Aww, I remember you well! Good and kind people. Too late to alter my previous posts but does seem a bit ghoulish! Being upset that the pilgrims are healthy!! haaha.
But all is well. Things change, needs change, all is well. xx
Hmmm, I hadn't thought of this before, but you are possibly on to something.🙄 I did notice over the years that it was usually the young adults that seemed to have the worst and most painful blisters.
Last May was my 7th Camino and my first blister. My feet spread out a bit more and my little toe isn’t as firm as it was and wants to hide under number four. Welcome friction in the socks 🥴. Back home I solved this by wearing toe socks and now...
I am in France now, the Charente, deep in the countryside where I used to live.
I want to apologise to all for all of the above, what I can now see was 'unloading', but I was by myself down there and just let it out on forum - thank you for all...
This may sound odd, but it may also be because so many of us (me) on the Camino these days are considerably older than pilgrims used to be--and we are very conscious of what we CANNOT do and make an effort to take good care of ourselves on the...
Thank you, @David, for all you have done over the years being a First Aid Angel on the Camino Frances.🤗😇
Yes, the Camino is changing and evolving into something "else" it seems, especially the Frances.
We all will eventually "hang up our boots"...
I am done. My mission ended ... I spent hours at the main refugio in Estella - no casualties ... I have lurked at the Irache wine fountain, I have been to all the places I can think of where pilgrims pass and stop for a break and, no, those days...
Well this is strange .. am I come to the end here? Have been doing this since 2006 but this year all has changed, radically changed.
In the spring I walked some days on the Meseta and thought that the lack of casualties was because I was in the...
Well ... Robo interviewed me a couple of times - the rascal, he knows how to get people talking! Proper friendly journalist (nice bloke too). But I think they are known as Robo's videos.
I think the one that gets mentioned is a docufilm made by...
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