- Time of past OR future Camino
- First one in 2005 from Moissac, France.
Hi all .. was wondering about this, harmless silly incidents.
I met a young Croatian man in the evening at Roncesvalles, back in the year 5. He was obviously very handsome as over the next few days I always saw him at the centre of a group of female pilgrims. He only spoke Croatian but had been given a two-language dictionary before he left home. Unfortunately it was Croatian-Italian so he did have some communication problems.
Anyway - I went down to the bathroom before lights out and there he was, completely naked and just out of the shower and crouched over, trying to dry himself under one of the electric hand dryers. Those hand dryers are in the entrance where male and female peel off left and right.
I went over to the "help yourself" shelves (for those who don't know, there are shelves downstairs where pilgrims dump all the excess stuff they realise, after walking over the Pyrenees, that they really don't need, so it is always full of t-shirts and so on) - I picked up a few t-shirts and gave them to him to dry himself with.
I think he thought that they were for sale or something - I couldn't explain it to him, so I ripped one apart and mimed using it as a towel, handed them over and then left him to his own devices.
A couple of days later he managed to explain, via a pretty Italian pilgrim, that he had lost his towel the day before. He had almost no money, no guide, an old pack, but an absolute heart of gold, really radiated out of him ... I wonder how he got on ...
Actually, thinking about it .. if a few female pilgrims went down there at that time it isn't surprising they followed him afterwards.
So - any silly happenings in your Camino memories???? Tell all !
p.s. Thinking about it, you could probably start your Camino with an empty rucksack and fill up at Roncesvalles!
I met a young Croatian man in the evening at Roncesvalles, back in the year 5. He was obviously very handsome as over the next few days I always saw him at the centre of a group of female pilgrims. He only spoke Croatian but had been given a two-language dictionary before he left home. Unfortunately it was Croatian-Italian so he did have some communication problems.
Anyway - I went down to the bathroom before lights out and there he was, completely naked and just out of the shower and crouched over, trying to dry himself under one of the electric hand dryers. Those hand dryers are in the entrance where male and female peel off left and right.
I went over to the "help yourself" shelves (for those who don't know, there are shelves downstairs where pilgrims dump all the excess stuff they realise, after walking over the Pyrenees, that they really don't need, so it is always full of t-shirts and so on) - I picked up a few t-shirts and gave them to him to dry himself with.
I think he thought that they were for sale or something - I couldn't explain it to him, so I ripped one apart and mimed using it as a towel, handed them over and then left him to his own devices.
A couple of days later he managed to explain, via a pretty Italian pilgrim, that he had lost his towel the day before. He had almost no money, no guide, an old pack, but an absolute heart of gold, really radiated out of him ... I wonder how he got on ...
Actually, thinking about it .. if a few female pilgrims went down there at that time it isn't surprising they followed him afterwards.
So - any silly happenings in your Camino memories???? Tell all !
p.s. Thinking about it, you could probably start your Camino with an empty rucksack and fill up at Roncesvalles!
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