All about the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

Galicia, and Spain, are well know for their fiestas (or festas as they say in Galicia). The big season is summer, when there are one of these fiestas every weekend. They usually have a theme, and I saw in the paper today that the 33rd Cheese fiesta will be held this upcoming weekend, kicking off the [...]

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A few days ago the new high speed train service (AVE) between Madrid and Barcelona was introduced. Could be useful for someone trying to get to/get home from the camino.
Some more information:
– 17 departures daily Madrid to Barcelona (and another 17 going back)
– Duration: About 2 hours and 40 minutes (speeds up to 300km/h)
– First [...]

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I have been thinking about this for a while now, and decided that now would be a good time to get started with a pilgrim podcast. After seeing the amount of pilgrims in the forum that are arriving to Santiago in the next few months I decided to give it a try.

 

 Episode 0 : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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La Voz de Galicia reports today that ClickAir are considering a new connection between Vigo and one of the airports in London. Earlier this week, Ryanair also announced a new route from Santiago to Reus (Barcelona).

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José Alvarez has a production company and has made several pilgrim documentaries on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. This video is 10 minutes of one of them, Spanish is spoken but there are English subtitles.

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After Vueling and Clickair announced a reduction in the number of routes to Santiago earlier this week, AirEuropa has decided to step in and add routes.

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One of the most asked questions in our pilgrim forum is the question:
“What should I bring with me?”
One of our forum members, atlanticheart, suggested the following packlist and got a lot of feedback on it.

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