Me:Catalan/Aragonese, 2019

• Nov 15, 2017

• #5

Purky said:

Der beste Weg die Welt zu sehen, ist zu Fuß - Goethe

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Van Goethe in this case (a distant cousin of von Goethe.)

 

VNwalking

Out walking

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Yearly and Various 2014-2019
Via Monastica 2022

• Nov 15, 2017

• #6

Ah, delicious irony, made even more delicious because the people plastering that quote on passenger vans have no idea it's ironic.
Tee hee...

 

VNwalking

Out walking

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Via Monastica 2022

• Nov 15, 2017

• #7

Kathar1na said:

Interesting outfit. Had never heard of them. Not many run a trust to restore 14c frescoes in Umbria ...

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Well, it just goes to show how wrong one can be when making an assumption! Thanks, Katharina.
And...Their journeys are expensive. 15 days (escorted) walking and driving on the Frances for £5,495. All that money and the hoi poloi who are paying 5 Euros a night drank all the wine. Sigh.

 

MichelleElynHogan

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• Nov 18, 2017

• #8

Known commonly as an, "Ironic Dichotomy."

 

WGroleau

Wandering Weirdo aka 伟思礼

Time of past OR future Camino

2015–2018 (partial)

• Nov 19, 2017

• #9

VNwalking said:

Well, it just goes to show how wrong one can be when making an assumption! Thanks, Katharina.
And...Their journeys are expensive. 15 days (escorted) walking and driving on the Frances for £5,495. All that money and the hoi poloi who are paying 5 Euros a night drank all the wine. Sigh.

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Hmmm. Rick Steves's most expensive Iberian tour starts at US$4095 for fourteen days. It too has a lot of walking. See https://www.ricksteves.com/tours/spain-portugal/spain — open the top one and scroll down to "physical demands."