Tuesday morning, D-Day in 4?

It's was a very wet Monday Morning walk. All the way to The Spinney and then back to Deighton Road. Not quite an hour, but I asked her if she wanted to go a bit further and she was pretty positive she was happy to return along the other section of the Old Railway lines. Then, after her lunch/dinner, she took me around the back of where my mum lives. The block: from Gashouse Lane to Parson's Green, Walton Road, First Avenue and Burrel Close before the return passed my old primary school on Hallfield Lane. She loves that way as somebody has always dropped something for her to get her nose in and retrieve... Honestly, I let her decide where we are going, but within reason, as I am not going under a car to chase a cat!

On the final leg back, York Road, mum said I'd have to come back to Leeds as she was having Lola, and there is nowhere to sleep at the moment if Lola is in the room with me (the single bed isn't designed for one 52 year old git and an 8 year old ginger ninja).

For this next Camino/Caminho I am really considering a change of pace, purpose and look for another meaning. An antidote to the commercialisation of The Way. I've never actually tried begging on el Camino for food and lodging (I have on the Chemin Saint Jacques as I always find speaking to the parish office or the Mairie offers a solution). And I've always carried stuff I never used, even though I've really got frugal with what I pack in the mochilla. I've this Korean War great coat which has a woollen liner, and plenty of pockets. I normally carry a 40 litre day pack with between 7 and 10kgs(depending if I carry 2kgs of chestnuts(Samos) and two cobs of corn(León) additionally to the jar of beans, chorizo, garlic(Villafranca del Bierzo) as well as all the soiled bedding and under things?!

Walking the Camino Frances I guess staying with Monks, Nuns and Priests isn't the usual thing? But that's mostly what I've done on Le Chemin if there wasn't an obvious Halte Jacquaire.

Randomly discovered a brilliant website @ godesalco.com which allows you to pick different stuff, create PDFs, GPXs, etc. and I think it has an 'eng' option which I've never noticed Gronze does? There are a million and one websites, but maybe I need to not use the 21st century method of pilgrimage at all... The path is there? It has been centuries and will be until judgement day, I suppose?

And I am in a good mood. I ate well after randomly meeting Glenn, who I've not seen since the Summer time. Finally I know which camera it is Mark was on about for his street shots. It is a Sony DSLR. At 1 kg it's not too heavy to sling in the backpack the next Camino? But that definitely won't be until February at the earliest as after Christmas I'll be looking for food banks and charitable giving to get through those final two weeks of 2023?