94 year old completes Camino Portugues from Tui

[Bradypus]

Just a piece of happy and inspiring news I saw this morning. A 94 year old man has just finished a Camino journey from Tui as part of a large group from his home town. In part to mark the Holy Year and also in memory of those in their community who have died in the Covid pandemic.

Un valgués de 94 años culmina el Camino de Santiago junto con otros 120 peregrinos del municipio pontevedrés

Un grupo de 120 personas procedentes del municipio de Valga (Pontevedra) ha culminado este...

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[Former member 49149]

Just a piece of happy and inspiring news I saw this morning. A 94 year old man has just finished a Camino journey from Tui as part of a large group from his home town. In part to mark the Holy Year and also in memory of those in their community who have died in the Covid pandemic.

Un valgués de 94 años culmina el Camino de Santiago junto con otros 120 peregrinos del municipio pontevedrés

Un grupo de 120 personas procedentes del municipio de Valga (Pontevedra) ha culminado este...

www.europapress.es

Thanks, @Bradypus for your posts with real human interest content. God, how I wish my grandad had lived to that age and been able to do the same!

edit: not that he would have been in a position to head off. He was a coal miner. He walked plenty, as most people did in his time.

 

[SabsP]

Just a piece of happy and inspiring news I saw this morning. A 94 year old man has just finished a Camino journey from Tui as part of a large group from his home town. In part to mark the Holy Year and also in memory of those in their community who have died in the Covid pandemic.

Un valgués de 94 años culmina el Camino de Santiago junto con otros 120 peregrinos del municipio pontevedrés

Un grupo de 120 personas procedentes del municipio de Valga (Pontevedra) ha culminado este...

www.europapress.es

Brilliant!

Perfect example why I will never make snarky remarks about bigger groups walking the last 100 k. to Santiago.

 

[Bradypus]

edit: not that he would have been in a position to head off. He was a coal miner. He walked plenty, as most people did in his time.

Snap! My grandfather was also a coal miner who liked to stretch his legs. He lived in Stirling. A story he liked to tell was about missing the last bus home from Kirkcaldy one night. So he walked to Dunfermline but arrived there far too early. So he carried on to Alloa. Got there just in time for the first bus to Stirling but then decided it would be a pity to stop there and walked the last 8 miles anyway

Perfect example why I will never make snarky remarks about bigger groups walking the last 100 k. to Santiago.

I reserve the right to be a grumpy cantankerous old bugger now and again...

 

[Former member 49149]

Sorry to derail, but on foot of your reply...
I just know my grandad lived in a place known by an aunt of mine as the Tarry Rows. That meant the houses - if they were that - with the tarred roofs. Near Bishobriggs, outside Glasgow, i looked quickly for something to explain this, and offer this as a starter... you will have your own links.
M yauntie told me of the menoge. In French, menage. The women had one alarm clock that was shared along the row, depending on who was due to get up first. Also, someone who was a good manager could easily run the menoge. That consisted of a fixed half crown contribution per week. Each woman in a household got the total of the half crowns. Next week, another woman got the money. A very local savings banking system! Time? Around 1915 - 20...

Housing 1875 - Scottish Mining Website

History of Scottish Mining and mining areas of Scotland including housing, health, mining accidents and disasters.

scottishmining.co.uk

 

[Sainttam]

Snap! My grandfather was also a coal miner who liked to stretch his legs. He lived in Stirling. A story he liked to tell was about missing the last bus home from Kirkcaldy one night. So he walked to Dunfermline but arrived there far too early. So he carried on to Alloa. Got there just in time for the first bus to Stirling but then decided it would be a pity to stop there and walked the last 8 miles anyway


I reserve the right to be a grumpy cantankerous old bugger now and again...

Had he been to the Burma Ballroom?

 

[Bradypus]

Had he been to the Burma Ballroom?

Sadly I didn't ask him why he was in Kirkcaldy in the first place

 

[peregrina2000]

I always rejoice when I see these threads. They fill me with hope that that will be me someday. If nothing else, they give me a huge motivation to try to stay in shape so that I can keep on walking! Thanks for posting this, @Bradypus.

 

[lt56ny]

I always rejoice when I see these threads. They fill me with hope that that will be me someday. If nothing else, they give me a huge motivation to try to stay in shape so that I can keep on walking! Thanks for posting this, @Bradypus.

I have the same hope too!

 

[VNwalking]

Ditto.
Beautiful story.

 

[Yoyo]

Also, someone who was a good manager could easily run the menoge. That consisted of a fixed half crown contribution per week. Each woman in a household got the total of the half crowns. Next week, another woman got the money. A very local savings banking system! Time? Around 1915 - 20...

That practice is alive and well to this day in Mexico, where it is called a "tanda".

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I walked six miles today with my Bestie...I'm trying to do my part to stay "young at heart" as best as I can.

 

[Albertagirl]

I have been working at my laptop, planning this year's camino: Le Puy to SJpdP to Irun to Burgos to Ponferrada to Santiago via the Invierno. This thread has encouraged me to put my boots on and get out for an uphill walk. I won't be able to do it later if I don't get moving now.

 

[Bradypus]

Brilliant!

Perfect example why I will never make snarky remarks about bigger groups walking the last 100 k. to Santiago.

This group are on their way at the moment. 16 women with breast cancer past or present plus their professional medical supporters.

16 mujeres con cáncer de mama del Hospital de La Princesa inician El Camino de Santiago

Un grupo de 16 mujeres afectadas por cáncer de mama y pacientes del Hospital Universitario de La Princesa de Madrid, acompañadas de profesionales...

www.telemadrid.es

 

[Albertinho]

Just a piece of happy and inspiring news I saw this morning. A 94 year old man has just finished a Camino journey from Tui as part of a large group from his home town. In part to mark the Holy Year and also in memory of those in their community who have died in the Covid pandemic.

Un valgués de 94 años culmina el Camino de Santiago junto con otros 120 peregrinos del municipio pontevedrés

Un grupo de 120 personas procedentes del municipio de Valga (Pontevedra) ha culminado este...

www.europapress.es

Wow !

 

[malingerer]

Snap! My grandfather was also a coal miner who liked to stretch his legs. He lived in Stirling. A story he liked to tell was about missing the last bus home from Kirkcaldy one night. So he walked to Dunfermline but arrived there far too early. So he carried on to Alloa. Got there just in time for the first bus to Stirling but then decided it would be a pity to stop there and walked the last 8 miles anyway


I reserve the right to be a grumpy cantankerous old bugger now and again...

YES OH YES AND YES AGAIN ! I'm off end of August to do a "bitsa " from St J de P to Finisterre . I will be 84 and I shall practice my outer saint and inner grumpy with gusto or vino tinto as the case may be

Samarkand.