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...
Memory of the pilgrimage
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...
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...
Arlindo. Portugal
In 2018 he arrived in Santiago after travelling the Camino Primitivo. Before he had walked almost all the routes: twice the Portuguese Central Way from Valença, also the Camino de Fisterra-Muxía, the Camino Inglés, the Camino Francés from O...
Henrique. Portugal. 2019
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...
Frank. Germany
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...
Jelka. Slovenia
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...
Jaime. Spain. 2018
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. Portugal. 2018
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”...
Darren. South Africa. 2018
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...
Jean Pierre. Belgium
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...
Rosana. Argentina. 2018
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...
Alina. Romania
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...
Steffen. Germany
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 left, I had lost...
Lani. United States
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 alone. I started to...
Bryan & Mary. Ireland
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 studying Spanish...
Kellie. Australia
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 it was an indication...