091/499 … following the Leader (09/24/08)
Mom’s guidebook was written by John Brierley and its’ truly “spot on”. If you’re going to ever walk the Camino with a guidebook, I do indeed recommend obtaining this one.
Here’s the link: http://www.caminoguides.com/camino_frances/index.html
Of course, it is also more than possible (and possible a bit more Meaning-full) to walk it without a guidebook at all. I did this for two of the 6 weeks that I walked, and had many amazing experiences that would not have manifested had I been following standard “guidebook-advice” …
“At the same time, new concepts and abstractions continually flow into the picture, … abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.” ~ Benjamin Whorf