Hi, Sil. It's true, there's a lot of people who is always working on the Camino, making a very good work daily.
For example, the Association from Barcelona goes to the Camino every third weekend every month to repaint the yellow arrows. Now they now these are "magic" weekends, always defending his Camino.
Alex Rato lives in Lisbon and he has investigated, worked all possible paths, etc, and coordinated all works to paint the Camino Portuguese from Lisbon to Porto. The AGACS was painting it on 2,006.
Paco Serra, the same great work with the Camino del Sureste. I'm not sure, but may be he made ... 12000 photos? may be. The his is a great job, available for you in the AGACS website. Paco is the hospitalero in his town, Novelda.
Laureano, from the Tineo association in Asturias, has worked a lot for the maintenance of yellow arrows and albergues in the Asturias side of the Camino Primitivo. And the AGACS was painting during the past spring the Galician side (I could paint any arrows, too)
Antonio Zorrilla was discovering, working, painting and publishing the historic way between San Sebastian (Camino del Norte) and Santo Domingo de la Calzada (CF) by the Tunel de San Adrian. This Camino receive some pilgrims every year. He made possible to open an albergue in his town, Miranda de Ebro.
The Association from Madrid was marking all the Camino from Madrid to Sahagun. The arrows are perfectly painted. It's a great work.
And all associations, from Seville (VDLP), from Avila (Camino del Sureste), AJOVA (Camino de Madrid) Astorga (CF), Burgos (CF), etc, etc, etc, are working during all the year, giving credentials to pilgrims, maintaining the paths, and working hard. As you probably know, the AGACS was fighting against an important spanish company to defend the
Camino Frances in O Pino because the company wants to build an industrial Polygon. We have stopped this planning. The person who has leaded this important victory defending the Camino is José Antonio de la Riera.
All of you who has walked to Fisterra have met "Bejo", Begoña Valdomar, the hospitalera. It's a hard work to be a hospitalero during two weeks, she does it all the year where the Camino dies because the ocean. She es "great".
Fernando owns an spanish phorum (
http://www.peregrinosasantiago.com).
And, many, many others ... Impossible to refer to all of them ...
Buen Camino,
Javier Martin
Madrid, Spain.