It's almost here!

Well.... Almost on top of the 'holiday' I will use the term loosely, it's a break from work, yes, but not your normal chilled relaxing break in the sun, which would be most people's idea of a holiday.

I have to say its been an interesting journey so far, the enjoyable weekend walks, although the weather has on the whole been awful for most of them. All the research surrounding the Camino, all the purchases (I think we have kept Amazon in business) and one of the funniest things Linda and I regularly comment on, Geoff and Mark constantly talk about the clothes (!) and contents of their rucksacks.

Easter Sunday saw the last training walk, Sandwich to Deal along the coast stopping of course for lunch halfway and for some of them an ice cream to help them cope with the return journey.

The latest emails to and fro from The Band of Brothers have been the weather reports, the snow may cause them to change their initial plans and routes. Davin (yes Davin) emailed to say B@@##o@*s to the weather....

John had an alternative to Plan A

"We resort to Plan 'B'. This is where we get to southern France and simply hole up in some delightful and warm auberge for the week...and there cook up tales of herosim, deprivation (Geoff) and valour equal in dare-doing to Norse mythlogy and Valhalla....(oh and just for Mark show off our respective man-bags), But we have to agree our stories! Then get some spoof shots of the walk and Photoshop us all in.This all leads to - and taking the lead from the NASA Apollo conspiracy theorists (the Americans never went to the moon) - we never went on the Camino Santiago but we fool the world (and ourselves) into thinking that we did...and no loss of pride or face!"

I think I will have to check those photos and stories closely on their return !

Well good luck boys.

Buen Camino