Nicole Bukaty is a French and Spanish teacher in Crieff, Scotland. Originally, from Kraków, Poland, she grew up in London and France and has lived in Colombia, Spain and Russia. She has a BA Joint Hons degree in Philosophy and Hispanic Studies and a MA in Philosophy, both from Kings College London. She obsessively uses up her holidays to walk, totalling just over 5000km on long-distance paths so far, predominantly Camino de Santiago pilgrimages. She mainly hikes solo and adores bonding with fellow pilgrims. Otherwise, her wonderful walking companions are her sister, mother, their cocker spaniels (perrogrinos), her fiancé and their lurcher. In November, while investigating this book, she had a go at bike-packing and although she fell off just before Villanueva del Campeán on Stage 25, she knows shes getting hooked.
