The Day Was Made For Walking, by Noel Braun

Published 2013 and 2019 | Pages 253 | Paperback 

Noel Braun yearns to walk the Camino, the ancient pilgrimage route that leads across France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Since the suicide of Maris, his beloved wife of forty-two years, he has struggled to find himself. But is it pure madness? He’s an old bloke. At seventy-seven years, he should be sensible, act his age and relax in a rocking chair.
Can his body and spirit withstand the demands?
Can he leave family and friends behind?

Noel believes this a journey he must undertake. It’s a compulsion, a spiritual quest for self-discovery, an urgent need to commune with the world around him and beyond.

When Noel begins his journey, he discovers it’s not just the rigorous demands of the physical he must answer. The territory of the heart and soul has its own challenges, which have him searching for emotional and spiritual insights. His travels are interwoven with accounts of the many engaging characters he meets. In time he realized he himself is one of Camino’s characters.

The Day was Made for Walking merges the spiritual with the physical, the ancient with the contemporary. It is a memoir, but also a glimpse into history and a travel guide.