Camino time again!
Sitting here on a cold, windy and drizzly March Day I’m wishing I was somewhere else. Somewhere warmer and with a frisson of excitement in the air. Despite getting out about a fair bit over the past few months, I’ve had a yearning to be back where life is far less complicated. That place is, of course, on another Camino. So, in just over 11 weeks’ time it’s back to Spain to get my booster! This time, however, it is no epic 30 day walk. For it is a mere 6 day stroll from the Galician port city of Ferrol down to Santiago de Compostela. This particular Camino is known as the Camino Inglés; which of course means the English Camino. It is so-named as it’s the route that many pilgrims from the British Isles trekked into Santiago in bygone days having arrived on ships into the Galician port cities of Ferrol and A Coruña. The Camino Inglés therefore has two different starting points; one in each of those cities. The Ferrol route is the longer of the two, at 7...