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Wandering With Soul Personal blog about my passion for navigating the world through soulful wandering and wonder.

A lovely day out with family. Celebrating my sister-in-law’s birthday early. Here’s the view and the drawing I’ve been w...
21/06/2025

A lovely day out with family. Celebrating my sister-in-law’s birthday early. Here’s the view and the drawing I’ve been working on recently for her gift. 💝 family

Last day at the office? Back on the unemployed list, or is it semi retired? I haven’t decided. Let me take a while of wa...
20/06/2025

Last day at the office? Back on the unemployed list, or is it semi retired? I haven’t decided. Let me take a while of walking, and gardening and exploring to decide again.

Today was meant to be my return to bush walking with a group, first time with Women’s Adventure ACT but Mervin had other...
15/06/2025

Today was meant to be my return to bush walking with a group, first time with Women’s Adventure ACT but Mervin had other ideas as he started screaming as I pulled onto the highway! So I u-turned and waited for assistance so would have missed the group meet up. Think issues was a stone in part of the wheel but Mervin is due to meet the mechanic for the first time this week anyway so will get them to check. So I went wandering locally instead. I used to ride up in the Tinderry and Pete would push Abbie in the pram. Back before they removed the gate and added the no horse riding sign! Was great to be back in the bush and on the trail. A reminder that what’s online is both a connection to the world and a disconnection from the real world.

Wrapping up my current contract next week. Had a great interview this week. Excited about what the future might bring. C...
14/06/2025

Wrapping up my current contract next week. Had a great interview this week. Excited about what the future might bring. Clocked up 10km on the feet today. Drawing up a storm. In a world gone mad I’m appreciative of this good life. Focussing on silver linings.

Staying on the fence with this one. Or the fence post at least!
10/06/2025

Staying on the fence with this one. Or the fence post at least!

It’s walking season in Europe. I can’t decide which walk I’ll do next… I’ve been looking at Camino del Norte in Spain wh...
08/06/2025

It’s walking season in Europe. I can’t decide which walk I’ll do next… I’ve been looking at Camino del Norte in Spain which is a coastal walk, or St Olav Ways in Norway… for 2026.
This week I walked 6km on the road and followed up with 7kms on the beach barefoot yesterday and the foot pulled up well so feeling excited that I’ll be back on the trails again soon.

Til then I thought I’d try see how many kms I’ve done officially as walking holidays so far so here goes, in order of completion:

* Milford Track NZ (group guided Ultimate Hikes) 53.5km, 2011
* Great Ocean Road 50kms or so I think, (self guided Raw Travel), 2012
* Camino Frances from Leon to Santiago, Spain, with (group self guided Raw Travel) approx 220km, 2014
* Cotswolds, (group self guided Camino Ways) UK 164km, 2016
* Tour de Mont Blanc, Switzerland, France, Italy,(group guided Raw Travel), 150km, 2016
* via Francigiana, San Gimignano to Siena, Italy, (group self guided Camino Ways) 48km, 2022
* Queen Charlotte Track, NZ, (solo self guided, Marlborough Sounds Adventure), 73.5km, 2024
* via Gebennensis and via Podiensis, Geneva Switzerland to St Jean Pied de Port, France (self planned), solo, 1076km, 2024

Total so far… 1835km which just a bit longer than going from Melbourne to Brisbane by road!

After a day trip to the coast yesterday to find the sun and take a breathe, today is an indoor day playing with some wat...
08/06/2025

After a day trip to the coast yesterday to find the sun and take a breathe, today is an indoor day playing with some watercolour pencils I found in my supplies. Finding my inner child

Just a Little Owl to close out the evening. Feathers are hard!
05/06/2025

Just a Little Owl to close out the evening. Feathers are hard!

We strolled a little further today so I took a buddy. Bronze is so good with traffic already but it was good for her to ...
02/06/2025

We strolled a little further today so I took a buddy. Bronze is so good with traffic already but it was good for her to learn from Yukon that there’s nothing big and scary out here! She thought the alpacas and sheep were a bit strange. On the way back the new neighbours had a bunch of kids on mini dirt bikes and I thought oh that’ll be interesting… they started them up… not a sound! God bless electric dirt bikes!!!

Wandering with ponies is also good for the soul.
02/06/2025

Wandering with ponies is also good for the soul.

Well it was worth diverting off the highway. Bright is just divine and it was a beautiful way to spend my birthday. I wi...
25/05/2025

Well it was worth diverting off the highway. Bright is just divine and it was a beautiful way to spend my birthday. I will definitely go back and walk the trails through here. It was a joy to be amongst these glorious old trees. I’m thinking Mervyn might be a Myrtle instead. We got lost together today but she knew where she was going, but I didn’t! Home safe and sound.

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