It's only just over a week now until I cross the channel. I've managed to book most of my train tickets for the first part of my trip, although the UK agency couldn't book me on a train from Madrid to Santander in May - they said it didn't exist, even though it was on the Spanish Rail web-site. Think I'll wait till I get to Madrid on the outward journey and try out my Spanish. The (very) young man I was speakng to sounded quite taken aback when I told him my date of birth was 1952 - you'd have thought I'd said 1852! It reminds me of someone I worked with when I was 35 who once said to me "I hope I'm like you when I'm your age!" Wonder what she'd think of me 20 years on??
The challenge at the moment is to get everything I need into two very small cases. It's not the clothes that are the problem, it's the books and things like chargers for the phone and the camera!
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Random Ramblings of a Village Vicar
Random Ramblings of a Village Vicar
My name is Frances Wookey and I am Vicar of nine churches in rural South Worcestershire. I have lots of wonderful friends and colleagues in the parishes which I care for, and really enjoy the variety of every day in parish ministry. I am also very privileged to be an Honorary Canon of the beautiful Cathedral in Worcester.
I started this blog in 2008 when I spent 3 months travelling abroad on study leave. The name derived not only from the fact that I was visiting pilgrimage sites all over Europe, but also that we are all pilgrims on a journey, even if we never step outside our own front door. So, though I am now back home, I still consider myself to be a 21st century pilgrim. Just as when I was travelling, this is a record of my thoughts about things that I encounter on my journey - some serious, some not.