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To anyone who just finished the Camino these past few days, or who will be finishing the Camino today or tomorrow:
If you'll have finished the Camino by tomorrow night and if you'll be in Santiago, you're invited to an evening of food...
In case it’s helpful for those who are looking to start their Sanabres walk from Granja de Moruela:
Last week, when I reached Granja de Moruela while walking the via de la plata, I continued north to Astorga as I wanted to finish the Plata and...
Something I came across earlier today which sounded interesting. The Ourense local council and a public service organisation are running a project where local people can walk from Ourense to Santiago as a series of 5 Sunday walks. Transport...
If you show this Gronze page:
https://www.gronze.com/ruta-lana/informacion
You can then click on the link:
Ruta de la Lana, 2023
It will provide you with a PDF which lists the accomodation.
Here there is other information...
I don’t know if the legend of pico Sacro is common knowledge on the Forum, but here is my simplistic understanding. Saint James’s two disciples arrived from the holy land looking for a place to bury the body. The pagan Reina Lupa told them to...
Everybody who has walked the Camino Francés knows the albergue in Manjarin. An albergue for six pilgrims, without water and electricity, but full of hospitality.
Tomás Martinez de Paz started this albergue in 1993 in an old, abandoned school in...
I wrote this long-winded post to address some of the recent concerns, comments and questions regarding this route, and I hope some might find it useful. I flew from Dublin to Lourdes on the 18th of April, took the train to Pau and started walking...
Empresa Vivas bus operate daily from Zamora bus station to Granja de la Moreruela. You will need to get one of the services marked P, which stop in most of the villages (pueblos), and not one marked D for Directo. Vivas buses are light yellow...
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