"What if you were to walk from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela on foot?"
Every day, your only task is to put one foot in front of the other, while the Spanish plains and pine forests drift past you. Without realising it, you build up a kind of walking meditation — and the refugio evenings with people from twenty different countries taste of shared blisters and bad wine, in the very best way.
Joris (31), Groningen — project manager at a construction firm, restores vintage bikes in his garage
Day three, somewhere between Roncesvalles and Pamplona, I already had two blood blisters under my left foot and was seriously questioning why I'd spent my vacation days on this.
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