Walking Back to Me: The Ramblings of a Wandering Widow

And just like that Ive a new moniker - widow. Instantly Im exiled to a strange foreign country. What I had believed to be a lifetime visa to happiness has been revoked and it seems as if I will never get my passport back to normality. When Claire Russell lost her husband 10 days before Christmas her life was torn apart. Morning rituals shared jokes annual traditions - the cornerstones of a life well-lived - vanished in a cruel heartbreaking second. What to do with this newly minted but unwanted existence? How was she to regain a sense of normality in a world so irrevocably changed? Never one to do things by halves Claire decided to embark on an epic solo adventure - walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In 300 kilometres and 12 days she hoped to find a way back - to herself.