For more than 30 days, Tobias Schlegl walked the Camino de Santiago – the world’s most famous network of pilgrimage routes – with his 73-year-old mother, Sieglinde.
She had long dreamed of walking the Camino, also known as the Way of St James, and Schlegl, a journalist and paramedic, wanted to reconnect with her.
The historic routes, which date back to the 9th century, extend from different European countries and lead to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
What followed was a 700km (435-mile) journey of laughter, exhaustion, pain – and unexpected joy.
“The Camino really hurts. I don’t want to romanticise it – it was real suffering,” Schlegl, who is based in Germany, says.
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