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GLENN & GWENDOLINE Take on the CAMINO De SANTIAGO
Oct 29, 2024
Glenn & Gwendoline tell us about their 1200km walk for Cancer Care Javea
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now I did mention earlier that I've got
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special guests here now I didn't want to
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give you give too much away because this
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is great you're going to love this first
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of all let's say hi to Neeve have walked
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your way well it's been too long what's
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going on I know I've just been walking
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so much dogey that I haven't had time to
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pop in and visit you and you just got
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back just got back I actually did I did
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a three-day hike this week so yeah
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finished that yesterday legs are a bit
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stiff and really happy to be in here
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today as always but really happy to be
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in here today to tell you a little story
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about these two legends that you have in
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the studio you today it's quite
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unbelievable but go on so um these guys
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are and you know I'm a big fan of the
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Camino Santiago exactly these guys are
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going to tackle the Camino Santiago uh
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but not in any old manner they're going
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to do it from their front door their
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front door is in javia right that means
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Santiago is 1,200 kilm away and so
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therefore they're going to have a very
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long walk ahead of them over the next
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couple of months and I'm just so proud
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and so excited um to bring them in today
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so they can tell you a little story
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about The Who and the why and the when
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um basically I'm here to to promote
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something and that is that on the 20th
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of October which is this Sunday we're
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going to have a little party we're going
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to have a little Bon voage party Buen
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Camino to gwendelyn and Glenn and I'd
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love for gangs of people to come along
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and have some cake we're going to have
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TARTA de Santiago we're you had me at
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cake I know right that's the only reason
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I'm going and we're going to have coffee
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drinks we're going to have live music
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and I just think that this challenge is
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so inspiring um that we should give them
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the biggest and best send off that we
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can so if anybody would like to come on
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Sunday and have some fun with that they
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can get information on the Walky way
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well kind of Facebook and Instagram and
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all that now all funds raised on that
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day so the cake is sponsored and the
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coffee is sponsored and the drinks are
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all sponsored anything we can sell on
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that day all the money goes to Cancer
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Care Javier and these two fantastic
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Walkers hikers pilgrims whatever you
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want to call them um or whatever you
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guys want to call yourselves I'm sure
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you'll explain um they're also
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fundraising for Cancer Care havv you so
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not only are they doing it as a as a
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personal Challenge and a dream come true
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they're also creating an amazing amount
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of awareness around the charity Cancer
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Care Java which is is local to us here
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in this community and um looking for
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people to donate a few quid as well to
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help the nursing team who do such great
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work in the community so that's my pie
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said basically and I'm going to give
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this Pew this seat up to Glenn and let
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them take over and uh give you a chance
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to talk because you know what I'm like
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when I get a mic well yeah I was I was
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about to say if I could get a word in
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but um oh I'm off then thanks for that
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douge you know I'm already joking we
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love you um now Okay so we've got uh
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Glenn and gwendolin did I get that the
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right way around no obviously um now you
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know The Proclaimers once said I would
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walk 500 miles and then I'd walk 500
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more but you know okay there is a
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difference between kilometers miles but
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I think you're going to do better than
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them because if they'd have carried on
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where they were in LEF they would have
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drowned they didn't think it through but
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you obviously have well we thought it
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through we're certainly not going to go
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too far beyond Santiago otherwise we
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will exactly start to cross the Atlantic
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exactly yeah um no it is we tried to
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view it in terms of of kilometers
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because we're now live here in Spain
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we've been here for a long long time we
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lived in Galia as it so happens uh since
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2001 when we went to work there and it
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was going to be a onee working program
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the the project went on and on and on
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and eventually in some some time in the
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Millennia 2000 we were lucky enough to
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retire and we were living up there we
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sold everything in England and we said
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where did we go now and what did we do
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we bought a yacht and did some sailing
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around the rear of Gia and then one day
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my dear lady wife here gendin she's the
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one of the trousers I'm the one with the
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dress by the way okay she said why don't
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we sail around the Mediterranean I said
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what a great idea just go close the
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front door and we'll be off and then
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when we got down here years after
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sailing around we're living here for
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four years in Javier and she says to me
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one day why don't we walk back to Gia
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and I said have you been taking
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something
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dear that was it and that is how it's
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all started yes we sailed away and we're
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walking back basically okay so what
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actually started all this really uh I
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think because we had parents-in-law
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living in Javier and we were living in
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Galia and we were con stly whizzing
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across Spain uh taking a different route
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each time we love the we love Spain we
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love the country it's so varied and
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beautiful and we never had time to look
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at it so we kept saying one day we'll
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walk this you know and just take our
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time so we're not rushing this we're
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expecting it to take us 4 months if it
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takes us six it doesn't matter you know
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so when you say walk this you you did
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actually bring the Camino San well
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that's that is a very easy way to walk
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because if ever there's a choice there a
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little yellow arrow to tell you which
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way to go isn't there or a shell thank
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goodness for that I think I'd get lost
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definitely I mean it's something I've
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been meaning to do forever but I mean
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it's taken you till come on now can we
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say can we say how old you I can say how
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old he is because he's older than me
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he's 78 well I mean 1200
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kilm well 78 are you have You' been in
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training clearly we have been in
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training it's fair to say
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um but uh if we stopped and thought
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about 1200 km too much I think we'
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probably we wouldn't be here talking to
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you today right the reality is it's like
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life as it is you know what happened a
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few minutes ago forget about it what did
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in Winston Churchill say our Churchill
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yes he had a a good good line that went
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uh how'd it go now it's a mistake to
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plan too far ahead we must deal with
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each link in the chain of Destiny one at
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a time and I think that's a very nice
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idea because if we start thinking about
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Toledo or AA right now he will probably
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walk out of the front door trip over and
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break my leg so there okay it's pay
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Radio International and the video is
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going to look a bit different now
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because I've remembered to put the new
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lights
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on if you're listening to this it's
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bright trust me anyway we're talking to
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gendin and Glenn who are walking 1,200
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kilm on the Camino De Santio
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in Aid of Cancer Care so where did we
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get to we didn't leave the front door
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yet cly haven't got to Santiago yet
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that's I think we were saying 1200 kilm
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I and the 500 miles I think it's about
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750 miles but we love kilometers because
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you get them under your belt so much
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faster don't you miles take to walk
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absolutely so um have you have you had
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some good advice from our Eve from walk
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your way well indeed we have yes just
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sort of uh listening listening to our
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bodies uh taking note of every twin but
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there are so many n can I can I pull you
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back in here to to share a microphone
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just for a sec um just you don't have to
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go
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anywhere musical chairs today in the
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studio go on so so basically what is the
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main advice on I would have two pieces
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of advice on something this Mammoth yeah
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and when I say listen to your body and
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be aware of all those twinges aches
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pains they're all messages being sent by
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your body um to let you know how what
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condition you're in now obviously we all
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have the usual aches and pains we all
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get up in the morning and that's stretch
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and you can feel everything so I'm
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talking about aches and pains are
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twinges that you're not usually
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accustomed to so anything extra or
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anything that you feel is is sending you
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an extra message don't ignore it take
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heed because we've spoken about this
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before haven't we that it's not a race
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it is very much the journey so if you
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need a day's rest two days rest whatever
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you need take it because there's no
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point pushing through pain and the
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reason I'm very very um adamant on this
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is because I did the opposite ah I you
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you've done the whole thing I did not
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listen to the messages and I messed
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myself up I ruined my feet the Bliss
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sisters became beyond the Beyonds I
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ended up doing four days in my bare feet
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cuz I literally would not listen and
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would not stop and rest and I don't
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think anybody needs to do that I don't
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know what I was trying to prove to
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myself there's nothing to prove on a
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Camino what do you need to do to to
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avoid your feet getting completely
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blistered up and I guess I mean the guys
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will have their shoes completely and
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utterly broken in and um once again you
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know things like wearing a shoe size
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that's one size bigger than your usual
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shoe size so that your feet can expand
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in the heat making sure you've got socks
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that are very friendly with your skin
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type on your feet um taking as many
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breaks as possible air your feet where
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possible um some people use Vaseline
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some don't there are foot products make
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sure you've lots of
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comped whoever invented comped there're
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those blister plasters is well on their
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way to to a comfortable lifestyle shall
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we say um so yeah make sure you've got
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your comped and like I say listen feel
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it if you get a tiny burning if you get
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a little message from that baby toe stop
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and deal with it and give it the
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attention and love and TLC that it
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deserves so that's really just on a
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physical um front I think on something
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this long over a period of such great
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distance and time another piece of
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advice I would say to the guys is it's
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okay to have time alone it's okay to say
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today I'm going to walk ahead um you
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know I'm going to take a couple of hours
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and and just be alone it's okay to be
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alone at times because the intensity on
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a Camino Santiago in difficult
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conditions can be a lot on any
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relationship whether you're married or
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not or it's just a friendship and so
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therefore I think having that space and
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I think you guys are are so you know
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such a fantastic relationship you know
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this already that together is wonderful
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but it's also okay okay to tackle little
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sections Alone um just because you know
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you really don't want to start getting
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on each other nerves if you're having to
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do four months on the road together well
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they do say you're going to find
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yourself and you'll no doubt find things
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out I mean you've been together how long
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well can I just say that we were 6 years
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on a 40 foot boat nonstop I was going to
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say cuz that's quite couldn't go off
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walking on your own that was a real a
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real test for any relationship a 40 foot
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boat well if it was a center cockpit
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boat as well which is disin from the
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usual ones which at the rear so if we
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had a row in the center of the boat and
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said that's it I've had I'm off you had
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20 feet to go one way or 20 ft the other
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way that's a very good way of stopping
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an argument and saying oh well I going
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say I was wrong
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anyway get on
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usually start that like the idea that
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time alone yes I'll just jump in when I
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walked with my little son Oscar who
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never stops talking even more than me um
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we had the 100 meter Rule and if it just
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got too intense for both of us and we
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just needed some space it would be shout
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100 m and that meant just a little space
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just some peace and quiet and it worked
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wonderfully and we both respected that
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rule really well obviously he was little
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so I couldn't put him too far ahead I
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had to have my eye on him so 100 meters
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worked for us it was a great I like that
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I like that a good idea yeah maybe 100
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kilom I've got a I've got a message here
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it says uh morning douge please tell
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your guests Walking the Camino they will
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have a wonderful experience and will'll
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get as much out of it as the people they
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doing it for um it's tough physically
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and mentally and Far More Than Just a
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Walk time constraints don't allow me the
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time to walk the entire distance but
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I've done the first section and the last
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two leaving three more to do I wish them
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Buen Camino and this is from Jane in
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Oliva thank you Jane in Oliva that's
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very nice bless sir let's quickly go
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over where we can help raise money again
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um now this bit of a shindig coming up
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this Sunday isn't it yeah it's it's
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actually uh you don't have to walk uh we
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are leaving Javier at quter to 10 say
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quter to 10 to walk the 10 or uh M
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kilometers to uh hazus poy yeah uh if
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you don't want to do the walk then you
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can go straight to hazus PO and just
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party and that's at 12 12: till 2 yeah
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up at um what's The
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addressor ne's house's house it'ses
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house and there's Live party venue these
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days oh yeah you know me go on yes the
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meeting point is uh uh by the tourist
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information office in the port uh
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there'll be lots of people there so I'm
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sure that people will figure out where
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the uh the walk starts perfect excellent
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and there's going to be cake there's
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cake at the end of it yes we're going to
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have our cake and we're going to eat it
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yeah BR listen I wish you both well and
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uh make sure you heed all that advice
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because somebody that knows knows we
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have the greatest respect for NE and
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we've listened to everything she said
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and I hope that we don't get any blisses
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or need to pay any attention to all the
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good advice she gave us well quite quite
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listen I wish you all the luck in the
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world from all of us here at Bay radio
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of course and uh it's it's a Fant
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fantastic Cancer Care charity that
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you're doing it for so just leaves me to
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say congratulations in advance because I
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know you're going to do it thank you
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douy thank you
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