A Handy Guide to 13 Different Types of Camino Pilgrim Canadian travel writer Dean Johnston travelled the Camino de Santiago with his wife in 2012. Here he shares with us an excerpt from his book Behind the Albergue Door: Inspiration Agony Adventure on the Camino de Santiago, a humorous (combined with some advice!) account of …
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In the past 9 months, we’ve had quite a few new Camino books written by a variety of authors in styles to suit everyone’s taste. From the deeply personal journal to the historical guidebook – our list of new Camino books includes something for everyone! Each of the books below contains a message of hope …
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“If You Stand Here is a tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela expressly for pilgrims. Unlike all the dusty guidebooks that list dates, names with no back story, and an endless number of dry unrelated facts, this book will ask you to stand on a spot in the building where something wonderful happened.” …
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“Lost on the Way,” is a journal. My personal journal from the Camino, completely raw, unedited, and exactly as I found the ink on the dog-eared pages of the cheap notebook in which I wrote every day on the way to Santiago. It’s the amalgamation of my thoughts, memories, experiences, and adventures as I lived …
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“If you’re curious about what it’s like for a not very athletic and not at all religious family to go on a long-distance adventure, I think Onward, Backward! will give you a relatively accurate picture of one lucky family’s experience.” Bennett Voyles, Author, Onward, Backward! In 2012 Bennett Voyles, an American ex-pat writer living in …
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New Camino Book Alert: “There’s Something Going On!” Enjoy the Camino from the comfort of your armchair, but be warned, it’ll whet your appetite even more to plan your own Camino! In the current climate we all need things to do, and more importantly to look forward to. So why not follow Simon on this …
By Canadian writer John Meyer, author of ‘Shadows, Shells and Spain’ inspired by his Camino experience. Why you should walk the Camino I can put this rather simply: walking the Camino will test your body, open your mind, and stir your spirit. And in my opinion, all of these are potentially life-changing things! When I …
Why travelling solo is one of the best ways to experience the Camino by Brian Clarke A solo experience on the Camino de Santiago. “Walking on your own! Don’t you get lonely?” And typically, I answer that loneliness is not the same as solitude. Camino Solo. Solitude creates the gift of independence, to be able …
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Walking Distance, a Camino memoir David Hlavsa heads the Theatre Arts Department at St Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington. His Camino memoir Walking Distance: Pilgrimage, Parenthood, Grief and Home Repairs remembers his trip to Santiago de Compostela with wife Lisa. Here’s an excerpt from his book: Walking Distance: Pilgrimage, Parenthood, Grief, and Home Repairs by David Hlavsa On …
The Ultimate Spiritual Travel: A Pilgrimage This guest blog by author Cheri Powell gives us an insight on what she felt and learnt after doing the Camino de Santiago: by Cheri Powell It was raining. It was dark. I was miserable. This was enlightenment? This was a spiritual quest? I did not feel very spiritual …
Peter Murtagh – author of Buen Camino! As part of its Celtic Extravaganza and series of events focusing on Galicia, the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin recently organised a reading and discussion with Irish Times journalist Peter Murtagh. Peter traveled the Camino de Santiago various times and is the author, along with his daughter Natasha, of …