Local author brings the Camino to Lynn Valley

North Vancouver District Public Library will host an evening of travel, reflection, and storytelling at the Lynn Valley Library—and this time, the journey stretches all the way to Spain and Portugal.

Local author France Fehr is scheduled to speak on Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m., sharing stories from her latest walk along the Camino de Santiago.For Lynn Valley residents, it is a chance to experience one of the world’s most famous pilgrimage routes without leaving the North Shore.

Fehr has spent the past decade walking different sections of the Camino. She first travelled through Spain in 2015. Then France in 2017 and 2019. Each walk brought new terrain. New questions. New lessons.

Most recently, she and her husband followed the Camino Portuguese. They began in Porto. They walked north along the coast toward Santiago de Compostela. After reaching the cathedral city, they continued even further—to Muxía and Finisterre, often described as the “end of the world.”

Long distances. Atlantic winds. Small villages. Quiet roads. But the Camino is not only about geography. It is about attention. Walking for weeks changes the pace of thinking. It slows everything down. Fehr’s writing reflects that rhythm. She focuses on the simple but essential questions that define travel on foot: what, where, how, who, when, and why.

Those reflections became books. Fehr is the author of four titles about the Camino, including Follow the Yellow Arrows and Walking to the End of the World. In them, she retraces the yellow arrows that guide pilgrims across Europe. She writes about landscapes. Encounters with strangers. Physical fatigue. Small joys. Moments of doubt. Moments of clarity.Her goal is simple. To allow readers to walk the Camino from home.

For Lynn Valley Library, the event continues a tradition of bringing global experiences into a local space. The Community Meeting Room, usually quiet during the day, will transform into a gathering place for stories that cross oceans and centuries.

The Camino itself is more than 1,000 years old. It has drawn religious pilgrims, spiritual seekers, writers, and everyday travellers. In recent years, it has also become a form of slow travel—a way to disconnect from screens and reconnect with the body and landscape.