I’ve had more than my fair share of stick… and sticks.
And stick about sticks.
But I’ve become dependant on them, and not just because there are more rings on my trunk now.
I do feel fitter now than I have done for some time and that is in large part down to the trekking trips I have been fortunate enough to go on in recent years.
I have to confess that on the first of those I sneered somewhat when I saw the oldies with their walking poles on their way to the Camino in Galicia in Spain.
But it was me who was left with egg on my face and pains in my calves.
My Dear Old Dad, a doctor by trade, was right when he would say that we all need a stick.
And there was a collection of them in our porch back in Chez Murty when I was growing up.
I added to that too when I transported an adorned and steel-tipped stick back from my fabled Oktoberfest trip. Along with a Stein and a medical bill!
Which my Dear Old Dad, James G as opposed to my James J, discovered when he ‘accidentally’ opened my mail some weeks later.
Walk in my footsteps
I make a point of grinning and bearing any pain abroad rather than going to the hospital now.
Not that any of that will befall you on your CanariaWays.com http://www.canariaways.com trip as you will have the best prep and back-up from your holiday provider.
All of which brings me to a trailer for my Tenerife trek which was published in The Herald newspaper this weekend an in case you missed it….
Here it is here… https://jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/tenerife-walk/
And also to flag up these other Tenerife holidays… courtesy of TUI http://www.tuiholidays.ie.
Try seven nights over the Festive Season, and there are lots of quirky customs on the island.
From December 20, flying from Dublin to Tenerife and staying S/C in the 3* Globales Tamaimo Tropical from €719pps.
Or if those dates don’t suit, try January 3, from €409pps or January 17, from €419pps.
SNAP TO IT