Windswept has gone west new blog up

windswept · May 10, 2015

New blog up at www.dartmoorwalker.blogspot.co.uk

KinkyOne · May 10, 2015

windswept said:
New blog up at www.dartmoorwalker.blogspot.co.uk

Don't worry, we are following you

Rajy62 · May 10, 2015

Lucky! you escaped that heatwave....38c in sevilla???

Donna Sch · May 11, 2015

Love all the photos!

LauraK · May 11, 2015

windswept said:
New blog up at www.dartmoorwalker.blogspot.co.uk

I am really enjoying your blog Windswept and soooo happy you went the Camino Sanabres route. I finished this route on March 30 and I get to "relive" my Camino through your blog and pictures! Although the flowers and trees look like they bloomed since I passed through. I too loved the silence and solitude (which became even quieter after my phone fell in the toilet on my 5th day-no more wifi or texts). I don't know if it was the time of the year but had 15 days alone in albergues and literally saw not one person on the Camino during that time. I loved the story of the man and the beagle! Keep writing!

Mystery · May 11, 2015

Windswept,

Really enjoying you humour and wonderful writing on the stages of the Camino. My wife and I are starting in Salamanca via the Senabres to Santiago next May (2016), so I appreciate your descriptions of the way.

The very best of luck to you and I hope your knees cope with the hills.

Cheers
Martin

windswept · May 11, 2015

KinkyOne said:
Don't worry, we are following you

I would stop and wait for you but I might not get my engine started again. Good luck

windswept · May 11, 2015

Mystery said:
Windswept,

Really enjoying you humour and wonderful writing on the stages of the Camino. My wife and I are starting in Salamanca via the Senabres to Santiago next May (2016), so I appreciate your descriptions of the way.

The very best of luck to you and I hope your knees cope with the hills.

Cheers
Martin

Thank you Martin and good luck for next year. I am also composing a video as I go, it will be about twenty five minutes long. I will post a link here at the end of my trek around the last week in May. A couple of years ago a ruptured my left quadriceps and although it's been stitched back onto my kneecap which keeps floating all over the place at the moment. I've got a couple of hard days ahead going on the short route to Laza but I might be able to break that 33kms trek at Campobecerros. Fingers crossed.

windswept · May 11, 2015

LauraK said:
I am really enjoying your blog Windswept and soooo happy you went the Camino Sanabres route. I finished this route on March 30 and I get to "relive" my Camino through your blog and pictures! Although the flowers and trees look like they bloomed since I passed through. I too loved the silence and solitude (which became even quieter after my phone fell in the toilet on my 5th day-no more wifi or texts). I don't know if it was the time of the year but had 15 days alone in albergues and literally saw not one person on the Camino during that time. I loved the story of the man and the beagle! Keep writing!

Hi Laura, from now on I shall search each and every toilet thoroughly for your phone. I have to say the wild flowers along the way are stunning it is hot here and it's going to get hotter. I walk alone every day and there are very few other pilgrims on the route. I am also making a video as I go which will be around 25 minutes long. I will post a link to around the last week in May.

windswept · May 11, 2015

Donna Sch said:
Love all the photos!

Thanks Donna , a lot of the route is beautiful and a lot is simply a hard slog along track which has no merit other than to get you to where you are going. It is very hot here and it's going to get hotter. I would think very carefully about doing this in July or August.

windswept · May 11, 2015

Rajy62 said:
Lucky! you escaped that heatwave....38c in sevilla???

Crikey, that is hot. I got caught in the mud and filth that resulted from a huge downpour the day before I left. It left my boots twice as heavy as they should have been. Hated every minute of it. But now, with around 200kms to go I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

LauraK · May 11, 2015

windswept said:
Hi Laura, from now on I shall search each and every toilet thoroughly for your phone. I have to say the wild flowers along the way are stunning it is hot here and it's going to get hotter. I walk alone every day and there are very few other pilgrims on the route. I am also making a video as I go which will be around 25 minutes long. I will post a link to around the last week in May.

You can stop looking . I dug it out of the toilet ( yuk!) and dried it off, checked it a few times thinking it would dry out but it was dead. Then a day after returning home ( 17 days later) it started working. I did tell my husband I wanted a lot of solitude and time to meditate and think on my Camino...and to just follow the arrows and live in the moment. Then after a few days on the Camino I was getting bored being the only one in the albergues at night, I started to download news, e-mail, etc. and two days later the phone fell out of my pocket into the toilet. Talk about Camino Magic! I got exactly what I asked for and it turned out to be a life changing camino! The best thing about my Camino was the silence and having only me as company. Reminded me of the good old days when we all put our phones in the bottom of our packs for emergencies only and had a nice quiet Camino without electronics.