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  1. alexwalker

    Collecting garbage - A duty for conscious pilgrims?

    On my next camino (sept. or so, I think) I am going to bring a bag each day and pick up garbage. I have often done this, but not systematically. Why do it? I am tired of seeing empty plastic bottles (weighs nothing), empty sigarette packs (weighs nothing) etc etc along the trails. If I put it...
  2. Dave H.

    Seeking volunteer opportunties

    My wife and I are looking for a long-term volunteer opportunity on the CPC route, ideally with room and board included. We are willing to serve in virtually any capacity. Any ideas? Thanks!
  3. t2andreo

    Questions for currently serving or just served Pilgrim Office volunteers...

    Hey there! I leave in one week (7 July) to fly to Santiago to start my annual one-month volunteer stint on 9 July. Currently, I am arranging and packing stuff that I learned over the years that will make my time there better. In that vein, I have a few questions that only someone who is...
  4. whyteway

    Volunteer on Camino

    Hola, I walked the Camino Frances last year and am trying to return to volunteer at St.Anton Albergue. Getting a visa from Australia to stay long term in Spain is near impossible. Does anyone have any suggestions how I can get a long term visa for Spain??? Mucho grasias Anthony
  5. Lirsy

    Services provided by hospitaleros

    Hi! I am right now in an albergue as hospitalero. It really surprise me how few pilgrims use the services that the hospitaleros can provide. In my opinion, it is a little shocking that almost no any pilgrim ask about which are the difficulties in the next stages, wich could be the adventages...
  6. Rebekah Scott

    Ditch Pigs Cleanup Crew: 2017

    Don't look now, but the DITCH PIGS are back, cleaning up our 100 kms of Camino for the NINTH consecutive YEAR! We've trimmed down our numbers and shortened out work-week this year, gathering on 26 Nov. and clearing out of town on the 30th. We did a really thorough job from Castrojeriz all...
  7. t2andreo

    LIVE from the Camino Pilgrim Office Status Report

    I have been working here as a volunteer since 13 July. My last work day is this Tuesday, 15 August. I will return home (FL) on Thursday. Here is the current status of things at the P/O: Daily volumes - yesterday 12 AUG, we set the daily record for 2017 (to date) with 2,722 pilgrims processed...
  8. J Willhaus

    Where to stay in Santiago if you are volunteering?

    Those of you who volunteer in Santiago, where do you stay? I am wondering if one can stay at Monte de Gozo and take the bus back and forth from town? Perhaps those of you who live in Santiago have some other suggestions?
  9. Richard Ray

    Advice for Starting a Local "Friends of the Camino" Group

    I've been giving some thought to trying to create a forum for Camino pilgrims who live in West Michigan (USA). I'd be interested in learning how others who have done something similar in their communities have approached the task. How did you develop your list of pilgrims to whom you could...
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  10. happymarkos

    Visa dangers for volunteers

    Last year after walking the Portuguese Camino I spent 2 weeks as a volunteer in St Jean Pied De Port at the Acceuil which is the Pilgrim's information centre on the rue de la Citadelle. After finishing my volunteer commitment I flew from Biarritz to Stansted in the UK and expected an easy...
  11. crhutch

    Hospitaleros

    Are there any associations or groups that works to place people who want to work (volunteer) as hospitaleros in private albergues?
  12. Nico "Carfield"

    For the third time on a camino!

    Hello , I'm new here and think this is a nice place to share things. I'm going to do my third camino in may this year. This year the camino Primitivo from Oviedo. I'm looking forward to be on the this one and to meet a lot of new people. But first I am going to work as volenteer in de biggest...
  13. D

    Volunteer oppurtunities

    Hello everyone, I am applying for a scholarship that would let me walk the camino in 2017 (one of my life long goals). I want to give back to the camino, and it would help my chances of getting this scholarship. Does anyone know of a type of volunteer I could do for a max of a week while on...
  14. S

    Just a thought. . .

    I've got the Camino blues bad, and the only way I'm going to get through the winter is by planning my next one! I have some time mid-February until the end of March, and thought I might wander part of the trail for a while. Ideally I'd like to stop and volunteer at an albergue, as a way to...
  15. JohnnieWalker

    Being a Hospitalero

    JohnnieWalker submitted a new resource: Being a Hospitalero - Thinking of being a hospitalero? Buying an albergue? Using an albergue? Read more about this resource...
  16. K

    Life After The Camino

    Hello fellow travelers, I have purchased a one way ticket to Europe for an August 27 start of the Camino de Santiago. I have been researching volunteer and work options to contribute, experience a new adventure, stay in the EU or UK for awhile, and travel more. Does anyone have any experience...
  17. Tigerandahalf

    Volunteering in albergues to learn Spanish

    Would anyone have ideas on the above? Thanks
  18. Rebekah Scott

    So You Want to Run Your Own Albergue?

    I can´t tell you how many English-speaking pilgrims dream the dream of moving to Spain and opening up their own albergue along the camino. It is a wonderful idea. Because I did something similar a few years ago, and I still help with hospitalero duties at several foreign-owned places, pilgrims...
  19. Rebekah Scott

    Annual Camino Cleanup Coming Up!

    The first week of December is Camino Cleanup time! For the second year in a row, a team of valiant trash-pickers will walk the width of Palencia province, (Puente de Fitero to San Nicolas del Real Camino) cleaning up the trash left behind by a year of travelers on the Camino Frances. If a...
  20. Rebekah Scott

    Ultreia Song

    The online hospitalero training course is well on its way, and maybe you can help! We are getting together resources for hospitaleros to use in albergues, and we´re looking now for a sound (.wav) file of the popular pilgrim hymn "Ultreia" to use on the online teaching platform. It doesn´t need...

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