This cool dude is my good friend Mark and I’ve mentioned him before, a few posts ago when talking about the Camino. I’m not 100% sure which day Mark actually starts the Camino but what I do know is that the adventure started on Sunday Sept 7th when he left Minneapolis en route to Paris. as he says in his blog – http://blog.smallbusinesssuccess.com/ ‘The only two details for the trip are my flight from Minneapolis to Paris and from Madrid to Minneapolis on October 13th. Everything else gets figured out along the way.’ And perhaps that’s no bad thing. One [...]
The Camino
Last year in November, I met Mark at a dinner. He was the president of the National Speakers Association in the states and my husband was about to take over as president of the Professional Speakers Association in the UK. We chatted over dinner, lots of which was about walking as Mark had decided to walk the Camino in September 2008. On September 7th he leaves the USA to start this exciting journey and on Oct 2nd I start on the French part of it with my fellow East End Girl, Teresa. Today, Mark sent me some You tube links [...]
Pick your travel mates carefully
Currently some of my walking group are planning a trip to France in October to walk the first part of the St James Way, also known as the Camino de Compostella. We all get on really well and have been away now in various combinations on a few occasions with no problems. But are we just lucky or will this always be the way? It’s not always been like that though, and in the past I have holidayed with good friends only to find that being in their company 24 hours a day lets you see a different side to [...]