That was two years ago ... on the scoreboard had our Thalys suddenly an hour late ... God ... Sorry James ... Thanks be only a duck ;-)
The backpacks are packed, the clothes for the journey are already neatly folded ready, is the official table cleaned up fine ... there can go wrong but nothing more, or? Or so I thought until yesterday when my mother all excited with the local section of the newspaper and I immediately turned up the headline "signals are on red, ICE's and Thalys from Aachen Stolberg and fall" in the eye fell. Since I was but suddenly hear everything and that was certainly not excessive panic, our outward journey was but two years ago with no really good start. I remember like it was yesterday when we arrived at the central station and an announcement said that the Thalys from Cologne was about an hour late ... it does not really fit well when in Paris, only 35 minutes in order to a station on the Metro to get to the other in order for another 10 minutes later to catch the night train single of the week ;-) Thank God it turned out that the delay affected the Thalys in the opposite direction, to Cologne. The change trains in Paris at that time had worked like a charm, except for the fact that we had purchased lack of knowledge of the French language with the kind help of a French the wrong metro tickets and put about 20 € in the sand. That had to be sustained but ... The train was then the hardness of the ... you can not describe the need to have experience ... I hope we mrgen again have the pleasure in such 70s traveling wagon. I will document the then immediately photographed and you can participate in this fun ...
I was often asked today, how I am ... this is somehow to describe not so easy. It is most likely a mixture of anticipation with butterflies in the stomach and uncertainty, with almost an upset stomach ... now we are on the Camino France for the second time and it will most likely be more than two years ago. The Holy Year 2010, on the 25th of St. Jacob July falls on a Sunday, will produce about three times as many pilgrims as in 2008. The weather conditions have led to some advanced ... a call in St. Jean-Pied-de-Port, where it currently raining, raining and in the few breaks here and there, sometimes raining. to cross at the thought of rain in the sturzbachartigem Ibaneta Pass to Roncesvalles, I will present very different. An experience of the last Caminos strengthens me ... but the path has prepared answers to every difficulty. Unforgettable is the night when I went to bed with such pain in the firm belief that I am the next morning ... and could never run in the morning all pain was completely gone and we completed 36 km, the longest leg of our entire Camino. Unforgotten the hostel in Larrasoaña, which had no heating and soaking wet when we got down to their underwear. Never, so we thought, our clothes would be dry until the next morning in this moist environment. In fact, our clothes dried well and we could wear them as fresh from the dryer again. Sometimes the St. James small but significant miracle spends on the pilgrimage, and so we would appreciate it if the first little miracle in 2010 would be the day of a sunny Saturday.
Sun .. then go `s time now fill up the last sleep ... when I log in the next few days, we will already have the first 40-50 km behind us. We are happy to report back from our first experience. Until then, all of you all the best!
Regards Horst
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