If you could walk with someone for a few days - dead or alive - who?

[David]

Hi all .. quiet time of the year, up here in England hunkered down against the winter wolf ... so .. idle thought and based on the dinner guest question.

If you could walk on Camino with someone for a few days, including dinners and wine ... they can be dead or alive, who would you choose and why?

For me it would be Thomas Aquinas for sure ... for his super bright mind, his wit, extraordinary clear thinking theology, and for him not being dogmatic

If he was busy (busy being dead) I would choose William Shakespeare - why? .. because, well, because it would be him! Himself! Think of the conversations we could have!

Have fun

 

[Maurice Frank]

Vincent Van Gogh

The Buddha

Jesus

 

[David]

Vincent Van Gogh

The Buddha

Jesus

Cool - but why?

 

[Maurice Frank]

Van Gogh to understand more about the man and his art, knowing he has a reputation as difficult to get along with

Buddha to learn from him

Jesus to understand what he meant to teach, not how his teachings are interpreted today

 

[Robo]

My Father. Too many conversations we never got to have.

 

[alexwalker]

Hi all .. quiet time of the year, up here in England hunkered down against the winter wolf ... so .. idle thought and based on the dinner guest question.

If you could walk on Camino with someone for a few days, including dinners and wine ... they can be dead or alive, who would you choose and why?

For me it would be Thomas Aquinas for sure ... for his super bright mind, his wit, extraordinary clear thinking theology, and for him not being dogmatic

If he was busy (busy being dead) I would choose William Shakespeare - why? .. because, well, because it would be him! Himself! Think of the conversations we could have!

Have fun

Me, David. Me.

 

[lalaone]

Isaac Newton. How his mind bridged the most brilliant levels of science and mathematics, to queries deeply spiritual, mystical and theological. How did these diverse studies and thoughts lend mutual inspiration? We'd start out the conversation with a question about the relationship between chemistry and alchemy, and he would take the lead from there

 

[Tincatinker]

Sir Patrick Michael (Paddy) Leigh Fermor DSO OBE. My hero ever since I read A Time of Gifts at about the age he was when he set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople ( a destination that didn’t exist ).

A chance to have a conversation with that polymath, polyglot, tatterdemalion over a glass, bottle or jug and share tales of shepherds huts and cow byres, monasteries and barracks. I think I wouldn’t mind that most of it was myth. I just think it would be fun

 

[Bradypus]

I think I wouldn’t mind that most of it was myth. I just think it would be fun

That's why I would choose to walk with James Bell - my late maternal grandfather. A prodigious walker and a teller of tall tales that grew ever more polished and slightly less believable with each repetition! My other grandfather was born in Constantinople when it did exist...

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Henry David Thoreau. Maybe ask his walking and dinner buddy Ralph Waldo Emerson along too. I often walk where these men walked and I do imagine watching Thoreau and his brother rowing past our house. A Camino with them talking about philosophy, walking and nature would be enlightening. I'm certain though that if with Thoreau only it would have to be me picking up the tab for the dinners and wine.

 

[TravellingMan22]

Hi all .. quiet time of the year, up here in England hunkered down against the winter wolf ... so .. idle thought and based on the dinner guest question.

If you could walk on Camino with someone for a few days, including dinners and wine ... they can be dead or alive, who would you choose and why?

For me it would be Thomas Aquinas for sure ... for his super bright mind, his wit, extraordinary clear thinking theology, and for him not being dogmatic

If he was busy (busy being dead) I would choose William Shakespeare - why? .. because, well, because it would be him! Himself! Think of the conversations we could have!

Have fun

Great question!

Henry VIII I think! It wouldn’t be dull and he may well be a slower, and less fit than me! Fascinated by that era and him in particular.

 

[VNwalking]

Henry XIII

I assume you mean VIII?

 

[TravellingMan22]

I assume you mean VIII?

Oh blimey yes!!! Thanks!!!

 

[Damien Reynolds]

Jim Morrison.

 

[Harland2019]

Tina Turner - do I have to answer why?

 

[ranthr]

My husband perhaps.
For many years I walked several caminos, while he was fishing salmon in the river Tana next to our doorstep. Later on he said he regretted not coming with me when he still was able to walk a camino.
Too late now anyway.
I always walked alone and if walking with someone I would prefer a quiet person who did not have to talk all the time, since peace and quiet is what I like about the camino.

 

[steve392]

Lewis Hamilton - because he's more than just an F1 driver.

 

[Juspassinthru]

My maternal grandfather, gone now for 35 years. With my brother, the 3 of us explored the woods, canyons, rivers and lakes of central Texas. Learning about life, nature and how to be a decent person in a complex world. He would have loved the Camino in all of its ways. I still had (and have) so much to learn from him walking and talking in the countryside. I hope I can be as inspiring to my grandchildren as he was to me.

 

[Arctic_Alex]

When dreaming of walking with almost any historical figure from more than 300 years ago ... keep in mind you will most likely not understand a word they are saying even if they come from the same geographical region as you do
Ignoring that problem, it would be hard for me to choose as there are too many historical figures and commoners I would like to ask a lot about their times, history, their lives.

 

[ShoshTrvls]

John Ruskin - I would love to hear him talk about the architecture and landscapes as we walked through them

Oscar Wilde - He would definitely keep me entertained.

 

[MARSKA]

My mother

 

[steve392]

Billy Connolly - no explanation needed.

 

[davesfitforlife]

My Dad.
We never took a walk ever.
He's walked thousands of miles on his own as a peddler.
I think he would have liked it.

 

[dougfitz]

My goodness, this has made me realize just how much of an introvert I am. I cannot imagine starting a conversation with many of the wonderful people some of you have chosen. Perhaps if I met Paddy Fermor as a tatterdemalion I might have enjoyed walking with him. It is difficult for me to imagine him disguised like that, but he did survive on Crete in WWII, so he must have been able to disguise his Englishness somehow.

I must admit there are a few fellow forum members who I think would make remarkably good company, but rather than embarrass them with the prospect of having to walk and talk to me, that is a short list that I will keep close to my chest.