I was at school when I first heard about the Camino, somewhere around 12 years old. I was doing a school project on Pilgrimmages and we had studied the Pilgrimage to Mecca in class. To get some more information I interviewed Becky about her time in Taize and Mum told me about Stuart at Church who had walked to Santiago in Spain. I wasn't all that interested in finding out more, he was 60 or so and to me back then it seemed ancient, but I took along with he questions that I had asked Becky and did no more preparation than that, I knew nothing at all about the Camino and sat there listening to nightly rituals of washing clothes, seeing everyone sitting around and writing their diaries and miles walked each day. I heard about a route so few walked that Stuart needed a letter from our vicar saying that he was walking the route as a Christian and of reaching Santiago and having an individual interview with one if Santiago's priests that lasted nearly an hour as Stuart was questi...
A blog about the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela