And just like that I've a new moniker widow. Instantly I'm 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 What I had believed to be a lifetime visa to happiness has been revoked and it seems as if I will never get my passport back to normality.'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.