Centre College AT Hikers Also Hike in Spain

The web site of Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, carries an 1 February 2007 article about three of its folks (one grad and two current students) just having walked the ancient Christian pilgrims' trail called the "Camino de Santiago." The 'Santiago' part refers to Saint James, of Santiago de Compostella fame. That spot is the endpoint of the pilgrims' 500 mile trail. The artcile is titled "Three Centre Pilgrims Walk Across Spain."

Anyway, the article mentions that "Both [Rob] Kinzel [the one graduate] and [Mark] Mallman are veteran long-distance walkers. The two spent five months on a 2,172-mile hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2003, a trek prompted by Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods. The idea for the Camino walk, Kinzel says, came from another book, The Pilgrimage, by Paulo Coelho.

"Most long-distance trails avoid towns, but because of its historic need to provide shelter for pilgrims, the Camino de Santiago (or Way of Saint James), deliberately winds through them. On their trip, the three traveled through five or six villages a day.

"'The path is much different than the Appalachian Trail,' Kinzel says. 'Taking advantage of this, we found ourselves stopping at least twice each day for a café con leche (coffee with milk)'."

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