Bücher von Richard Parkes

After surgery and surviving prostate cancer, I decided to embark on my "Camino" and also bring awareness of this nasty cancer to others. This disease kills many men across the World every year some 270,000. This journey lets you rethink your life and looks to change the future; it is a spiritual engagement with life and people without the trappings of our modern society. I found that most pilgrims whatever colour, creed or nationality wanted the violence in the world to stop. Maybe a Pilgrims walk is what the world should be.Any returns from this book will be donated to prostate cancer research.

The Camino del Norte follows the coast from Irun, on the French Border, to Ribadeo then going south on the inland route to Santiago some 817km. The full route takes some 5 weeks to complete. Our route split off onto the Primitivo near Villaviciosa and passed through Oviedo and Lugo onto Melide where we joined the Camino Francis then onto Compostela. Passing though the regions of Basque Country, Cantabria Asturias and Galicia. The Northern caminos are less crowded and include great coastal walking and some low mountain climbing. They have good facilities and are well waymarked and one does not have hordes of Pilgrims, though enough to make the meeting of people a pleasant experience.There is evidence that the coastal caminos existed in the ninth and tenth centuries, and Primitivo does not suggest a lack of civilization but the fact that some people believe it was the first route as expressed by David at the Bodenaya albergue. In 2018 19,040 pilgrims travelled the Norte and 15,038 the Primitivo.