Take two - The Planning Begins Again!!!!!

As it says at the top of our blog "Hopefully 2011" and that is certainly our intention. We have booked tickets to fly out to Valladolid at the end of September and back from Santiago just over a couple of weeks later. Why Valladolid?


Well from Valladolid we can get a train or coach to Sahagún, the town where our Camino ended in 2009 we could then pick it up again at the exact spot we stopped and carry on hopefully arriving in Santiago about 14 days later. The 60,000 dollar question is whether my foot will last the course? We just have to work on the baises that it will all work out.

My next step is to get back into training following the regime I used last time. I have an old rucksack which I fill with water bottles to make its weight up to 10KG which I then wear when I go Nordic Walking on a Friday morning. This is not without problems as last time to increase the weight I put some brick in the rucksack which made a hole in one of the larger water bottles soaking the rucksack and my shorts and making it look as though I had had an accident. The instruction from our Nordic Walking instructor to the other students was "Don't Laugh", an instruction they all ignored!!

I am also starting to read all different guides we have to the Camino for this part of the route. Somehow we have managed to accumulate about five different guides, each which has its advantages and disadvantages, the problem being that when weight is at a premium which do you take?



Jeremy