I had dreamt of walking the Camino de Santiago for about 10 years, but kept putting it off, as I couldn’t justify the time away from work. Or maybe I was avoiding taking myself away from a very comfortable routine, and going outside of my comfort zone. I decided if I was going to walk it, I would do the entire Camino Francés, starting in Saint-Jean-Pied-De-Port in France, walking over the Pyrenees, and across the top of Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. That’s over 800kms of walking with a backpack. Some people walk just 114km, from Sarria, in just 5 days. That’s enough to say you officially “walked the Camino”, and get a compostela certificate from the Cathedral to prove it. Others walk a section at a time, maybe one or two weeks, and then fly back the next year to walk another few weeks from where they left off the previous time.  No, none of this was for me, I wanted to walk the entire thing in one go, over a period of about 6 weeks. Just like Martin Sheen did in The Way, a movie by Emilio Estevez that has inspired thousands of people since it came out in 2010, to walk the Camino. As a kid I loved to watch epic adventure movies, where someone is on a quest and undertakes a long journey into the unknown. When I was older, I enjoyed the travel adventures Michael Palin undertook, starting with Around The World In 80 Days. This was the sort of travel adventure I wanted. This was an epic challenge, something that can take you outside of your comfort zone. This was exciting! These early influences were responsible for me becoming a travel photographer. I’ve been fortunate to work for brands, publications and tourism organisations and head off to exciting new destinations to explore and capture, but usually for no more than a week or two at a time. I’d never undertaken such an epic adventure, over such a long period of time, that El Camino had been tempting me with.