A Launceston man has followed in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims, walking the El Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
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Since the middle ages pilgrims and travellers have walked on trails across Europe to the tomb of the apostle St James.
Danny Masters got the idea to walk the pilgrimage a couple of years ago.
“It’s got overlays of history and anthropology and architecture ... apart from the meditative, spiritual side of things,” Mr Masters said.
“You’re walking the same path that people have walked on for hundreds of years, it’s pretty weird.”
Mr Masters said there are three stages of the walk.
“The first third of it is physical where you get used to the conditions and what you’re doing ... then the second third of it is mental … where you wonder what on earth you’re doing,” he said.
“The last bit is what they call the spiritual phase, where you start to think about who you are and what you’re doing and how you relate to the world.”
