Let me take you on a very intimate journey from my first seizure to walking the Norte and Primitivo Caminos. With music recorded whilst I was walking, this will give you an insight into my experience of The Way. On a post-referendum quest to discover more of Europe, I decided to take a five-hundred mile walk across Spain. In the summer of 2017, I set out to walk the Camino de Santiago. I expected sore feet, time to think and intimate talks with strangers (mainly about blisters). I didn’t expect my epilepsy to be such a focus of conversation and source of admiration. 

As you listen to my story, I hope that fellow pilgrims recognise themselves. It might push aspiring pilgrims to buy a guidebook. And if you want to know more about me and my epilepsy, this is your chance. 

And you get to hear me sing... 

Related articles: 

https://seizeyouradventure.com/2018/02/14/the-camino-diaries/ 

https://seizeyouradventure.com/2018/07/08/hiking-snowdon-now-and-then/  

Music: 

Fiesta recorded on the Camino 

Acoustic Venezuelan Cuatro by iluppai | License: Creative Commons 0 via Freesound.org 

Didgeridoo recorded on the Camino 

Buskers in Bilbao recorded on the Camino 

Tom Paget recorded and sung by me on a path in Surrey 

Fiesta in Santiago recorded on the Camino   

Buen Camino!

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