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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8076546, member: 128351&quot;]&quot;Was&quot;... and still is! Many people from all Europe, every year, hike to Santiago de Compostela and Le Puy en Velay is one of the most popular starting point of this pilgrimage. On this photo you can see a few pilgrims just leaving Le Puy&#039;s cathedral on the first morning of their long journey. The scallop shell on the backpack is the symbol of the pilgrimage: it means the person wearing it is going to Santiago. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1401865[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The rule is: you must walk. You can start from where you want, from Germany, Belgium if you like, the minimum for pretending being a pilgrim is starting 100 km from Santiago. </p><p><br /></p><p>It sometimes takes more than a few weeks vacation to walk all the way long. One of my friends did it in several stages: she walked with her husband as far as they could go in three weeks, then took a bus and a train home from where they had stopped, and the following year resumed their pilgrimage from this place. </p><p><br /></p><p>A popular French writer, Jean-Christophe Rufin, recently did it, but not starting from le Puy: he started from the Franco-Spanish border, and walked all the way long to Santiago. He wrote a book about his experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1401869[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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