Josep is a philosopher farmer (pictured) . . . a farming family near Barcelona, studying philosophy at university . . . says he would like to walk a day or two on the camino with his mother, a gentle soul . . . not with his father though . . . Pep has done the ten day vippasana meditation programme . . . a weddings and funerals Christian . . . his English is basic, but we are tuned in to a similar frequency, so communication is easy . . .
Albon is a French seminarian from Lourdes, a pious young man, travelling without money . . . completely confident that the camino will take care of him . . . I suppose the church network is a safety net of a kind . . . I share my opinion of Lourdes, the commercialisation . . . it's the same in Rome, Santiago . . . all along the camino, he says . . . his trust in providence is uplifting . . . inspires me to lighten my load again . . . not convinced about going without money though . . . since providence has supplied me with an early pension, I am happy to put it to work . . .
Craig is an American having a crisis at 35 . . . last night I offered him soup . . . he declined, sat alone reading from his kindle . . . early this morning he was first up, before 6 am . . . hasn't slept for days . . . overweight, struggling with the walk, the pack . . . not sure about Santiago . . . me neither, but while I'm here, why not? . . . just more slowly . . . his work was political analysis for the U.S. military . . . we agree that politics is a game . . . he has no idea what to do, where to go . . . says none of the pilgrims he has met are Christians on the pure camino (whatever that may be) . . . your projection I suggest, kindly . . . his role is loner, but it doesn't have to be . . . a few words about energy, the universe . . . my father is into all that, he says . . . the harmonics of the universe . . . I don't ask about his mother . . .
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