I woke up at 5.30am and mentally prepared myself for my top-bunk descent in the dark. I obviously didn’t mentally prepare enough because I found myself stepping down to an intimate moment between the doorknob and my derrière.

My poor older French lady roommates woke up at 5.33 to me screaming.

(Good thing…

Day 4 on the Camino de Santiago. The day I finally made an early start.

I left before the sun and by the light of my small bicycle torch I searched desperately for yellow arrows. Somehow managed to find my way out of town.

I was very much alone until I…

After a good nights sleep on Jesus’ couch it was time to continue along The Camino de Santiago.

We managed to get up even earlier than the day before and even though we were the last to leave out of the small group of pilgrims, we were out walking by nine….

After a very foolish late start on day 1, my new Camino de Santiago companion, Sharron, and I tried to get an early start on the day. The key word here being ‘tried’.

We did deserve a little sleep in after such a wild night out hiking through slug-lands and…