Walking My Way: DAYS 10 & 11: Grañon to Villafranca Montes de Oca to Burgos

What a lovely two days, including some of the mentally toughest walking bits! When you've been at it for 8 hours already and have many kilometres left before you've completed your first marathon... your mind does interesting things.

I also discuss my ineptness with physical touch at the end of the episode, enjoy me squirming for two minutes straight :D

I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino! Intro music: Gregorian Chant Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

Walking My Way: DAY 9: Nájera to Grañon

TW: dying animals, particularly dying cats :(

I'm really seeing lots of life and death on this camino hmm *donativos are simply the best places along the camino for immaculate social vibes. My favourites ever.

Enjoy the lovely interview with the donativo hospitalero at the end x I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino! Intro music: Gregorian Chant Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

Walking My Way: DAY 8: Logroño to Nájera I was grumpy today for reasons partially disclosed on this podcast episode hehehe... but I got all my friends together in the evening to discuss what we had learnt today before we did some yoga.

Did not discuss the fact that Thomas cooked us an incredible smoked salmon pasta thing which I still dream about...

I do not understand how heavy snorers have the balls to stay in big dorm rooms like I would be so embarrassed ?? Enjoy audio evidence of what we've been put through every night lols... thankfully I'm half deaf and cannot hear a thing with earplugs in...

I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino! Intro music: Gregorian Chant Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

Walking My Way: ULTRALIGHT 2.2KG What I'm Packing For the Camino Santiago

Hello! Here is a guide from someone who has never been on a pilgrimage before but knows a thing or two about ultralight packing. Through the years I have refined and refined again my ultralight packing to the bare essentials of what I need, and I'm very excited to have managed to get this down to 2.2 kg. I will be walking 25 km every day on average so every last gram will make a difference! My biggest tips: - Be a psychopath and weigh everything, you will be surprised at what comes out light and heavy - Anything you think 'I could always buy that in a shop once I'm there if push came to shove,' don't pack it, you will rarely if ever regret this. Do not pack that spare pair of underpants - Multifunctional things / thinking of ways to make something smaller have the same function = gold dust Timestamps: 00:52 Bag 02:14 Shoes 04:40 Weigh Things! 05:18 Coats / Outerwear 06:15 Hiking Clothes 10:00 Towel 11:00 Toiletries 12:35 Glasses Case / Sleeping Essentials 13:28 First Aid / Medicine Cabinet / Microphones 14:40 Tech / Chargers 16:33 My Bag Weighs 2.2 kg !! I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I'm doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I'm expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino!

Walking My Way: DAY 5: Puente La Reina to Estella: Camino de Santiago

What a glorious thing when people dare to share their musical gifts with others. What a gift to the world when I decide to follow this by bashing Oasis's Wonderwall on the poor little guitar...

For the sake of my embarrassment and your enjoyment I have left in Wonderwall (Ruby's Version), feel free to leave me a hate comment for good press x

Incredible Stefan's music: https://open.spotify.com/track/4ABQujFSWrqwrNci0dfHJZ?si=OLlwHl8VQdmNEMhGO45cbw

Incredible Stefan's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr.smiden?igsh=MWIxM2J4Mms0YzdqdA==

I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino!

Intro music:

Gregorian Chant Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

Walking My Way: DAYS 3 & 4: Larrasoaña to Pamplona to Puente La Reina: Camino de Santiago

DAYS 3 & 4 LETSGOOOO

This was a huge unexpected bump along the journey. Long live the TEVAS (pls sponsor me). Pamplona was gorgeous, getting my bum electrocuted whilst everyone else was drinking was not my personal highlight of these two days...

I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino!

Walking My Way: DAY 2: Roncesvalles to Larrasoaña

Hello everyone!! Day 2 walking plog let’s gooo! Today I interview the wonderful Olivier, who runs the best bar/shop/cafe/music heartbeat in Larrasoaña. I am grateful for how open he was to sharing his personal story of the Camino (tw: addiction, depression, suicide). I found it truly inspiring to hear of the lessons he had learnt. I agree with him, the Camino is as good as the best self help books out there! I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino!

Walking My Way: DAY 1: St Jean Pied Du Port to Roncesvalles

Welcome to the second plog! A certain dog steals the show today… again bear with as I figure out how to plog this experience, episodes will only get better as I go along :) I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino!

Walking My Way: Travel Day to St Jean Pied Du Port (A Pilgrimage In Itself)

First travel day ‘vlog’! /podcast-log so plog?? Apologies for the horrendous audio in most parts, working on it 😁 I’m Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino!

I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino!

Intro music:

Gregorian Chant Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ 

Welcome back! Today I interview bestie @taliapamensky, who I went to sixth form and uni with. Tals has always deeply inspired me to tap into and work on my relationship with spirituality, with huge benefits to my mental health and overall being. We discuss Talia's own journey with spirituality through school, uni and beyond, delving into the big questions, her dreams to be a healer and tips for those getting started with it all. It will be impossible not to leave this episode filled with energy and inspiration to look within and self-reflect <3

We also discuss sobriety in relation to being present, a very interesting topic in my opinion! Overall it was such a blast to record with Tals, a natural speaker and healer as well as amazing friend.

Contact me with questions for Talia for our next episode together! These can be spirituality-related or otherwise!
Talia recommended checking out Finding Focus: https://www.findingfocus.app
Find Talia on Instagram on @taliapamensky :)

Welcome back, today my best friend Adam Rei joins me to give a hot girl film review of Barbie. Besides Adam roasting me, all things patriarchy, horses, maaate to a mate and maths axioms are discussed! Adam reveals that he and his guitar are indeed Kenough. Enjoy x

Hello everyone, welcome back! Today I interview Mark Box, also known as Humans of Cambridge or @humanofcambridge on instagram! We discuss all things Humans of Cambridge, photography, the Cambridge University Library, Mark's love of cosplay and his bionic ear... stay tuned!
I am very proud of this episode and can't wait for future ones :)

Hello Everyone!
Grace Chisholm Young is extraordinary. I have spent the last four months submerged in this woman's life, reading her letters and writings at the University of Liverpool Library and beyond. I had the chance to do a project on her personal copy of her seminal book The Theory of Sets of Points, which she published jointly with her husband in 1906. This copy is held at the Whipple Library Special Collections at the University of Cambridge. It contains marginalia, inserted postcards and reviews, Grace's annotations revising the book for a second edition, and watercolours of her son Laurie. On top of being a skilled mathematician, Grace was talented in art and writing, ran a household and mothered six children. Up until now her life has been evaluated adjunct to her husband William's, as the two embarked on a mathematical partnership together, where most of their life works were published under William's name. I explore this partnership, but use Grace's annotated copy of The Theory of Sets of Points to try and better understand her lived experiences of life independent of William. I hope you enjoy!

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