[Gocamino] Camino movie with Martin Sheen

[Johnnie Walker]

Hola

 

Funnily enough I wrote a wee story about Finisterre/Muxia last week:

 

http://johnniewalker-santiago.blogspot.com/2010/07/coast-of-death-and-life.html

 

And for those interested there is a picture of the stepping stone crossing here with a story about a pilgrim who fell in:

 

http://johnniewalker-santiago.blogspot.com/2009/11/toast-to-new-boots.html 


But please don't be put off by this crossing. It is a beautiful route and there is a waymarked alternative to crossing the river here.
 

Bob makes an interesting point about Muxia. Santiago calls itself the end of the pilgrimage - "because the pilgrimage to Santiago ends here" as one of my colleagues in the Pilgrims' Office said, rather stating the obvious. Finisterre has the 0.00 kms marker and Muxia claims to be the "end of the religious pilgrimage". In my experience the Pilgrims' Office isn't anti the route to Finisterre/Muxia they are simply neutral about it. If you ask for information about this route they will send you to the Tourist Information Office down the street. However walking from Muxia - Finisterre - Santiago is a different kettle of fish because that is a pilgrimage TO Santiago.

 

As far as the Martin Sheen film is concerned I'll be pleasantly surprised if they haven't used artistic license and filmed the rucksack saving scene at a location which is not on a pilgrimage route!

 

Abrazos

 

John   


www.johnniewalker-santiago.blogspot.com
 



 
> From: guha2005 at hotmail.com
> To: rspenger at earthlink.net
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:15:35 -0400
> CC: gocamino at oakapple.net; saintjames at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Camino movie with Martin Sheen
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> The water crossing on the way to Muxia after Lires was pretty adventurous for us when the water was just a few inches over the stepping rocks. They were quite slippery with moss or such and tilted at angles and farther apart than was comfortable for us. I was told that, and believe, it would be dangerous after a lot of rainfall and to take the detour. We asked at the bar at Lires and they gave us the ok...but still I get goose bumps thinking about that crossing and falling into the cold water perhaps straining or breaking something in the process.
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> Glenn
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> > From: rspenger at earthlink.net
> > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:25:31 -0700
> > CC: GoCamino at oakapple.net; saintjames at yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Camino movie with Martin Sheen
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> > I find it interesting that Muxia is apparently the ultimate destination in this film. There was a time, a few years ago, when there were warnings on a camino forum about pilgrims who were denied their compostelas because they admitted to planning to go on to Fisterra. It seemed, at the time, that there was someone, high up in the pilgrim office, who took a dim view of pilgrims who were going all the way to the coast and it was regarded as a pagan pursuit. I haven't heard anything about this for a long time now, and I met a sizable number of people making this trip last year, so perhaps the pilgrim office has backed off from that attitude.
> > 
> > One thing puzzles me about the film. There seems to be a scene in which the protagonist has to brave a raging stream to retrieve his pack. I realize that it was put in to give the film a little more drama, but where would this be? Except for a stream crossing that forced me to make a detour on the GR653 in France many years ago, I don't remember being near enough to such a river to have that sort of hazard, certainly not on the camino francés.
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> > Bob S.
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> > On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Rosina wrote:
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> > Hello you all,
> > 
> > You can see snippets of the Emilio Estevez movie "The Way" starring his father, the popular and much esteemed actor Martin Sheen, by going to:
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> > http://www.theway-themovie.com/ 
> > 
> > Rosina[
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