Just been Told off

[Waka]

Here I am sat at home on the computer checking up on the latests posts (as I do a few times a day when I'm home) and Management has just popped her head around the door and said, "you can't wait to go again can you" well what's a chap to say, I feel really hurt.

I now have all the guide books for Hadrians Wall (all booked and doing that in Sept this year), the pilgrim route Winchester to Canterbury (scheduled for the same time 2017), Camino Ingles, Finisterre Muxia that's on the cards for April 2018. On these three planned routes I will be accompanied by Management, I just don't understand why Management is not as excited as I am, she was when joining me at Sarria for the last 100 km of my CF.

I've also sorted the route for the VDLP, looks like this will be 2019, and to top it all I'd like to do the CF again.
All I need to do is book the flights, but even I know that's a bit early to get a cheap flight.
Anybody else have the same problems as me?

 

[jsalt]

Anybody else have the same problems as me?

Not anymore. We tried rehab, but as soon as I was out the addiction started again. He’s given up.

 

[jirit]

The problem if you wished to describe it as such fades after a couple of dozen pilgrimages

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

For me next year the Camino Norte stay on the program.
At the same time my wife will walk the Camino Aragones.And after next year, who knows? ???
We don't walk long distances together, when we do , we probably and up divorsed. The main reason is that our difference in hight, she is 1.59mtr. and I'm 1.97mtr. is the problem. Well you can't win them all.
Wish you well, Peter.

 

[Dennis D]

This positive addictive thing call the Camino is worth every step you take. You can always find people here that understand what it is all about. As soon as I get home, my wife asks me If I plan to walk again? Of course, I have an answer for her. As you know, walking into Santiago is anticlimactic and the only way to deal with this depression is to start planning for next year. That works for me anyway.

Buen Camino

 

[Tincatinker]

Here I am sat at home on the computer checking up on the latests posts (as I do a few times a day...

And I get asked "are you playing nicely with the Pilgrims?" And I think "playing?" and then I see the smile. Me I'm just a lucky little Tinker

 

[Mike Savage]

Yes Waka, I do understand and commiserate with you.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

For me next year the Camino Norte stay on the program.
At the same time my wife will walk the Camino Aragones.And after next year, who knows? ???
We don't walk long distances together, when we do , we probably and up divorsed. The main reason is that our difference in hight, she is 1.59mtr. and I'm 1.97mtr. is the problem. Well you can't win them all.
Wish you well, Peter.

You mean you don't see eye to eye on the matter?

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Here I am sat at home on the computer checking up on the latests posts (as I do a few times a day when I'm home) and Management has just popped her head around the door and said, "you can't wait to go again can you" well what's a chap to say, I feel really hurt.

I now have all the guide books for Hadrians Wall (all booked and doing that in Sept this year), the pilgrim route Winchester to Canterbury (scheduled for the same time 2017), Camino Ingles, Finisterre Muxia that's on the cards for April 2018. On these three planned routes I will be accompanied by Management, I just don't understand why Management is not as excited as I am, she was when joining me at Sarria for the last 100 km of my CF.

I've also sorted the route for the VDLP, looks like this will be 2019, and to top it all I'd like to do the CF again.
All I need to do is book the flights, but even I know that's a bit early to get a cheap flight.
Anybody else have the same problems as me?

She's probably just steeling herself for the pain of your departure and putting a brave face on it . . . .

Let me know when you get to Canterbury next year and I'll buy you a beverage of your choice. And don't get suckered in to paying the £12 entrance fee to the cathedral (I KNOW, right?) - you can go in to the Information Office if you want a stamp - I like to get one there as the first on my credential and Santiago as the last.

 

[DJwalKing]

As you know, walking into Santiago is anticlimactic and the only way to deal with this depression is to start planning for next year. That works for me anyway./QUOTE]

It really is anticlimactic, isn't it? I was downright sad and disappointed when I arrived in Santiago. I've spoken to many pilgrims who, when asked if they'd do it again, look at me with such incredulity and say "Why would I do it again?" My response is that I will definitely, absolutely do it again. The sooner the better. In fact, I've often felt like running away and going right back now (and I've only been home for a month!) It's so wonderful to have people out there who can relate!!

 

[M. McNabb]

Here I am sat at home on the computer checking up on the latests posts (as I do a few times a day when I'm home) and Management has just popped her head around the door and said, "you can't wait to go again can you" well what's a chap to say, I feel really hurt.

I now have all the guide books for Hadrians Wall (all booked and doing that in Sept this year), the pilgrim route Winchester to Canterbury (scheduled for the same time 2017), Camino Ingles, Finisterre Muxia that's on the cards for April 2018. On these three planned routes I will be accompanied by Management, I just don't understand why Management is not as excited as I am, she was when joining me at Sarria for the last 100 km of my CF.

I've also sorted the route for the VDLP, looks like this will be 2019, and to top it all I'd like to do the CF again.
All I need to do is book the flights, but even I know that's a bit early to get a cheap flight.
Anybody else have the same problems as me?

Too funny! As this will be my first Camino, no response on that

 

[Margaret Butterworth]

I have just given my long suffering partner the book by Tony Kevin on the Via de la Plata. This could be described as a thinking man's guide. It was read from cover to cover and discussed at length afterwards.

 

[Waka]

She's probably just steeling herself for the pain of your departure and putting a brave face on it . . . .

Let me know when you get to Canterbury next year and I'll buy you a beverage of your choice. And don't get suckered in to paying the £12 entrance fee to the cathedral (I KNOW, right?) - you can go in to the Information Office if you want a stamp - I like to get one there as the first on my credential and Santiago as the last.

I'll take you up on that Jeff.

 

[Waka]

Too funny! As this will be my first Camino, no response on that

You will when you're hooked like all of us, are we sad people, possibly but what a great way to be.

 

[Waka]

This positive addictive thing call the Camino is worth every step you take. You can always find people here that understand what it is all about. As soon as I get home, my wife asks me If I plan to walk again? Of course, I have an answer for her. As you know, walking into Santiago is anticlimactic and the only way to deal with this depression is to start planning for next year. That works for me anyway.

Buen Camino

I really agree and when I saw the Land Train I was even more disappointed, but I know I'll do it again, maybe next time it will be different.

 

[TaijiPilgrim]

Here I am sat at home on the computer checking up on the latests posts (as I do a few times a day when I'm home) and Management has just popped her head around the door and said, "you can't wait to go again can you" well what's a chap to say, I feel really hurt.

I now have all the guide books for Hadrians Wall (all booked and doing that in Sept this year), the pilgrim route Winchester to Canterbury (scheduled for the same time 2017), Camino Ingles, Finisterre Muxia that's on the cards for April 2018. On these three planned routes I will be accompanied by Management, I just don't understand why Management is not as excited as I am, she was when joining me at Sarria for the last 100 km of my CF.

I've also sorted the route for the VDLP, looks like this will be 2019, and to top it all I'd like to do the CF again.
All I need to do is book the flights, but even I know that's a bit early to get a cheap flight.
Anybody else have the same problems as me?

I'd say that "Management" is busy managing but still is looking forward to your plans - unless they happen to be your plans and not hers. Referring to another pilgrimage described in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, take heed of the Wife of Bath's tale! Seriously, many of us have patient, kind, and understanding significant others who encourage us --which is why they are our significant others. My spouse, who would never walk the Camino, and I walked Hadrian's Wall Path in June, and we both enjoyed it. BTW, the path does not follow the Wall itself between Wallsend and Heddon-on-the-Wall. If you want to follow the Wall, get "Walking Hadrian's Wall on Tyneside," a pamphlet guide published by Wallquest, a project of the Tyne&Wear Archives & Museums. The Segedunum and Arbeia forts would have copies. Buen camino to you both!

 

[fraluchi]

Management? Business as usual I guess!?

 

[Al the optimist]

This year was testing and there were many times that "Why?", "Why not just stop?" and "This is my last time." lingered around in my head and heart. But well, you know....

 

[Sue M]

Got the addiction but lack the nerve. Ian Holdsworth from Northampton used to take groups from the diocese, which was how I got started, walking along with four others. Does anyone in England know of anyone else doing the same?

 

[Waka]

I'm not aware of any church groups from my area doing anything like that. We've done the pilgrimages to Rome / Assisi etc as a church group. That was for maximum 8 days, I'm not too sure I'd like to spend a whole camino with a church group, for me the diversity of the people and the loneliness of the days is what makes it for me.

Not my fault I'm a sad lonely old man who only wants company in the evenings

 

[enerol]

The problem if you wished to describe it as such fades after a couple of dozen pilgrimages

for some maybe, not all. . .just saying.

 

[Patch]

I managed 3 months away walking this year - one on the Camino. My family and friends think I am crazy but only I know the truth!?

 

[John Sikora]

Do I ever. Hadrians wall and Offa's dyke next year. Camino again in 2019. Not sure about 2018. In my 67 years I never really felt as comfortable as in the Camino.

 

[Waka]

In my 67 years I never really felt as comfortable as in the Camino.

You and me both. I really feel that I've missed out on so much by only finding out about the camino last year. Now I have to play catch up before it's too late. I'll be 70 on the next camino, but as long as I can walk I'll be going back.

 

[Luther]

No, you're not alone, Waka. 'Did my first Camino two months ago. Wife gets upset at any mention of it, leading up to and after. 'Can't even talk about it to my family, not to mention friends who ask about the experience. It's complicated and difficult, and a subject that I have not seen discussed, but I'm sure we're not the only ones.

 

[C clearly]

This year was testing and there were many times that "Why?", "Why not just stop?" and "This is my last time." lingered around in my head and heart. But well, you know....

So, where are your thoughts going now, with respect to next time? Have you distilled any lessons or advice for us? (I fully expect some responses related to distillation of things other than thoughts.)

 

[Al the optimist]

Only that we get blase about things in life until a rude awakening. Still limping around but nowhere near as bad as on the Camino.

During and after the walk I often said that I would never contemplate doing many different things:-
1 walking anywhere again
2 walking 1000 miles again
3 walking the Mozarabe again
4 walking more than a week or so
5 carrying a pack again
6 partying so hard at the end
7 ......
BUT
1 I keep seeing the photos on my desktop screensaver
2 I keep remembering the hospitality
3 I remember the fellow pilgrims I was finally able to share with
4 .....

I am going to be a little tied up the next couple of years so who knows what and when. All I know is that I would be quite surprised if there wasn't a when! Let's face facts we all know I am an addict!

 

[mspath]

Only that we get blase about things in life until a rude awakening. Still limping around but nowhere near as bad as on the Camino.

During and after the walk I often said that I would never contemplate doing many different things:-
1 walking anywhere again
2 walking 1000 miles again
3 walking the Mozarabe again
4 walking more than a week or so
5 carrying a pack again
6 partying so hard at the end
7 ......
BUT
1 I keep seeing the photos on my desktop screensaver
2 I keep remembering the hospitality
3 I remember the fellow pilgrims I was finally able to share with
4 .....

I am going to be a little tied up the next couple of years so who knows what and when. All I know is that I would be quite surprised if there wasn't a when! Let's face facts we all know I am an addict!

Al,
From one addict to another Godspeed and Ultreia!

"...and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

[Waka]

We all know deep down that we are not going to give up, take a rest perhaps, but give up no way.
I think I speak for most of the pilgrims on the forum.

 

[AlanSykes]

I now have all the guide books for Hadrians Wall (all booked and doing that in Sept this year), the pilgrim route Winchester to Canterbury (scheduled for the same time 2017), Camino Ingles, Finisterre Muxia that's on the cards for April 2018. On these three planned routes I will be accompanied by Management, I just don't understand why Management is not as excited as I am, she was when joining me at Sarria for the last 100 km of my CF.

I've also sorted the route for the VDLP, looks like this will be 2019, and to top it all I'd like to do the CF again.
All I need to do is book the flights, but even I know that's a bit early to get a cheap flight.
Anybody else have the same problems as me?

And there was I feeling slightly ashamed of researching 2017's camino (Vía Serrana/VdlP) before I've done 2016's (Mozárabe from Almería). If you do Hadrian's Wall next month and fancy a pint, let me know - I live about 3 miles from Brampton, just on the "civilisation" side of the wall.

 

[Albertagirl]

And there was I feeling slightly ashamed of researching 2017's camino (Vía Serrana/VdlP) before I've done 2016's (Mozárabe from Almería). If you do Hadrian's Wall next month and fancy a pint, let me know - I live about 3 miles from Brampton, just on the "civilisation" side of the wall.

@alansykes
Which side would that be?

 

[AlanSykes]

@alansykes
Which side would that be?

Just inside the Roman Empire, although, like most borderers, I have barbarian (or, if you prefer, Scottish) blood as well. Peaceful now, but I sometimes get an urge to steal a sheep on my rare ventures across into Pictish lands. We gave three words to the English language, "blackmail" (greenmail was lawful rent, blackmail was the "rent" paid not to have your farm burnt down) "bereaved" after the reivers who collected the blackmail, and would leave you bereaved if you didn't pay it and kidnap (child nab or steal).

 

[KatyMac]

Here I am sat at home on the computer checking up on the latests posts (as I do a few times a day when I'm home) and Management has just popped her head around the door and said, "you can't wait to go again can you" well what's a chap to say, I feel really hurt.

I now have all the guide books for Hadrians Wall (all booked and doing that in Sept this year), the pilgrim route Winchester to Canterbury (scheduled for the same time 2017), Camino Ingles, Finisterre Muxia that's on the cards for April 2018. On these three planned routes I will be accompanied by Management, I just don't understand why Management is not as excited as I am, she was when joining me at Sarria for the last 100 km of my CF.

I've also sorted the route for the VDLP, looks like this will be 2019, and to top it all I'd like to do the CF again.
All I need to do is book the flights, but even I know that's a bit early to get a cheap flight.
Anybody else have the same problems as me?

This is a life-time addiction. Thank goodness for this forum or else I would think that there is something seriously wrong with me pschologically!! I just can't get the Camino out of my mind and am devastated that we have to wait until 2019 before we can go again!! My hubby and I feel the same and realise that this was a life-changing experience that we want to revisit. We plan to complete the CF from SJean to Leon and then continue on to the Del Norte. We will need some serious leave so no holidays for the next two years - no worries, it's worth it.

 

[El Condor 2014]

Anybody else have the same problems as me?

I don't have problems with management, but I sure have the same problem with "I will just do one more Camino" and before I know I am starting to plan the Camino after the next Camino,

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I don't have problems with management, but I sure have the same problem with "I will just do one more Camino" and before I know I am starting to plan the Camino after the next Camino,

, after the next Camino, and after the next...who says the old threads shouldn't be resurrected! Lol.