Pleased to meet you (or be read by you as the case may be).  I am an Australian who has migrated to deepest Suffolk.  I have a lovely home, a great job, and the world’s best partner (and just for the record … no, he hasn’t hacked this page!) I cycle a bit, walk a bit, enjoy cooking and gardening and dabble in both art and writing … all depending on how the mood takes me.

And yet, I am about to leave it all behind for five weeks navigating my way through the Pyrenees.  The last few months have been spent packing (and re-packing) my backpack, breaking in my boots and doing my best to get my head around the fact I am about to walk 800kms (or at least give it a red hot go).

Am I nervous?  A little.  Excited?  A lot.  Concerned that my feet and I are about to become arch enemies?  Abso-bloody-lutely!