Walking from Canterbury to Santiago de Compostela – with a trombone.
After the girl he loved was killed by armed robbers in Belize, Ben Nimmo did what any rational human being would and decided to walk from one of the greatest European medieval pilgrim sites to another – Canterbury to Santiago de Compostela in Spain – in her memory, taking with him his trombone and busking for charity.
His journey was packed with bizarre encounters and amusing incidents, unusual characters and touching moments. From pulling a corpse from a Belgian canal to teaching the five-year-old daugher of a Burgundian farmer to play the trombone in return for tractor driving lessons; from being invited to stay with a neo-nazi anti-bloodsports activist to the European championship of boules – with square balls; from discussing life, religion and Dixieland jazz with a lay brother in a Luxembourg monastery to chicken worship in a provincial Spanish cathedral. Nimmo explores the historical wealth of Europe – the wool farms of Flanders, the Cather castles of Languedoc, the twentieth century battlefields and pre-historic caves – considers Santiago pilgrims past, present and future, and makes new friends everywhere with the help of his trusty trombone.
The perfect escapist travel narrative, peppered with gloriously funny anecdotes, from a keen observer of people and places.
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