Most of us are fully aware when we are confronted with a life crisis. Whether it is a quarter- or mid- or late-life crisis, we know when it hits us. If you are getting divorced, moving house, having a baby, retiring, being made redundant, suffering from an illness, undergoing an operation, have an empty nest …
Summer Travel Hell
Sunflowers season is drawing to an end here in the south of France.... Looking back, it seems that summer 2022 has been a season characterised by a variety of travel disasters. Flights, trains, and buses were cancelled at the last moment, bags lost or indefinitely delayed, connections missed, and exhausted passengers were stuck at airports …
Why walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela?
Walking the Camino de Santiago is on many people's bucket lists, but a good number of these people are intimidated by the physical and mental demands of walking the full distance. With this in mind, I created the ReConnect with Yourself, with Nature and with Others retreats to offer you the opportunity to first walk …
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Slow Tourism in the south of France
Five years ago, early one morning, I received an e-mail from a potential retreat guest. She was interested in coming to my new Christmas/New Year's retreat here in the south of France. “Do you support Slow Tourism?” she wanted to know. Slow tourism? What that supposed to be? According to Wikipedia Slow Travel and Tourism …
Walking and writing in the south of France
I am writing a book. It is hard going. I keep getting the all-this-has-been-said-before-I-don't-know-why-I-bother blues. When it gets really bad, I take an afternoon off to go and walk the Camino de Santiago pilgrim's route. It passes a few kilometers from our house. I started doing this after I saw an interview with Paulo Coelho, …
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