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...
Henrique is in love with the Camino de la Geira that links Braga and Santiago de Compostela, a Path to whose recovery he has contributed and continues to contribute through the writing of guides and in providing information and support to the...
He is retired and loves to travel the pilgrimage routes, he can afford to travel many, to follow from a sanctuary as in the Middle Ages. He loves the Way because in it he can find people who, in his opinion, really understand the world and life. He...
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...
She met the Camino de Santiago thanks to a work colleague, he told her about the Camino in 2000. She met up with the Camino again in 2008, when she was traveling with friends with whom she had studied at school. They were celebrating the 40 years...
He was born in Santiago 62 years ago. His first Camino was by bicycle, about ten or eleven years ago, and he traveled this way because he had inherited the bicycle of a Chilean pilgrim. His son had met a pilgrim, a Chilean man who asked him where...
José is very involved with the Camino de Santiago. In his country he belongs to two different associations: the Associação Espaço Jacobeus (Confraria de São Tiago) and the Associação de Peregrinos Via Lusitana. He is also member and “hospitalero”...
His first Camino was the French Way. He walked from Saint-Jean-Pie-de-Port in 2013. He had just left a job, a stable and secure job but one that made him unhappy and threatened his health. He left work at the end of March and by May he was already...
He remembers the first time he heard about the Camino: it was on television, Luc Arbogast sang a song he liked a lot, then they interviewed him and said it was a medieval song on the Camino de Santiago. He also remembers that shortly after that, at...
In 1981, she and a friend to be came to Spain with a pass to travel Europe by train (Eurailpass). She remembers that they took a train in Vegadeo to go to Ferrol, Coruña and Vigo, but when looking at the map she saw Santiago she suggested to her...
She learned of the Camino only two years ago. Things had happened in her life that lead her to the Camino. Many life events occurred in a short period of time. Retiring, caring and death of her mother, six months later also her father pasted away....
Paul began his working life in the world of telecommunications, but around the year 2000 he changed his life. His children were already grown up and he and his wife divorced, it was a time of many changes. He began a new life working with...
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. Now they live together...
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 she could not think of...
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...
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...
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...