Publisher's Synopsis
This book is an account of the author's pilgrimage to the Holy Land in Spain, a humorous, self-deprecating, and emotionally charged account that goes beyond the basics of pilgrimage to reveal magnificent landscapes, anecdotes along the way, portraits of people he meets, and even the thoughts of a lonely walker as he wanders the earth and the sky. From the euphoria of freedom on the Basque coastline, to the loneliness, exhaustion and self-doubt fostered by the monotonous industrialization of Cantabria, to the religious aura of Oviedo at the end of the journey, Ruffin has finally achieved a transformation of the body and the spirit. This transformation, as he puts it, is not about religious devotion, but about forgetting, forgetting the constraints of everyday life, forgetting the fatigue of the journey and the bad weather, forgetting industrialization and material deprivation, and then being spiritually uplifted, and this applies to all those who walk on their own "pilgrimage paths" with different aims.
