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Lesley the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of American Pilgrims on the Camino hosts events and walks for people interested in walking or who have walked the Camion de Santiago. For those of us who live in Northern Virginia our local chapter is the Mid-Atlantic (there are chapters all over the US)...
Welcome LDennis! If you can walk 10-12 miles without any problem then you are set to go. Don't know where in Norther Virginia you live but if you live anywhere near the Manassas Battlefields those are good practice grounds. That's where I practice (I live in Centreville). The mid Atlantic...
Is she as excited about walking as you are? My husband and I took our two boys with us in 2015. We walked from Sarria to Santiago they were experiencing a state of digital withdraw-no xbox. They were mad! They hated the camino! After we arrived to our hotel in Santiago my husband and I were...
We have have walked from Sarria to Santiago in 2015. We were 45 yrs and 47 yrs and the kids were 10yrs and 13yrs. We are in pretty good shape and we practiced and it was not easy! It took us 6 days. We would start walking at about 9:30am and end around 4:00pm. The last day we arrived...
You don't need to go to confession to get a compostela but your son must walk all of the last 100km into Santiago and have 2 stamps per day to show that he walked.
Yes, it's possible. We walked with two kids ages 10 and 13 and we walked again when they were 12 and 15yrs old. The first time we walked from Sarria to Santiago (it took 6 days) two years later we walked from Ourense to Santiago (also took 6 days). Both times we slept in and didn't begin...
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