To be a pilgrim
Lesley Morris writes about walking the Camino
In the summer I walked the Camino Portugués. I walked from Porto, starting along the coastal route, then moving on to the central route, directly north up to Santiago, where, at the end of the journey, I went to the pilgrims’ office and received my ‘Compostela’. This is a sort of ‘certificate of completion’ given by the church to those who have ‘completed’ the Pilgrimage. The distance we covered this time was about 270 kilometres.
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