Review: Highly entertaining
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2013
If you're looking for a factual, day by day account of hiking the Camino de Santiago you'll be disappointed. I received a free copy of this book to do a review and I was not looking forward to it. Little did I know what a treat was in store for me. I now feel sad that I must part company with this author.Having finished the book my first thought was 'I want to walk the Camino'. My second thought was 'I'd have become good friends with Dean and Laynni if I'd met them on the Camino'.This is a very personal take on a long and arduous hike. It is a mix of fact (sometimes exaggerated, but I enjoyed the artistic license), always entertaining humour, and keen observation of people and places. With such an eclectic choice of subject matter I never knew what to expect from one chapter to the next. I fought to find time to join Dean and Laynni on their hike again.I won't forget the Camino in a hurry. Now I will always be looking for an opportunity to steal 5 weeks from 'reality' and do it myself. And I'll be hoping to meet some people like Dean and Laynni on the walk.