• For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here.
    (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation)

Search 69,459 Camino Questions

Advanced search…

Search results for query: *

  • Users: Felipe
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. Felipe

    Latest celebrity in the Camino

    The sport newspaper Marca reports today that the coach of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazario, is doing the Camino de Invierno, after he vowed to do it if his club gained the promotion to first division. Ronaldo is well known by football fans, an awesome and very feared striker, former player of...
  2. Felipe

    A Visigoth necropolis found near Grañón and the Camino

    The archaeologists who carry out the inspection and possible rescue prior to the expansion of the A-12 motorway, between Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Villamayor have found a huge Visigothic necropolis, from VI or VII century, near Grañón (first thought was that they have discovered a mass...
  3. Felipe

    Catedral de Santiago, in Google Arts Project

    The Cathedral is announcing new "virtual tours" on Portico de la Gloria, with notes on iconography, unknown aspects and restoration. It is in Spanish; I tried but did not find an English version. Maybe it is just the predetermined option of my browser. I really enjoyed it; hope you do, too...
  4. Felipe

    Accomodations from Carcassonne to Lourdes

    Friends, I am planning a walk between Carcassonne and Lourdes for (hopefully) next year. This will be a "prequel" of my previous walk, from Lourdes to Pamplona. The main problem I am finding is accommodation...There are many guides (in French) with info, but all seem to be copying the same...
  5. Felipe

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD The last pilgrim on the Camino

    The newspaper "El Pais" interviewed today the guardia civiles tasked with catching (and fining) people who don't respect the quarantine or try to cheat it with different pretexts. A case caught my eye: it has the subtitle of "The last peregrino on the Camino". This is a translation on the fly...
  6. Felipe

    Camino Stamps in Guardia Civil quarters

    The Guardia Civil is implementing places to stamp credenciales in their quarters. They are available in Belorado, Castrojeriz and Burgos; I hope the programme will be extended. Look for the plaque of two watchful guardias, the emblem of the corps, the vieira and the phrase "Seguridad y...
  7. Felipe

    New albergues in Tours route, and other ways

    The good people of ACIR Compostelle, Toulouse, have sent their last newsletter (you can subscribe). Amongst other things, three new albergues/gîtes d' étapes, one in the Turonensis, in Poitiers, close to the beautiful old church of Saint-Hilaire le Grand (webpage here), and the others in less...
  8. Felipe

    Café Buen Camino - Mexico city

    You can’t usually meet lots of Mexican (or Mexican based) pilgrims in the Camino, but probably you have noticed that there are always some. I remember a day in the Pequeño Potala in Ruitelan, where casually there were four or us, we met some Texan fellows who liked “rancheras” and the night...
  9. Felipe

    Via Garona. New transversal GR / Chemin: Toulouse to SB de Comminges

    A brand new GR (marked as 861) has been officialy opened with a walk last July 1st. It goes by 170 km, mostly along the Garonne river; hence the name. It connects Toulouse (in the Arles way) to Saint Bertrand de Comminges (in the Piedmont way). And actually, brave souls can also walk to/from...
  10. Felipe

    A pilgrim's guide to Toulouse

    Felipe submitted a new resource: A pilgrim's guide to Toulouse - A short guide to the Ville Rose Read more about this resource...
  11. Felipe

    Jean-Christophe Rufin, Immortelle Randonnée. A pilgrim's review

    Felipe submitted a new resource: Jean-Christophe Rufin, Immortelle Randonnée. A pilgrim's review - Review, books about the pilgrimage to Compostelle Read more about this resource...
  12. Felipe

    Sarria - SdeC in December (2017)

    Last year, after much hesitation, I finished my pilgrimage with the Sarria-SdeC stages. I had somewhat avoided them in my previous walks, for no particular reasons. Just kind of a feeling... Well, at the end it was, uhm, just ok. So I have decided to give them another try, this time in December...
  13. Felipe

    Giving directions

    A question....what do you do when somebody asks you for the right direction in the Camino? That happens sometimes to me...I guess that people suppose that wisdom comes with age, although as you know, this is not necessarily true. :p I always study thoroughly maps and guides, even browse Google...
  14. Felipe

    Two pilgrims lost and found in SJPP-Roncesvalles

    Spanish newspapers report that two British pilgrims got lost in the SJPP-Roncesvalles stage and were rescued yesterday. They reportedly survived five days drinking water from streams and cattle abreuvoirs. Finally, they decided to ask for help (a phone call?), and rescue teams from Burguete...
  15. Felipe

    Where have the old markers gone?

    If you have walked recently the Camino frances, you will probably have noticed that the Xunta (the Galicia government) replaced the old "mojones" or markers (dated from 1986) with brand new ones. This caused a polemic in Spain (with even a petition in change.org), because many people...
  16. Felipe

    New Gîtes on the Arles Way

    The Newsletter of the good friends of ACIR Compostella, Toulouse, informs about three new albergues or gîtes: - Toulouse, gîte L'Etape, Marie et Vincent welcome walkers in 8 rue Lionel Terray (5 minutes from métro Barrière de Paris, ligne B). lesdavid.toulouse@gmail.com - Agnès et Olivier...
  17. Felipe

    Camino de San Frutos

    The "Adelantado", a Segovia's newspaper, and a group of volunteers are promoting the Camino de San Frutos. This Saint was a 8th century hermit (also known as "the fowler" :) ) , who is the local saint patron. This started as a program for the reintegration of inmates (which, if you want to know...
  18. Felipe

    LIVE from the Camino Cold wave in Spain

    A cold wave arrived in Spain, the first in the latest three years, and will remain up to Sunday, or even Tuesday. The note (sorry, in Spanish) and a video here . The official report here. Basically (for us), extreme weather has been registered in some places of Camino, as Carrión de los...
  19. Felipe

    Intrigued about mecapalli (tumpline)

    Indians in Mexico and Guatemala used mecapalli (Spanish, mecapal, in English, tumpline, see images at http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/artefacts/carrying-frame) to carry weights, because in pre-hispanic times there were not beasts of burden. Afterward, donkeys and mules were and are favored...
  20. Felipe

    New monument-sculpture to pilgrims in Sariegos (Camino del Salvador)

    The president of the Diputación de León has inaugurated last 9/9 a 'Monument to pilgrims', described as a "monolith sculpture", in the stage of Carbajal de la Legua - Cabanillas, not far from León. See an image here. The artist is Carlos Cuenllas. It is as...well, I honestly can't describe it...

❓How to ask a question

How to post a new question on the Camino Forum.

Latest posts

This site is run by Ivar at

in Santiago de Compostela.
This site participates in the Amazon Affiliate program, designed to provide a means for Ivar to earn fees by linking to Amazon
Official Camino Passport (Credential) | 2024 Camino Guides
Back
Top