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A few days ago the Camino de Santiago Albergue was born. A Social Network (a lot like Facebook). At the albergue it is easy to share photos and videos, and with the “Groups”feature, there is no limits to the number of Camino related sub-forums that can be created. GROUPS Another thing that I think could be useful [...]
Philip is a member of our Camino de Santiago forum. He has just finished the Camino and has written his experiences and many good advice. He says: Now, in my life so far I have been around quite a bit. Among other things, I have trekked mountain gorillas in Rwanda, swum with tortoises in the Galapagos, [...]
People have traveled to Santiago de Compostela for hundreds of years. Some walking, some on horseback and some on bikes. Today I saw, what looked like an “Off Road” segway that looks like it was used to “walk” the Camino de Santiago. I saw it parked in the reception at a pension in Santiago de Compostela. As [...]
[tube]QfLG-2tSSoA[/tube] The video above shows a press conference in Santiago were the Catholic Church in Santiago presented their plan for next years Holy Year celebrations. Fore those not fluent in Galician, here are some points:
There will be 6 pilgrims masses per day. There will be a max of 1200 people allowed into the cathedral at any time. [...]
The pilgrims form gets many new members each week, but this week one special person signed up and share his story. He walked the Camino de Santiago in 1988 and tells his story in this post.
Because I started in Pamplona in July the bulge of those headed to Santiago for the feast day was well [...]
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This series of articles was compiled by Johnnie Walker for the Confraternity of St James and with their kind permission they are reproduced here. This week in our pilgrimage series we read extracts from the diary of a pilgrim who walked the best known route to Santiago de Compostela – the Camino Francés. Marion Marples from London spent [...]
This series of articles was compiled by Johnnie Walker for the Confraternity of St James and with their kind permission they are reproduced here. Last year over 100,000 pilgrims walked or rode on horseback or bicycle to Santiago de Compostela in North West Spain. Just less than half were Spanish, the others coming from 114 different countries around [...]
This series of articles was compiled by Johnnie Walker for the Confraternity of St James and with their kind permission they are reproduced here.
Journey’s End All routes to Santiago de Compostela end at the great Cathedral which dominates this beautiful medieval town. Therein lies the tomb of the Apostle St James who has inspired millions of pilgrims for [...]
This series of articles was compiled by Johnnie Walker for the Confraternity of St James and with their kind permission they are reproduced here. Each year 100,000 people walk to Santiago de Compostela in North-west Spain. They take many routes following in the footsteps of pilgrims of the middle ages. The most famous route is the Camino Francés [...]