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The article below indicates that this represents more than 10-fold increase in the number of U.S residents receiving the Compostela in little more than ten years. It attributes much of this growth to the popularity of the film The Way.
Personally, when I did my first walk on the Camino in 2016...
While recently working on an article on Diego Velazquez I discovered some interesting facts that I wanted to share.
Most of you, if not all, might have seen the Cross of Santiago emblazoned on Velazquez’s tunic in his signature work ‘Las Meninas.’ The story of how it got there is very...
The peregrino started his walk in Burgundy, France and passed through Burgos recently. He would like to return home from Santiago following Camino del Norte. While one can appreciate his resilience, one can also feel sorry for the donkey.
Recently I returned to the Camino Frances for a fourth time. It's time to organize images from my trips & put them into context. Here is my first installment to be followed by two more soon...
I'm preparing for my fourth Camino walk in May. The current CDC travel advice for Spain for Americans reads: Avoid travel to Spain indicating a very high level of Covid-19 in Spain.
What continues to surprise me is that the Covid vaccination rate in the Iberian Peninsula has been one of the...
As many of you may already know, EU's Digital COVID Certificate has gone live as of today. The link below provides the details.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response/safe-covid-19-vaccines-europeans/eu-digital-covid-certificate_en
While writing a piece on lilacs recently (see below), I had an uncanny feeling that I had seen them somewhere on Camino Francis during one of my walks. But I couldn't recall exactly where I had seen them. I posed a question on a thread on flowers on this forum asking if anyone have seen lilacs...
I know that Elías Valiña Sampedro pioneered the use of yellow arrow signs on Camino Francis beginning in St. Jean. Have the yellow arrow signs been adopted on all other routes (including Camino Portuguese) to Santiago too?
My friend and I plan on covering part of the Meseta (Castrojerirz to Sahagun) on a bike. Is this part of the Meseta paved? If not, is it graveled? How easy is it to maneuver your bike on this surface?
I received my certificate at the conclusion of my walk on Camino Francis last month. I presume the language of the certificate is in Latin. Does anyone have any idea of how the certificate would read in English?
Two of the flower/plant varieties made our walk on the Pamplona-Logrono leg on the Camino this past May most spectacular and memorable were the red poppies and yellow flowers all through the journey. We asked a number of pilgrims what those yellow flowers were and we received more that one...
If it rains, how muddy does the descent from Alto de Perdon get? While from some of the clips on this forum the descent appears to be rocky, does it also get very muddy during rain? I heard that the mud during or following rain could be almost ankle high. If that's the case, cleaning your...
I will be on my first Camino beginning in the second week in May. I will start from Pamplona. I just wanted to know how the stretch between Pamplona and Logorono is. Is it mostly uphill and rugged or is it mostly up and down? How hard is it and what to expect? Any insight would be much appreciated.
It seems that Mundicamino (web: Mundicamino.com) provides one of the most comprehensive information available about the Camino. I continue to be impressed with the the most knowledgeable information they provide in one place.
Has anyone used them for self-guided tours? It would be interesting...
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