And because we were on pilgrimage long before Gen Z turned it into a TikTok fashion here are our shrinecations near you.
All of which is timely, and not just because it’s never been a better time to get off the mad path the world has chosen.
But because ten years after we first explored the most famous trek of all, The Camino Way.
We’re following our own footsteps and taking on the Portuguese Coastal Camino with our go-to providers CaminoWays.
Traditional Caminos, of course, started outside our own doorsteps and that’s where we’re beginning here.
World Expeditions or its Euro brands, UTracks and Walkers’ Britain & Europe, kick us off.
On the BBC series Pilgrimage: The Road to Holy Island.
The Holy Island
We’ve been here before but we’ve never been worried about retracing our steps.
And Walk Northumberland Coast Path & Lindisfarne.
A seven-day self-guided with Walkers’ Britain & Europe.
Replicate the journey of the BBC’s celebrity pilgrims with highlights.
Including walking the St Cuthbert’s Pilgrim route over the causeway to Holy Island.
And visiting ancient castles at Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh and Lindisfarne and staying in fishing villages Alnmouth, Seahouses and Craster.
From £860pp, daily departures from April-September.
Man alive
And because the isle that Finn MacCool created, the Isle of Man, is more than just daredevil TT motorcyclists, walk this way.
As the bird flies the nine-day self-guided Isle of Man Coastal Path: The Way of the Seagull is a 100-mile route.
Walkers’ Britain & Europe will map out your walk which overlaps with many sections of the Raad Ny Foillan Pilgrimage Trail.
You’ll take in cultural heritage towns such as Castletown and Peel, while WB&E want us to try some sea swimming too.
You’ll pass the remains of Celtic chapels, clifftop carved crosses and remnants of island life in times gone by.
From £990pp, daily departures from April-October.
Mingle on the Dingle
And while I’ll probably be having a glass of wine before my red-eye out to start the Camino, our Irish pals do things differently.
Irish pilgrims would traditionally sail from the south-west for Finisterre, so for the hardy you could bolt on UTracks’ The Kerry Camino.
A six-day self-guided tour with UTracks in the Kingdom of Kerry.
And an exploration of the wild Atlantic coast on foot.
And the chance to immerse yourself in the music and culture of Dingle.
On a lesser-known camino which we’ll call the Camino with the Craic.
From £720pp, daily departures April-October.