Dear Fellow Pilgrims
Today it is exactly three weeks before I leave South Africa for Heathrow and, eventually (God willing in the current situation) St Jean and the start of my pilgrimage. If only one had second sight! I wouldn't have bought an airline ticket from Stansted to Biarritz for the second leg of my journey, but would have gone to St Jean some other way. At least (so far) all the flights from here to Heathrow seem to be all right.
I have more or less got all my stuff ready, and am trying to see whether I can't possibly eliminate some more, for weight. Have bought a new, thin sleeping bag for the hot, airless refugios (we SAfricans like to sleep with open windows, but I understand that Europeans don't like this), I wonder whether I need to take my thermal inner bag as well, just in case of cold. What do you think? Am now just resisting the temptation to take 'hiking food', 'just in case'. Am sure I won't starve, not that a little of that would do me any harm.
Am looking forward to the Camino with all my heart, and hope to meet many of you along the way.
Regards
Christine (Marshall) Cloete