One Man 500 Miles One Camino - Key, Andrew
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This book is about a journey of the soul, pilgrim meals, blisters, injury, and other, often very odd, occurrences on the Camino de Santiago across Northern Spain, which I hope you find informative, funny, and motivational. At a push, you could use the book to prop up a wobbly table! So, why do it? Well, it had become mentally and spiritually important for me, so I decided to do it because at the start I was 54 and I wanted to see if I could still do something out of the ordinary, to have an adventure, do something unusual that would test my mental and physical robustness. Could I go on day…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book is about a journey of the soul, pilgrim meals, blisters, injury, and other, often very odd, occurrences on the Camino de Santiago across Northern Spain, which I hope you find informative, funny, and motivational. At a push, you could use the book to prop up a wobbly table! So, why do it? Well, it had become mentally and spiritually important for me, so I decided to do it because at the start I was 54 and I wanted to see if I could still do something out of the ordinary, to have an adventure, do something unusual that would test my mental and physical robustness. Could I go on day after day for five weeks? It isn't crossing the Gobi Desert on a pogo stick or sailing the Pacific in a yogurt pot, or indeed going up Everest, but it would still be an adventure, and perhaps that's what I craved deep inside. So, tell us Andrew, what can we expect to read about in your book? Here's a sneaky peak. Disclosing that I was once mistaken for Clint Eastwood. It really happened. Honestly! Just look at my picture and the magic happens. Would I lie to you? Bunk allocation on the basis of grey hair, apocalyptic chickens, feral children, hip Augustinian sisters, an undiscovered Shakespearian work, the migration habits of the 100km pilgrim, pilgrim cheating, and the discovery of a new astronomical measure. You can also read about how I was humbled by the messages and commemorative items left by people all along the way, and the single-minded and often painful determination of many others when they were clearly struggling. Reflecting upon all this I am thankful for my continued mental and physical robustness.
Autorenporträt
Andrew Key was born and raised in Lancashire, and one of six children. His early career was in accounts and bookkeeping, and following that he served for seven years in Greater Manchester Police Special Constabulary in the Wigan division. After that, he retrained as an orthopaedic auxiliary nurse in Bolton NHS and moved into social care in 1999, co-founding a home care company in Blackburn. Later, with his wife and two teenage children, he moved to Bournemouth, where the desire to travel and 'move across the landscape' took hold.Partially inspired by Michael Palin's Around the World in 80 Days trip, he chose to complete the Camino De Santiago and hopes to complete other adventures in the next few years including other Camino routes, and publish additional books about his experiences.'As a boy I wanted to be a chef, then astronaut, then a secret agent, but did none of those things. So I will have to continue messing about in boats and embarking on assorted adventures.'