20th Anniversary and a Cameo
It was supposed to be the anniversary camino, twenty years since I first set out on the road to Santiago, when I planned to walk that path again. I'd had a milestone birthday a few months before I did the first camino, and I'd celebrated another milestone shortly before I was due to undertake this one. I was planning to mirror the route I first walked as a novice pilgrim back in 2004. The bags were packed, the flights were booked, and then things took a turn that meant I had to cancel. Camino 6, the third Frances, was not…