His first Camino was when he was 56 years old, the age at which he could retire. “I wanted to do something new and to take my mind off this moment of great change in my life. I had worked for 40 years in the same job and at that moment I wanted to...
Svend has suffered from depressions since 2009. That year he suffered a particularly strong depression and his therapist recommended that he walk. He found information about the Camino and decided to come to Spain and visit it. His first experience...
As is the case with many Americans, Shari learned about the Camino watching the movie, “The Way”. When she saw it, she wondered if this was a real place and decided to do some research to see if the Camino de Santiago was real or just Hollywood. As...
Some 8 or 9 years ago she was listening to the radio when she heard a piece of music that she liked a lot. She wondered what it could be, and when it finished she knew that it was a violinist who had recorded an album on the Camino. Oliver Schroer...
Catherine has known the Camino for a long time. She remembers that she was about 35 years old and was working in the advertising world when a colleague told her that he was going to do the Camino de Santiago. The idea pleased her and surprised her....
Twenty years ago Julie read Shirley MacLaine's book about the Camino de Santiago. She well remembers that time because she was pregnant with her daughter and she thought: "I want to do that". But she was pregnant and was also a single mother, so...
I am 81 years old. I retired in 2002 and cared for my sick mother until 2004. In 2006 I decided to take my 15-year-old great-niece to do a seminar in O Grove and, from there, one weekend we went to visit Santiago. At the Obradoiro we saw the...
My contact with the Camino de Santiago was quite accidental. One day while surfing the internet, I came across a video that spoke of that wonderful journey and I was immediately struck by it. I had no doubt that, at some point, life would take me...
I am Dutch, I am 24 years old and I have just finished my studies. I am blind, and when I was born I had 10 percent vision, but only until I was 6. Now, I can only distinguish the differences between light and dark. I practice sports and I like to...
Bycios discovered the Camino de Santiago in the 90s through magazines, especially those with a medieval theme, but also some of the "new age" world, although he was interested in actually doing it. His life went on, in the year 2000 he got married...
Aaron arrived in Santiago with his friend Michael, the two having just walked together from Astorga. They met in a congress concerning Spanish national exams, a congress in which between two and three thousand teachers meet. They became friends...
I live in California and I am an English teacher, but I also write. I have written poetry for children and I have been published in some anthologies, I have also written poetry about my experience and I continue to write. In my poetry I speak of...
Llega a Santiago después de recorrer el Camino Primitivo, antes había caminado por casi todas las rutas: dos veces el Camino Central Portugués desde Valença, también el Camino de Fisterra-Muxía, el Camino Inglés, el Camino Francés desde O Cebreiro; la Vía de la Plata...
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...
In 2002 I heard about the Camino for the first time. It was from a friend who had come to walk it and I liked the idea. Then I wanted to do it, but I wanted to wait for a suitable moment. And this moment finally appeared. It was a moment of closing one circle, and the...
Michael is a Hispanist. The first time he heard about the Camino was in the years 84-85. He was in Castellón de la Plana, he had just completed his teaching practice and he decided to travel with his wife through Spain. On their journey they passed through Zamora and...
I was sick and spent a lot of time in the hospital. From my bed I could see a mountain in front of the window and I used to imagine myself barefoot on it, there, touching the ground with my feet. I knew that the Camino de Santiago existed because in my adolescence I...