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You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the Camino de Santiago edition.

Well, I've had taken my break.

I've seen my family and I've been back to England for a football match, which we lost. It's time to get on with hiking. I love that break, though I'm not entirely sure it's done me any favours as far as the height's concerned. It probably helped with my feet, so that's a blessing, but I've landed back on trail away from anybody I knew. I know that's obvious, but I've been coming to terms with

that over the last couple of days and meeting new people and already I'll feel more back

into it. But it wasn't easy to make that, I don't know, that transition back to hiking from

basically six days of having to ball doing something else. We've got three days to talk about

right now, as well as a conversation

I've had with Dave Santee on the Appalachian Trail. Dave has reached and now passed Harper's

ferry, the traditional and emotional halfway point of the AT. He's already walked over a thousand miles,

which is quite an achievement in itself. He's regained his his mojo and he's hitting his stride again.

We'll hear from Dave after my first two days back on the Camino.

So let's start there and hear about the day number 22.

Day number 22, Leon, mile 287.6, to Virgin del Camino, just mile 292, at 4.4 mile day.

That sounds far worse than it actually is.

My alarm went off back in England, remember, at 3.15 a.m.

And I jumped out of bed to make the 4 a.m. shuttle back to the

airport. Naturally enough, I don't know why, I was just faffing around again. In the end, it led me to

rush around like a maniac to make the 4 o'clock shuttle, which I did make. The flight took off on time, and I arrived in Madrid on schedule at 9.15 a.m.

I needed to find the metro to get to the Madrid-Sharmatan train station and that's where it starts to go

wrong. I was pointed in all sorts of directions to find this metro and it took me about

half an hour to

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