Editor's note: Walking to the end of the world

Editor's note: Walking to the end of the world

This July, my family will fly to Spain to walk from the northern city of Santiago to the coastal town of Finisterre, considered – albeit inaccurately – the westernmost point of the Iberian Peninsula. Since around the ninth century, the 90-kilometre footpath to this remote cape has served as an extended postscript to the Camino de Santiago, the medieval pilgrimage that has improbably regained its popularity a millennium later. The story goes that…