He went back to university to do his thesis corrections and one day, chatting with his landlady about what to do next, she mentioned she was doing the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage crossing northern Spain. He decided that would be a good way to clear his head and went with her. She quit after the first few days, but he stayed and by the end of the trek he had managed to fall in love. He drifted for the next few years, following his new girlfriend to Italy, Norway, Canada, and back to the United Kingdom as she moved around for her research work.
