North Vancouver District Public Library hosted an evening of travel, reflection, and storytelling at the Lynn Valley Library—and this time, the journey stretched all the way to Spain and Portugal. Local author France Fehr shared stories from her latest book about walking along the Camino de Santiago. For Lynn Valley residents, it was 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.
