Retracing the Camino, the pilgrim path to Santiago: day one In 1999 The Telegraph's Derek Bishton became one of more than 100,000 people a year who walk the Camino - the route across Northern Spain to the shrine of St James in Santiago de Compostela that pilgrims have been following for more than a thousand years. Ten years on, he retraces his journey.
His original pilgrimage took 31 days during which time he stayed mostly in pilgrim hostels with his world packed into a rucksack.
