When I volunteered at the Pilgrims Office in Santiago in 2023, I checked the starting point in the pilgrim's credencial then the last 100 kms (usually Sarria-116 +/-) followed by the "2 cellos" in each of the stages into Santiago. If this was...
To clarify the posts commenting on today's date - December 28th is the Day of the Innocents in Spain, and is treated like April Fool's Day elsewhere with practical jokes...
Frankly, this recurring discussion gives me a headache. All this sidestepping, bus-trecking, excuses to not walk certain stages.
Maybe we all should remember what the Camino is and ever was: a pilgrimage, an effort, a challenge, a way to find...
I walked the Camino Portugues in May and was agog at all the flowers - coming from Maine in the US where winter was just ending. I took photo after photo. Here are just three.
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