Peter and Cathie's 2022 Camino

 It's Friday afternoon in Singapore. Tomorrow we fly to Auckland. The taxi is booked for 5am. River sculpture. After a flight of more than 12 hours from Amsterdam, we arrived at dawn on Wednesday, making it to our hotel by 8am. For the next 25 hours we had three sleep sessions, totalling 18 hours. We must have had plenty of catching up to do. Our hotel room is very budget, but it's quiet, has comfortable beds and good air conditioning. We managed a short walk and an overpriced lunch along the river, but it was definitely a rest day. Chance meeting. On Thursday we set off with a plan to find the information centre and make a plan. According to Google maps, it was a 30-minute walk. We were dressed for the heat and I had on a well-ventilated cap from some sports event in 2016. We hadn't gone far when a chirpy voice behind us said: "I've got one of those caps." Unlikely but true. Tanya Lee-Parker from Rotorua was the first New Zealander we'd spoken to in 10 we...

  It's Saturday afternoon in Delft. We arrived here on Thursday afternoon after a long day of travelling from Santiago. Looking down the corridor to our room. We have five nights in the lovely Hotel Arsenaal. It's recently opened as a hotel after a life as an Arsenal, 400 years ago, and then a warehouse, brewery and no doubt many incarnations. You can read about it here:  https://hotelarsenaal.com/about-hotel-arsenaal/ We've spent a lot of time resting, but also a lot of time wearily plodding around the town. There's a lot to see just by wandering, even if it's just observing the daily matters of life that are so different from what we're used to. Canals everywhere. Bridges everywhere Bicycles everywhere. People riding them in what seems to be very erect and old-fashioned positions (with no helmets anywhere). Precarious parking (how did this driver get out on the left of his car?). Yesterday we saw a beautiful pottery exhibition with pots from all over the world...