A few weeks ago I decided I had to walk again but this time start in St Jean.  It had always irked me a little that I lost my nerve at the last moment… so the idea of a spring Camino was hatched.

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Very few things leave me speechless but an email from a very nice lady I know did manage it…

I am writing to you on behalf of the NEDWA Committee to see if you would be our guest speaker at an event scheduled for Monday 9 March to celebrate International Womens Day (IWD).  We want an inspirational woman as the guest speaker and everyone of us considers your camino walk (and, indeed, the reasons behind it) are truly inspirational besides being of immense interest, plus, we have in you, the added bonus of such an inspirational woman being a NEDWA member!

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A few days before I started my walk REPLAY had a wedding gig and during the evening, before we started playing our drummer let slip that noone thought I’d finish.

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Hello you lovely people.  I’m sorry I’ve been a bit quiet… I’m trying to get my head around behing home and not walking.  It’s great to be home but crikey I miss so many things… the journey home was surreal… I keep trying to write about it… but for now you’ll have to make do with a 6 minute video.

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We’ve gone away for a week.   I wanted a chance to walk every day for 5-6 days… test my gear, my feet, my stamina… break the 20km mark… just prepare. So, we drove down to the Tarn department with no fixed plan and found a little campsite for the camper just outside of Albi.

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There are just 9 weeks to go before I start my walk… just 9 weeks left to train… to get fit. When I started this I thought I had ages, I thought I would be running up hills at this stage and yet here we are with 9 weeks to go and I still feel so unnprepared.

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