There is happy news from the fabled city of the Apostle St James! Ing is on the mend. Every day. Nay, every hour is a small but marked improvement on the last! Ing has improved in leaps and bounds. She still has some way to go, but it is certainly a long way from the intensive care unit that she was in for a few days after the operation! She has had her nasal-gastric tube removed. This is a tube that runs up your nostril and into your stomach to continually re...

Well we are back in Santiago and we realise that the past seems to be repeating itself. But in a slightly different way. Way back when the Camino was literally choked with pilgrims from far and wide, hospitals as we know them today, were the covents and monasteries of old. The doctors and nurses were the nuns and monks. Their Orders were the administrators and managers pushing forth a particular belief or philosophy. And pilgrims then, as now, relied on them to ...

We have now walked 800km, or so, and have arrived in the fabled city of Santiago de Compostela! This camino is now complete. But perspectives have changed and we realise that, actually, we have just started. One part of our path is finished. But another is about to begin. Looking back to when we did our practice walk in Richmond Park in December last year, it seems like a lifetime ago. Those people who did that practice walk don´t really seem to have been ...