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How marvelous that I can be a rebel by just being untidy! If that’s all it takes, I feel I should take on bigger projects. Like how to convince Donald Trump to retire! I like my domestic surroundings to be quite neat. Not antiseptic, I have many useful items and treasures around, but in their…
Yes, I am back from my Camino Portugués. All the way from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela.
Yes, I will be 80 next year, but who says I won’t be one of those wonder people who are just trekking and trucking along into their 90s?
t will soon be time to take off for Lisbon for the start of my Camino Portuguès. Libson to Santiago de Compostela, all 630 km of it.
Well, it was a blast! A delightful great big Camino conference. It all took place in the middle of May on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, amid the trees and bushes in bloom and the green, green grass of the Pacific Coast. There were 400 of us, most oldies but…
Do you get those moments when, despite past knowledge and experience, you feel that now, you know nothing about an important subject? That is how I am feeling about my upcoming Camino to Portugal, particularly regarding equipment. By equipment, I mean backpack, footwear, questions about hiking poles, and even clothing. How come? It’s like I…
It will be a first for me to Portugal. This route was not on my radar, but a Camino friend invited me to join her, and then it just seemed, indeed, the right thing to do and place to go.
How exciting for me to see how Finisterre, a Camino pilgrim destination, is also a point that joins together the great bracelet of the around-the-world race. Not the end of the world, but nearly the end of this mighty Vendée Globe race for these courageous skippers.
Be warned! When you set out on a pilgrimage, it will change your life henceforth. You will be a pilgrim for ever.
So, was writing the book the achievement rather than the book in my hand or on my e-reader? Does getting to Santiago as the destination of the Camino overshadow all the kilometres and walking and the heart and effort that went into it?