[Gocamino] "Within the Way" Video

[Wendy MORRIS]

"Within the way without"......a marvellous DVD. I watched it before
going on my Camino last year. A great intro. to the countryside and the
whole experience. I guess Rosina....the title could allude to the inner
journey one takes as one develops into a pilgrim along the way????
Best wishes to all......I love reading the emails...makes me feel I'm
back there!!

Warmest wishes,
Wendy 
 
 
 


 

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The whole video is, for me, beyond superlatives, in every way.

I would just love for the people at the Pilgrims' Office and the
Confraternity to see it and, in that way, be somehow rewarded for their
long, arduous, and largely unrecognized efforts...... but except for one
or two volunteers, those who toil there don't speak English. They speak
French, Italian and Portuguese (which is very much like Galician)
fluently, and two of the workers there have now learned German... but no
English other than five or six very common phrases.

The video is 150 delicious minutes long... so that translating it for
someone as it is shown is out of the question.... at least for me.

When on the Camino I spend a horrendous amount?of time, daily,
translating and translating..... at albergues, at stores, at churches
and, almost always, at the post office. Those needing translations are,
mostly, German speaking pilgrims who speak to me in English so that I
can translate into, mostly, Spanish.
French, Italian and Portuguese-speaking pilgrims need much less help,
except for many Brasilians, perhaps, who believe they speak/understand
Spanish well and needlessly complicate things a lot.

While translating may come easily to some people it?is quite difficult
for me. I think in one language or another, and have to rethink the
whole?thing in the other language to translate it.? It is very, very
tiresome.? Some multi-lingual friends of mine avoid travelling with
their mono-lingual spouses to a country where the spouse does not speak
the language because they absolutely hate to have to translate and
translate. Also, the monolingual one feels left out,?wants to know every
little thing that is being said, interrupts and interrupts, situations
arise, and the trip?becomes unpleasant.? It is far, far better to travel
alone, particularly on the Camino where one may be lost in thought or
conversing with oneself.

Oh well!

There are two things, though, that beg translation into Spanish at
least:? Linda Davidson's book on the Camino "The Pilgrims' Road to
Santiago" (still the best, in my view, for pilgrims) and the Way
Within/Without video.

By the way, could anyone explain?what the title "Within the Way Without"
means?? Its connotation?totally escapes me.?

Hugs!

Rosina

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