Day 11 - Saturday, 5 October 2024 - Conques to Livinhac-le-Haut. ~25.2 klms, total ~ 239.4 klms. Well actually, no highways at all, but...

Day 10 - Friday, 4 October 2024 - Espeyrac  to Conques. A mere 12.3 klms, total ~214.2 klms. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a...

Day 9 - Thursday, 3 October 2024 - Estaing to Espeyrac. 25.6 klms; total ~201.9 klms We've averaged a little over 22klms/day so far for...

Day 8 - Wednesday, 2 October 2024 - Saint-Côme d'Olt to Estaing. ~21 klms,~ 176.3 klms total. I'm writing this from the commune of...

Day 7 - Tuesday, 1 October 2024 - Saint-Chely-d'Aubrac to Saint Côme-d’Olt. ~16.7 klms, total ~155.3 klms. To dare is to lose one's...

Day 6 - Monday, 30 September 2024 - Nasbinals to Saint-Chely-d' Aubrac (Bonnefon) - somewhere around 20 klms Total to date ~138.6 klms....

Day 5 - Sunday, 29 September 2024 - Aumont-Aubrac to Nasbinals (~25.5 klms) It's amazing but not surprising that a change of weather...

Day 4 - Saturday, 28 September 2024 - Lajo to Aumont -Aubrac (+/- 26 klms). ** (noun) - that devastating feeling of disappointment that...

Day 3 - Friday, 27 September 2024 - Saugues to Lajo. 26.3 klms (ish). The area of Saugues, where we stayed last night, appears to have a...

Day 2 - Thursday, 26 September 2024 - Montbonnet to Saugues. Officially 26.1 klms (likely a tad more). No, that heading is not a nod to...

Day 1 - Wednesday, 25 September 2024 - Le Puy-en-Velay to Montbonnet, 16.7 klms Those who know me well know that I have periodically...

Le Puy, France, 22 September 2024 No, not John Denver ... The realist in me understands the need for toll roads, but the idealist objects...

Saint Malo, France, 17 September 2024, and beyond “ Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships,...

England, UK, Sunday 15 September 2024 Those who know me a little better than others know that yesterday was my 72nd birthday. By the...

Sunday 2nd June 2024 Today it's exactly 100 days until we board QF72 to Singapore and then on to Europe for the start of our next big...

This will most likely be my last Via de la Plata blog post. New adventures call, and later this year I’ll walk the 750 klm Via...

It's now a little over 90 days since we walked into Santiago de Compostela at the end of around 1,000 klms on the road. Readers of this...

It's 20 days since we returned to Oz. After our chauffeur driven ride home from Perth airport (thank you Chris), we returned to Perth the...

Santiago de Compostela, Thursday 9th November. I had zero intention of blogging today. I said my virtual farewells yesterday, but then...

Wed 8th Nov., Santiago de Compostela Today was the ultimate (penultimate??) rest day. We had nothing planned, other than to simply hang...