Sylvia. Germany. 2019
In 2016 Sylvia decided to separate from her husband. They had been together for 25 years but they were not happy and at that moment she decided that it was not possible to continue like this and she left her husband. Her husband was a very demanding and intolerant man...
Antonio. Spain. 2018
He knew about the existence of the Camino from a very young age. He is the son of Galician emigrants to the United States, but in summer he came on holiday to his hometown: Esteiro. On one of those occasions, when he was 7 years old, a cousin took him to see the...
Steve. United States of America
He is 52 years old and a journalist, a journalist with 30 years of experience in the press and magazines. For most of his life and professional career he avoided defining himself as a Christian. He believed in the Bible, he was a person with curiosity about religion...
JUNE ENDS WITH 49,066 COMPOSTELAS DELIVERED! WE SHARE DATA ON THE NATIONALITIES, WAYS, STARTING POINTS…
The month of June ends with 49,066 Compostelas delivered, a record compared with the 45,685 which were delivered the same month in 2018. Once again there are more women than men: 24,720 (50.38%) women and 24,346 (49.62%) men. They arrived 44,744 (91,19%) on foot,...
Tove. Denmark-Australia-China
She was born in Denmark in a very poor family of children, she was the 12th. Her parents were workers with scarce resources and they were not given an education, none of the children had access to an education. They lived in a small, two-roomed house, which was so...
Paolo. Italy
Paolo has done the Camino 18 times. The first was in 1995. He started it for several reasons: he had religious motives, he was curious and that year his father had died. What he learned from his first Way was to be humble and be available to others. He believes that...
46,673 Compostelas delivered in May! We share the nationalities, the routes …
Last May (2019) the Pilgrim’s Office delivered 46,673 Compostelas, a record compared with the 40,665 which where delivered in the same month in 2018. Once again there were more women than men: 24,163 women (51.77%) and 22,510 men (48 , 23%). 43.633 (93.49%)...
Holly & Jeff. United States of America
In 2011 Holly and Jeff found ‘The Way’ through Netflix. At that time, Jeff had heard something about the Camino, but Holly did not know anything. After seeing the film, they both knew that they wanted to go to Spain to walk the Camino, and immediately began to gather...