After several hours walking in the baking heat I finally arrived at the old Roman mine shaft of ´Montefurado where I rested for a while next to the beautiful green river watching numerous small lizards dart in and out of the rocks as several large birds of prey flew round in circles above me. I […]
How The Camino Taught Me That We Are All Looking For The Same Three Things In Life – John Clark
It was 2010-11 and I was going through a bit of a mid-life crisis. I was turning 54 years old and starting to wonder what my life was really all about. Eight years before, I had changed careers for the second time, deciding that I’d had enough of working as a journalist for newspapers and […]
David Mercer On What Is It About Walking The Camino De Santiago
Last year, in between lockdowns in the UK, my wife Debbie and I got into conversation with a woman sitting at the next table in a café and mentioned that we were into walking, and walking the caminos in particular. Her face lit up! She had walked the Camino Francés from Sarria with a friend […]