Detail from Codex CalixtinusFor all of us who have walked the Camino, or those who dream of walking the Camino, the Codex Calixtinus is our original guide. But now the oldest version of it, an illuminated manuscript from the 12th Century, has been stolen from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.

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Ramiro I

We are still visiting locations in my novel by car. A key town in my historical novel, The Road to Santiago, is Jaca, a principal city in the province of Huesca.

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Our Camino Map

So, we're finally doing it. After twenty years of dreaming about it, Charlie and I are going to walk the trail to Santiago de Compostela. We will do the Spanish portion, also known as the Camino Frances (because in the tenth century the Spanish kings were encouraging Franks to move into new towns they were founding along the trail). We start at Puente de la Reina, the place where the trails from various countries meet and become one, and walk to Santiago over the course of thirty-five days, staying in hostel-style "albergues" or "refugios" set up for pilgrims along the way.

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The first time I learned about Romance (as in literary Romances, not as in romance novels) I was a playwriting student (the first student to major in playwriting there, in fact) at Catholic University.
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