Happy Christmas to you all

[David]

Hello all - how interesting and often fun it has been on the forum this year - thank you Ivar and moderators, and all who posted and responded...

So ... to friends and virtual friends, all of you - I wish you a warm and safe and Happy Christmas - and may there be good things and safe travels for you in 2025

"On earth Peace, to those of goodwill"

 

[SYates]

Happy Christmas and a New Year full of Caminos from Santiago!
BC SY

 

[backlasher]

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

 

[Lexicos]

Christ was a man of peace, who taught love and tolerance.
Might we all learn from him and follow his example.
This Christmas, above all else, I pray for peace for everyone in all corners of the world.

 

[David and Theresa]

Merry Christmas to all

 

[MMeira]

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!!

 

[60LifeChange]

Merry Christmas from Colorado

 

[lt56ny]

Hello all - how interesting and often fun it has been on the forum this year - thank you Ivar and moderators, and all who posted and responded...

So ... to friends and virtual friends, all of you - I wish you a warm and safe and Happy Christmas - and may there be good things and safe travels for you in 2025

"On earth Peace, to those of goodwill"

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Quick question. As I have not watched my favorite Christmas movie "Love Actually" in a few years, (will watch it this year) I do not remember if you all over in merry old England prefer to say Happy Christmas instead of the way we say it in your former colony, Merry Christmas, or it is your personal preference or what's the story haha. Just wondering. It is good my life is pretty happy right now that I can reflect on a profound subject like this one.
And not being of the Christian faith my I wish you a Happy Hanukkah. I hope you have your dreidel ready and win lots of chocolate coins.

 

[TravellingMan22]

Quick question. As I have not watched my favorite Christmas movie "Love Actually" in a few years, (will watch it this year) I do not remember if you all over in merry old England prefer to say Happy Christmas instead of the way we say it in your former colony, Merry Christmas, or it is your personal preference or what's the story haha. Just wondering. It is good my life is pretty happy right now that I can reflect on a profound subject like this one.
And not being of the Christian faith my I wish you a Happy Hanukkah. I hope you have your dreidel ready and win lots of chocolate coins.

Happy Xmas and Merry Xmas are pretty much used interchangeably verbally I would say in UK, with no real preference for either. I think shops go with ‘Merry Xmas’.

 

[nycwalking]

Merry Christmas from Los Angeles.

 

[Rowena]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, from Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada.

 

[chinacat]

From the UK:

I think I’ll wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year!
(since alcohol is so inexpensive and freely available on Camino )

… not forgetting peace during the Holy Nights

 

[Camino Chrissy]

In the US we say "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"!
A big "Like" to all of the Christmas greetings on this thread and a thank you to @David for starting it and sending that beautiful AI generated photo!

 

[trecile]

If anyone is wondering, using X to mean Christmas is ancient and comes from the Greek letter.

Xmas - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[suseia]

Merry Christmas and happy new year!!! Best wishes and thanks for this forum, a real community to share feelings opinions... and hope

 

[davejsy]

Merry Christmas from Jersey!

 

[Corelacka]

Happy Christmas from Ireland and as we say here ‘go mbeire muid beo ar an am seo arís’ (may we be alive at this time next year).

 

[alexwalker]

@David (Hope our ways may cross once more, my friend) and all: Merry Christmas!

After a turbulent (personally) year 2024, things can only get better, and I look forward to heading out from Burgos next May, celebrating my 71th birthday, with my daughter. As the ad says: "Because I'm worth it!"

Edit: I am often wondering: Why do I return to walk the same (or another) Camino in Spain? I have not found an answer: I guess it's like what our esteemed forum member @mspath often quotes:

"the heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing".

This is a quote from the French mathematician Blaise Pascal, who established the foundation for computer principles/concepts, even if the machinery/technology was not of the quality to build a computer. But his principles were (basically) correct,, and he was also a founder of modern probability theory, amongst other things.

He has given name to one of the more important computer programming languages, Pascal.

I know this stuff bc. I have my 50th year anniversary as a computer engineer this year...

One can say of Blaise Pascal: From heart to computers, his mind spanned quite a lot...