Vado a fare due passi

Year: 2008 Pages: 298 It is a cloudy day in June when Hape Kerkeling, television comedian and above all notorious lazy man, decides to embark on what he considers a crazy undertaking, but which he "feels" he must try: armed with a backpack that weighs eleven kilos, the pilgrim's staff and a pair of walking shoes, Kerkeling sets off along the Camino Francés which, after more than eight hundred kilometers through the Pyrenees, the Basque Country, Navarra, Rioja, Castile-Léon and Galicia, it will lead him right in front of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. With curiosity and a sense of humor, Kerkeling observes and describes remote and fascinating places in a detailed diary; he recounts his encounters with the local inhabitants and pilgrims; he notes the silences and conversations, the sense of estrangement and communion with occasional travel companions, the exhaustion and doubt, the need to be helped and the willingness to help, the friendship and those surprising moments - which repay him for all the difficulties he faced – where he felt closest to God.