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Lockdown Day 34. 27 April

A very long day. I started at 5:30. There were 2 major tasks; tidy up and get back into town and finish […]

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Lockdown Day 32. Saturday 25 April.

ANZAC Day. I listened to the dawn service on the deck in the pre-dawn. Short and sweet, and I had a cup […]

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Lockdown Day 29. Wednesday 22 April

What! No posts for 11 days? The days have merged one into another. The initial excitement faded, to be replaced with the […]

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Lockdown Day 18. Saturday 11 April

A bit of study, a bit of a walk, a bit of gardening. While it’s better to have an enlarged bubble, it […]

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Lockdown Day 17. Friday 10 April

Good Friday. I said we don’t have hot cross buns on Good Friday, I was wrong. But anyway, it was a beautiful […]

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Lockdown Day 16. Thursday 9 April

A day in town. Victoria had an important work meeting online and I had a dermatology appointment online so we decided to […]

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Lockdown Day 15. Wednesday 8 April

First day in our enlarged bubble of myself, Margie, Victoria and Evie. This morning we drove over to Tawhitokino beach and I […]

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Lockdown Day 14. Tuesday 7 April

Today’s big news is that Evie and Victoria have joined us. We met up with them at Takanini Countdown and Victoria went […]

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Lockdown Day 13. Monday 6 April

Got the car started! Now I have to get Margie on a new contract for unlimited data, I spent some time waiting […]

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Lockdown Day 12. Sunday 5 April.

I spent about an hour this morning trying (successfully) to get a new contract for unlimited data. Next job was to get […]

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Camino Blog / Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • April 16, 2019
  • Leave a Comment on Day 7, 15th April. Grossouvre to Chateau De Lienesse
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Day 7, 15th April. Grossouvre to Chateau De Lienesse

Another decent frost.  It was supposed to be a short day, 14km, but I miscalculated then we walked on.  I left my […]

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Camino Blog / Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • April 15, 2019
  • Leave a Comment on Day 6, 14th April. Nevers to Grossouvre
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Day 6, 14th April. Nevers to Grossouvre

Long day, short story.  We left in a decent frost, Nevers and the Loire beautiful behind us. We walked about 4km along […]

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Camino Blog / Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • April 14, 2019
  • Leave a Comment on Day 5, 13th April. Guérigny to Nevers
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Day 5, 13th April. Guérigny to Nevers

A cold start today and we went up the street for a coffee in a creperie run by a lovely woman, a […]

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Camino Blog / Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • April 13, 2019
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Day 3 11th April. Guipy to Breuil

Before I start, Breuil (where we stay tonight) is so small that the taxi driver this morning hadn’t heard of it.  We […]

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Camino Blog / Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • April 13, 2019
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Day 4 12th April. Prémery to Guérigny

Actually, Un pas a la Fois is 3.8km before Prémery.  A good evening last night was a prelude to a very good […]

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Camino Blog / Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • April 12, 2019
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Day 2 10th April. Le Chemin to Guipy

Yesterday was a long day, 25km. Today could be anywhere between 21 and 28 km depending on circumstances, of which later. Either […]

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Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • April 10, 2019
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Day 1, 9th April. Vézelay to Le Chemin

The day started with a trip up the hill to the cathedral, where the monks and nuns were singling Laudes. We sat […]

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Camino Blog / Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • April 10, 2019
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Day Zero to Vézelay

Day 0 8th April 20 Dubai to Paris to Sermizelles to Vézelay  I got business class for the final Emirates leg from […]

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Camino Blog / Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • March 31, 2019
  • 2 Comments on The Training Schedule
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The Training Schedule

I started training when we came back from Egypt in late September 2018. Initially it was just walking daily, starting at 10km […]

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Camino Blog / Vézelay Route to Santiago de Compostela
  • March 3, 2019
  • 1 Comment on Introduction: Why Vézelay?
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Introduction: Why Vézelay?

In 2015 I retired from medical practice. Margie and I walked the Camino Francés from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago. In 2016 Margie and […]

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