Life in Ireland

It is two years since I last walked the Camino de Santiago - I had walked it two years in a row, the first time because my friend hassled me, and I have never really figured out why I decided to walk all 780km the next year again.

Being there, walking every day, a complete escape from all normal day to day worries - the whole package is very calming, freeing. I did not miss TV, newspapers, or the radio. I loved the silence, the wide open spaces of the meseta, and feeling fit and healthy.

Both times I walked the Camino Frances, this is the most popular of the main five Camino routes, it is also the best supported with many hostels along the way.

When I built my first web site it was about the Camino and very easy to write as I love the pilgrimage and knew a good deal about it. I am now taking on another Camino task, one that I don’t find so easy. I have decided to write a Camino guide book, one that will be available for download from my web site by March of next year - hopefully. Writing a web site was fairly easy, loads of my friends looked at it and suggested corrections, however writing 150 pages of a guide book does seem a bit more daunting.

I also have a reward system set up for finishing it. The Via de la Plata is another Camino route, it is about 1000km and I have this in mind to walk when the book is finished. I reckon it will take about six weeks to walk, sounds bloody wonderful.