Camino France
Finding my "Why" for the Camino
For me, The Camino is not a holiday, it feels more like a “calling”. I can’t really explain it but it just feels like something I have to do. More than 200,000 people walk this pilgrim trail every year. When we collect our pilgrim passport at St Jean Pied de Port in France, we are…
Read MoreCamino Etiquette – The Unwritten Rules!
Panic set in as I received the weekly forum roundup email from Ivar on the Camino forum. One of the topics was about an angry Albergue Warden who threw someone’s pack on the floor and shouted, “leave, leave”. It was 7.30am, and all pilgrims needed to leave by 8am, so she was “shooing” people out…
Read MoreYou Know You Are Going On You First Camino When…
As you may be aware, we are off to walk the first part of the Camino Frances in less than 30 days and I am now starting to think “what’s going to happen when we get back?”. Camino life has consumed me for the last three months since we decided that we were going to…
Read MoreSafety First on the Camino Frances
I must admit, I have never been the sort of person who has ever been ultra safety conscious. Although my father was a policeman for 20+ years, we grew up with the attitude “if a burglar is going to break in, he will do it anyway”. In hindsight, that is probably not the best attitude…
Read MoreYippee! I Have My Scallop Shell for the Camino, Thanks to My Mum!
I was absolutely over the moon as last weekend my mum came over for Sunday dinner and gave Rachel and I a small package to open. Inside the package was our Camino scallop shell’s, with the stamp of St James, and beautiful red ribbon so that we can secure them to our rucksacks. I now feel…
Read MoreTop Six Backpacking Tips For Walking The Camino
I take my hat off to the people at Cotswold Outdoors as the lady spent about 45 minutes with us a few weekends ago giving us lots of tips about backpacking. She was leaving her job in two weeks time to go traveling with her boyfriend and she was full of enthusiasm for a novice…
Read MoreThree Places to Start When Thinking About Walking the Camino
By day, I run a marketing company and part of my role is to teach people about the joys of social media. So it was a natural place for me to start by a bit of research online.
Read MoreWelcome to my Camino blog
A few years ago, a friend of mine decided that she was going to walk the Camino. She was older than me and I thought “If Jane can do this, then so can I”. Anyway, life and business got in the way, and even though I had every intention of walking this trek with my…
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