In September 2013 Tony Collins took advantage of a long-overdue sabbatical to walk the 490 miles of the Camino, from the French border to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. For decades he had helped to provide the evangelical churches of the world with reading material. Now he was deliberately stepping out of his comfort zone: a pilgrimage, carrying his pack, through a land whose language he did not speak, into a religious culture far removed from his own, in search of sources of reverence. He would not walk alone: the Way has many adherents, well over 200, 000 completing their Camino during that year. He had expected the Way to be arduous, and so it proved. But he had not expected so bracing an internal journey, his battered soul laid down for examination, past errors offered up for scrutiny. Nor had he expected such moments of intense spiritual encounter; nor so many precious friendships. He discovered, above all, as have many before him, that the Road leaves an indelible mark.
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Contents
Acknowledgments 11
Foreword 13
Map of the route 16
Prologue 17
A Reason to Go: Day 1 19
St Jean Pied-de-Port: Days 1 and 2 31
Why? 49
Burguete – Larrasoaña: Day 3 60
Pamplona – Cizur Menor – Puente la Reina:
Days 4 and 5 70
Puente la Reina – Estella: Day 6 83
Estella – Los Arcos: Day 7 89
Torres del Rio – Viana – Logroño: Day 8 97
Logroño – Nájera: Day 9 108
Nájera – Cirueña – Santo Domingo de la Calzada:
Day 10 114
Santo Domingo – Belorado: Day 11 120
Belorado – San Juan de Ortega – Agés to Burgos:
Days 12 and 13 126
Burgos – Hornillos: Day 14 140
Hornillos – Castrojeriz: Day 15 149
Castrojeriz – Frómista – Carrión de los Condes:
Days 16 and 17 159
Terradillos de los Templarios – Calzadilla de los
Hermanillos: Days 18 and 19 169
Mansilla de las Mulas – León – Villavante:
Days 20 and 21 179
Astorga – Rabanal del Camino: Days 22 and 23 188
Molinaseca – Villafranca del Bierzo:
Days 24 and 25 196
O’Cebreiro – Triacastela: Days 26 and 27 203
Sarria – Portomarín: Days 28 and 29 214
Palas de Rei – Ribadiso: Days 30 and 31 220
O Pedrouzo – Santiago: Day 32 229
The Naked Pilgrim: Day 33, and counting 238
Coda 242
The Prayer of the Pilgrims 246
Select Bibliography 249
Sobre o autor
Tony Collins has spent more than fourty years publishing books and magazines, and has started several imprints including Monarch Books. He is the author of Taking My God for a Walk: A publisher on pilgrimage.