{"id":355,"date":"2026-09-05T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T09:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pilgerpause.com\/de\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:25:07","slug":"our-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pilgerpause.com\/en\/our-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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With kids? Just go!<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Five people with backpacks. Three children. 200 euros a week.

<\/strong>In the summer of 2013, a family sets off on foot \u2013 from the eastern Algarve to Santiago de Compostela. Not to walk the Camino. Not to set any records. But to find out whether Portugal might become their new home.

What follows is not a heroic tale, but an honest and humorous account of everyday life on the road, filled with all sorts of places, unexpected encounters, curious experiences and small disasters: nights spent on the beach, new friends, duck discipline, flower-covered waterfalls, bamboo forests, lonely walks through the mist, the forces of nature, the dragon dames, XXL ice-cream cakes, the Rumblemobile, layers of grime, kamikaze mosquitoes, the pilgrim highway \u2013 and the big question of whether an entire country can really be discovered on foot.

An autobiographical family travel diary novel about family life, improvisation, melon phobia and the freedom to take new paths \u2013 told with a good dose of self-irony, honest thoughts and the conviction that the right answers will eventually find their way to you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sketch of Our Walking Route<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For a better overview, showing the places that mattered most to us. (And yes, I have cheerfully ignored the actual proportions.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book Preview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n