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The Unknown and Anchovies

When you are about to walk 830 kilometres across Spain it is understandable that you start questioning your fitness and physical ability to complete such a mammoth challenge.  My training had been pretty consistent, gradually increasing my walking distances and my hill work.  But with only three weeks to go until we started walking the Camino del Norte, the opportunity to complete whatever training was needed to get myself physically ready, and confident that I could do this walk,...

November 23, 2025

Walking the Camino? Don't forget to pack your anxiety...

It was two weeks until we would be winging our way to Paris, starting our three-month exploration of Europe and six weeks of walking the Camino del Norte.  There were still a few things to do - well actually tens of things to do!  It was now feeling very real, and my excitement was growing.My anxiety was really talking strongly to me, and I was listening keenly.  It was letting me know that all the underground thinking, planning, ideating and mental arranging I had been quietly do...

November 10, 2025

Reese Witherspoon, I blame you... but I'm eternally grateful

The notion to walk a long way, over many weeks, started many, many years ago. The seed of this desire was planted as I watched the movie “Wild”, starring Reese Witherspoon, on a long-haul flight for work.  I don’t know what it was that appealed - perhaps the challenge of such an epic physical undertaking, maybe the freedom of relying solely on your body to get you across the country, or was it the simplicity and purity of being one with nature and disconnecting from the binds of ...

November 6, 2025

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Connections

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Interlaced

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Unlayered

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Sadness

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