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My Way: Walking the Camino a Santiago
After several months of planning, reservations have been made, my time off has been approved and now, the plane tickets have been booked. It is time to make it blog official. On May 20th, I will be embarking on the Camino a Santiago, a five-week, 500-mile (800km) trek across Spain, starting in the French Pyrenean town of St. Jean Pied de Port all the way to Santiago de Compostela. The Way of St. James as it’s known in English, is one of Christianity’s three major pilgrimages after Rome and Jerusalem. It is also very old. For over a thousand years pilgrims have walked any one of several routes to get…