Below are Sue’s posts from the road.
Posted December 21, 2010 | by irene | in Pilgrim Diary | no responses
I am going for a walk in Newfoundland. This time to raise awareness about independant artists and the co-relation between walking and creativity. I’ll travel 103 kilometers from Aquaforte to St John’s on Hwy 10 and parts of the East Coast Trail. www.eastcoasttrail.com
Las Peregrinas…the women who walk, feature length Camino documentary has been selected to be screened at the St John’s Women’s International Film Festival in Newfoundland on Thursday October 17, 2007at 4pm at the Majestic Theatre.
Anita Shuper, who is one of the women in the documentary and Mai Nakazawa, a 22 year old woman visiting from Japan to learn English will be joining me. Irene Duma will be walking with us on Monday and Tuesday to film our walk and blog our stories. Our itinerary and the entire journey will be updated on BookShorts site http://bookshorts.com/stjohns_suekenney.htm
If you are in St John’s or you know someone who is interested in the Camino, come out and join us on the path. I will be doing a book signing (My Camino and Confessions of a Pilgrim) at Chapters in St John’s on Thursday October 18 from 7-8:30 pm. BookShorts film Archtypes will be screened on Friday at 7pm at the Majestic Theatre. Come out and support women in film. See you on the path. Love and light, Sue
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Posted December 21, 2010 | by irene | in Pilgrim Diary | no responses
The English Way
October 2005
Following a 12 day journey from Ponferrada to Santiago leading a group of five other women, Sue walked almost 220 kilometers from Santiago to A Coruna. Then she walked from Ferrol on the northern coast of Spain to Santiago, following the ancient route walked by pilgrims from the British Isles.
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Posted December 21, 2010 | by irene | in Pilgrim Diary | no responses
April 27, 2005.
A group journey on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
Fellow pilgrims,
On Sunday I arrived home from the Camino after completing my third journey. I took a small group of people with me this time and we walked 180 kilometers. We started the journey at the Brazilian refugio in Vega de Valcarce were we found the hospitality of the hospitelero, Acacia, truly a warm hospitable person creating a memorable experience for all of us.
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Posted December 21, 2010 | by irene | in Pilgrim Diary | no responses
I walked over 500 kms in 18 days. Valenca, Portugal to Santiago for Easter Sunday. Santiago to Fisterra. Fisterra to Muxia and then back to Valenca. What an incredible journey.
I left on 040404 the day before a full moon. From Toronto there was a stopover in Frankfurt. After a conversation on a pay phone there, I was professionally pick pocketed by two men. They bumped into me, spun me around and took my hand out of my pocket removing my wallet. I never carry cash but due to lack of time, I didn’t get to the bank. I lost 400 Euros. Basically my spending money for the journey. The experience reminded me about the story of the Navarrese Queen who built a gorgeous 6 arched bridge over the river Arga in Puenta la Reina. This was built so the pilgrims wouldn’t be robbed and drowned by the ferrymen in the middle of the river. Here I was a modern day pilgrim, being robbed.
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Posted December 21, 2010 | by irene | in Pilgrim Diary | no responses
When I returned from Spain in December 2001, I came back to my life in the city of Toronto. I found integrating the lessons of the Camino very difficult in this environment because of all the distractions and focus on material things. 6 months later, 2 of my daughters had moved in with their dad and my oldest daughter was at University in London, so I decided to move to my cottage in Floral Park on Lake Couchiching. I spent most of the winter alone writing workshops, poetry, fairy tales and stories about my life experiences. Up until this point in my life, I have never been a writer but I took a Creative Writing workshop at Ryerson, Learned the basics and developed a style from there. I tried to write a book from my diary of the Camino, but couldn’t get the story down the way I wanted it.
Read more on The Journey Home…
Posted December 21, 2010 | by irene | in Pilgrim Diary | no responses
When I started the pilgrimage, I had written in my diary that I wanted to accomplish two things on the Camino, besides the fact that I was walking 780 kms alone. I had just been made redundant at a large corporate IT company, and walked out the door with a package. I had been researching the Camino and decided that I should take the opportunity to go for a long walk, while I could. I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to be alone and to have a spiritual journey.
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