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[QUOTE="miguel_gp, post: 7410, member: 953"] [b]Following in Abuelo's footsteps[/b] I first heard of the Camino when visiting Galicia in the early nineties with my girlfriend (now my wife). My Mother-In-Law is from Verin, near Galicia's border with Portugal and a cross roads of a camino route from Portugal with a variant of the Via De La Plata. My family and I go there at least once a year and the existence of the Camino routes through Verin and the surrounding countryside has become more prominent in the last 10-15 years due to better signage and promotion by the Xunta de Galicia. I was fascinated with the idea of the Camino but never really thought of doing it myself until I read Shirley MacClaine's book and also found out that my wife's Abuelo had walked to Santiago from Verin (about 180 km) about thirty or forty years ago. I'm forty this year and decided to mark it by walking the Camino from Verin. Like Whalleyranger, I found that very few people I knew in Britain had ever heard of the Camino but I am lucky that two work colleagues and my brother-in-law heard what I was intending to do and asked to come along. We leave Verin on 26th May and having "virtually" travelled the whole route using Alison Raju's guide to the Via De La Plata and Google Earth, I can't wait to get started. I look forward to reading other's accounts of their introduction to the Camino and best wishes to all those doing their first or subsequent Caminos this year. [/QUOTE]
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