Not a guide, but a great read...

[stassy]

Hi,
I like to do my reading up on places and things before I get there, and though I have done Sarria to Santiago last year, i am returning for St. JPdP to Finsterre this summer, and so researched a little more....

The book by Robert Ward, called "All The Good Pilgrims"

I just thought this book was very well written and really portrays the Camino very well, and in a way that would be appealing to people regardless of their personal reasons for walking the Camino! It's really quite funny and I think gives a great mix of historical, practical and ancedotal info, I'd recommend it to anyone considering doing the Camino to get a taste of the spirit!

I have to add the disclaimer though that I find the authors views on many things really coincide with my own, basically - open to everything, but with a sense of propriety lols. Enjoy, buen camino!

[Barrie & Carole]

I just finished reading another book about the pilgrimage that is not a guide book but very good nonetheless. It is "Horseshoes and Holy water"' by Mepho (?) Philips. Well written and interesting.

[Covey]

Stassy, you are on a slippery slope!!

First, you do Sarria to Santiago and then you want to go back and do St Jean to Finesterre this year.

Next you will be thinking of excuses to visit Europe next year and "Oh, if I am in Europe, I could just pop down to Spain............."

Below is my reply to another Serial Caminoist!!

""Re: New Passport or not?

One needs to have a serious talk with you "dad"

I made the mistake of so enjoying the Sarria to Santiago "Camino Lite" with my eldest son that I decided that I really needed to prove that I could have done the St Jean to Santiago thing, so went back the following year to do it in September, and the next year in September, and the next in July and the next................. and once again in September 2010.

Before you know it, you will become a Serial Caminoist and your children will start wondering "what the hell does the Old Fellow get up to that he needs Absolution every year!!"

You start buying the odd piece of kit that might be more useful than the kit you carried last year. You start carrying extra medical bits and pieces in case someone might need help along the way.

You get inducted in to the mystical club of The Camino Grandfathers who take it as their self appointed mission to help those who find the going hard over the first week. Nobody asks you to help, but it is in the nature of pilgrims to help others, and it is your way of giving back a little of the enjoyment you get from walking the way.

You see the odd gravestone of pilgrims who have died along the way and as you pass by, you smile to yourself and think that there could be a lot worse ways and places to end your days.

Welcome.

ps. Your old passport will do. Enjoy ""