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One man's pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, in search of holiness.

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments 11
Foreword 13
Map of the route 16
Prologue 17
A Reason to Go: Day 1 19
St Jean Pied-de-Port: Days 1 and 2 31
Why? 49
Burguete – Larrasoaña: Day 3 60
Pamplona – Cizur Menor – Puente la Reina:
Days 4 and 5 70
Puente la Reina – Estella: Day 6 83
Estella – Los Arcos: Day 7 89
Torres del Rio – Viana – Logroño: Day 8 97
Logroño – Nájera: Day 9 108
Nájera – Cirueña – Santo Domingo de la Calzada:
Day 10 114
Santo Domingo – Belorado: Day 11 120
Belorado – San Juan de Ortega – Agés to Burgos:
Days 12 and 13 126
Burgos – Hornillos: Day 14 140
Hornillos – Castrojeriz: Day 15 149
Castrojeriz – Frómista – Carrión de los Condes:
Days 16 and 17 159
Terradillos de los Templarios – Calzadilla de los
Hermanillos: Days 18 and 19 169
Mansilla de las Mulas – León – Villavante:
Days 20 and 21 179
Astorga – Rabanal del Camino: Days 22 and 23 188
Molinaseca – Villafranca del Bierzo:
Days 24 and 25 196
O’Cebreiro – Triacastela: Days 26 and 27 203
Sarria – Portomarín: Days 28 and 29 214
Palas de Rei – Ribadiso: Days 30 and 31 220
O Pedrouzo – Santiago: Day 32 229
The Naked Pilgrim: Day 33, and counting 238
Coda 242
The Prayer of the Pilgrims 246
Select Bibliography 249

About the Author

Tony Collins has spent more than fourty years publishing books and magazines, and has started several imprints including Monarch Books. He is the author of Taking My God for a Walk: A publisher on pilgrimage.

Reviews

“Tony's pilgrimage challenges on all levels - from aching feet and exhaustion to the deep longing within him to connect soul to soul with the God he loves. This book will move and inspire you.”
*Pam Rhodes*

“Engagingly insightful, endearingly witty, and wholly honest, this account of Tony's adventure will whet your appetite, as it has mine, to embark on your own pilgrimage into self-discovery and deeper richness of life.”
*Simon Guillebaud*

"Tony Collins' new book is an absolute delight. We take not one walk with him, but two, and both are a genuine pleasure. Here is a man who stands at the verge of retirement, who looks back and forward, and does so with both reverence and great good humour. There was so much quiet passion contained within these pages, and so many powerful lessons. Highly recommended."
*Davis Bunn, bestselling author*

“Reading Tony Collins's tale of thirty-two days upon pilgrimage provides a reader with much of the experience of the journey, except for aching knees and blisters. Tony began the trek hoping to `put myself in a situation where, if God were inclined to speak to me, I would be in a state of mind to listen.’ It becomes apparent as the book ends that this did indeed happen. If one cannot make the pilgrimage to San Juan de Compostela, reading TAKING MY GOD FOR A WALK is an excellent substitute.”
*Mel Starr, author of The Unquiet Bones*

“Veteran British publisher Tony Collins calls us to join him along the famous Camino pilgrimage path, guiding us through its beautiful, gritty, punishing terrain. Joy, pain, regret, discovery - you experience them all on a journey like this.”
*Sheridan Voysey, writer, speaker, broadcaster*

“A beautifully-crafted, hope-laden invitation to us all to put on our walking boots.”
*Malcolm Duncan, author and speaker*

“A truly wonderful book: part travelogue, part history, part journal. Tony writes with wit, charm and intelligence, and above all, honesty.”
*Andy Bannister, author of The Atheist Who Didn’t Exist*

"This is a pilgrimage on paper. The words are like the whisper of God on the evening breeze. The images painted are like glimpses of the dawn after a long night. Tony's pilgrimage is that of a man who is learning to fall upwards, in the words of Richard Rohr. You hear the depth of his faith and the yearning of a heart that knows God is so much bigger than any of our limited notions of him and so much more beautiful than our most beautiful thoughts and ideas of him."
*Malcolm Duncan *