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
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
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
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...
Summer in Santiago: despite the heat the city is full of pilgrims!
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...
Verano en Compostela – Summer in Compostela
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...