Walking La Via de la Plata and Camino Sanabres

Nicole Bukaty is a secondary school French and Spanish teacher in Crieff, Scotland. Originally from Krakow, Poland, she grew up in London and France, and has lived in Colombia, Spain and Russia. She has a BA Joint Honours degree in Philosophy and Hispanic Studies and an MA in Philosophy, both from King and #039;s College, London. She obsessively uses up her holidays and weekends to hike mountains or take on long-distance walks, totalling over 7000km so far, predominantly on pilgrim routes. She has even completed 450km all on asphalt from her mother and #039;s house in Ilawa, Poland, to the Polish monastery of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa. She is the author of the Via de la Plata and Camino Sanabres guidebook, and co-author of the Via Francigena in the South of Italy guidebook for Cicerone. Her next projects include books on Scotland and Norway.