New Boots! Old Knees

Are We Ready??
Tomorrow we will fly off to Spain again. We decided in January that we would like to see Spain in the spring. All our other trips to Spain have been in the fall. We are both excited to see the spring flowers many of our camino buddies talk about.

This time we are planning on walking a much shorter camino than we have done before. We will fly into À Coruña, situated on the north coast of Spain and provincial capital of Galicia. The route is called Camino Ingles or the English way. The history of this route tells us it was used by the English and Irish who would come by boat to the harbour of À Coruña then walk to Santiago. It is just over 70km and we expect to walk it in 4 days. We will spend one night in Santiago before hiking west to Finisterre, on the Atlantic coast, about 80km, which we expect to do in five days. This has been on our list for some time so we are excited to finally get the chance to see "the end of the world" in the days when the world was still thought of as flat.

We both have new boots after our very wet hiking in New Zealand last year. We were working hard to work those boots in and get ready for this trip until 3 weeks ago when Wendy developed a knee issue. And since I hate to be left out of anything, my knee hurts too. So off we go with knee braces, ibprofen and Voltaren gel. New boots, old knees but the walking is calling us.

Looking forward to our first cafe con leche and some great Galician wine!

Buen Camino!

Marion & Wendy