Only 18 more days to go!

Today, as we prepare for our departure to Spain, the Surrey Advertiser has carried an article about our walk, which we hope will keep interest in the walk alive locally!   We are now busy with our final preparations, making sure that all our equipment is ready, passports are handy etc, ready for our departure on Thursday.  A number of people who are supporting us have expressed interest in our equipment so we have decided to include this in a new page which you can access from this home page.  Just click on the heading "Equipment List".


Among those who have been giving us their support and encouragement is an old friend, Miles Macnair.  His mother Ruth, an accomplished author and painter, has a strong connection with Gibraltar.  In her book Witness to War, Ruth witnessed the opening shots of the Spanish Civil War. Her husband, Ian Macnair, was in command of a destroyer, HMS Shamrock, and he was ordered by the Admiralty to undertake a number of hazardous missions to rescue refugees from Malaga and Seville. She describes these experiences in 15 letters to her mother in England, alternating the alarms of war with charming domestic details, combined with the fears of a wife for a husband suddenly caught up in an alien conflict.  A talented artist, Ruth's letters are illustrated with her paintings and photographs of the time.


Recently Miles sent me a note on a charming postcard illustrating one of his mother's paintings.  It is of a small bridge in the village of Campamento, not far from Gibraltar.  Our walk will take us through Campamento and we hope it may take us right over that bridge!