Wednesday 15 January 2020

Menlo Musings' Blogs

Over the years I have written on various subjects and have created this home page to host my blogs. Actually most of my blogs have been about walking the Camino with my wife Pauline.


Camino de Santiago de Compostela

We started in 2010 with the 800km Camino Frances. Most of my diary is hidden away on my computer but some is still on handwritten notes.

A year later we walked the Camino Portugues and I have finally uploaded my account of that to Camino Portugues 2011.

After a rest in 2012 we set out to walk the Camino Primitivo from Villaviciosa in 2013. We got as far as Oviedo where I had a fall. that prompted a bus ride to Lugo where, after a visit to hospital, we were able to walk the remaining 110km to Santiago.

In 2014 we decide to try the Via de la Plata and over the course of 54 days we walked from Almaden de la Plata (north of Seville) to Santiago covering a total of 960km. The diary for that was complete but I didn't get to put it online until April 2020. Sorting out out the photographs turned out to be a major exercise, especially as some were and remain missing. It can now be read at VDLP.

In 2015 we stayed at home as I needed a second heart bypass but we were back on the road in 2016, this time with a number of friends on the Camino Ingles from Ferrol. Travelling in a group I learned makes the keeping of a diary impossible.

In 2017 we attempted the rarely used Camino Torres. The plan was to walk from Salamanca to Santiago via Portugal. We stopped on doctor's orders after 131km but I kept a diary of what we did do and it can be found at Camino Torres.

After another break in 2018 we walked a variant of the Camino Portugues in 2019. My account of that can be found at Senda Littoral.


Celtic - European Cup Winners 1967

2017 was the 50th anniversary of Celtic becoming the first British club to win the European Cup. I was there and decided to write a blog about my experience. Lisboa '67.


The Irish Water fiasco

I considered the Irish Government's decision to install water meters in every home and business in the country to be one of the most stupid and most costly mistakes ever made made by Irish politicians. I explain why in my series of blogs on Irish Water.


Menlo Musings' Blogs

Over the years I have written on various subjects and have created this home page to host my blogs. Actually most of my blogs have been abou...