The Strolling Expletive?

Huh?! The Strolling what?!

Simple really. This is the sisterblog to the Rolling Expletive. My personal blog named after my biking persona. This blog will be a chronicle of my walking. This June I will be walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. This pilgrimage, some 778km long (483 miles), starts in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (“St. John at the Foot of the Pass”) on the French side of both the mountains, crosses over the border to Roncesvalles (Roncevaux in French, the “Valley of Thorns”) in Spain. From there the route passes through Pamplona, Puente la Reina, Estella, Logroño, Burgos, León, Astorga, Ponferrada and Sarria before it reaches the “City of the Apostle” in the western reaches of Galicia.

"483 miles?! Ugh." "Really?" "Why?!" Most Americans have never heard of the Camino although it is fairly well known in Europe. By the 12th century it rivaled Jerusalem and Rome as one of the great medieval pilgrim destinations. Through the centuries, millions of nobles and nobodies have travelled from all over Europe to visit the tomb of St James the Apostle. Two more nobodies are about to follow in their footsteps!

To get a better understanding of the Camino, its history and its location, log onto the Confraternity of St James site here: http://www.csj.org.uk/