Endika. Spain. 2018

Endika. Spain. 2018

Endika is from Navarre and lived 35 years alone, in the mountains, having the beach very close – about 20 kilometers – but he lived and always went to the mountain. As a child, at night, he saw the Milky Way with his grandfather and asked him about it. His...
André. Brazil

André. Brazil

In his youth he lived for years with his wife in Germany but never knew anything about the Camino.  It was only years later when he returned to Europe for retirement when he discovered it. It was 1991, he travelled to Spain with his wife, to Madrid, and from there by...
Kristine. United States of America

Kristine. United States of America

She came from the United States with a friend. They both started their Camino together but afterwards they walked a large part of the journey separated, each of them trying to live his own Way. The idea of ​​doing the Camino was hers. She knew the Way because his...
Laura. United States of America

Laura. United States of America

This has been her first Way. She already knew about the Camino de Santiago through films and a documentary she had seen, but it was a friend – with whom she eventually came to Spain – who was responsible for suggesting the Camino as a real possibility to...
Mario. Spain. 2018

Mario. Spain. 2018

In October 1987 he travelled often to Lugo, where he would cross paths with lean backpackers, who were making their weary way up to Lavacolla : these were the pilgrims of 1987. He learned the peregrinero cry, ultreia eia eia !, Up and up !, It was stimulating. He had...
Mark and Jeanette. Canada

Mark and Jeanette. Canada

Mark and Jeanette remember that their first encounter with the Camino was they were at a family reunion and one of Jeanette’s cousins was talking about a pilgrimage walk that she had gone on with a friend. At that time they did not know anything about pilgrimage walks...
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