Hi, me again. Know I’ve only just popped into your
inbox but wanted to share a special evening with you. It was my last supper at
the Refuge Kaserna, great hilarity as there was a really good crowd- mixed ages
and unusually a number of English speakers as well as French. Then two people
walked in through the French doors and were welcomed with open arms by
Delphine, the current hospitallier.
It was a girl and her husband from Costa Rica just
arrived in town. It transpired that six years ago the girls father and uncle
set off on Camino from St Jean Pied de Port- an hour into the walk her father
dropped to his knees and died on the road from a heart attack. His brother was
understandably shell shocked so Delphine took him into her home and looked
after him for the 8 days it took to make all the arrangements. And now his
daughter and her husband arrived to make their Camino in his memory. This
morning Delphine took them to the spot where he died -
I feel that
it has been a privilege to have met them and the other extraordinary people
I’ve met, too many to mention but who will stay in my memory for a long time
- the 86 year old French man who
recently arrived from Vezelay – what
drove him on, what drives any of them? I guess we’ll never know.
So I’m off today, feels the right time to be
going, the next stage of my journey- nervous anticipation as I don’t speak
Spanish but exciting to think of all the exciting new experiences waiting for
me.
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