Pilgrims,
If you're walking the Camino right now and will be in Santiago by Christmas Eve, you're invited to our Christmas Eve party! It's always a good time of gathering with other peregrinos on this special night.
The festivities go from 8pm -...
As you surely know, Christmas is a very special time of the year in Spain, my home country.
All the streets and buildings are decorated, we gather with family and friends and sing christmas carols, eat a lot, and party as much as we can . Well...
I'll be covering both these routes in this post, because I walked them both recently (except for the last stage of the Torres). There are a number of similarities between the two, but there are differences. You can certainly walk either one...
The next minor update, for the end of next week, will add the option to include accommodation that is not currently listed as well as to include your own notes.
A few other bugs have appeared, and some embarrassing misspellings, but those will...
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...
Hello again!
I just published The Camino Francés: My Illustrated Camino Diary 2. I walked the Francés for the second time (and went on to Muxía and Fisterra) in the summer of 2023 and drew/painted and wrote this sketchbook diary every day of my...
For planning, my recommendation is to determine how many days you think that you will need to walk the Camino, then add a week. Now you've got a week "in the bank" to use if you get sick, injured, realize that you can't or don't want to walk the...
There is the California Mission Walk, but I think that it suffers from being too spread out in parts and too built up in others.
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