I Guess I'll Just Keep on Walking

Since the suicide of Maris, his beloved wife of forty-two years, Noel Braun struggled to find himself. All his life assumptions were overturned and he lost his sense of identity. Endeavouring to find some anchorage, he embarked on a spiritual quest of self-discovery. He decided to walk the most popular routes of the Camino; the ancient pilgrimage route that lead across France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the north-west of Spain. This journey is described in his earlier book The Day was Made for Walking.

The journey was far from over. Noel felt compelled to resume his quest. At the age of eighty, he returned to France to pursue a less popular Camino route that took him across France and into Spain. Two years later, the urgent need to continue has him walking through Portugal into Spain. Despite his aging body and his many doubts, he has a confidence and faith in himself to face the arduous physical demands and reach Santiago de Compostela. Woven into his spiritual and emotional journey are fascinating stories of the people he meets. I Guess I'll Just Keep on Walking is a sequel. The physical and the spiritual merge with the ancient and modern. It delves into history and, at the same time, is a memoir and travel guide.

About the Author

Noel Braun commenced his working life as a country school teacher in Victoria then moved into a corporate career which took him from Melbourne to Perth and Sydney. He has had a lifelong passion for writing, and wrote the first words of Whistler Street thirty years ago in Perth. After a busy career and raising a family of four, he has found the time in retirement to fulfil his long-held ambition to see Whistler Street in print. Whistler Street is Noel’s second novel, following his successful Friend and Philosopher. He lives in Sydney’s northern beaches where he is working steadily on developing a new career in writing.