He knew about the existence of the Camino from a very young age. He is the son of Galician emigrants to the United States, but in summer he came on holiday to his hometown: Esteiro. On one of those occasions, when he was 7 years old, a cousin took...
He is 52 years old and a journalist, a journalist with 30 years of experience in the press and magazines. For most of his life and professional career he avoided defining himself as a Christian. He believed in the Bible, he was a person with...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...