Camino de Santiago

For 1200 years Christians have been walking across Europe to Santiago de Compostela in the Galician mountains of northwestern Spain to pay homage to the resting place of the apostle Saint James the Greater. Now not only Christian pilgrims but walkers wanting to enjoy a long walk down the back roads of Spain walk this same path to Santiago and beyond to the Atlantic at Finisterra. Some years back the UN declared it an International Heritage Trail.

In 2003 I walked it once from the Pyrenees and a second time my wife-to-be and I drove and walked the route from Zurich, Switzerland to Finisterra. Then in 2004 we retraced our steps walking back from Santiago toward Germany. We didn't walk all that distance but we did 500 kilometers (300 miles) of it.

Before and during the first walk I posted several pages here on Works and Words linked to my Spain 2003 page. Many of these were rough renditions when I put them there on the fly. But I have now updated them and added more pictures including large versions for most of the original small versions.

I offer you the following:

• View map of the Camino
• 2003 Camino pilgrimage Home page.
• 2007 Camino updates including a walk with my brother for five days.
• We give a slide show on our pilgrimage walks. The show is centered on our original separate walks along the Camino de Santiago. Check out the details on our Hear the Call Follow your Heart page.
• Some Camino insights.
• Some thoughts for your Camino..
• A walk along the Camino de Santiago - a poem.
• Some words that accumulated along the Camino.

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