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After a long journey yesterday we're home.

In the taxi from Nottingham to home we passed all of the sights that are so familiar to me - the QMC, the University and others and nothing seemed to have changed. After the Camino you always think that things will be somehow different because of the things that you saw and experienced on the Camino: the people who you met from around the world, the distance that you travelled, the way that life slowed down to the pace of one foot in front of the other to the simple concerns of simply finding a bed and some food and being content when the showers were warm and you could dry your clothes.

After the Camino you always take some time to get back to life, to the speed of things and to not having everyone greet you with a smile when you go past and that's fine.

And, if you're like me, you start to wonder about where you'll walk next, which Camino you'll walk and when because I've found, as many others who I met on this Camino have, that once you walk you have to keep going back.

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