Nicole BukatyNicole Bukaty is a secondary school French and Spanish teacher in Perthshire, 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 Honours degree in Philosophy andHispanic Studies and an MA in Philosophy, both from King and #039;s College, London. She obsessively uses up her holidays and weekends to hike mountains or take on long-distance walks, totalling about 9000km so far, predominantly on pilgrim routes. She has even completed 450km all on asphalt from her mother and #039;s house in Ilawa, Poland, to the Polish monastery of Jasna Góra in Czestochowa. She is the author of the Vía de la Plata and Camino Sanabrés guidebook, 15 Short Walks Perthshire North guidebook, and co-author of the Via Francigena Part 4 guidebook for Cicerone. Her next project is a guidebook to the Gudbrandsdalsleden St Olav Way hike in Norway. Read More Read Less