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In the 1490s, a German monk called Hermann Künig walked from Vach to Santiago and back again, recording his trip in 651 verses. After the Codex Calixtinus, it is almost certainly the first guidebook to the Camino, and the first to give details on where to stay, what to eat and which innkeeper...

tomorrow I expect to arrive in Ponferrada from the Olvidado. I then have two options: either walk the Invierno again, or try the Via Künig, going through Lugo (capital) for the first time. I loved the Invierno, but it might be good to try a different route. Any opinions, especially from people...

I did the Cistierna to Boñar stage of the Olvidado a week or so ago. Quiet woodland roads, the occasional flooded section, but pretty in the autumn colours, even on a dull day. In Boñar I had to send postcards to one of my brothers and a nephew, both with Bonar as their unusual middle names. The...

One of the two versions of the Allerano variant of the Salvador leaves the Camino Olvidado near Boñar, going up the valley of the Curueño river. A spectacular valley, surrounded by majestic mountains catching the first rays of sun when I arrived there this morning. The fast flowing river is...

Over a couple of caminos, I've got as far as Puente Duero before turning off on to the Levante or Surest. This time I left from Valladolid, wonderful city, and hope to complete the rest of this camino. Leaving in the dark, possibly for the last time in a while, the surburbs going out of...

Two years ago the tourist office in Soria gave me a brochure "experimenta el camino en Soria". One of the suggestions was for a Camino del Sur. Not the one I walked last year from Huelva, but an ancient one largely following the Roman road linking Zaragoza and Astorga. I thought I'd give it a...

Having messed up my train times, I only got to Sagunto after midday, not enough time to start a 30km first day, certainly not with the temperature in the low 30s. So I checked in to a really nice b&b near the station (Domus Atilia, highly recommended), and got a bus to Port Sagunt, starting...

Noted camino video blogger Álvaro Lazaga has just left the Vía de la Plata and is now on the Camino Torres, having decided against doing the Caminho da Estrela from Cáceres. He's spending tonight at Robliza de Cojos, a day's walk from Salamanca. The albergue there has been improved since I...

Ambling aimlessly through central Huelva, I noticed some tourism posters advertising Galicia. A closer look showed that it was the office of the local amigos of the camino. By the luckiest fluke, a couple of them were inside and eager to help one of the relatively few pilgrims who start from...

alansykes submitted a new resource: Acogida on the Camino del Sur between Huelva and Zafra. - Huelva Sur Read more about this resource...

alansykes submitted a new resource: Camí Català albergues from Montserrat - Camí Català albergues from Montserrat Read more about this resource...

Struggling slightly with the 880m of accumulated ascent between Tarazona and Ágreda on the Camino Castellano-Aragonés, Christina Rossetti's poem seemed appropriate: Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to...

Covid having cut my 2020 camino short, I have been fortunate to be able to restart it in 2021 at Montserrat. While supposedly under lockdown, the NHS very kindly provided me with a couple of new knees, the more recent one exactly 6 months ago, so now seems as good a time as any to put them both...

The caminopath Álvaro Lazaga is back on the camino, his 44th, filing daily reports on youtube. He left his (rainy) home town of Benidorm on Monday, heading northwards towards Valencia and Castellón, where he will join the Camino del Bajo Aragón towards Zaragoza. He is hoping it will be legal for...

Saint Andrew's Day. 10 years ago today I was sitting at my first mass in Santiago cathedral, at the time speaking virtually no Spanish, when I picked up the archbishop's list of recently arrived pilgrims and realised that the "uno del Reino Unido, desde Sevilla" must be referring to me. It was...

A few days ago I had a dip in the warm calm waters of the deserted beach at Banyuls. A couple of hours pleasant coastal stroll took me to Cap Cerbère, then up, past a wartime frontier post ("caseta dels Alemanys (Gestapo)", according to maps.me) complete with film crew and machine gun. At the...

I'm in a mountain refuge at 2150m up the side of the Pic du Canigou (hoping to do a camino joining Canigou with Montserrat, two sacred mountains for Catalans). It snowed hard most of the afternoon, probably 10-15cm accumulated here, more higher up. Assume it will be similar on the Route de...

https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/santiago/santiago/2020/09/01/cifra-peregrinos-agosto-duplica-julio-queda-detras-2019/00031598980971275317586.htm At 19,812 compostelas given out in August, twice as many as in July, but only a third the number of August 2019.

The prestigious Premio Elías Valiña 2019 has been won by the Asociación Jacobea de Almería Camino Mozárabe for their work on the Camino Mozárabe from Almería to Granada. Very well deserved, as anybody who has walked from Almería will know. It's the 30th anniversary of Don Elías' death, and the...

I've just reached Granada after walking from Almería. I thought it was fabulous when I first did it three years ago, but the infrastructure is, amazingly, even better now: - they've put what must be an enormous amount of work into the ascent out of the riverbed 4km from Alboloduy, turning it...