Holy Year 2021: Anton Pombo. Journalist, researcher, writer, pilgrim.
TO ALL THOSE PILGRIMS WHO KEPT THE LIGHT OF PILGRIMAGE GOING IN THIS DIFFICULT YEAR, AND TO ALL THE HOSTEL-KEEPERS WHO WELCOME THEM. Antón Pombo. Anton Pombo. Journalist, researcher, writer, pilgrim. Picture: pilgrim crossing the Pyrenees in the ascent to the Col de...
Holy Year 2021: Paul Garland. Hostel-keeper and pilgrim.
Greetings from Albergue Castrotarafe in Fontanillas de Castro, on the Vía de la Plata just north of Zamora. It’s been a strange year of course, with just a few dozen pilgrims staying since people started walking again in July. Ramiro, now 90 years old, is still...
Holy Year 2021: Ana Barreda. Hospitaleros Voluntarios (Spanish Federation of Friends of the Camino de Santiago)
This sinister year has ended: this leap year 2020 has not failed to correspond to its popular image. The atmosphere seems to be full of the desire to leave behind this time which has changed us globally and amidst sorrows, uncertainties and pessimism the old desire...
Année Sainte 2021: Benedicte. Pèlerin et guide.
Le camino est dans notre coeur. Bonjour à tou(te)s, Depuis de nombreuses années, j’ai le plaisir de marcher sur le Camino de Compostelle dans la Péninsule Ibérique. Chaque fois, c’est une expérience et un vécu extrêmement riches sur le plan humain. Partir...
A miraculous Way: Almost 600 pilgrims took the Compostela in November and mostly foreigners!
Despite Covid-19 the Camino resists! In the worst of the second wave, numerous difficulties and territorial closures, the city of Santiago itself closed, but 586 pilgrims took the Compostela! The miracle of the Camino is consolidated and, in addition, with the highest...
Magical corners of Santiago: Chillida sculpture in San Domingos de Bonaval Park
The Camino resists: 6,418 Compostelas in October, and foreigners were already more than 40%!
We continue to review the monthly figures of pilgrims: Despite the Covid-19 the Camino resists! In the middle of the second wave, numerous difficulties and territorial closures, 6,418 pilgrims took the Compostela! There were no problems, no complaints or great...
Dr. Guylene Gigi Tree: Long-distance pilgrim and Camino author
Dr. Guylene Gigi Tree is a pilgrim from California with three Caminos behind her, a book based on these experiences, and a second book scheduled for publication by the end of the year. She has travelled the USA giving lectures, meetings and conferences and spreading...