Trust

Only a week into our appeal and already we have surpassed our original target. We are really grateful for all the support, and spurred on to repay your trust. We so appreciate the many messages of encouragement received which will buoy us up when the miles begin to tell. The recent Irish heatwave has provided good training ground for early-September weather in northern Spain, and made it easy to get out and walk - but we will miss our daily swims which help us keep cool: we won't be near the coast, but hope to take a trip to Muxia from Santiago, and perhaps walk the last part of the Camino Fisterre (or Finistere).

We are beginning to assemble clothes and meds and test out our boots, shoes and backpacks. We will stay ultra light as usual, to make the uphill sections easier. Only two weeks to go and the excitement is mounting!