I’m writing this on the high speed train to Madrid. We are on our way to Barcelona as Susan’s never been there. And hopefully it will be sunnier and warmer there than in Galicia!
Susan has been soldiering on with a bad ankle. She took two taxi days in the hope that it would recover enough to continue, but over the past two days walking the pain became too great. From A Gudiña there were still another 200 km over 8 days to reach Santiago, which is too many days to be taking taxis just to spend waiting in some tiny village while I walked each stage.
A camino is more about the journey than the destination, and while it is disappointing not to reach the end point, it is not going anywhere and we can complete it in the future, should we choose to do so. Maybe even add the path that goes from Santiago to Finisterre (the end of the earth!)
In 2009, we embarked on a one-year family sailing adventure aboard a Grand Soleil 39, "SV Mulan". Our original sailing blog is linked on this site.
In 2017, Susan, Andrew, Sam & Max walked the Camino Frances from St-Jean-Pied-de-Porte to Santiago de Compostella (and rode bikes from Burgos to Leon as a blister recovery strategy), and in 2018 Jack also joined the crew as we waled the northern section of the Camino Portuguese from Porto to S de C.
In 2019 Andrew, accompanied by Max for the first few hundred kms, and Susan for the Tiscan section, walked the via francigena from Canterbury to Rome. That journey is blogged in this site.
This blog is planned as an alternative to the endless instagram posts used previously to communicate with those interested in our travels - although there is a linked instagram account as well!
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2saunter 
tinnier and tinnier each day. A woman’s dream.
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Sorry to hear your ankle is so bad Susan. Enjoy your new journey.
Have fun
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