The Call of the Camino

 Camino del Sureste

Well a lot has happened since the last Camino four years ago. I have retired, run a few half marathons, moved to the countryside in the province of Alicante, Spain, learned how to cultivate our olive trees, make olive oil from our own olives and begun to learn a little Spanish.

Having seen a number of Camino signs locally in Aspe, and visited Pilar de la Horadada which is the starting point of the Rana del Sureste and looked at the map of Camino routes across Spain which sits on the wall above my desk... ...and knowing Sam - a friend on mine-  who has also walked a Camino (Ourense to Santiago), was coming to visit... you can probably work out what's coming next... ...as you will know if you have made a Camino to Santiago it reels you back in to come once more, to learn a little more, to see rather than to glimpse, to appreciate rather than take for granted, to be a little closer to God

And so it was that on Thursday 18th June we began outside the Basilica de Santa Maria, Alicante. In our hands the 2017 from the Confraternity of St James written by Lewis Roxby Mairis. The entries that will follow, probably quite sporadically, will tell of the journey and my reflection upon it.



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