The Way - Camino de Santiago Documentary Film
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- I did my Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage in April/May 2004. To be authentic, I walked the whole French Way; 34 days, 18 kg of gear, 764 km on foot. I lost 8 kg in weight!
What happened to Mark? Watch his latest film - a motorcycle pilgrimage around Australia www.overlander....
I had read a lot about the Camino being a spiritual experience, and I wanted to try and capture on film my own reactions as I walked the way.
I find watching the film a little difficult, I feel a little embarrassed at just how earnest and honest I was trying to be. But the reaction from viewers has been amazing. Still, all these years later, people contact me thanking me for documenting my journey.
I have a little facebook page for the film. www.facebook.c... Despite not really doing anything with this page, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger, reaching close to 1,000 people.
So I've decided to release the whole film, in it's entirety on youtube. I will have ads running in the video and encourage you to explore these ads, any income for a independent filmmaker is handy, and will help me continue my current journey of trying to film the whole world.
Feel free to share, comment and like the video. I'm always happy to hear how my little film helped encourage people to do the Camino themselves. It is an amazing journey, a one of a kind experience.
Hice mi Camino de Santiago en abril / mayo de 2004. Ser auténtico , caminé todo el Camino Francés , 34 días , 18 kg de artes de pesca, 764 kilometros a pie. He perdido 8 kg de peso !
Había leído mucho sobre el Camino es una experiencia espiritual, y yo quería tratar de capturar en la película de mis propias reacciones mientras caminaba el camino.
Me parece ver la película un poco difícil , me siento un poco de vergüenza al ver lo serio y honesto, estaba tratando de ser . Pero la reacción de los espectadores ha sido increíble. Aún así, después de tantos años , personas en contacto conmigo dándome las gracias por documentar mi viaje.
Tengo una página de facebook poco para la película. / camino ... A pesar de no haciendo nada con esta página, se pone cada vez más y más grande , llegando a cerca de 1.000 personas.
Así que he decidido a liberar toda la película , en él es totalidad en youtube. Voy a tener anuncios que se publican en el video y le animamos a explorar estos anuncios, cualquier ingreso para un cineasta independiente es útil , y me ayudará a continuar mi viaje actual de tratar de filmar todo el mundo .
Siéntase libre para compartir , comentar y como el video. Siempre estoy feliz de escuchar cómo mi pequeña película ayudó a la gente a hacer el Camino a sí mismos. Es un viaje increíble, una parte de una experiencia única.
Eu fiz o meu Caminho de Santiago Peregrinação em Abril / Maio de 2004. Para ser autêntico, eu andei todo o Caminho Francês, 34 dias, 18 kg de engrenagem, 764 km a pé. Eu perdi 8 kg em peso!
Eu tinha lido muito sobre o Camino de ser uma experiência espiritual, e eu queria tentar e capturar em filme minhas próprias reações enquanto eu caminhava pelo caminho.
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Man you brought me to tears a few times I couldn’t even breathe... As I listened and watched ... I put your experiences in my own words... I was with you... I thought “I want to go with Mark on this journey... “ You are a real blessing dear man🙏🏽 Thank you for your realness, your pain, your honesty, your kind and generous selfless reflection. God bless you Mark, and God bless those who watch this. My hope is that this pilgrimage was just the beginning and that there is never an end to your journey... that you will continue to break bread and drink and wine with your brothers and sisters in life, continue to ask, seek, knock and wonder... May the feelings of protection you so honestly felt only intensify as you continue on YOUR WAY. ♥️😇🙏🏽
Thanks for your kind words
you all probably dont care but does any of you know a method to get back into an instagram account?
I was dumb forgot the account password. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer me.
@@overlandertv Thanks for the effort and honesty you put into this Doco. Never knew Aussies could play the feadóg stáin, or that Spain could get so foggy and muddy! Really glad you found that lost tape, or it could have been someone else's journey I ended up watching. Happy St. Patrick's Day :)
@@paulf1071 Thanks for your comment. I bought that tin whistle in Doolin many years ago after doing a story on the music scene there. I was bussing and hitchhiking round the country. The morning after doing the story at the pub I was out on an open road hitching somewhere else and I kid you not, it was like a song came to me on the breeze. The moment I picked up the whistle this amazing irish tune resonated across the empty fields. It was like the whistle was playing itself, saluting the open road. ruclips.net/video/z3r3T50nSqo/видео.html
@@overlandertv Am I correct in saying your surname is Shea? If it is, that's one of the most common names in South-West Ireland. You should totally look into doing the "Kerry Camino" at some point!!!
It's a 60km pilgrim route along the Dingle Peninsula. St. James Church in Dingle used to be the farewell point for Irish pilgrims, as they set sail to Finisterre in north-western Spain, to continue their walk to Santiago de Compostela.
for all people who want to do the camino, here are some small tipps:
1. dont listen to music when you are walking, it will distract you from thinking and finding yourself,and do as little breaks as possible, its very hard to get walking again after a pause
2. spend as little time as possible on the phone, same reason as 1
3. take sandals with you, flip flops are very uncomfortable in the alberques
4. if you want to sleep in the alberques and not in motels, which is definatly the better choice, thats the true peregrino experience, take something with you to block your ears to sleep, there are always people who snorr louder than you could believe
5. most important: while its awesome to meet new people and exchange thoughts and experiences, dont force it and you should walk alone most of the time, one reason being that you should walk at a pace thats comfortable for you, 2nd that you can make connections in the alberques
the camino has the potential to be one of the best times in your life, i will do my third one this summer
buen camino
Thank you!
good advice, I'm hoping to do my first camino in april/may 2022
thanks for the tips. Would you give me some ideas how much money I need to do the Camino Frances?
Will take it on board.
@@rollyaniscal you should plan with around 30€ per day, that includes a bed and food for the day
If you go 900km, you should average around 30km per day (very hard at first but after 3 days its very manageable) you need around 900€
If you want to also explore some of the cities you will visit along the way and eat in Restaurants, 1300€ should cover that
That does not include your equipment, you definitely need good boots, the backpack, sleeping back, towl, a guide, and, if you need them, walking sticks
Including flights that would be around 1700€
Hi Mark
I did my El Camino to mark the beginning of my retirement from work during April of 1998 and loved every minute of it. It was truly a fantastic experience and I've mentored and encouraged several colleagues to do it. I did it on my mountain bike carrying 20kg of gear always staying in refuge's. The most memorable thing was undoubtedly the people I met on the way, of all ages and backgrounds. Its great to watch your journey and brings back my own experience. Thanks
Really one of the best documentaries I have seen so far. I did my Camino in Spring 2009 and I went through the same things you did. Here are my lessons, that the Camino engrained in me:
1) learn to shed ballast (actual weight, thoughts that are detrimental, people, who bring you down)
2) everybody gets what he/she deserves or, specific for the Camino, what he/she needs.
3) you'll find a lot of answers, often to questions, you did not ask and no answers to your questions.
4) it is great to be around likeminded people, who do not judge you
5) it is great to be nice
6) there are not only nice people on the camino, there are quite some arsewholes there, as well
7) doing the camino has become a thing to write in CVs, so one of the reasons to do it, is just that
8) its a complete different ballgame doing long stretches like the whole camino Frances rather then just doing the last 100 km, so if I'd be asked, where to walk with just one or two weeks of time, I'd always recommend doing two weeks far away from Santiago. Avoid high season and summer if you can!!!
9) Santiago is just a stage on the camino, make sure to walk all the way to Finisterra
10) if you can, take more time, the camino holds enough experiences for 10 weeks, you do not have to make it in 5 and certainly not in 3 weeks
11) chose good gear and high hiking boots are too high for the camino: trail runners are perfectly fine.
12) be aware of bedbugs!
Thanks Johnny, some great insights there
3. answers to questions you didnt ask; and no answers to your questions - quite apt.
life is just learning how to ask the right questions - often the questions we have are coverups for deeper questions we dont know how to voice bcz we havent yet known intimately that part of ourselves. honesty with oneself is a lifelong journey. we keep peeling layers after layers of what was true yesterday but is no longer true today. bcz we're not today who we were yesterday. and yet it had its part to play in the unfolding.
😢 I cannot do the "bedbugs". That's a definite NO.
@@Emy53how can we avoid bed bugs though planning my first in Sept 2024 the idea of it makes me so anxious
Thank you so much for bothering to make this dear film. I also appreciate the comments people have made. God bless you.
Wonderful film, Mark; thank you very much! My wife and I are 68 & 69, and just finished the Camino this June 4th, all 800k, without problem, and with great wonder. Watching your film was like going again, which we plan to do next year. Thanks again. I recommend this to anyone!
skip & carol, from Oregon, USA
My husband James Cafferty walked the el camino 5 times 4 times from St Jean pied a port in France to Santiago de Compostela and once from Bilboa the northern route to Santiago de Compostela he loved every minute his first walk was when he was 70years of age in 2004 his last walk was in 2011 at the age of 77 he loved every minute of every time he walked the way of St James he left this world on the 11th of August 2014 anti then he was wanting to walk from Porto in Portugal upto Santiago de Compostela I was proud of my dear husband I visited Santiago De Compostela and really enjoyed the City so much I wish everybody who Walks the Way of St James a very Happy Time on there Pilgrimage sincerely Dorothy Cafferty ....
Dorothy Cafferty you’re husband is a inspiration to us all.
That is what is really valuable in life
I am thinking of following in James' footsteps this year, also my 70th. Cheers!
Wow.
,Thank you all So Much James was an inspiration to myself and our Four Daughters of which one Did part of the walk with him and this man walked these five walks with Prostate And Bone Cancer and to artificial hips such an achievement in itself enjoy your walks I'm sure you will love every minute as my Dear James Did God Bless you all .......
I also walked the Camino - all 496 miles (in 29 days) - from St Jean de Port to Santiago, in 2010 - a holy year, and I crossed the filming of "The Way" with Martin Sheen during part of it, which certainly brings back memories! My journey started the morning following the ash fallout in Iceland(?) and so my initial travel plans were in complete turmoil, what with flights cancelled and the French railways on strike! I walked unaccompanied (at age 64) and I met some wonderful people en route. It was such an amazing experience. With less time available, I followed up the next year by walking 176 miles from Northern Spain (the coastal route) to Santiago. I found that much harder though. For all out there who say it's something they've always wanted to do, I can only say - don't think - go for it! You won't regret it. Bon chance!
Mark, thank you for sharing your amazing journey to Santiago with the world. I am a 50 year old American preparing to walk the Camino in April. You are an amazing man and I hope that all you wished for on The Way was become reality and that you are happy and healthy! My best, Jon
So did you do it? How was it?
@@onsitereflexology5581 I want to know that too.
How did it go?
Thank you kindly for this film. I will be attempting the Camino in April '22. You have helped me to prepare both mentally and physically. I am a 60 year old cancer survivor (1 year post chemo). I pray I am able to complete the journey and hopeful that all along the way, I find purpose and meaning to what we all call life! Bless you!
Buen Camino Marie, May I suggest taking daily notes. On my last Camino (Del Norte 2019) I found it helped to remember and process things when I got home
The best part of the walk is the friendships you'll make along the way
This documentary has inspired me so much. I leave in 3 weeks to hike the Camino
Planning a Camino in 2016 and this film is EXACTLY what I needed to see! Real experience, and reactions. Fantastic for anyone who wants to start this journey!
did you do it
Thanks for your sincerity, and willingness to allow us to glimpse your vulnerability. I did the Camino in 2001 from Roncesvalles. It was life changing, I learnt that if you didn't get rid of the baggage on your back/life, you can't proceed without doing yourself permanent damage. My life streamlined, the material became less important, while the social came more into focus. It seems that the spiritual cannot help but touch you on the Camino. When I got back to Australia, I did not go back to teaching, instead I have looked after international students as a homestay mother.The thing is you can take as long as you like to do the Camino, it took me 77days. If I do it again I would go even slower. Sometimes the albergues are only 6km apart, that can be enough for a day. I had such pain in my left knee that at times I could not walk. I discovered that many albergues allow you to stay if you are willing to volunteer as a hospitalier. So I ended up working at 8 different albergues along the way. It meant cleaning bathrooms and scrubbing floors or cooking shared meals for 50 people. The history of it is fascinating,and I look forward to doing it again. Thanks for jolting some precious memories.
Thank you, Mark for making this documentary. It was not easy to lug the extra weight of your filming equipment around on your journey, but you have a lasting film that you can share and inspire people with. Your filming was beautiful but it was your authenticity and honesty that made this such a good film. There was a transformation that can be witnessed not just in your physical appearance but also in your mental clarity as you approach the end of your journey. Congratulations on your perseverance to finish and reflect on how the journey made you feel at the end. Thank you for sharing and for planting the seed for those watching the film that have thought about doing the walk, but not quite sure if it can be done. Best to you.
It's me that inspired to take this trip ❤
wow, I rarely watched through a documentary without taking breaks! You have good story telling skill and the authenticity and reflections along the journey is truly moving and inspiring. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Thank you for all the times you took out the camera and you didn't really want to. Thank you for having an artists eye. Thank you for moving forward when you didn't feel like it...thank you for bringing the Camino to my laptop. You think this walk brought you closer to God...but did you ever think this walk brought God closer to you? Because God needed someone to make this film and he looked and looked and found you.
It's very impressing some one bringing extra weight over the way just because he wanted to show use the truth. It's amazing. I really appreciate him.
Beautifully said!
Perfect timing. Current existential crisis, and searched youtube for The Way. I couldn’t have come across a more relevant and healing experience to watch. Thank you for recording your journey and I hope you have built that home, met that woman and begun an occupation that is more active and fulfilling. I appreciate your simplistic approach to a connection with the divine. Wishing you the best.
Thank you for making this waymarker for all those who don’t yet know why they are here🕊️
I just finished the Camino 2 weeks ago, and it amazed me how many of the same insights, fears, worries, and challenges I shared with Mark. I watched this documentary about a year ago as well. It's so much more meaningful now. I think this gives a better understanding about how this pilgrimmage actually is vs the the Hollywood movie "The Way." Thanks for making this film!
Um, wow. that was so overwhelmingly personal. Yet without being a load of me-ism. That's a difficult balance to pull off.
And to lay yourself bare to the world like that - you have tremendous inner strength.
Thanks much for sharing.
Just finished watching your documentary. Thank you so much for carrying all that gear all that way - an awesome achievement!
The photography was beautiful, i can't wait to start my camino!
A personal message to the guy who did this documentary: it’s nearly 2023, I’m 61 and I’ve been dealing with some very difficult health issues for 12 years….you had “wondered” as you were walking along the way IF there was something you would learn from your experience…..I wish I could hug you and say that your willingness to do this documentary is blessing me and teaching me some valuable lessons, specifically; the purpose of My own suffering through Your own experiences! I bet you never thought that others would deeply benefit by what you did and the sacrifices you made. Thank You! Your video has been an answer to my prayers. God Bless You My Friend, Vicki
Thank you for your beautiful words. I am happy my video gave you some joy. I was embarrassed with the finished film. I put it on youtube back when I did because I thought it was a failure. I have been amazed at the response from people all around the world. I think I was a vessel on my Camino. The pilgrimage transformed me, and it took the viewers of my film for me to realise that. I did the Del Norte in 2019. I had a book deal which fell through. I found it quite easy and uninspiring. Then the camino kicked me in the balls! I lost my wallet and attempted to walk for one month without money. That experience still influences my daily decisions. After the death of my father this year, I realise none of our possessions mean anything. Momento Mori - any day I could die, collecting things shouldn't be my end game. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and maybe even walk the Camino. Best wishes
Mark I am a portorican woman living in Spain and married to a man from Spain, in my retirement years I am going to do it in September, and I am thankful for this documentary. BUEN CAMINO
I feel like I know him! He feels like a friend after only 30 minutes. That's storytelling talent!
Dear Mark...thank you for this wonderful documentary. I loved how honest you were throughout your journey on the camino. As an observer I could see the effects of city life that is placed apon all of us. My favorite parts of this was when you were one with nature and God. To see that God is just as much a part of you as the beauty you saw in nature or in the shadows that are in all. You seemed to release your expectations by the end realizing that you were creating your experience. I also see how ritual and religon has controlled much of this human experience. Even at the end of the journey it seemed that people kissing the pillar and paying homage to something outside of themselves. As I took this journey with you... in a sense, I could feel that life is best kept simple, live from the heart with love and above all gratitude for everything. It wasn't about the trek as much as the inner silence to discover your own divinity. Truly Lovely. Thank you for this gift you have shared. PS. the still pictures your took would make a beautiful book. Much Love. Erika
+Erika Nann nice explanation Erika, thank you
Thanks brother, I enjoyed living vicariously with you through this journey. I wasn't sure at the outset if I'd get along with you, but it's been wonderful getting to know you, looking in on your heart and soul as you ponder the meaning of your life and this trip. Thanks for your openness and your vulnerability with we strangers. God bless you!
Mark Shea's El Camino de Santiago is an inspiring account of his journey of discovery of the self from Southern France to Santa Maria de Compostela in Northern Spanish Coast, from which all Spanish voyages of discovery to the New World started right from that of Columbus. When I saw the video through, I remembered my flight from Paris to Miami en route Bogota flying over the promontory of land jutting into the Atlantic near the pilgrimage town of Santa Maria de Compostela. Thanks Mark for the nice account of the physical, emotional and mystical aspects of your memorable journey in which you made us participate too by watching it !
Thanks Mark, I watched every second of your film. My favorite parts were your explanation of Cruz de Ferro and your realization of the simplicity of there being a Creator of this beautiful world and that you have a relationship with Him. Congratulations for that. I'm glad we are spiritual brothers, as fellow followers of Christ, and I look forward to meeting you in the Kingdom of God if not before. A friend and I will be doing the last 265 km of the Camino in September 2015. I'll remember you while out there. And I'll be taking my rock for Cruz de Ferro.
Finally watched your video and it was great! I could see your transformation as the kilometers passed. Thank you for sharing this. Buen Camino.
I am thinking about dong hte Camino next year when I am 72. This was very helpful in showing the grit as well as the beauty and has made me even more determined than ever. Thank you.
I was 50 this year and it was the 9th time i walked it complete and more, 3000kms in all, also did the 1000 kms Via de la Plata, Frances again next year 2015 for the 10th time, it is my life and my love. this year i had a rucksack and a guitar in it's case, i am a skinny old dog and believe me the walk is easy, just a few blisters and extreme weather, don't get too deep and don't read too much into it, just walk and feel the space to think for yourself.
I just walked 285 km. did not plan, did not take maps or phone, just walk and thought of nothing. Just plain simple and enjoyable.
Nubia Seibert
That is the main idea, just enjoy, do not make a drama out of a walk.
Russell M Kenny
I met a woman this year from America who was 80 and walking the whole camino with the ashes of her 53 year old son in her rucksack.
Thanks :)
+Russell M Kenny i did the north route 20 years ago and hope to do the via de la plata in 3 years time. how do you carry a guitar?
My husband and I will be walking El Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage the French Way next April/May when he retires. I've been planning this trip for five years. I really enjoyed your documentary, very truthful and real. I'm wondering now ten plus years later how The Camino has affected your life? Were you able to keep the lessons learned in The Camino, were you able to go with the flow and keep it simple? Did you find someone to share your life with, do you have children? I think the most difficult part won't be walking El Camino but keeping what we learn from it close to our hearts.
Thanks for a great documentary.
Excellence documentary! I rarely watch these things to the end, but you had such good content, story telling and editing that I couldn't stop watching. Thanks for sharing your story, Stacey
Thanks Stacey
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Hi Mark! Im from Philippines presently working in Qatar. Thank you for your video, it was really very inspirational.
Right now, I'm working from home for more than a month due to covid pandemic and that gave me chance to watch your entire video.
Hopefully, I will have the opportunity to do the Camino in the near future.
Thank you Mark for your hard work and sharing your journey. I especially loved that you felt 'protected'. I walked twice, 2005 from Burgos to Santiago and in 2007 from St. Jean Pied de Port to Finisterre. You make me want to dig out my footage from the camera I slugged in 2007 and publish something to RUclips. You make me want to walk again. Thank you!
This is a pleasure to watch. Thanks for sharing your experience. Buen Camino to whoever is going on this journey.
Thank you so much, this was lovely, uplifting, real, truthful and ultimately simple film. I got a lot from this, been going through my own healing whilst going through the motions of my every day life, however dealing with issues from the past, trying to forge a future. Experiencing babtisms of fire which hopefully and utimately will lead towards healing. Thank you again for your generosity and your lovely spirit.
Very beautiful depiction of healing by walking, the human soul and the power of the Camino if you give yourself to it.
really interesting and very well done documentary!
I'm from Spain, in the region of Catalonia. I'll be doing the northern Camino to Santiago in a few days. Aprox. 900 km overall, due to the prolongation of the Camino to Muxia And Fisterra, after visiting Santiago. An epilogue for all those pilgrims who are willing to see the "end of the earth" ("Finis Terrae" in latin; Finisterre or Fisterra), as it was known that region of Galicia in Roman times and in the Middle Ages, after having visited the sacred relics of St. James beneath the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
Thanks for sharing!
It is new years day of 2020 and I enjoyed watching this again after completing the Portuguese camino only 6 days ago. I first watched it in July 2019 when I decided to walk my first camino. I now relate to a lot of the thoughts and experiences you shared and like others appreciate the time and effort you took in filming this brilliant journey. I believe the camino does have a power source which I could feel during my walk. So many cherished experiences I will never forget. Thank you so much again, Sylvia from New Zealand
Thank you Sylvia
So here I am some 8 years after you published this video watching your journey in The Camino. I feel like I've gotten to know you over the course of the last hour and a quarter and you seem like a good bloke! I also found out during the course of this video that your birthday is on the 21st July, the very date that I happened to find myself watching. So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Hope you are having a great day wherever and whatever you're doing, thanks very much for going to the huge amount of trouble it would have taken to make this video 👍
Glad you enjoyed the video Jade. Had a great bday, thank you instagram.com/p/CRlf5tbhbw9/
Lovely film! I did my camino (frances) during april/may 2023. I wanted to honor the memory of my mother that passed in 2021. She did the camino herself over four years, 2005-2008. Its so nice to see some footage from that time, about 20 years ago and see what El camino was like then. This seems to be the time before smartphones and digital solutions completely took over. It doesn´t seem to be as crowded as today. A more "real" camino-experience pherhaps. Nevertheless, I loved my camino-experience and would gladly go back! Thank you for sharing this!
I was training for the camino when I was hit by a truck in France. Oops! Now at age 80 it is beyond my reach; so watching your journey has been very satisfying. Yes, it is on a screen, but I felt "there"... hope your plans come to fruition. And thank you.
Mark,
I don't know what lead me to watch Your video but I thank God for inspiring you to record this great piece of work. From the comments from other people I can see that with your typical honest Aussie rhetoric, un rehearsed, just straight from the heart it couldn't be any better. It is inspiring. Good on you mate. Les from Coffs
Just watched this video. Loved it ♥ Loved Mark's rawness and honesty. Wish he could have known at the time thats its okay to not know why we do things. I found this video real and authentic.about what the walk would be like. He has inspired me!
Thanks Mark,
great work. the longest thing i have ever watched on youtube.
i particularly enjoyed your simplicity, music, audio of ambient sounds, stills, and attention to almost all aspects of the journey. i happened on your video while searching for a trailer of the movie "The Way". your very thoughtful film and narrative has made my week, at the very least.
best,
Skip
Dear Mark.
Thank you for an hour of happyness and for bringing back some of the best memories of my life. This june I will go back to walk my 10. Camino, - not another hole one, but from Tui to Finisterra. I enjoyed your cencerness and open-hearted way of talking and sharing, also your pictures were spot on as I remember it all.
I hoped that I could fine you on facebook to say "thanks" and to be sure that my thank you got to you. I hope life is good to you and that the walk changed things also when you got back home to your job, your city and the traffic. Greetings Tanya from Copenhagen.
Thanks Tanya, Your 10th Camino...Impressive!
Hello. I really enjoyed this. As a man who has had countless solitary journeys, I fully understand the reflections on life and hope. Never feel that there isnt a divine presence guiding us, and keep our cultural heritage as Catholics alive. Best to you in your journeys.
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY!!! Thank you for "holding my hand" every step of "THE WAY".
My latest film, instead of walking this time, I ride a motorcycle, exploring the remote landscapes of my homeland - ruclips.net/video/3dOofTXcm1E/видео.html
Fantastic documentary ! It has come by coincidence and at the right time in my life.
Have been feeling a need to find a change in life so this walk is what I must do. Will train to be physically fitter judging by the conditions you went through....I am older....52 years old !
Thanks also for tip about stone. Have one ready; one which I have carried and rubbed all my worries into for quite a few years. Will be glad to let it go at the end on top of that pile under the cross. You did a great job and it showed the walk had changed you....in fact you looked at one point near the end like Jesus. Bless you ! haha
Dear Mark,
I thank you too. It has become my desire to walk the Camino and I found your honest, authenticity refreshing. I am hoping to go next year, 2015, but we will see how that comes about. I am using parts of your sharing in a message I am preaching on Sunday 1/5 for I find that you did discover something essential to everyone's journey, and that is the simplicity of making much of Jesus. We tend to make much of all the wrong things in this life, this "walk," so I appreciated that simple message immensely. I also was struck in how you came to that over the weeks of your walk, even though the film only takes an hour! A friend just walked the Camino last year and was deeply impacted by the experience -- he was 69 when he and his wife walked it together. I think that is one thing I love about the camino also -- it is a "pilgrimage" which I am beginning to believe is a great metaphor of this life, this "walk" with Jesus. It is not so much the destination of this journey that I am after, but the daily journey, the trusting, the "plodding" or "slogging "as you said. So true, therein is the real fodder of our faith, that "long obedience in the same direction," as Eugene Peterson penned in his Message translation of the Bible. Thank you. Grace to you. Peace to you. Keep walking!
Brian S
I am blown away by the reality, and heart you demonstrated in documenting your pilgrimage on El Camino. I have been very interested in walking the Camino since reading Shirley Maclaine's book about her pilgrimage to Santiago. It hasn't been until yesterday that it has now become real and a destination I will incorporate into my life path. I have had it in the back of my mind for many years, and now that I am in a life transition, I feel this has come to me to feel into this journey ahead. Thank you so much Mark for your sharing. It has inspired me to push myself to get there, and then to remember the simplicity of life through the walk, and through the simplicity of my relationship with the Divine. Many blessings to you and yours.
Dear Mark;
Thank you for your beautifully insightful documentary. It was inspiring to see you finally realise the reason for your journey.
Your connection to God, yourself and nature, brought you to a new level of growth and understanding..
Let us know how you are doing now that you are back home and how the experience has changed your llife.
A follow-up would be greatly appreciated.
Blessings to you and yours,
Sue
I loved this film. You said you feel a little embarrassed now but, to me, it was your authenticity that makes the film so enjoyable. I have not yet walked the Camino but hope to walk one of them in the next year, perhaps the Primitivo.
Beautiful to see you transforming along the way, totally opening up. Not bad to look like a hippie at all, being connected to nature and spirit. Thank you for filming this and sharing!
Thanks Mark for the film. I could see your transformation as the days went by. People I know who have walked the Camino say there's nothing like it. My family and I are walking it in May 2020 and we are very excited. I hope you are still living out the life as a Christian that God has called you to.
What a great story you have told. Enjoyed all of your posts. What a privilege for all of us to have had the opportunity to walk the Camino. I did mine last year from April to June. I'm a writer and have just completed my novel based of the Caminio. Thanks again for sharing your journey.
Be interested to hear about your novel
Hi. The novel is being edited right now. If you have an email I can keep you up to speed with it.
Thanks Mark for showing me my next journey and GOD bless and wish you all the best in your life!!!
Hi mark, what a brave journey! My brother walked the camino in July this year2013 Tom Cunningham. So proud he experienced it. The plan is to go back with him in 2014 with him and my other sister. I love to walk and as I see what you went through, makes me believe there's a lot more to achieve in my life alone than what I can hope for my path. Thanks for sharing. My brother walked 920km and loved it. Came back to Australia completely happy and satisfied he'd done it. I'm keen. I want to do I
Hi Mark,
Just wanted to thank you for this documentary. And I can't wait to see what the Camino has in store for me... "The Camino provides..." I really loved that one! So beautiful. Faith, hope, love, joy - you truely nailed it all. So thanks! I hope you found what you were looking for when you got home! Best wishes :)
Hi Mark, so many times we look for the spectacular but it is often found in the small, still, natural and most simple way. As I was watching your documentary I realised you were going through a process of conversion, just you and God. You went on the way looking for something more spiritual and God answered you. I am from South Africa, residing in England at the moment & I am contemplating doing it. Last yr flew into D.C. & cycled through Virginia and into N. Carolina by myself, I hadn't trained for it & hadn't ridden a bike in 35 years. The bike took a pounding with me weighing 285 pounds, it was extremely lonely, but God kept me, As I was riding over a bridge with a 15m drop, a car hit me knocking my pannier off, shaving my leg and hitting my handle bar, theoretically I should have flown over the bridge, but by some miracle I never fell off my bicycle but kept my course. the motorist sped off, the cars side mirror was obliterated. I'm going to put this on my website blog.
Thank you! This might be the honest and best documentary about the camino, iver ver watched!!
I'm 70 plus years old. Traveled a bit. You gave me hope that I still may get round to Santiago de Compostela . The simplicity is the thing most worth cherishing in this modernist dystopia we must now navigate and not lose our way.
I think you are incredible for the sacrifices you made to bring this documentary to us - thank you.
Thank you for sharing this journey. It is clearly visible, how the way had an impact to authors mind. As time and path went by author was humble and more selfthinking. This was a beautifull example of way of body and way of mind and spirit. God bless you.
Amen 🙏
Dear Mark, thank you for sharing your Camino through this wonderful and honest documentary. I did my first Camino last summer, 2533 km by bike from Belgium, including the round trip to Finisterre and Muxia. It was by far the most memorable journey of my life, and watching your video made me emotionally relive my own pilgrimage. Buen Camino!
Patrick
Hi Mark - I came across your documentary this afternoon...And thoroughly enjoyed it. I walked that same route in May-June 2013...on my own. Your comments & insights made me smile, or go, "Yeah - I know exactly what you're saying!" - I actually picked up the guide book I used, to follow your route as while watching your film. I hope your experience of the Camino made its mark on your life when you returned to Australia; especially your relationship with God. Thank you for re-enforcing in me the strong desire to walk again. Blessings! - Caroline from Canada.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I loved your honesty. I walked the Camino in 2016 and watching your film and listening to your discoveries brought me back there again. Buen Camino my friend.
Man, you are a hero walking and carring 18kg of gears and stuff all along the Way! I've watched you video and got more and more inspired to do the Camiño! Thanks to share this amazing film with us! God bless you!
Fantastic film. Thanks for making it and making it available. I walked the same route in 2013, my first pilgrimage, and then the VF in 2014. This year, with my wife, we plan to walk from Santiago to Rome our journey starts at the beginning of next month, it will be my wife's first such experience. We have just finished watching your film and enjoyed it enormously. Thanks to you wife now has a better understanding of what lies ahead. Your depiction of the roller-coaster of emotions experienced mirrors mine on both routes. Like you I have divested myself of possessions since and I now aim to determine what I am to have more on the basis of need rather than just fancy - a philosophy of living I lost sight of a long time ago but thanks to pilgrimage am now regaining. Carry on getting that message across and there’ll be hope for the planet yet. Good luck and God bless. An ageing former hippy.
Mark, I really appreicated this documentary. I walked the walk myself a few years ago and your film brought a lot of smiles and happy thoughts. It is also really impressive that you managed to go all the way with 18 kg of gear. Impressive. Morten
Thoroughly enjoyed your film. Very honest and wonderfully done. Hope to be doing the French Way soon
I just got off the Camino Frances a week ago, I needed to connect with my experience and this film did just that, what a beautiful moment in time to have that feeling of urgency to totally leave your body and to be in the present moment. How wonderful it is to feel One with Nature and all of life! I need to go back! Thank you for sharing your journey for it was my journey!
Thank you so much for your wonderful and charming film about The Way. I'm going to do the walk. I've not settled on a specific time frame, but your film was so inspirational. I can only imagine the added weight of your camera equipment, but I'm grateful that you carried it and made this film. Buen Camino always!
Gracias amiga, anímate para hacer este camino tan gratificante. Un abrazo y un besito
How gracious of you to share your journey: the pain, the joy, the raw realism. Thank you brother! Opening your heart has opened mine.
I walked my Camino de Santiago on September 2009 from France. The best days of my life! Saw beautiful places and met interesting people. Will never forget. This is an Excellent documentary Film. it changed my life.
Thank you for making this movie and sharing it. ....excellent. The peace in your eyes at the end is unmistakable. Great job and congratulations...
Wow mate, such a raw, real and strong message about self discovery and pure enjoyment. I spent just 6 days walking The Camino through France..just 130 KM's. But after spending the rest of my trip(25 days) in self indulgence and fun - a year later I am reflecting more on the Camino and its meaning...planning my next walk.
Thank you for this video! I did the French Camino in 2005 and in 2010 I did the Camino from Santiago to Murcia. To this day, The Camino i s the most amazing experience I ever had. It save my life, it was a rebirth for me. I enjoyed your film very much.
Buen Camino peregrino.
Thank you, Mark! I'm planning to walk the Camino de Santiago for my 57th birthday. I've learned a great deal from your documentary. You've inspired me. Many blessings!
i was really surprised, that i don't recognize a lot of pictures in your Film. But it shows me only, that it is like i learn it on my camino from Speyer to Santiago in 2014, every body has his own view and goes his own camino. Also when you go the same day the same way you will have total different experiences. But what i recognize is what you tell us. What a lot of thins go through our heads on this camino, for me it is still unbelievable. Thanks for sharing your way and make me remember my way. Greetings from a german girl now living in norway Ingrid
Mark,that was so good mate.thankyou for taking the time to break down the stages,physically .spiritually & emotively-it brought back so many memories.As a peregrino it makes me want to get off my arse & do it again.
Today is St. James' day. Thank you for sharing the full film. It brought back some excellent memories of my walk last year. I could see how you changed both physically and mentally during your walk. Buen Camino.
Wow...I don't even know what to say...
Now I can't die without having done the Camino. You will hear from me when I did it ;)
Mark, Thank you for the gift of this movie. I felt the development in you over the period and the honesty you chose to own were the thing that gave authenticity to the film. As you said each person's journey is their own and you honoured that in this work. I was touched by a number of things you said which I connected with. My partner is wanting to do the walk and this is why we watched it, I was inspired to think about how our everyday lives (I think you pointed out that the mundane things can be the teaching moments if we allow them. However I hope that she gets to do it. Maybe I'll do it one day or maybe not- I don't want to copycat. I'd like to know what effect it had on your life since that time or maybe how your life changed. You mentioned some ways it could change in the film.Of course these kinds of experiences point the way not the specifics. Anyway... a huge thank you for your sharing. I did think it would make a great Australian story episode... just a thought. Once again thank you.
I love this because it is so raw and natural, no Hollywood gloss! Thank you!
Thank you for making this film, and for sharing your journey so authentically. I feel I am being called to walk the camino myself, and this was just right to give me a glimpse into the spirit of the walk!
Amazing film Mark, I just relived my 2014 Camino Frances and I'm totally exhausted. Buen Camino. x
Such a moving film! My wife & I have been intending to do the camino for years, but just recently aim to make it a reality hopefully by July next year, God permits. Seeing your film gave us an excellent idea how it goes physically as well as what goes on spiritually inside. Can't express our appreciation enough! Thank you indeed!
Thank you for sharing your Camino experience, Mark. I especially appreciated your reflections on your experiences. My husband, daughter and I walked the Camino Frances in 2014, end of May til June. I was looking for the great spiritual experience that I'd read so much about. After we reached Santiago, i had to ask myself about what the Camino had meant to me. Maybe I'm still digging for that meaning. In the Philippines, quarantine/lockdown was imposed a month ago. A day before lockdown, seniors were already discouraged from going out. Daily back and forth walks along a short drive was trying my patience so my husband and I began a Virtual Camino and I posted descriptions and pictures about each day of the walk as well as about the day in quarantine. Today we walked from Portomarin to Palas del Rei. The lockdown has been extended for another 15 days (til may 15). We'r'e almost at the end of the Virtual Camino so it must mean something that it's at this time that I'm looking at Camino documentaries. I'm glad I decided to watch your video past the beginning stages when you didn't see much meaning in what you were doing. Seems to be how life goes, doesn't it?
Spiritual change comes from God's grace. We can seek and try and that is good, but we cannot force our journey. Meaning unfolds in its own time and some of us suffer a lot to learn just a little bit. Oh well.
This documentary was such a gift! I am leaving for Camino del Norte in 50 days and am full of wonder. Blessings for the journey, friends
I did the Del Norte in 2019, amazing scenery and not as busy as the French Way. Buen Camino
Lovely video- bringing back so many memories. I've never walked the French Camino - too many pilgrims - but this brought back so many memories of the Caminos Ingles, Portuguese, Ruta de Ebro, Via de la Plata ..... well done and thank you!! Stephen from Suffolk, UK.
i really enjoyed your film. thanks so much. just heard of this walk yesterday from my Australian friend. You really did a wonderful job here. Thank you for sharing and all of thay extra weight you lugged to capture this. amazing transformation and gorgeous scenery. :)
HI Mark, loved your real grassroots doco. I walked this year from SJPD to Santiago and had very similar thoughts and experiences as yourself. I wanted enlightenment of some sort and found the simple act of walking and being in the moment such a clear way to connect with the divine. i also developed shin troubles at Leon and got very bored on the long treeless days - even has a hissy fit and tossed down my pack. Then realised that if i didnt move my bum i wasnt going to be going anywhere and so got up and continued and loved it. i will be sharing the link to your doco with my friends some i made along the way and other i had before. Thanks again for some great memories and sharing a bit of yourself with us. BTW hope you found some love since then :)
Tremendous job with this doc. We had a great time watching your transformation! All the best from Canada.
Thank you very much Mark for sharing your beautiful experience with us.
¡Buen Camino!
I am so grateful to you, for carrying the the 10Kg of extra weight - the cost to you of bringing the camera gear- to bring this documentary to me. Thank you.
Awesome video thank you for sharing your experience - a pleasure to have joined you on this journey through the lense of your camera