This is just a short, extra newsletter for this week to report further on a story I posted a couple of weeks ago. My longer read will arrive with you all on Sunday as usual. In the words of the author, Alice Walker, “You can’t keep a good woman down” and she is, let’s face it, someone who should know. On April 3rd, I wrote about our recent trip to Spain and my 87-year-old, mother-in-law’s health scare. She was very much in recovery while we were there, although not so much so, that it stopped her from joining us for walks along the seafront and eating out with us a couple of times. That’s the three of us in the picture below.
She’s been repairing and getting stronger day by day since then and is now, I’m delighted to say, back to her old self. In fact, I should say, “Back with a Bang!” She is already making plans for a new adventure! Starting on 11th May, she and a friend, who suffered a brain haemorrhage, are planning to walk 100km of the Camino de Santiago from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela. They will stay in the Albergues (pilgrim hostels) that are dotted along the route. She is well used to travelling on a tight budget: when she was 81, she back-packed around Asia for seven weeks, on 10 euros a day, so should rise to this new challenge with her usual aplomb. I sincerely hope, that when I am 87, if I ever make it that far, I will be able to emulate her energy, drive and enthusiasm. What a woman!
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Wow what energy she has; I really hope that I will be like that at 87. My mother died at 59 with motor neurone sadly and she was always so active until the year before x
Great read as always and so happy your mother-in law has recovered. What a wonderful adventure she has to come. A lesson for us all. It’s never too late and you are never too old!