James Portelli, the route reporter for Camino Inglés, came to a crossroads in his life before he walked his first Camino. I am happy to announce that James and I are continuing our collaboration, the result of which is a series of guest posts about his journey to be published here every Sunday in July. In this first post, James contemplates his big move, his father’s turning eighty, his children’s successes, his and his wife’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, and a departure from his workaholic ways.
The starting point of the Camino is wherever pilgrims start their journey. One of the possibilities is to follow the familiar yellow and blue arrows throughout Germany and Austria and thus walk along Jakobsweg (Way of St. James), as the Camino is called in German. The route converges with the Camino Francés, as shown in the map below.
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