I should probably start this with a warning because I predict some of you reading these words will, in coming years, find yourself tired, blistered and sunburnt on a dusty path somewhere in the middle of Spain wondering how on Earth your life came to this. Once you start learning about the Camino, there’s a real chance it will become an obsession that will reel you in, just as it did me. This is why I’m preparing myself to go to Spain with a ridiculous idea of walking the equivalent of a half marathon every day for six weeks.
The Camino de Santiago is an ancient network of pilgrimage routes leading to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, a city built around the legend that the body of St
