I always wanted to do the Camino de Santiago and, although at first I had no special reason, I wanted to live that experience and the moment came in 2006. I left Roncesvalles, attended the mass and blessing of the pilgrim at the Collegiate Church,...
Lorenzo Merín is one of those pilgrims for whom the Camino has changed life, someone who never tires of saying that the pilgrimage to Santiago is the best therapy, because he knows full well what that means. In addition, he is a pilgrim who,...
I am Alina from Romania, I was around 20 years old when I first heard about the Camino de Santiago. It was on TV, a presenter of a television program recounted her experience of the Camino, it fascinated me and at the same time I admired her act of...
I started travelling the Camino in June 2010, after a moment of personal crisis. I was ruined financially and my girlfriend had thrown me out of her apartment. I had a car and slept in that by the river, in Hamburg. I had no more than 500 euros...
I met the Way through friends who had done it. I am a nurse and I do not have many vacations in the summer, while the friend with whom I wanted to do it is a teacher and was only available in summer. For this reason I had to consider doing it...
Bryan joined the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland in 1990 and it was there that he became aware of the Camino de Santiago. Members of his organization travelled on the camino with the intention of collecting funds and so in 1993 Bryan, who was...
This has been my first Way. I had known of the Way since 1998, when I learned of its existence in the cathedral of Reims (Champaigne). There I saw a bronze sculpture on the ground with a shell, I asked her mother what it was and she explained that...
When she was 29 years old, Isabel read a book by Paolo Coelho called ‘The Pilgrimage’. She was very interested, but at that time her professional life was beginning and she also had her son, whom she raised alone, so it was not the moment to think...
Jorge made his pilgrimage with his family, with his partner and his daughter of only a few months old. His partner is French and he is Spanish, and they met on the Camino in 2005. For him it was his second Camino, he had already done it in 2004....
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...
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...
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...
This has been our first experience. We decided about a month ago, we both had free time and we wanted to see each other and do something together, something different. The Camino de Santiago seemed to us an interesting experience, even more so in times of Coronavirus....
My name is Adela and I am a 40 year old woman from Madrid. I have done the Camino alone 5 times since 2015. There were different routes and durations but there is one common denominator: the Camino has always given me what I needed at that time. FIFTH WAY. MOLINASECA....
I always wanted to do the Camino de Santiago and, although at first I had no special reason, I wanted to live that experience and the moment came in 2006. I left Roncesvalles, attended the mass and blessing of the pilgrim at the Collegiate Church, and the next day I...
Lorenzo Merín is one of those pilgrims for whom the Camino has changed life, someone who never tires of saying that the pilgrimage to Santiago is the best therapy, because he knows full well what that means. In addition, he is a pilgrim who, through what he considers...
I am Alina from Romania, I was around 20 years old when I first heard about the Camino de Santiago. It was on TV, a presenter of a television program recounted her experience of the Camino, it fascinated me and at the same time I admired her act of courage: to go...