Practical advice and information about walking the Camino as well as spiritual reflections; an overlap of history and personal observation, of perception and of reality, of deep thought and light humour.
When a close friend is stricken with cancer, Wilna Wilkinson decides to walk the Camino, the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela, to find a challenge as close as possible to her friend’s battle against the incurable disease. With no answers on how to cope with the situation, her feelings of helpless ineffectiveness drive her to tackle the 850km journey in the middle of the European winter.
This is the spiritual journey of a woman who chooses to walk alone, in the heart of winter, and who generously offers to take the reader by the hand to share her experience.
On both a physical and a mental level the Camino - from the heart of
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