When I moved to Spain after a long walk across a hot country, no one, least of all myself, named what I was doing as putting on my own oxygen mask first.
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The perfect breath is 5.5 breaths per minute, 5.5 litres of air, 5.5-second inhales and 5.5-second exhales.
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Part of the joy of a long walk is unburdening ourselves of the weights we carry.
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A Camino pilgrim walked 1000 miles and painted a complete work every 5 miles for 6 months.
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A video of the paths I walked from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela on the Camino Frances.
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The sun sets over the Atlantic after a journey of 500 miles on the Camino de Santiago.
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Anyone who met me on Camino could see that I had needed a rest, not just a siesta but a very long rest.
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Our culture righteously touts an iconic vision of motherhood that no one can define because, of course, it doesn’t exist.
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Every street on this functional if unimaginative grid is named after a woman.
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The young bull and his equally young human counterparts played a game of tease and chase around the bull ring the village created in the central plaza.
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Every morning for a week the streets of central Pamplona are a reminder of the San Fermin festival revelry the night before.
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I order a small beer and we find an empty table, the only one left in the room, right by the door. I sit with my back to looking eyes. Santy says the bar is run by Bolivians.
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People in Pamplona call the Corte Ingles department store building El rallador, or the cheese grater.
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