I had a delightful overnight stay with my in-laws in Harpenden, and they dropped me off fairly early at Harpenden station on their way to a family christening. It was cold and damp at Luton Airport, but warm and comfortable in the terminal building. I checked in my rucksack in its own bag and did …
Continue reading Camino Stage 7: Day 1 – Harpenden to Barcelona.
Yesterday, 10th April, I set out on the next stage of my Camino in memory of Philip Endean SJ, my old university friend, who inspired me to want to do this back in the 1970s. Today I fly to Barcelona, and then tomorrow I will catch trains up to Logroño where I rejoin the Camino …
7:15am: ready to get the train to Paris There is a limit to how far you can go by land without it taking days to get to where you want to go - I think, with this stage of the Camino, I have now reached it. Perhaps, if I were younger, I might be able …
Continue reading Camino Stage 6: Day 19 – Bordeaux to Southwell – and reflections
It was my last night in a dormitory of twelve, and I did not sleep well, because I was worrying about being up in time to walk the 35 minutes to Bilbao Intermodal to get my bus to Bordeaux. Anyway, my Fitbit tells me that my sleep style is Hedgehog - that is, I am …
Continue reading Camino Stage 6: Day 18 – Bilbao to Bordeaux
It had rained quite a bit in the night, but I didn't hear it. Though I was in a 12 bed dorm I slept well, and woke about 7.40. I am a bit ambivalent about Spanish cuisine in general, perhaps first of all because I don't really understand what people are eating, and why and …
Outside the Casa Consistorial, Viana, at 07:40 this morning. There is always something bittersweet about coming to the end of another stage of this extended Camino. At one level, I am wanting get home to husband and hearth, to the love and the comforting routines of every day. But at another, every fibre of me …
Continue reading Camino Stage 6: Day 16 – Viana, Logroño and Bilbao
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