This March, we are undertaking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage walk along the Portuguese Coastal and Litoral paths. Starting in Porto we will be walking around 260 km (160 mi) to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, taking 13 days. We’ll be carrying everything with us and staying mainly in albergues along the way.

Whilst we are not walking the Camino specifically as a fundraiser, we thought that those that follow Jo’s daily posts, and anyone else, of course, might like to consider a donation to a great charity that we love to support in our own little way.

We have supported The Malcolm Whales Foundation Dorset Walk for some time. We were involved in the 2023 and 2024 Walks and this year will be our third.

Basically the Walk is a 40 mile journey along part of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast from Weymouth to Studland Bay. The event takes place over a weekend and involves several hundred students from Secondary Schools local to us walking, learning something about themselves and their schoolmates and, of course, raising money.

Naturally this event doesn’t organise itself and many people spend a lot of time and effort, in the background, putting the show together.

During the weekend we, as part of the support team, run a tight logistical ship, initially setting up the camp, then involved in preparing and serving the meals, making packed lunches, delivering them to the lunch stop destinations, ferrying vast amounts of drinking water to refill empty water bottles, ferrying people to and from assorted collection and drop-off points, collecting strays and the fallen, bringing them back to camp and then finally breaking the camp down at the end. We might have a few laughs along the way too.

Ironically, one thing we don’t do, though, is get to walk. There just isn't the time!

Much more information about the Dorset Walk can be found here, https://tmwf.co.uk/events/dorset-walk-overview