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Hiking shoes, hiking boots, running shoes, sandals…which ones are the most suitable? I have read a lot of conflicting information about that. Some hikers say a good pair of hiking boots is required, especially if you are walking from October to March. Others claim that hiking boots are overkill and that hiking shoes or even […]

So here I am. I know that I want to walk the Camino, but there is that big decision I need to take before: which Camino should it be? Once you start to learn more about the Camino de Santiago and you browse in books, guides and of course on internet, very soon you discover […]

What do the green peppers have in common with the Camino? Even if you haven’t walked the Camino Portugués (yet) but you visited Galicia, you’ve probably heard and maybe even tried the famous “pimentos de Padrón”. There is a short popular Galician rhyme saying:   Pimentos de Padrón, Uns pican e outros non.   Green […]

Many pilgrims ask this question. The answer might seem easy, but… Different pilgrims walk the Camino for very different reasons. Many of them seek for solitude; others will look forward for meeting other people and for enjoying the company. Some will be concerned with the weather, other will adapt to whatever falls from the sky. […]

As a kind of a journey diary, I will tell here the story of our experience on the Camino Portugués beginning in the town of Porto, Portugal . Our goal is not to provide an exact guidebook, but to broadcast the sensations and memories of this unforgettable experience on the paths of Portugal and Spanish […]

Before the fact of the discovery of the Saint James grave in 813 became worldwide and famous, the news spread around locally. The very first people who heard about the miracle were the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Galicia whose territories were the lands of the today’s Autonomous Community of Galicia, part of Asturias and […]