David Dwerryhouse speaking on the Camino de Santiago one of world's great walks.
David started his talk by giving us a background to the Camino de Santiago. As he explained the Camino is actually a pilgrimage journey rooted in medieval times and is a network of routes that start in many places throughout Europe with all ending at the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, North West Spain. The cathedral is the burial location for St James one of Jesus’s 12 apostles.
Whilst there are many different walks there are 7 main ones with the most popular being Camino Frances starting in St Jean de Pont in France. It was this route that David and his 13 strong party from Tours Direct took on their journey which David described as a “bus walk”. Everyone had a choice of walking as little or as much as they wanted with the only proviso that get a “Camino” certificate you had to have walked at least 100 km.
David went on to share his many interesting experiences and photos over the 790km journey highlighting the beauty of the countryside, the amazing architecture, at times challenging food and ending in the beautiful Santiago de Compostela cathedral.