“Did you enjoy your holiday in Morocco?” I asked, striking up a conversation with my seat mate on our flight to London. “The people were so polite and eager to help” she responded. We then spent the next five minutes talking about how beautiful the people of Morocco were and about how it was the politest country I have ever visited. “It is as if the entire country went to charm school” I said. “Exactly!” My seat mate exclaimed. We both laughed and noted that that was not our

It was our first day after finishing the Camino de Santiago. We had walked 1515 kilometers in 65 days. We had completed nearly one thousand miles and more than two months of walking. Waking up and walking was our routine, but today we didn’t have to walk. With a 12:00 noon check-out time we decided to shut the shutters and put the “do not disturb” sign on the door. We had no place to be, so we slept. We woke up at 9:30 a.m. and headed down to a sumptuous breakfast buffet at t