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Train for your next Camino on California's Santa Catalina Island March 16-19
Get a spanish phone number with Airalo. eSim, so no physical SIM card. Easy to use app to add more funds if needed.
...and ship it to Santiago for storage. You pick it up once in Santiago. Service offered by Casa Ivar (we use DHL for transportation).
Join the Camino cleanup. Logroño to Burgos May 2025 & Astorga to OCebreiro in June
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Samos
Mosteiro de San Xulián
mural detail

photo taken November 10, 2004


Samos, Monastery of San Julian.jpg

Painted c.1955 these fantastic and historic figures surround an Oratorium door. Seen during a guided tour exactly 20 years ago this new mural was most impressive and rather frightening.
 
Ideal pocket guides for during & after your Camino. Each weighs only 1.4 oz (40g)!
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The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Ideal pocket guides for during & after your Camino. Each weighs only 1.4 oz (40g)!
Train for your next Camino on California's Santa Catalina Island March 16-19
The 2024 Camino guides will be coming out little by little. Here is a collection of the ones that are out so far.
Holoholo automatically captures your footpaths, places, photos, and journals.
Santiago de Compostela
plaza de la Quintana
Puerta Santa/Holy Door

photo taken November 17, 2004

Puerta Santa 2004.webp

2004 was a Holy Year and thus
the Holy Door is open in this shot taken exactly 20 years ago at the conclusion of my first camino.
 
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Train for your next Camino on California's Santa Catalina Island March 16-19
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path towards Sahagún

photo taken November 8, 2011

path towards Sahagún.webp

Wherever our paths might lead
may we go forward with hope.

"...but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope."
Romans 5: 3-4
 
The 2024 Camino guides will be coming out little by little. Here is a collection of the ones that are out so far.
A selection of Camino Jewellery
Perfect memento/gift in a presentation box. Engraving available, 25 character max.
3rd Edition. More content, training & pack guides avoid common mistakes, bed bugs etc
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Sahagun
Arco de San Benito

photo taken March 3, 2007

Arco de San Benito.webp

For centuries this magnificent arch served as the gateway to the most powerful Benedictine monastery in Spain, which was greatly destroyed in a 19th c fire.
 

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