It’s time to fly!,,, I never thought I would like flying but when we get our two seats in the back corner I am in heaven. I am very lucky otherwise it can be a miserable way to end an adventure. Now it gives me time to debrief with my live-in psychologist;  to enjoy the ten meal breaks we have and to write poems for you, to give a sort of summary of the [...]

For some reason we are increasing our mileage as each day feels lighter than the last while I feel no stronger in the cerebral region and lighter on the physical. I’m thinking here that maybe, just maybe, I was wanting to do more and thought I’d set a too low a target. So the brain said you need to do a bit more and I know you can so gave me the strength to [...]

I’d seen her face but could not make a connection. Once she passed me, another time I passed her, then one day she was there in front of me asking if I had Parkinson’s. “Yes” I said and I remembered her stare from earlier - serious, focussed, and beyond. She stared at me because I was wearing my ‘Walking with Parkinson’s’ blurb on my back. Sometimes I wish it would get off my back [...]

The walking has been a great experience. I would have thought after 13 years of walking we would be going on a lot of similar landforms but no, nature has a way of exciting us with new eye-bewildering landscape. On the Iberian Peninsular there’s a lot of rain so it highlights the varying green grasses carpeting the glorious open fields of more shapes and designs than ever before. You might see all sizes of [...]

Walked pilgrim track from Santillana del Mar towards Orena. Just to revise, we are going back and forth along parts of the pilgrim track which are the most thrilling to travel on, and because we had trouble early we were late with everything and a little disorganisation goes a long way. The reason we are not walking the full track is because we recently changed to account for my first day which scared me. [...]

From here on, the steep jagged peaks of the Picos de Europa have separated themselves from the great mountains of the Cantabrians that lie in a few regions of Northern Spain. The region where we mostly bore witness to them, was the Asturias. These ranges are particularly prone to weather changes because of their proximity to the sea and although we witnessed these daily, they were not as extreme as they would have been [...]

Well, it took an Englishman, his beautiful Collie and Healer, and some luck to get me back on track with the posting. The 5 of us stood on the cliff-face of Ribadesella talking about anything other than technical issues. He had been living with his wife and dogs, with Los Picos de Europa on one side, and the cliffs of Ribadesella on the other. In his words, it was the best of all worlds. [...]

By the way, our trip has been productive in other ways. This has allowed me time to do the ten core exercises and osteoporosis exercises, followed by speech therapy. Then there is the reason I am mostly here for, and that is to help bring awareness of Parkinson’s by walking 10-15 kilometres a day. The path has changed as we revert to previous methods of walking (in this article’s case we won’t be walking [...]

So we were off on a wet day and the forecast was for a week of rain but no concern, we were on our way.The forest birds were there because no trees were getting chopped so they were our friends. It was a busy route because it is a challenge and this was obvious on the numbers. We soon left the bitumen, but the track was one where we needed to focus our attention: [...]