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The Only Way Is West

A Once in a Lifetime, 500 Mile Adventure Walking Spain’s Camino de Santiago

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The international best seller.

What would you do if you're given a €20 note in Greece with an email address scribbled on it:

  1. Spend it?
  2. Slip the suspect counterfeit bill into an enemy’s birthday card?
  3. Send an email, hoping it will lead to you finding everlasting love?

Brad, a hopeless romantic, chose the latter.

Two years later, his love life remains a disaster and his career is misfiring. As he’s about to walk Spain’s fabled Camino de Santiago to ponder some profound life changes, Brad receives a reply. Incredibly, it’s from a woman who lives on the 1000-year-old pilgrimage trail, far away from where the money first crossed his palm. She invites him to sleep..."on her house".

Hiking 900km on the Road to Santiago to a blind date with the mystery €20 woman, he meets fellow pilgrims and natives who make him believe more than ever in the kindness of the human spirit, befriends a Hungarian who speaks English in song titles and has his raison d’être revealed to him by a barefoot Mayan mystic. Will he meet his happily-ever-after along the way too?

Buy this pacy, laugh-out-loud travelogue to find out now...

  • Best seller in the UK - Humorous essays, travelogues, and religious travel categories.
  • Best seller in the USA - Sports essays, ecotourism, and literary travel.
  • Best seller in Canada - Humorous essays and travelogues.
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  • Best seller in India - Religious travel.
©2019 Bradley Chermside (P)2020 Bradley Chermside
Europe Travel Writing & Commentary Western Europe Comedy Witty Funny Inspiring Feel-Good Walking Travel

Critic reviews

"An inspiring, touching, heartfelt and funny memoir that made me howl with laughter throughout. A wonderful read." (Kevin Hand, BBC London)

"This book would be a great read for anyone planning their own Camino, or for those who like adventure and travel memoirs written with honesty, emotion and humour." (French Village Diaries)

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Thoroughly enjoyed this, one day I too hope to walk the Camino. It has inspired me to not give up on my dream, many thanks

Brilliant!

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this book is uplifting and entertaining
I want to walk the Camino now
thank you

well done Brad

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excellent tale, well narrated and entertaining to the last. informative and uplifting told with humour

very good

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I believe what made this story enjoyable is that I listened to it while walking the Camino. There were many instances and places I could relate to.

Listening while walking the Camino

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I listened to this book whilst during my many walks whilst training for the Camino de Santiago. I found this book really funny and the narration excellent. This book is an honest narration of the author's walk through the Camino and the many pilgrims he meets through his journey. I really enjoyed this book.

Very funny story and narration

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