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Finding my "Why" for the Camino
For me, The Camino is not a holiday, it feels more like a “calling”. I can’t really explain it but it just feels like something I have to do. More than 200,000 people walk this pilgrim trail every year. When we collect our pilgrim passport at St Jean Pied de Port in France, we are…
Read MoreCamino Etiquette – The Unwritten Rules!
Panic set in as I received the weekly forum roundup email from Ivar on the Camino forum. One of the topics was about an angry Albergue Warden who threw someone’s pack on the floor and shouted, “leave, leave”. It was 7.30am, and all pilgrims needed to leave by 8am, so she was “shooing” people out…
Read MoreYou Know You Are Going On You First Camino When…
As you may be aware, we are off to walk the first part of the Camino Frances in less than 30 days and I am now starting to think “what’s going to happen when we get back?”. Camino life has consumed me for the last three months since we decided that we were going to…
Read MoreA Brilliant way to Personalise my Camino Rucksack!
How do you make your rucksack stand out from the crowd? After watching “The Way” I really didn’t want our rucksacks disappearing or being stolen, so I had a good hard think about how we could make our packs a little bit different to everyone else’s.
Read MoreWhat Have I Bought for the Camino This Month?
I have not written a blog on my latest purchases for a while, so I thought I would give you an update. It has become a little bit of an obsession to find the lightest sleeping bags and the easiest way to transport trekking poles on an airplane, but I think I have found the…
Read MoreTraining For Camino Frances – 6 Weeks to Go!
I was determined to stick to my target this week and the work week hustle on Fitbit certainly kept me motivated. The highlight of the week was achieving a 12-mile walk with relative ease, including some steep hills. We also had the opportunity to ask Jane lots more questions about the Camino and we heard…
Read MoreTraining For Camino Frances – 7 Weeks to Go!
I failed dismally this week with my training schedule. I am so proud of Julie who has kept at it and has easily achieved her step / mile goal this week, but I was the complete opposite. It got to Wednesday and I started to convince myself that it was ok to have an easy…
Read MoreSafety First on the Camino Frances
I must admit, I have never been the sort of person who has ever been ultra safety conscious. Although my father was a policeman for 20+ years, we grew up with the attitude “if a burglar is going to break in, he will do it anyway”. In hindsight, that is probably not the best attitude…
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