If you search for impressions and information for an imminent departure to Santiago then this book is not the one for you. What prejudices, misconceptions that never questioned! In choosing the camping JC Rufin cut from the outset of the essential, sharing, wonderful encounters with other hikers / pilgrims and cuts sanitation, hygiene we should and that the we owe to others. Is it to justify grime and dirty clothes of "character" that is created as the author says, the pilgrims are lousy? Did he know? Apparently not. He does not share the albergue. For him all walkers wear Tong Fang ... or a code of pilgrims Judge said. Well not Mr. Rufin, if these walkers / pilgrims that you feel lousy and smelly wear Tong, it is for reasons of hygiene (and low weight in the bag); Contrary to what you think on arrival at the albergue the primary concern of rich or poor walker, is taking a shower and Tong, the Croc are primarily intended to insulate the feet of shower trays teeming we guess, inevitable bacteria ... The first two thirds of the book by JC Rufin strongly annoyed me as reckless assertions, futile ...
This book seems to have been written as and travel and undisturbed before publication.
However, I wish to focus on the last third of the book touched me with a depth worthy of the strength of the Way. The author finally managed to glimpse the mystery of the inner path that lives ... His literary talent enables us to write beautiful lines which express the inexpressible, as "... (the Way) it does not give us speech, he makes us silent ... "
