![]() And there’s something in that that’s undeniable once you begin.”īut twice? The first time, he writes in his new memoir, “Walking With Sam: A Father, A Son, And Five Hundred Miles Across Spain,” was when he was in his 20s, after starring in the movie “Pretty In Pink,” among others, and being included as part of Hollywood’s 1980s Brat Pack of young actors. ![]() You’re walking in the footsteps, literally, of millions of people over centuries and centuries. Pilgrimage is a funny thing in that there’s nothing new, there’s no discoveries to be made. “There’s something about the Camino that’s beyond just walking 500 miles. Everyone,” McCarthy says in an interview on the phone from his home in New York. “Everyone I know who has walked the Camino has had a life-changing experience. ![]() It’s also the length actor, director and writer Andrew McCarthy has walked - twice - taking the route that pilgrims for at least a millennium have been following in honour of the apostle James. It’s the length of the Camino de Santiago, the famed pilgrimage across Spain, beginning in France then going south and west, that the faithful or just the curious have been walking, as legend has it, to reduce the punishment for their sins, set themselves a challenge, or perhaps simply discover something about themselves as they plod those miles of roads that pass through golden fields, villages and small cities. It is, as we all remember, the number of miles a pining lover was willing to walk in the Proclaimers’ song to prove his fealty. ![]()
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