Camino 2023

April - September 2023

I committed to doing a second Camino as soon as I came to the end of my journey six years ago. At that time I was still working, my time was limited so I only completed about 300 ks. This time I'm walking the whole Camino, 780 kms. Baca lagi

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Pengembara Camino 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 18 Sep 2023, 9:15 PG
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitud: 21 m
- England Hillingdon Heathrow London Heathrow Terminal 4 51.458755, -0.44939851°27’32” N 0°26’58” W
Hari 150–154
Leaving UK flying home to NZ family
18 September 2023, England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Well folks that's it...my big adventure almost over with just 30 hours til I touch down in NZ.

It has been an amazing experience and I'm going home to reflect, write and keep in touch. I was so glad I'd taken my big suitcase out to the airport yesterday, as there was no train from the station at Barons Court today. They are working on the lines so that meant a big walk this afternoon into Hammersmith with 9 kilos on my back and three in a carry all!!

There I caught the bus to Osterley which got caught in Traffic, and took a bit longer adding to concrn that we wouldn't name it in time to collect my suitcase from left luggage. As I walked I gave myself a good talking to. The worst that could happen would be paying for extra time!! So my heart rate under control with my 7/4/8 breathing, I slowed down and gave myself a good pat on the back for taking care of myself.

Then it was down a ramp under the road and up another ramp to Osterley station to catch the underground to Heathrow...right into the terminal. It's amazing!! We're away ...cheerie for now xxx❤️‍🩹💖💕💕 ps ..sunrise near Doha photo and boarding passes, and done if the route it was an easy journey ...Baca lagi
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Pengembara Come home safe. We love you, feeling for you leaving the UK 🇬🇧 😢 💔 ❤
16/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Thanks my darling wee sister, I did greet on leaving Megs' flat and then passing the church where Colin works, a mixture of feelings indeed hen, will be home safe and sound soon and see you in NP xxxxx 💖❤️💖
16/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Hello Jane Jemmett so you must be another cousin I've yet to speak to as well XXX ❤️ much love to you on your journey home Linda, I'm so going to miss you & may all your travelling home go very smoothly now ♥️♥️♥️
16/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara My gorgeous wee sister , a big etch in ma heart yes. your first cotsin Jean 💗❤️
16/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Yes I'm another cousin, the youngest of the girls. Thanks for being kind to my big sister, she will be feeling the leaving of the UK all over again. 😔
16/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Oh that's lovely Jane so you must be the wee baby in the picture of you all leaving for NZ all those yrs ago ❤️
16/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Plus you must be really pleased to get Linda back into the fold again, I think she will need lots of love, affection & a little bit of Molly coddling 🤗🤗🤗
16/09/23BalasTerjemah
Aaawe Jean .... how astute you are oor Megs is the bairn in that pic oor Jane is the wee girl wi the dead straight hair 😊 yes, she was oor baby for a while oor Annie and I doted on her oor wee totie bairn, then oor John came along then David then Megs then oor Ronnie in NZ... [Linda]
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Pengembara Camino 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 18 Sep 2023, 10:04 PG
- 🌬 17 °C
- Altitud: 18 m
- New Zealand Auckland Auckland Airport Auckland International Airport -37.00567, 174.78291437°0’20” S 174°46’58” E
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Hari 150
Home again home again Aotearoa
18 September 2023, New Zealand ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
We have landed slightly late and weary but not as weary as I thought. On board I spent a lovely couple of times with a couple whose crying baby could not be settled til grannie Linda came to the rescue... poor wee might had sore tummy .... but he soon settled and went to sleep for me twice... the parents were very relieved as I think the whole cabin was, he had a loud screamy cry.

We're now waiting in huge line of people at customs, but I caught the eye of an aid who took me to electronic check out and was through quickly. Mary-Ellen and grandson James were waiting for me with a big bunch of flowers and a welcome home balloon✈️ but biggest gift was themselves hugs galore, tears and laughter 😅😥❤️‍🩹💙...

I managed to stay awake til the afternoon when I succumbed to the closing of eyes. Later in the evening Mary-Ellen and I went to the school boarding house to say hello to my great granddaughter, Bailey who just kept hugging and kissing me arms firmly wrapped saying how much she missed me. It was a tearful reunion again, but happy as well.

After a good nights sleep grandson James chauffeured me to the supermarket as we prepared to make a family dinner for my great granddaughters 15th birthday. She had ordered a vegie lasagna, rice pudding with vanilla sponge (bought by Mary-Ellen) for a birthday cake!! So dinner took me the rest of the day to prepare. So glad to get here for her birthday.

Philip (son in law) picked her up after LLP school while Mary-Ellen and and I went out to the airport again to say hello to my daughter Sarah who was on her way to Motueka to be with my three grandsons, Liam, Connor and Lachlan while my son Matthew and his wife, Rachel go on a 6 week tour in America and Europe for their respective 50th birthdays.

We had a lovely family dinner and caught up with our various goings on my great granddaughter so more grown up and doing well at school. My grandson enjoying his time at his classes in a social work certificate course before undertaking his degree in early childhood next year.Baca lagi
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Pengembara How lovely what a wonderful reunion for you all. Much love to everyone from your English cousin Jean & my Marvellous hubby Mike XXX ❤️❤️❤️
20/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Dearest Jean and Mike, so amazing to be back here in NZ bit of a relief to touch down....and be so welcomed...thinking of you every day love your auld cousin Linda xxxooo 💜❤️💖❤️
20/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara ❤️❤️❤️ us too my lovely. Enjoy every moment with all your loved ones there. It's a lovely thing to know we are loved on the other side of the world as well XXX ❤️
20/09/23BalasTerjemah
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Pengembara Camino 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 14 Sep 2023, 4:02 PTG
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitud: 15 m
- England Spelthorne District Ashford 51.435666, -0.47500851°26’8” N 0°28’30” W
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Hari 146
London lat week
14 September 2023, England ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
A trip to Windsor today is one on my last outings before I leave these shores once more for New Zealand. With a heavy heart I said goodbye to my baby sister and her husband on Saturday night as they were leaving for their holiday in Turkey. Popped at the post I awoke at 3.54 a m. To wish them farewell but they had already gone. That was a bit sad

Then on Tuesday I journeyed over to Southampton to see my newly found cousins, the gorgeous Mackie clan, John, Jean, Gill and Phil....another sad farewell.. so this is about it for now I fly out on Saturday with a visit to beaire on Friday night for a spa treatment my daughter sent me...and am so looking forward to that.Baca lagi
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Pengembara What a gorgeous pic of our extended family!! Will have to come visit myself real soon 💜
14/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara And so they are gorgeous hen xxxx 💕💖
14/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Wouldn't that be something too XXX ❤️❤️❤️
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Pengembara Camino 2023
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- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 5 Sep 2023, 11:53 PG
- ☀️ 26 °C
- Altitud: 10 m
- England Royal Kensington and Chelsea West Kensington 51.491257, -0.21211951°29’29” N 0°12’44” W
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Hari 137
Barons keep family day
5 September 2023, England ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Pengembara aaaawww gorgeous boys!! hope you had a lovely time saying goodbye to the clan today Linda.. shame we couldnt be there ro see you off but always carry yoo with us 💜❤️
15/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Awe hen I uploaded the wrong vid...ah well!! Done now I'll see if I can put the other in as well...saw Sarah, Own and Lachie today... they are a delight, So lovely of them to call in, as they usually do.. xxxoojust aboot tae leave to take big case oot tae airport...hugs galore xxxooo 💜❤️
15/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Number one journey done n dusted....well done xxxx
15/09/23BalasTerjemah
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Pengembara Camino 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 4 Sep 2023, 5:42 PTG
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitud: 13 m
- England Hammersmith and Fulham Shepherds Bush Shepherd's Bush Railway Station 51.5042, -0.219951°30’15” N 0°13’12” W
Hari 136
Monday in Baron's keep
4 September 2023, England ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
A quick trip to the local supermarket to pick up a few things saw me sauntering out the back door and down through a park where a few people were still sleeping, I wondered how long it would take before they were awoken by the city waking itself up.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Ahh...your early morning waking & wanderings around city centre's & in particular brings to mind these words from William Wordsworth's sonnet: "Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!"
6/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Oh my darling none could describe it better... xxoo ❤️💕
6/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Oops, in particular, London
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Pengembara Camino 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 3 Sep 2023, 8:47 PG
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Altitud: 10 m
- England Royal Kensington and Chelsea West Kensington 51.491254, -0.21211651°29’29” N 0°12’44” W
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Hari 135
Barons keep to lambeth
3 September 2023, England ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
After all my travels and wanderings, to reach London and my sister and brother in law's home feels like a sanctuary. I have felt the effects of the miles on my physical self, my feet groaning, griping, whining with complaints, longing to sit a while, bide a wee.

Despite this we are off to the Oasis church at Lambeth today I am certainly going to give thanks for the blessing of physical ability and travel mercies. Away in the tube, or two and a bus, we enjoyed the busi-ness of London Bridge where I was right up close to the houses of parliament and big ben and Westminster as I have never been before. Just the scale of the buildings is awesome.

We met some lovely people at Megs and Colin's church which believes in inclusion and service within the community doing so much work wherever they see a need. I kept falling asleep during the service but was very aware of my head lolling to the side to embrace the stranger next to me. She didn't seem worried at all, I just hope i didn't snore!Baca lagi
Pengembara Hahahaha! Bless your witty honesty Linda ❤️❤️❤️
6/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara It was funny Jean, even as I lolled about I knew I was lolling my hand even fell from my lap at one point... But I'm sure I wasn't mouth open dribbling, I'd have felt that!! Hehe!! 😂🥱🤤
6/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara You were certainly resting!!
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Pengembara Camino 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 2 Sep 2023, 10:15 PG
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitud: 13 m
- England Hammersmith and Fulham Shepherds Bush Shepherd's Bush Railway Station 51.5042, -0.219951°30’15” N 0°13’12” W
Hari 134
Off to Alex's place for brunch
2 September 2023, England ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Margaret and Colin's friend Alex is from Romania and invited us to brunch at her house before everyone goes away on holiday. I was invited to come along and so glad to see Alex again. I had first met her six years ago at Jonathan and Rosalia's wedding.

We had a lovely time discussing our various lives since then and again i'm reminded how difficult life can be as an immigrant, even more so when the language is totally different, and how resilient we humans can be.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Camino 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 1 Sep 2023, 11:39 PG
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitud: 13 m
- England Royal Kensington and Chelsea West Kensington 51.491213, -0.21204351°29’28” N 0°12’43” W
Hari 133
Sherwood forest to London
1 September 2023, England ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Up early again so that I could get to Sherwood forest before catching the 12.30 bus to London, I reluctantly left my lovely little room and ensuite for the streets of Nottingham just waking up to the day. I was amazed again at the size of the buildings here, they seemed to loom over the streets in their magnificence.

I was well in time to catch the bus, not wanting to miss it, as, if I did I wouldn't be seeing the forest at all. It took about an hour to get out to the forest from Nottingham and I enjoyed watching the streets and farm lands pass by as we made out way North.

I took the wrong pathway to the "giant oak tree" where it is said Robin and his merry men sheltered once upon a time.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Camino 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 1 Sep 2023, 8:24 PG
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitud: 15 m
- England Royal Kensington and Chelsea West Kensington 51.491327, -0.21172851°29’29” N 0°12’42” W
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Hari 133
Sherwood forest
1 September 2023, England ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
This has had to be the quick trip of the week!! Travel by bus leaving at 8 a.m. from a busy station half an hour's walk away, so up by 5.40 a.m. to shower and pack leaving my gorgeous motel room by 7 a.m.

How I love these early morning starts, the city is quiet, beginning to wake up as my suitcase clatters along the empty streets. I'm sure I'll get there in time so sit quietly in a "Gregg's" cafe to drink my morning coffee and two vegan sausage rolls!! What a treat!!Baca lagi
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Pengembara Did you feel like Maid Marion?! 🤣🤣🤣
6/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Not a bit of it...I decided some memories better left at that, the forest is a diminished version of what it once was, still cool to go there and especially for children xxoo ❤️💕💖
6/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Fancy being there where Robin Hood once was, you can imagine in your mind what it was like!🥰
8/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara It was just like that Mary, my childhood imaginings allowed to pop up while worrying about getting back to the bus on time took up a lot of headspace!! Next time ... I'll be prepared ... bus services have been cut in half over here recently making travel a little more urgent...xxx💜💖
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Pengembara Camino 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 31 Ogo 2023, 8:21 PG
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Altitud: 10 m
- England Royal Kensington and Chelsea West Kensington 51.491362, -0.21234451°29’29” N 0°12’44” W
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Hari 132
Edinburgh to Nottingham
31 Ogos 2023, England ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Pengembara Very cool & interesting
6/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara What a lovely hostel - bright cheerful colours & it looks very clean.
6/09/23BalasTerjemah
Pengembara So lovely ..one of the few single rooms I allowed... So glad I did Xx 💕💖
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