Day 1 in The Walk To Beat Polio

October 6

Day 1 in The Walk To Beat Polio

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When Hans left Budapest on Saturday October 4 for Seville, Spain it was raining steadily.

"It seems like a fitting way to leave Central Europe since the rain followed us for three weeks through Budapest, Vienna and Prague," he wrote.

Unfortunately the continuous cold and damp weather that plagued us for three weeks also left Hans with a cold just four days before his scheduled start to the Walk. Colds pretty much come and go at their own pace but we treated his symptoms anyway as best we could with salt gargles and Ibuprofen. Since he's in excellent physical shape he's bouncing back very quickly and is off and walking on Monday October 6th just as planned. He writes:

"It is 8:00 a.m. here and I will definitely leave a bit later this morning. Am feeling about 98 per cent and getting better all the time. I may not wait until 11:00 a.m. to get the sello at the cathedral since the high here today and tomorrow will be 28C. I don't want to walk in the main heat of the day.

Had a good day yesterday touring the city which is beautiful but also a place where it is very easy to get lost. Getting out of the city and into the country will be a bit of a challenge as there are very few 'Camino' signs.

I will try my best to stay in touch but I suspect that there might be a shortage of places to email until I hit some of the larger towns and cities along the route."

Fellow Rotarians and friends, I will definitely update this website the minute I get any news. ~Lolita


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Comments

Haloranch said…
Hans - xplornet is experiencing intermittent email problems as of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday so you may have difficulty emailing. If so, you can use the comment box in our blog like I'm doing to send notes.
1:35 PM
Haloranch said…
Hans - it's Wednesday morning and xplornet is still having webmail and email problems. They hope to have it fixed by 2 pm this afternoon. Use the comment box in our blog to send messages if you happen to get internet access where you are. Or, use my gmail account: myfirstname.lastname@gmail.com. PW begins with an s and is 7 letters long.
6:30 AM
Unknown said…
Hi Hans,
Glad to read you started your camino walk.
Will remind the Lethbridge-East Club members that you have started out.
Wishing you a safe and successful trip.
Roger
11:21 AM
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