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: [...]
We return to Spain a little wiser, a little creakier, a grown up Parkinson person (PLWP) — still alive, still walking, but Parkinson is bringing more friends to walk with us. Some tip toe around me so I chant ‘heal first’ and like a Collie dog it obeys. Some stop me all together so I change direction and sing: “ these boots are made for walking……and they agree. I’m starting to lean to the [...]
