Snippets from Simon

Two people came into my life that have given me pause.   The first is Ailsa Piper . In her account of the Camino Walk Sinning Across Spain ,  she writes beautifully of her experience of both events and her inner life. I particularly liked her love of language, landscape and a good yarn, seasoned with delightful servings of poems. T he second is Noel Braun . I've met Noel Braun on a couple of occasions. After his wife died, Noel went on a Camino. He described this in his book The Day was Made for Walking .  After that, he did the Portuguese Camino and related his experience in I Guess I'll Just Keep on Walking . There are others out there. These two have helped me.

Sorting out a daypack, my trusty “gender-bender” Merrell boots and some kind people loaned me a book on Spain. Here  is a link to the base walk we plan to do. Porto to Tui, then Tui to Santiago de Compostela.

So, this will be the place where I'll put stuff about the upcoming Portuguese Camino. This is a guidebook for the trip. More posts to come.