New Spanish TV series ¡Buen camino!

[JabbaPapa]

There's a new reality show/documentary/introductory Spanish TV series about the Camino, called ¡Buen Camino! from RTVE.

It's fairly good, with a good mix of all sorts of pilgrims and pieces of walking, interviews, character portraits, and lots of enthusiasm and fun -- and it gives a good perspective into what the Camino represents from a Spanish point of view.

The first two episodes are available here http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/buen-camino/ - in Spanish with Spanish subtitles (including because some of the pilgrims speak in dialect).

 

[SabsP]

Just viewed some parts...good perspective indeed. I liked it.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Thank you @JabbaPapa. This looks like a great way to improve my Spanish. I'll have to check out the other RTVE shows too.

 

[HedaP]

Thank you @JabbaPapa. Really enjoyed both programs. It was a great way to pass an hour or two on a frosty winter's morning. Justified the time by calling it Spanish homework. Wish I'd been able to understand more of the dialogue but I think I got the gist of it. Really nice to recognise a couple of faces. Wondering when it was filmed because when I walked in spring earlier this year there was a dog that looked very much like that wolf. Kudos to those who walk the camino carrying brushes and cans of yellow and turquoise paint. I love that his car is now the colours of the camino or at least that's what I think he said.

 

[timr]

Thanks very much for the link. A great treat for the feast of Santiago.

 

[Kev]

Helpful hint, I watched it in Chrome with the subtitles on. The auto language translate works like a charm and almost immediately translates the Spanish sub-titles to English.

 

[HedaP]

Helpful hint, I watched it in Chrome with the subtitles on. The auto language translate works like a charm and almost immediately translates the Spanish sub-titles to English.

Far out! That is a fantastic hint. Where is the absolutely brilliant button?

 

[Robyn Scott]

There's a new reality show/documentary/introductory Spanish TV series about the Camino, called ¡Buen Camino! from RTVE.

It's fairly good, with a good mix of all sorts of pilgrims and pieces of walking, interviews, character portraits, and lots of enthusiasm and fun -- and it gives a good perspective into what the Camino represents from a Spanish point of view.

The first two episodes are available here http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/buen-camino/ - in Spanish with Spanish subtitles (including because some of the pilgrims speak in dialect).

Not available in my country South Africa. Disappointed because I did see people filming from a vehicle. Can't remember where.

 

[JabbaPapa]

Not available in my country South Africa. Disappointed because I did see people filming from a vehicle. Can't remember where.

That's a shame, but those you saw filming weren't necessarily on this project -- there seem to be several concurrent ones every year now.

 

[JabbaPapa]

The third episode is available now BTW -- as far as I can guess from the vagueness of their website and the limits of my Castellano, there may be 10 episodes. It's specifically a summer show, anyway.

 

[Colette Z]

Not available in my country South Africa. Disappointed because I did see people filming from a vehicle. Can't remember where.

I walked the Frances starting March 19th and believe I saw them filming and their van as we met them many times early on. A similar weekly show on TVE in 2009-2010 was my first exposure to the Camino and the reason I decided then to walk it one day. Happy to have had an amazing spiritually filled CF and to be planning the next and starting to volunteer at an Albergue next winter.

 

[ISABEL linares]

Spanish television is showing at the moment a very good program EL CAMINO. RTVE.es it is in spanish.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Helpful hint, I watched it in Chrome with the subtitles on. The auto language translate works like a charm and almost immediately translates the Spanish sub-titles to English.

Sorry, the hint needs to be a bit more obvious please!

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Got it! Right click on the screen above the vide and there's a Translate to English choice!

 

[tpmchugh]

Thank you @JabbaPapa. This looks like a great way to improve my Spanish. I'll have to check out the other RTVE shows too.

Use google chrome, tell it to translate to English then when it starts running, turn on the subtitles. They come up in Spanish then google translates them. You have to read fast though. I found the stations previous show El Final del Camino very good and helpful with my Spanish

 

[Kev]

For any still struggling, here is a support link explaining how to enable auto language translate in Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/173424?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&hl=en

 

[AZgirl]

Thanks for notice!

 

[JabbaPapa]

fourth episode is up -- good thing too, with this insomnia !

 

[JabbaPapa]

Here's a good one if you're getting impatient :

 

[JLWV]

The Spanish TV, RTVE channel 1, is transmitting a serie about the camino.
Language of course is Spanish.
Although the trip is only O Cebreiro to Santiago the serie shows very different cases of pilgrimage.
It can be seen on the web at the direction http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/buen-camino/
Enjoy it
Jean-Luc

Post Data: at the beginning of each video there is an uninteresting trailer, skip it clicking on "saltar promoción"

 

[Dorpie]

It's pretty crazy how many documentaries seem to be being made on the Camino at the moment. I was filmed in Puenta Laura Reina a couple of weeks ago. There was also a arts group from the US doing various things and there was also a film crew working along the last 100kms last week.

I'm a sucker for anything about the Camino but we must be getting close to saturation point.

 

[JabbaPapa]

It's up to 9 episodes and the last, though seemingly not much of a commercial success as TV screenings seem to have been shifted towards midnight, after some weeks' delays -- but the latest episode is a cracker !!

Insight there for even experienced pilgrims

(seemingly the originally planned episode 9 will remain unaired)

 

[JabbaPapa]

It seems that the final three episodes were merged into two, or some more complex editing with the final four.

Anyway, the full nine episodes are now available to watch -- and it's a great portrayal anyway of the Spanish perspective on the Camino, with some more cosmopolitan elements too, as well as being a good state of affairs into how far the touristification has come, but also of those core parts of the Camino that the touristification can't reach ...

It's also a good introduction into the balance between the lightness of the discovery of the Way and the more ponderous understanding of it, as the very balancing act constituting everybody's first Pilgrimage, at least if they don't "cheat".

I enjoyed the series, despite its superficiality as such, not only because the superficiality itself provided a delightful freshness, but also because there are some hidden depths to be found in the director's choices and illustrations that we can all learn from, more or less.

Probably far too "New Age" and whatnot to be really taken seriously -- the depiction of the Catholic element is not just deficient, it's frankly a deliberate distortion -- but what the hey, that's realistic as a depiction of most contemporary pilgrims.

Well worth the watch anyway, as long as it's up !!