There is a hostel in Palas de Rei, which has quite a a lot of pictures hanging on the wall. One of them is a frame with only letters, one of those so fashionable now. It was at the back of the common area, there wasn’t much light down there. Thank goodness, because at...
I had heard about the Camino, I knew that it was very good, that there were shelters and I was interested in the possibility of travelling it. I wanted to organize a Camino but it had to be with my dog, I need my guide because I am blind. That is how my first Camino...
This has been our first experience. We decided about a month ago, we both had free time and we wanted to see each other and do something together, something different. The Camino de Santiago seemed to us an interesting experience, even more so in times of Coronavirus....
My name is Adela and I am a 40 year old woman from Madrid. I have done the Camino alone 5 times since 2015. There were different routes and durations but there is one common denominator: the Camino has always given me what I needed at that time. FIFTH WAY. MOLINASECA....
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...
Everything is uncertain for the time being. The countries will not become stable for some time yet, therefore the return to normality will take time before it reaches our immediate environment and the countries that respond to the call of the Camino. There will be...
From the two associations to which I belong and preside over, FICS (International Fraternity of the Camino de Santiago) and the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago de Astorga and Comarca, and we manage shelters and continue to receive calls from both...
The Camino is in quarantine and is preparing to receive us in the future. When we return to it, we will be thankful that this situation that we are living, not only in Spain or Ireland but worldwide, has ended. Those were some words of the pilgrim blessing that Father...
While we wait and worry that worse things are on their way for the Camino de Santiago, the virus has handed some of us the kind of break we sometimes dream of: Sleeping late, cleaning out the cupboards, putting our neglected paperwork in order, un-clogging the...