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...
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...
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. 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...
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...
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 about doing the...
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...
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...