With a group of friends, Erik Trinidad realises that you don’t necessarily need to go on foot to see the sights along Spain’s famed pilgrimage trail The Camino de Santiago, or St James’ Way, is the world-renowned walking route that has been trodden on for over a millennium. Originally, it was a religious pilgrim route following in the footsteps of Jesus’ apostle St James, which evolved into the iconic route that starts in the Pyrenees on the French/Spanish border, traverses across the Spanish countryside, and ultimately ends in the Galician town of Santiago de Compostela . With that journey spanning roughly 800km, it’s quite a long distance to walk — the average person takes about a month to complete it — so it got me thinking, couldn’t you just drive that? READ MORE: Horizontal Everest: My attempt at Camino de Santiago trail.
