Spanish Pilgrims
This weekend in Melbs we had a few interstaters fly in to discuss and plan a trip to Spain next year. We were blessed with chere maman from the Berra and all the way form old Sydney town came the ever lovely HP - whose hair is in a very spunky and spikey purpley-red style at the moment.
This trip to Spain is not just any old trip - this (apparently) is a pilgrimage. Husband and I are not participating. I think the crew are planning to walk around 20km a day for some number of weeks. I can't remember exactly.
It was hard to interpret precisely what they were saying as husband and I arrived for dinner a couple of hours after they had got together, and by the floor show we were getting I'm assuming they had been drinking during this time period as well.
With all these pilgrims sitting around with drinks in hand, it wasn't long before stories and tales began to pour out. I was wondering if this was how Chaucer put his stuff together. Pilgrims certainly are entertaining...
Because the basis of a pilgrimage is usually about atoning for ones sins, there was discussion of trading 'goodness' points so that they would all be on equal starting points (as I'm pretty sure some of these pilgrims would have been having to walk a lot further than others to 'de-sin' themselves). I think this pilgrimage will probably more have its basis in wine drinking than anything else. And if small blonde sister has anything to do with it there will be many detours via museums and interesting architecture.
Conversation somehow got onto the topic of using a panadol as contraceptive by holding it between your knees...
I lost track after that and could drink enough to keep up with (read: understand) what they were saying, but it was fun to watch nonetheless!
This trip to Spain is not just any old trip - this (apparently) is a pilgrimage. Husband and I are not participating. I think the crew are planning to walk around 20km a day for some number of weeks. I can't remember exactly.
It was hard to interpret precisely what they were saying as husband and I arrived for dinner a couple of hours after they had got together, and by the floor show we were getting I'm assuming they had been drinking during this time period as well.
With all these pilgrims sitting around with drinks in hand, it wasn't long before stories and tales began to pour out. I was wondering if this was how Chaucer put his stuff together. Pilgrims certainly are entertaining...
Because the basis of a pilgrimage is usually about atoning for ones sins, there was discussion of trading 'goodness' points so that they would all be on equal starting points (as I'm pretty sure some of these pilgrims would have been having to walk a lot further than others to 'de-sin' themselves). I think this pilgrimage will probably more have its basis in wine drinking than anything else. And if small blonde sister has anything to do with it there will be many detours via museums and interesting architecture.
Conversation somehow got onto the topic of using a panadol as contraceptive by holding it between your knees...
I lost track after that and could drink enough to keep up with (read: understand) what they were saying, but it was fun to watch nonetheless!
posted by Miff at
5:00 pm
1 Comments:
sounds like great fun, your family is hilarious anyway, let alone when a pilgrimage, swapping goodness points & contraceptives get involved.
I wonder how long i'd have to walk for? yikes. Better start swapping points. Not with you tho ;P
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