His first Camino was in 2010 and he did it for a promise. He is a deacon in the Catholic Church and for a time he worked with a parish priest who always talked about the Camino de Santiago. He always told him that he was interested and that if at...
Memory of the pilgrimage
Svend. Denmark
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...
Janet. United States of America
She made her first Camino in 2013. About a year previous to that, she used to work as a volunteer at the Indianapolis Film Festival, and it was there that they screened the movie The Way. In that film she recognized something of herself: a desire...
Clinete. Brazil
Clinete Brazil. 2018 She did not know anything about the Camino. She and her husband had lived in Germany for a while, where they returned for the teachers’ retirement pension which was due to her husband for having worked there. They travelled to...
Gianchi. Italy. 2018
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...
María. Spain-Australia
Maria. Spain-Australia, 2018. María is Spanish, but has been living in Australia for 59 years. In 2002, she made a trip to Spain to attend a family wedding. She had recently divorced and, after attending the wedding, decided to tour Galicia with...
Catherine. France
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. She remembers...
Laura. United States of America
This has been her first Way. She already knew about the Camino de Santiago through films and a documentary she had seen, but it was a friend - with whom she eventually came to Spain - who was responsible for suggesting the Camino as a real possibility to plan and...
Mario. Spain. 2018
In October 1987 he travelled often to Lugo, where he would cross paths with lean backpackers, who were making their weary way up to Lavacolla : these were the pilgrims of 1987. He learned the peregrinero cry, ultreia eia eia !, Up and up !, It was stimulating. He had...
Mark and Jeanette. Canada
Mark and Jeanette remember that their first encounter with the Camino was they were at a family reunion and one of Jeanette’s cousins was talking about a pilgrimage walk that she had gone on with a friend. At that time they did not know anything about pilgrimage walks...
Sylvia. Germany. 2019
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...