12th October Slowing down to a standstill


Today has been the 1st of possibly 4 talks about my recent trip to Santiago. One that has taken me almost as long to put together as it did to complete the actual walk. Not easy to know where to begin when you have over 600 video clips and almost as many photographs to try to edit down into a 'reasonable' time frame  And not really knowing what people want to know makes the parameters quite wide.

I eventually manged to undo most of the technological tangles that had so infuriated me earlier in the week and was pretty confident that the final product was good to go. The question was always would it, channeling my inner Dennis Norder,  be alright on the night. Thankfully apart from one minor blip when a slide froze it went smoothly enough.

Pre talk I had a running loop of images taken from the pilgrimage which helped to set the scene for those who arrived early and by the time 6pm rolled around the church was pretty full with people drawn from across the circuit. 

I tried to break the talk into two sections, the first explaining the where, what, how and why of the trip with the second being more ;'live' via a series of small video clips I had edited together. Now I know that there is nothing duller than having to look at 1000 pictures from someone else holiday but I think the short length of the clips and the fact that many of them turned out to be rather humerous kept people attention. 

Rounding it all off I answered questions people had about the trip and then played the brilliant Sir Oliver The way (Beun Camino perigrino) which i think best captures the spirt of the camino. And whilst I don't think it encouraged many people to actually head out on their own camino, I hope they understood why it meant so much to me and why I can't wait to go on my next one.

Who would have thought that by going on a walk through Spain I would end up meeting the world. 

 

 

 

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