There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller
only who is foreign – Robert Louis Stevenson
We leave Australia in just over 3 weeks, arriving
in Jean Pied de Port, in the south-west of France in exactly 30 days,
and commence walking the next day.
Our average daily stroll will be 24 kilometres, over 33 days, with an
additional 5 rest days.
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Technology permitting, I’ll leave the map up at the top of
the blog so that the interested reader can reference where we are against my
various intended posts.
The astute reader will notice that the layout of the blog
has changed somewhat. When trying to do
some modest modifications I fell foul of the Google gods, and everything changed,
so I had to undertake a complete reformat.
The new background is a photo of the 1000 year old Nietang Buddha, in
Qushui County, about 20 km southwest of Lhasa in Tibet, the largest engraved stone
statue in Tibet. The Buddha statue is
one of Shakyamuni sitting under a Bodhi tree to capture evil. The statue is 8
meters in width and 9.8 meters in height. I imagine the enormous challenges the monks faced as they carved this Buddha into the side of a cliff all those years ago. And I recall with great fondness the challenges and the achievements of my travels in the Himalayas, and I will carry these memories with me as I walk across Spain.
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