Waiting - part three
On top of the world: Cathie on the Mackinnon Pass, at 1154m it's the highest point on the Milford Track. Here in New Zealand, it's Wednesday April 6. In just over three weeks we'll leave the country, heading for Canada and three weeks after that we'll walk out of St Jean Pied de Port on our Camino. We've just walked the Milford Track in Fiordland, in the very south of the country. We're definitely stronger for having done it, but there were times on that four-day walk when we feared that some lapse in attention might lead to an injury, which would have been catastrophic for our Camino plans. Like many well-known and popular walks, there's always the feeling that if so many people are doing it, then it can't be hard. Just a few minutes ago I phoned an old friend who was surprised that we found it so testing. He had been on the luxury walk with bags carried and I think the lack of a few kilograms on the back made all the difference. We walked with a gr...