A practical guide to mindful pilgrimage on Spain’s Camino, from supporting villages to reducing waste and respecting culture ...
What is it about Spain's 1200 year-old Camino de Santiago trail that lures people from all over the world to spend a month or more walking the 500 miles with little more than a backpack and a pair of ...
One day, while searching for a destination for a day trip from Beziers, France, I discovered the Abbaye de Sainte-Marie de Fontchaude. It was not far away and was in a small hamlet surrounded by ...
The Camino de Santiago—a network of hiking routes through France, Portugal, and Spain that converge on the shrine of St. James the Apostle in the Galician capital, Santiago de Compostela—has beckoned ...
Pilgrims can choose an optional route when walking the Camino de Santiago Portugués Central. It's called the Variante Espiritual (Spiritual Variant in English) route. I walked it in August 2024, and ...
ELLWOOD CITY ― Jean Barsotti of Ellwood City walked the approximately 160-mile Camino de Santiago in 2019 and just did it again. The Comino de Santiago, known in English as the Way of St. James, is a ...
When Loni Philbrick-Linzmeyer decided to walk the Camino de Santiago, she was adamant this was something she had to do alone. It was 2013. Loni was a 29-year-old Californian school teacher who was “at ...