Hello everyone!
My name is Eileen & I'm planning to do the Camino Frances in May 2012, hopefully with my husband Gordon who is a bit reluctant at present :? .
We live in East Anglia in the UK and are new to long distance walking, we are currently in training and walking about 10 miles twice a week at the weekends and hoping to increase this distance over the next few months.
I've been very grateful for all the advice on this forum, it's given me a good idea of what to expect. I'm also following some of the previous pilgrims videos on YouTube.
Reasons for doing the Camino - plentiful - I definitely echo some of the members wishes to experience something different from every day life. We are both in our late 50's so would like to grab life in all it's fullness before we get too decrepit! Retirement is on the horizon (or so we thought until the government moved the goalposts!) and we would like OUR Gap year - all of our children have had travelling experiences in their teens & twenties.
So hope to meet some of you on the Camino next year.
Blessings,
Eileen
My name is Eileen & I'm planning to do the Camino Frances in May 2012, hopefully with my husband Gordon who is a bit reluctant at present :? .
We live in East Anglia in the UK and are new to long distance walking, we are currently in training and walking about 10 miles twice a week at the weekends and hoping to increase this distance over the next few months.
I've been very grateful for all the advice on this forum, it's given me a good idea of what to expect. I'm also following some of the previous pilgrims videos on YouTube.
Reasons for doing the Camino - plentiful - I definitely echo some of the members wishes to experience something different from every day life. We are both in our late 50's so would like to grab life in all it's fullness before we get too decrepit! Retirement is on the horizon (or so we thought until the government moved the goalposts!) and we would like OUR Gap year - all of our children have had travelling experiences in their teens & twenties.
So hope to meet some of you on the Camino next year.
Blessings,
Eileen