A concise guide to everything you should know before you embark on the route...a quick and dirty introduction to the essentials.

Running the Camino de Santiago is the world's most accessible epic running adventure. The essential information, from someone who's done it.

Outside of the secular, English-speaking world, pilgrimage is still a central feature of life for billions of modern people.

Running the Camino de Santiago isn't the most obvious way to process when you're leaving behind religion, but it works.

At their best, travel guidebooks have shaped culture, and helped turn travel into a central aspect of modern life.

"Adventures with Emilie" is the great Te Araroa Trail book that the thru hiking world has been waiting for.

A few days in Santiago de Compostela are an essential way to finish out the Camino.

Pontevedra to Armenteira - the start of the Spiritual Variant is a lovely rural walk between ancient monasteries and picturesque villages.

The Portuguese Coastal Camino between Cesantes and Ponteveda is one of the nicest little stretches of the walk.

Vigo to Cesantes on the Coastal Camino isn't that bad.

The first day of walking in Spain on the Portuguese Coastal Camino is muy tranquilo.

Viana do Castelo to Caminha: A lovely way to say goodbye to Portugal on the Coastal Camino.

The Portuguese Coastal Camino between Antas and Viana do Castelo is really starting to feel like a Camino.

I feel like there should be more to say, but it's just another stage of more cruisy walking on the Coastal Camino, bouncing between beaches

The Portuguese Coastal Camino between Vila do Conde and Apulia is doggone pleasant.

Distance: 11 Km Terrain A flat city walk along the river after you descend the hill from the Cathedral. So, you’re starting your walk on...

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There are a lot of great books about the way that travel changes you. Some of them are recognized as classics about pilgrimage. Most...