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Mike Timms has always been a wanderer – into the bundu ('back of beyond') as a child in 1950s Kenya, around Dublin during his college years and along pilgrim paths in Wicklow and southern France as he approached the end of his working life. He has never felt lost or alone, holding a faith in moving forward, one step at a time and finding a peace – and sometimes reverence – in the quiet. So upon retirement, he embarked on his first Camino, setting out on foot just north of Carcassonne in France in the direction of Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. He walked as a true pilgrim, with the scallop shell hanging around his neck, his pilgrim passport in his pocket and no guarantee of a bed in the albergues along the Way. Falling in and out of step with fellow walkers, he learned to trust them and to see the unexpected – injury, fatigue, detour and the generosity of strangers – as blessings in disguise. With immediate and assured writing, Mike Timms takes us on a mindful journey as he moves through this ancient landscape, attuned to the histories, traditions and beliefs that have gone before him. To Walk the Way is his gently transporting account of taking part in them in his own unique way.

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Mike Timms was born in England and spent his childhood in Kenya and England. He attended Trinity College Dublin and went on to work in mental health and rehabilitation. Prior to retirement, he was the Academic Director in the Centre for Disability Studies within the School of Psychology at University College Dublin. His prose writing has been broadcast on the RTÉ radio shows Sunday Miscellany and The Living Word. Two of his plays have also been broadcast by RTÉ Radio Drama and, in the 1990s, he performed a one man show about his boarding school experience at the Dublin, Windsor and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals as well as the Westport Arts Festival. After his first Camino to Santiago de Compostela in 2011, he has taken many other Caminos from Lisbon, Portugal and A Coruña as well as pilgrim paths in England, Ireland and Brittany. To Walk the Way is his first book.  

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