A good week since returning from the Camino, overall. My daughter, Hannah, went on a day’s baking course in Lichfield and came back with five loaves, she had made ( no fishes ) and declared it one of the best birthday presents she had ever had! Tasted one of them, a Bloomer, wonderful.There was also a ” Share and Tear”, a “Hedgehog”, but best of all, one I christened a “Camino Batch”.
Just look at that shell motif ; equal to Tarta de Santiago. The post came quite late, today and in it, was another reason to be cheerful…a clearance letter from Good Hope Hospital, Urology department, stating that my recent CT Scan had shown no sign of reoccurrence of the disease.
Right from the beginning of our Camino, which went so well, for all three of us,Penny, my sister, would declare that Santiago was looking after us! Well, maybe he still is….
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Another, maybe even more significant decision I made, as a consequence of the Camino, was to go back to the gym, after an absence of 30 months or more . Thinking of that final, 400km section of the Via de la Plata, which I am beginning to plan .Been twice this week and will gradually build up my routines on the treadmill, bike and cross trainer. Very new machines there, now,all singing, all dancing – Sky Sports on each, which can provide a welcome distraction, as well as listening to Audible, through earphones and I-Pad.
Perhaps I can justify a celebratory meal out, especially as the kitchen work tops have just been sanded and oiled, today; time for them to dry out. Buen Camino to you all, wherever and whenever you are walking.
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