What a good idea to give a brief introduction to ourselves! I write on the message board as Pilgrim. I am a fifty eight year old, former school teacher, enjoying my early retirement. I live with my wife - we have two grown up sons - in Essex in England. I walked the Camino Frances from St Jean in 2003 and followed the route by car in 2004. In April this year I will be following the Camino Portugues from Porto with a German pilgrim friend. Future plans include the Camino Ingles with my sons and the Via de la Plata. Closer to home I must sometime walk the Pilgrim route to the shrine of Thomas a Beckett in Canterbury made famous by Chaucer's in his Canterbury Tales.