Walking the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain has easily become perhaps the best experience of my lifetime. Everywhere I turned I met someone new. Rick, from Australia, wanted to do the Camino as a religious pilgrimage. Stacy, from Reno, Nevada , wanted to do it as a personal challenge. Peter, the crime detective from Germany, saw the Camino as his last hurrah before he settled happily into old age. The list goes on and on. On the Camino, you didn´t have to worry about finding a place to stay because you were welcome everywhere. On hot days locals stopped to offer us grapes literally picked fresh off the vine, or olives grown right in their back gardens. The Camino de Santiago is the epitome of what the Walk in Europe is all about. It was on this leg of the trip that I fully appreciated all that Spain had to offer.