My (Tim) last day today, the department made a cake (of me outside a tent), maybe a photo later. One thing I did this morning was to formally measure my height 177cm (I seem to have lost 1cm somewhere, probably my lumbar discs) and weight 80.3kg  BMI 25.6 (Oh Dear! that makes me just overweight). …

height=”17″ style=”height: 12.75pt”> Plus water variable     And I expect to sleep in this for how long?!

I am nearly 55 and am taking early retirement from my job as an NHS consultant in intensive care and anaesthetics, I need a complete break from everything that has gone before in order to stop doing what I have been doing for the last 25 years. I have been a keen walker, climber, canoeist …

We went to visit the cathedral in Lausanne today (organist playing Bach's Toccata & Fugue on a magnificent gigantic organ) and met my first pilgrim! She was a nice Swiss lady complete with a shaggy dog carrying a pannier. She was expecting a relaxed walk so maybe we will meet her again in Spain. When …