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When you think you’re lost – – somebody had it covered. A dear friend asked me to do a presentation about the Camino’s I’ve done or attempted and I’ve been gong through photos to prepare the slides.

I love being in beautiful places like this and walking so that no one can interrupt that special time the slow pace gives you. The trouble with doing a presentation on an experience like this is picking the images and trying to include a bit of history, spirituality, practical stuff, humour, animals, flowers – – get me? The poor people could be there all night if I didn’t rein myself in!

Yes, I want to see those wonderful yellow arrows that tell me, “OK, it is an adventure, but other people have done this and you’ll be OK. So, while preparing this Power Point I made up my mind to do another Camino. Oh, and try volunteering as hospitalera in another alberge this time.

But the very next trip will be to Vancouver Island to visit this venerable lady. We named this huge Pacific Maple, Betty after my mother. Maybe I’ll persuade my daughter who lives here to come with me on the next Camino. She is a very wise person and once when I was hankering after some trip she said quietly, “love where you are, Mum”

I do love Montreal and the big park near my home. But….this summer is sweltering – up over 32 degrees and humid with it. This picture is from about two years and if I tell you that today, an elderly man had submerged himself in this pond up to his neck, you get the level of desperation. We moan about snow and ice in winter and about heat and humidity in summer. Are you surprised that I have Camino nostalgia?