Also known as the Camino Francés (the French Way), this route starts at St. Jean Pied-du-Port in France, crosses the Pyrenees, and continues westwards across Spain about 60 miles south of the coast.

During the summers of 2012 and 2013, I walked more than a thousand miles on the Camino de Santiago ... old Christian pilgrimage path through France and Spain. In each of the past few years ...

The walk he’d been speaking about was the Camino Francés. One of many Caminos de Santiago – literally Ways of Saint James – this one begins in the French Pyrenees, traversing red-dirt wine ...