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A600AASS 23 - The Four Seasons, Amsterdam in December, Presentations and Podcasts, and Bedtime Books
December 11, 2022
A600AASS 23 - 11.12.22 The Four Seasons, Amsterdam in December, Presentations and Podcasts, and Bedtime Books From the abstract to the concrete How do I...
Looking up and looking out
November 23, 2022
It’s taken me a while to get around to writing this because it turns out that settling back in after a month on the road takes, well, a while. But in that...
A600AASS Day 21 - Thank you.
November 3, 2022
It’s been hard to pinpoint exactly where this journey started. Apparently, Chris and I talked about walking the Camino some years ago, but I can’t remember...
A600AASS Day 20 - Salceda to Santiago de Compostela
November 3, 2022
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A600AASS Day 19 - Melide to Salceda
November 1, 2022
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A600AASS Day 18 - Palas de Rei to Melide
October 31, 2022
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A600AASS Day 17 - Portomarín to Palas de Rei
October 30, 2022
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A600AASS Day 16 - Sarria to Portomarín
October 29, 2022
Walkin’ walkin’, wet, wet walkin’. It rained all day today, mostly down, sometimes sideways, often heavily. Water breached my waterproof socks and by the...
A600AASS Day 15 - Samos to Sarria
October 28, 2022
28.10.22 15 Km Bone tired. After landing in a wide, comfortable bunk after 15 kilometres on muddy paths in the rain, I’m starting to get a feel for where the...
A600AASS Day 14 - Fonfría to Samos
October 27, 2022
27.10.22 20 Km The cross shimmered in burnished golds, floating in mid air, suspended from fine wires. 8 windows encircled the dome that soared above me,...
A600AASS Day 13 - Las Herrerías to Fonfría
October 26, 2022
26.10.22 20 Km Uuuuuuup. UpUpUp. And up. Today we climbed like I’ve never climbed before. To be honest, I’ve never really walked before. At least, not like...
A600AASS Day 12 - Villafranca del Bierzo to Las Herrerias
October 25, 2022
25.10.22 25 Km Today was my first, real wet weather day. Like, twenty kilometres of walking-in-moderate-to-heavy-rain wet weather. Had I been walking through...
A600AASS Day 11 - Molinaseca to Villafranca del Bierzo
October 24, 2022
24.10.22 34 Km A short newsletter tonight because, well, thirty four kilometres. We started under starlight from Molinaseca, walking 8 kilometres before a...
A600AASS Day 10 - Foncebadón to Molinaseca
October 23, 2022
23.10.22 19 Km Best day walking, bar none. So far, at least. The descent from Cruz de Fero was as brutal as folk said it would be. Not initially, but...
A600AASS Day 9 - Rabanal de Camino to Foncebadón
October 22, 2022
22.10.22 5.6 Km Soooo… We made it 5.6 Km today before the fever and the nausea got the getter of me. We slept — if that’s the word for it — at a large...
A600AASS Day 8 - Astorga to Rabanal del Camino
October 21, 2022
21.10.22 21 Km I left Australia for Europe in August 2005. That means that I’ve been living overseas for 17 years, bar 9 months spent in retreat from the...
A600AASS Day 7 - Hospital de Òrbigo to Astorga
October 20, 2022
20.10.22 16.5 Km I made it 8 Km before the pain kicked in. A win. But we walked through rolling hills today, and the downhill sections were excruciating. A...
A600AASS Day 6 - Villar de Mazarife - Hospital de Òrbigo
October 19, 2022
19.10.22 15 Km For a few years now, I’ve been conscious of the impact, both positive and negative, that the internet has had on my ability to be in this...
A600AASS Day 5 - Léon to Villar de Mazarife
October 18, 2022
18.10.22 25 Km Quintana Roo Dunne. This was the name given to Joan Didion’s daughter with her husband John Dunne. She was named Quintana Roo after a state in...
A600AASS Day 4 - Léon
October 17, 2022
17.10.22 Rest day The thunder rolls above the clouds, sounding like a fireworks show mounted for the gods above. Every now and then, elegant lighting arcs...
A600AASS Day 3 - Agen to Léon
October 16, 2022
16.10.22 1000 Km (or thereabouts) There's a crow flyingBlack & raggedTree to treeHe's black as the highway that's leading me A sinister opening to Joni...
A600AASS Day 2 - Poitiers to Agen
October 15, 2022
15.10.22 333 Km “Emovare”, said the physiotherapist, in Dutch-accented English. “It’s the Latin root of the word “emotion”. It means “to move”. And what we...
A600AASS Day 1 - Amsterdam to Poitiers
October 14, 2022
14.10.22 962 Km It was like being inside a pack of bubblegum. Three stories under ground, the car park had been drenched in a kind of industrial perfume, no...