Hello Jack. My 89th birthday is coming up next month, and I regularly walk, ice skate and swim. I am planning to walk the CF starting from Roncesvalles next spring. Perhaps our paths will cross and we can lift a glass to life.
I’m 76, my wife 74. We’ve been walking pilgrimages every year since 2023, except during COVID. We’ve walked about 4,500k and just crossed the Alps at the Great Saint Bernard Pass on the Via Francigena last summer. We carry our packs. Here are a...
I just had my 90th b'day and I'm planning to do the Camino May 2025, if I'm still in good health. I walk a couple of miles every day in the hills and go to the gym, so if I take it easy on the Camino I think I can do it. I'm looking forward to...
The Camino Planner
As the click-clack of walking sticks fades here in Santiago, the tap-tap of my keyboard picks up with exciting changes planned for 2025.
Earlier this summer, we published the complete content of the Wise Pilgrim guides here...
We always treat every Camino and for that matter everything we do as if it it could be our last. We need to do what we can do, while we can still do it!
I've watched my parents physically decline rapidly in recent years and it has spurred me to...
Like many of my Camino buddies, the years are passing away and while I am not done, I do wonder how many more Caminos are in this 69 year old body. Having walked over 13,000 kilometers on The Camino since that late August day in 2015 when I...
Thank you for trying to save our dear friend Michael's life today. I think it is him you are referring to. We are in shock and will miss him massively. He was a remarkable man.
And he died doing what he loved. Rest in peace dear Michael.
I have been on the Levante for the past 10 days. I have met only 2 other pilgrims so far so I’ve had company every night so far in the albergues.
I have stayed in pilgrim albergues most of the time
None have managers, usually one picks up the key...
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