I catch a reflection of myself in the window, and see a middle-aged woman in a baseball cap, long ponytail flying in the wind, a small backpack perched like a dusty afterthought against her back. She’s dressed for distance – dusty sneakers, long pants, a loose t-shirt that doesn’t say much. I look a little…
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The 800km-long exhale: Walking the Camino, the French Way
The French Camino is one of the routes of the Camino de Santiago, an 800 km pilgrimage that crosses the Pyrenees from Saint Jean Pied de Port in France to the tomb of the Apostle St. James in Santiago de Compostela in Spain. I left Australia on the 29th of April with a short stop…