If you check out the Winter 2016/17 issue of Girlz 4 Christ, you’ll find this review in our “Books for the Journey” article:
Our spiritual journey is an internal one. It doesn’t need a trail or driving directions. But sometimes, a physical journey reinforces the importance of a spiritual one. That’s what Tony Collins discovered. As a Christian book publisher from England, Tony decided to take a long-overdue Sabbatical. He chose to spend this time walking the Camino de Santiago: a 490-mile stretch starting in Southern France and reaching across Spain.
Along the way, Tony encounters people, sights, memories, pain, and new experiences. He documents much of this in this new, unique memoir.
Each chapter covers a day or two on this pilgrimage trail, originally created by Christians in the Middle Ages. Tony also documents the internal journey he had on the Camino, plus the adventures of staying in hostels, visiting dozens of small Spanish towns, and getting stuck in bad weather!
While reading this, you may just want to take a walk with God yourself!
Before I went to Europe in 2015, a family friend lent me a copy of “The Way”, a movie about the Camino in Spain. This was my first time hearing about this pilgrimage trail, but it certainly hasn’t been the last! During my pre-international-flight checkup, the nurse practitioner told me she was taking a month off to walk the Camino de Santiago. In Paris, I found the starting point for the longest route of the Camino. When I made it to La Alberca, Spain, I learned there was an offshoot of this trail going through the town, so it was a spontaneous privilege to be able to walk it. While volunteering at Pueblo Ingles, I learned that one of my fellow “Anglos” from Australia was walking the Camino after our week of volunteering. The Camino de Santiago isn’t exactly on my “bucket list” of adventures, but if I’m to thru-walk any trail, it will probably be this one!
Before I went to Europe in 2015, a family friend lent me a copy of “The Way”, a movie about the Camino in Spain. This was my first time hearing about this pilgrimage trail, but it certainly hasn’t been the last! During my pre-international-flight checkup, the nurse practitioner told me she was taking a month off to walk the Camino de Santiago. In Paris, I found the starting point for the longest route of the Camino. When I made it to La Alberca, Spain, I learned there was an offshoot of this trail going through the town, so it was a spontaneous privilege to be able to walk it. While volunteering at Pueblo Ingles, I learned that one of my fellow “Anglos” from Australia was walking the Camino after our week of volunteering. The Camino de Santiago isn’t exactly on my “bucket list” of adventures, but if I’m to thru-walk any trail, it will probably be this one!
Because of these small experiences in time related to the Camino, I was excited to find out that a Christian memoir was being published of a man’s experiences and memories on the trail. Taking My God for a Walk: A Publisher on a Pilgrimage is certainly an ideal armchair adventure!
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