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incidents surrounding a joyous celebration XXV
Simple songs, morning clear — how many lives and thoughts have set so that these should rise, grass, flowers, day, mortality. Bo Carpelan - Simple Songs - translation © 2011 David McDuff found on: http://nordicvoicesinprint.wordpress.com/
incidents surrounding a joyous celebration XXVI
There came a voice, it said: because you are silent this is secret, it remains between us like silence.
You will live on without noticing it, you will see and experience many things, rejoice, mourn, go among people
and no one but you will notice it, there is a wind from the sea in the evening that has brought you out to the open heights
and you see lights from the city, voices that carry over the water, see yourself among those who seek their way down the harbour,
but you are outside the harbour, you hear a voice, it says: I have been waiting for you, you are here, there is nothing between us any more,
you are on the move, are free, finally nameless.
Bo Carpelan - translation © 2011 David McDuff found on: http://nordicvoicesinprint.wordpress.com/
I feel that by now a few introductory words are in order.
I have a plan. It consists basically of walking from Denmark to Spain, ending on Cape Finisterre on the western coast of Spain.
My only company on the road will be Chanel. She is a six year old Jack Russell terrier with a slightly neurotic mind, an abundance of energy and an obsessive curiosity. She became mine a little over a month ago when her owner became too ill to care for her.
The Danish part we have already covered, following Hærvejen/E1 from Nr. Snede to Padborg (the border). The German part of the trail follows the E1 long distance path, the Rheinsteig, and some trails found on Waymarked Trails. The French trails are The Alsace wine trail and the Camino de Santiago from Thann to Vézelay, and from Vézelay to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. From Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port the plan is to follow the GR10 trail, which runs along the Pyrenees all the way to the coast and Irún where the Camino del Norte starts. The Camino continues on to Santiago de Compostela, and from there it’s only 90 km to Cape Finisterre.
I am hoping to spend around four to six months on this project. Any longer and I would just be drifting, any less and I would be setting myself up for failure. But who knows, maybe I fall and twist my ankle a few days across the border and this will all seem pretty silly… Hopefully I will make it through without a (serious) scratch, and return home with some great stories to tell.
I will try to keep this blog updated with stories and observations as well as pretty pictures.
Wish me luck.
