Hi, this is my intro. I've done one small (tiny!) Camino so far - St Michael's Way in Cornwall - just 12 miles. I am planning to walk the Portuguese Coastal Camino from Porto in September 2020 with a friend. If everything goes well, I'd love to walk the Camino Frances in 2021 but we'll have to see.
I'm walking for 3. There's me - 62, cancer survivor and 1 replaced knee. And there are my two children who have both sadly died. Pax in 1982, Catherine in 2011. I walk in remembrance, carrying my children in my thoughts and heart with me.
The journey of grief has a lot of parallels with pilgrimages - very long, and the only way to manage it is one step at a time. I blog about grief at www.avalleyjournal.co.uk and soon I'll start a dedicated Camino blog "OneStepCamino". I'd like to document my training walks - last one was 10 miles in the Cotswolds in 28 degree heat.
I love reading everyone's stories and experiences so thank you to everyone who shares.
I'll be around the forum now and again. Am quite busy with 'life' but the Camino is something I am very much looking forward to.
I'm walking for 3. There's me - 62, cancer survivor and 1 replaced knee. And there are my two children who have both sadly died. Pax in 1982, Catherine in 2011. I walk in remembrance, carrying my children in my thoughts and heart with me.
The journey of grief has a lot of parallels with pilgrimages - very long, and the only way to manage it is one step at a time. I blog about grief at www.avalleyjournal.co.uk and soon I'll start a dedicated Camino blog "OneStepCamino". I'd like to document my training walks - last one was 10 miles in the Cotswolds in 28 degree heat.
I love reading everyone's stories and experiences so thank you to everyone who shares.
I'll be around the forum now and again. Am quite busy with 'life' but the Camino is something I am very much looking forward to.