A woman ended her nine -month engagement and reserve a spontaneous flight to walk with a 500 -mile pilgrimage to her “to find helf”.
Kyleigh Castle, 36, and her ex -marked after only five weeks together, but she decided to end their relationship on Boxing Day 2024 after realizing “marriage was not for her.”
After watching a video on Tiktok, she spontaneously booked a plane ticket to Portugal to walk to Camino de Santiago – a network of pilgrimage roads leading to a cathedral in Spain.
Kayleigh spent five weeks in Portugal walking through the historic road on her white crocs before reaching the UK again on February 13, 2025.
She said the walk gave her the time and space to “find again” again and let her feel “energy” to start her life again.
Kayleigh, a life coach from West Yorkshire, said: “I realized that marriage can be restrictive.
“Marriage is about making compromises and sacrifices and I was not ready to do so, so I realized that I was not probably a marriage girl.
“For me, marriage is about stability, but I really don’t want stability – it’s boring.
“A relationship is not all and the end” the most important relationship you will have with myself and that is why I left, feel like me. “
In April 2024, Kayleigh was engaged in five weeks, but nine months later she began to realize that the marriage was not for her.
On the 2024 boxing day, Kayleigh ended the engagement and decided that she wanted to put it on.
She said: “I change all the time, I want to do different things all the time – I’m chaotic.
“I wanted to travel, I didn’t want to give up.
“That’s not for him, I just realized that marriage may be weird.”
Kayleigh was moving through Tiktok when he saw a video of people walking in Santiago Camino.
So on January 6, 2024, Kayleigh Book A flight to Portugal to walk on its 500 -mile pilgrimage.
On her way to the airport, Kayleigh found her very heavy bag and threw her boots on foot – leaving her with her reliable crocs.
“Being in a relationship for nine months didn’t feel like myelf,” Kayleigh said.
“I like to walk and I think it’s the best therapy.
“If you walk do enough, you can fix all your problems and that’s what I did.
“Walking is the best therapy, I feel amazing. I have cleaned my head and can focus on new things. “
Kayleigh spent five weeks in Portugal and walked 200 miles from the road 500 miles in its crocs.
She said the walk allowed her to elaborate on her thoughts and the next steps.
Kayleigh said: “I used to feel lost, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I passed the walk elaborating and deciding what my next step would be.
“I would rather start a million times than staying in a relationship with which I am not happy with – everyone deserves to be happy.
“When you are walking, you have no distractions, I didn’t see a soul while I was walking.
“I elaborated my thoughts with anyone else’s thoughts.”
Despite the peaceful nature of the pilgrimage, Kayleigh accidentally found it by collecting a marriage.
“One night I went to do my laundry which was an hour of walking away from the hotel,” Kayleigh said.
“I didn’t want to walk an hour, so I sat in a bar and had a glass.
“I have overtaken a wedding, there is in this dry robe and the crocs in the middle of this healthy wedding.”
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