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Destination: Santiago de Compostela Departure Time: 2004
What makes a man take a donkey on pilgrimage?
Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
What you need to know before your trail
When Tim Moore announced to his family that he was going to go on a pilgrimage with a donkey, not surprisingly he was met with sheer disbelief. For starters, he had never so much as petted a donkey before and certainly had not been on a beach riding one. So the journey of man and beast begins. Tim believes that:
“A donkey would be my hairy-coated hair shirt, making my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela a truer test of the will, a trial.”
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In 2004 Tim Moore set off from Valcarlos and walked all the way to Santiago de Campostela in order to see the enshrined remains of the apostle Saint James. This is a popular pilgrimage site for many and a long worn route but for Tim the thought of the idea was good, the realisation of it was not so attractive. The journey would be around some 466 miles long and he had no real wish to carry things al that way himself. Enter one donkey by the name of Shinto. Their journey would take them some 41 days and a great deal of sweat – and that’s just the donkey. This is a journey in every sense of the word from the religious sense to the literary landscape along the way.
Santiago de Compostela is the final site of the pilgrimage – the alleged burial site of the apostle St. James. His remains lie within the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela,
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C) Spain - Cruz de Fierro
D) Spain -Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
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