“1,300 km in 40 days? Have we gone mad?”

I’m Martí, a pupil in my 4th year of secondary school who has already been on several pilgrimages. Even so, when they told me we would be going from Barcelona to Lisbon on foot for WYD, I thought they were pulling my leg. But when I saw they were serious, I couldn’t make sense of it. I thought: “1,300 km in 40 days? Have we gone mad?”. After thinking it over a lot, I signed up because I know it will be the experience of a lifetime, as I’ll grow in how I relate to others and, above all, to God, who is the real reason I’m going.