A day of walking in the rain. It wasn´t raining too hard, just enough to keep one cool - nice. I walked by myself most of the day today. It was good. Lots of thinking time. Walked 24kms to Belorado - a cute little town with a population of around 2,000. Tonight we are staying at the Albergue de Pereginos "Cuatro Cantones" (c/ Hipolito Lopez Bernal a.10, 09250 Belorado (Burgos) - ph 947580591. It´s cute and small. €5 to stay and €3 for breakfast. ... read more

Saturday 11th September After dinner last night I played cards with the German crew. It was their version of UNO. Quite fun! A good way to learn a few German swear words. What a night! It was a little hard to sleep with Marco snoring so loudly all night. One of the joys of room sharing! After breakfast we headed out by the light of a beautiful sunrise.  I started walking with Armando and Marco. As usual there was a lot of talking and laughing. It constantly amazes me that we are so perky first thing in the morning. It's great how I'm able to notice so much more around me these days. We saw alot of snails on the plants beside the path and we also noticed a couple of snails racing on the path. Things I ... read more

Thursday 9th September: Woke up about 5.30am this morning. Tried to sleep, but awake is awake for me these days so I got up and started getting ready for the day ahead. I am mostly sleeping in the clothes I am going to wear the next day so getting ready is not too arduous.  Just the usual - cleaned my face and teeth, packed up my bag, and had a bite to eat.  Well had a few bites to eat of everyone else's food - Robert gave me a couple of biscuits and Marco gave me half of his croissant. Everyone is so lovely and sharing here. In that spirit I gave Tobias a pair of earplugs that I had spare because he didn't have any.  Amazing how awake and sharing we all are so early ... read more

Had a wonderful afternoon wandering around Bayonne. Everywhere I looked was beautiful stunning architecture. And the fact that it's all so old and yet still so elegant adds a certain magic to the place. I started out just wandering the streets and came across the Cathedral of our Lady of St. Mary. Walked around the outside to the cloisters and then rather accidentally came across the entrance to the Cathedral. I feel so lucky that I did - it showed the value of taking things slowly and looking out for those opportunities that do resent themselves when you're taking notice.  I think it might be the most beautiful Cathedral I have ever seen! Amazing stained glass windows and lots of gorgeous shrines around the outer area. I came across the shrine to Mary and just felt ... read more

Thursday night after my much needed nana nap I headed over to Richmond to catch up with Sabrina. Caught the train from Clapham Junction to Richmond - once again, too easy! We went to the Pitcher and Piano for a drink - sat out on the deck in the evening sun, by the river. Once again, I'm feeling surrounded by glamourous people - some of the girls had on the coolest dresses! We then went to a lovely french restaurant for dinner. It was brilliant. Vicky met us at the restaurant and we (me and Vicky) caught the tube back to Clapham South, and walked back to the flat. It is quite surprising, but it feels really safe wandering around at night. On Friday I went to Canary Wharf with Vicky. We caught the underground in ... read more