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The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the university there, where his close friends included Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca.
After moving to Paris, Buñuel did a variety of film-related odd jobs in Paris, including working as an assistant to director Jean Epstein. With financial assistance from his mother and creative assistance from Dalí, he made his first film, the 17-minute Un chien andalou (1929), in 1929, and immediately catapulted himself into film history thanks to its shocking imagery (much of which - like the sliced eyeball at the beginning - still packs a punch even today). It made a deep impression on the Surrealist Group, who welcomed Buñuel into their ranks.
The following year, sponsored by wealthy art patrons, he made his first feature, the scabrous witty and violent Das goldene Zeitalter (1930), which mercilessly attacked the church and the middle classes, themes that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career. That career, though, seemed almost over by the mid-1930s, as he found work increasingly hard to come by and after the Spanish Civil War he emigrated to the US where he worked for the Museum of Modern Art and as a film dubber for Warner Bros.
Moving to Mexico in the late 1940s, he teamed up with producer Óscar Dancigers and after a couple of unmemorable efforts shot back to international attention with the lacerating study of Mexican street urchins in Die Vergessenen (1950), winning him the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.
But despite this new-found acclaim, Buñuel spent much of the next decade working on a variety of ultra-low-budget films, few of which made much impact outside Spanish-speaking countries (though many of them are well worth seeking out). But in 1961, General Franco, anxious to be seen to be supporting Spanish culture invited Buñuel back to his native country - and Bunuel promptly bit the hand that fed him by making Viridiana (1961), which was banned in Spain on the grounds of blasphemy, though it won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
This inaugurated Buñuel's last great period when, in collaboration with producer Serge Silberman and writer Jean-Claude Carrière he made seven extraordinary late masterpieces, starting with Tagebuch einer Kammerzofe (1964). Although far glossier and more expensive, and often featuring major stars such as Jeanne Moreau and Catherine Deneuve, the films showed that even in old age Buñuel had lost none of his youthful vigour.
After saying that every one of his films from Belle de jour- Schöne des Tages (1967) onwards would be his last, he finally kept his promise with Dieses Obskure Objekt Der Begierde (1977), after which he wrote a memorable (if factually dubious) autobiography, in which he said he'd be happy to burn all the prints of all his films
a classic Surrealist gesture if ever there was one.
Berlanga commenced his studies in Valencia in1928, although in 1929 his family sent him and his brother Fernando (due to a lung disease) to the Beau-soleil hospital school in Switzerland. In 1930, he returned to the San José School in Valencia where he stayed until 1931, the year in which the Jesuits were expelled from Spain. In 1936, while he was studying at the Academia Cabanilles, the Spanish Civil War began, and he saw active service in the riflemen's 40th Division. After the war Franco's dictatorship imprisoned his father, then a member of the Spanish Parliament for the 'Frente Popular' (Popular Front). In an attempt to improve his father's situation in jail, he joined the División Azul (Blue Division) in 1941, and fought in Russia at the Novgorod front, returning to Spain in 1942.
Towards 1943 he began to take an interest in poetry and cinema, and started to write a screenplay entitled 'Cajón de perro', together with his first cinematographic reviews. In 1947 he entered the 'Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas' (IIEC) (Institute of Cinematographic Research and Experiences). During his second year at the institute, he filmed a short entitled 'Paseo por una guerra antigua', {which he finished with the help of Juan Antonio Bardem, Florentino Soria and Agustín Navarro}. In 1951, he directed (together with Bardem) the film Esa pareja feliz (1951), starring Fernando Fernán Gómez and Elvira Quintillá.
After being expelled from the Falange, Berlanga started to adopt an individualistic and libertarian position, far removed from politics and considered fairly permissive. However, his open and conciliatory nature kept him out of trouble during the post-war period. Sadly his father died six months after being released from prison.
Berlanga and Bardem continued to collaborate on Uns kommt das alles spanisch vor (1953); this film received an International Award and a Special Mention Award at the Cannes Festival. It was also shown at the Venice Festival, where the president of the Jury, Edward G. Robinson, expressed his indignation at what he interpreted as an anti-American film.
Berlanga's conceptual and political audacity, so evident in Uns kommt das alles spanisch vor (1953) continued in his other films during the 50s, which tended not to be very well received by the censor. In fact, his film Los jueves, milagro (1957), was modified by the censors and was delayed for several years before its eventual release.
In 1955 he participated in the 'Conversaciones de Salamanca' (Salamanca's Discussions) where the future of Spanish cinema was debated. In 1956 he filmed Calabuch (1956), and in 1958 began lecturing at the IIEC. His subsequent film Se vende un tranvía (1959) was his first professional liaison with Rafael Azcona. Their next joint venture was Placido (1961), which received an Oscar nomination in 1963. That same year, Berlanga made of his best films: Der Henker (1963); however, his cruel portrait of Spanish society didn't please the pro-Franco authorities, although the film was well-received at the Venice Festival. In 1973 he went to Paris to begin filming _Grandeur nature (1973)_, another polemic film, focussing this time on the fetishism of a man who falls in love with a doll.
Several years later, after Franco's death, he filmed a trilogy comprising La escopeta nacional (1978), Patrimonio nacional (1981) and Nacional III (1982), where he clarified the disorders evident in the Spanish upper middle-class upon being confronted with a new political status quo. Following the same theme he filmed La vaquilla (1985), set in the Spanish Civil War and also beset by difficulties with the censors.
The quality of his cinematography and independence of criteria was welcomed during the years following the end of the dictatorship. In 1978 he was made president of the 'Filmoteca Nacional' (National Archive), in 1980 he won the 'Premio Nacional de Cinematografía' (National Cinematography Award), in 1982 he received the 'Medalla de Oro a las Bellas Artes' (Gold Medal to Arts), in 1986 he won the 'Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes' (Príncipe de Asturias Arts' Award), in 1988 he was named member of the 'Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando' (San Fernando's Art's Real Academy), and in 1997 he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa title by the 'Universidad Politécnica de Valencia' (Valencia's Politechnical University). In addition he was made president of the 'Asociación de Titulados en Cinematografía' (Graduates in Cinematography's Association) and he was the first president of the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences).
In 1994, his film Todos a la cárcel (1993) won three Goya Awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Sound. In 2002, the 'Asociación de Directores de Cine' (Cinema Directors' Association) gave him an honorary award.
Spanish director, writer, producer (2 films) and actor (2 films). His interest in cinema started when he was very young. His mother, who was a pianist, instilled in him the liking for music, and his brother, Antonio, who was a painter, the passion for art. When he was an teenager he started to practice photography, and in 1950 he made his first illustrated feature films with a 16 mm camera. Carlos Saura is an excellent photographer, an activity that he shares in a sporadic way with the making of films.
He then moved to Madrid to continue his Industrial Engineering career, but his vocation for photography, cinema and journalism made him leave his studies and matriculate at the Instituto de Investigaciones y Estudios Cinematográficos (Cinematographic Study and Research Institute). Sporadically, he combined his cinematographic studies with the courses at the Escuela de Periodismo (Journalism School). In 1957 he finished studying and got the director diploma. At the same time, he finished his end-of-career short film La tarde del domingo (1957). He continued as a professor until 1963. In that year he was removed from the school for strictly political reasons (Franco's censorship).
In 1959 he filmed Die Straßenjungen (1960). In this film he tried to create a sort of Spanish Neo-Realism by tackling the juvenile delinquency in the Madrid's poor quarters from a sociological point of view. In his first stage as director he tried to take a position in favour of outcast people, and he got to make a both lyric and documentary-style cinema.
Saura is a well accepted director both nationally and internationally, and in proof of it he won many awards among which there are the following ones: Silver Bear in the Berlin Festival for Die Jagd (1966), in 1965, and for Pfefferminz Frappe (1967), in 1967. Special Jury Awards in Cannes for Cousine Angélica (1974), in 1973, and for Züchte Raben... (1976), in 1975. Also, the film Mama wird 100 Jahre alt (1979) got an Oscar nomination in 1979 as the best foreign film, and it also won the Special Jury Award at the San Sebastian Festival. In 1990, he won two Goya awards as best adapted screenplay writer and best director.
Camus started studying Law, but soon left his studies to enter the IIEC (now EOC) in 1956, where he got a director's diploma in 1963 with the training film El borracho (1962) and, finally, ended up as a professor. He worked with Carlos Saura in several screenplays during the early 60s (Die Straßenjungen (1960), Cordoba (1964)), and also directed some shorts. His first feature films were Passion der Komödianten (1963) and Young Sánchez (1964), a film about boxing -one of his passions- which won the Best Film Award at the Buenos Aires Film Festival in 1964. This way he started a three decade filmography full of great works, varying from romantic comedies and musicals to splendid adaptations from famous novels, as is the case of the prestigious TV series Fortunata y Jacinta (1980) or the film Der Bienenkorb (1982), which won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1983 he was given the 'Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes' (Arts Gold Medal), and one year later he prepared his most successful work both with public and critic: Die heiligen Narren (1984), an adaptation from the novel by Miguel Delibes. This film won the Best Actor Award for Francisco Rabal and Alfredo Landa (ex- aequo) at the Cannes Film Festival. It also won the 'Premio Nacional de Cinematografía' (National Cinematography Award) in 1985 and the 'Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts des Lettres' Award in 1986.
Camus's filmography combines films made with others with a more personal style, where he tells stories closer to him that let him go through less worn themes. That is the case of Con el viento solano (1966), Los pájaros de Baden-Baden (1975) or Los días del pasado (1977).
In the 90s he continued working with great actors and telling dramatic stories made up from complex characters living rebel or broken lives, or entering other genres like noir. Examples of this stage are Die Hinrichtung (1987), Después del sueño (1992), Sombras en una batalla (1993) and Adosados (1996), a film which won the International Critic Award.
Julio Medem was born in San Sebastian in northern Spain. As a teenager Medem made short movies with a super-8 camera owned by his father. Some of those films are "El ciego" (1976), "El jueves pasado" (1977) and "Fideos" (1979.) Wanting to know more about the darkest corners of the human mind, Medem studied psychiatry. In 1985 Medem received a degree in medicine from the University of the Basque Country. In 1986 Medem directed "Patas en la cabeza," a 35MM short that won an award in the international Festival of Bilbao. In 1987, after winning the Telenorte prize for another short movie, "Las seis en punta", he decided to become a professional filmmaker. Medem worked as assistant, editor and screenwriter in differents projects for cinema and TV. He also wrote several screenplays, but they were all refused by most of production companies in Spain. Finally, in 1991, Medem received a call from a new production company called SOGETEL. They were interested in his script titled "Vacas," about the fight between two families during three generations, from 1875 until 1936. Medem directed the film for SOGETEL and it was released in 1992. "Vacas" was brilliantly received and became a big success. It won the Goya Award from the Spanish academy for best new director, and won prizes in the festivals of Tokyo, Torino and Alexandria. In 1993 Medem made his second movie, "La ardilla roja." "La ardilla roja" confirmed Medem's talents and won prizes in Fort Lauderdale, Bogota and Bucarest. His third movie, "Tierra," released in 1996, was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. In 1998 Medem released "Los amantes del Circulo Polar," considered his best movie by most of his fans. It also became a box-office hit with more than one million spectators in Spain. "Los amantes del Circulo Polar" was also released worldwide. In 2001 his fourth movie, "Lucia y el sexo," became a huge hit and began the career of actress Paz Vega who won the Goya for best new actress. In 2003 the release of "La pelota vasca," a documentary that portrays the phenomenon of nationalism in the Basque Country of northern Spain, was very polemical.
Julio Medem is for sure the most important and original Spanish filmmaker.
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People walk the Camino de Santiago for many reasons. But as you walk, there are funny but true things that'll accompany you on this journey.
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On Monday, June 27th, 2016, I embarked on perhaps one of my greatest adventures of my life. I flew to Europe and made my way to France so that I could fulfill Adventure Activities and Experiences Bucket list item:
#109) Walk the Camino de Santiago from France to Santiago, Espana.
The Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of St. James, is 490+ mile pilgrimage across Spain. There are multiple routes, but I had decided to join the traditional Camino Frances Route. This route, in general, starts in St Jean-Pied-de-Port on the French side of the Pyrenees. From there, I became a pilgrim or peregrino and began my walk toward Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
Why does one walk the Camino?
The main purpose for the Camino is to make your way to the city of Santiago de Compostela. It is here where it is believed that the remains of the Apostle St. James the Greater are buried. But, people make the pilgrimage for many other reasons. Some use it as a retreat for their spiritual growth. Others walk to discover their past or reveal their future. There are even some people walking in hopes that a miracle. To them, they believe that the Camino may heal them or someone they love. It all kind of sounds like some mystical, religious, self-discovery adventure right out of a C.S. Lewis or Paulo Coehlo novel.
People walk the Camino de Santiago for many reasons. But while you walk, there are some funny but true things & even a few insanities that'll accompany you on this journey. #CaminodeSantiago #CaminoFrances #BuenCamino Click To Tweet
Funny But True Things about the Camino de Santiago
For me, I walked for a mix of it all discovered a lot about myself and my relationship to others. But while you walk on the Camino for days on end, there are also many real-life quirks, funny truths, and even insanities that accompany you on this journey.
Here are some of the funny but true things about the Camino de Santiago I learned along the Way:
1) You will give away the deed to your house back home for a bottom bunk
It doesn’t seem to matter if you are 18 or 80, the idea of climbing up to the top bunk at the end of a hard day of walking is enough to make anyone cry! In most albergues, it is kind of a first come first serve situation, while in others they have an over 40 rule. However, you will bargain your treasures for the bottom bunk. If you are unfortunate enough to get the top bunk, then you must take care of everything before the climb because you will then enter the contest of “how long can I hold it before I have to climb back down to use the bathroom!”
2) You will politely HATE ALL CYCLISTS!
The first time you see a cyclist struggling to push their bicycles loaded with their saddle bags up a mountain, a sense of pity will encompass you. Don’t fret, that will only last about 4 hours because then you will pray for them to crash down a mountain. Why? Because these cyclist will come zipping by you, out of no where, at top speeds nearly clipping your arms and shoving you off the trail as they happily shout, “Buen Camino!” It’s insanity to say the least. They own a $1,000 bicycle and can’t afford an effing $2.00 bell to warn you! Stupid Cyclists… “Buen effin Camino!!”
3) By day three everyone qualifies as a registered podiatrist
Feet, feet, feet! Everyone discusses their feet or the feet of others on the Camino. Between blisters, bruises, twisted ankles, and lost toe nails every possible subject regarding feet is discussed – by everyone! The earliest records of visits paid to the shrine dedicated to St. James at Santiago de Compostela date from the 9th century. So, as you walk you will start to wonder what type of space aged leather the pilgrims used for shoes as the Roman roads beat your feet into mush like Ivan Drago beat Apollo Creed’s face in Rocky IV!
Safety Tip: Walking the Camino de Santiago is a relatively safe adventure. But as in any place you travel please use common sense and stay to main areas while exploring. Plus, with any physical activity, please make sure you pay attention to your body. To give you some added security while in Spain, we strongly recommend that you consider getting Travel Insurance from World Nomads. It is simple and flexible insurance to keep you safe while tackling any bucket list adventure.
4) Everyone has seen The Way, read The Pilgrimage, & owns a Brierly guidebook
You are so excited to start walking in the beginning, especially after seeing THE WAY or reading The Pilgrimage or your Brierly guidebook! You will ask everyone if they have seen or read them and openly admit that you they are the catalyst to this adventure for you. I mean why not, they make it seem so wonderful and easy! But by the first week, you will wonder what map Martin Sheen had because his character was all over the place! On day 2 you will start to create voodoo dolls of John Brierly and wonder if he has ever even walked the Camino because this is way harder than he describes. With regards to The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coehlo, you will think he must have been tripping out on some serious shrooms as you walk through towns he visited and had his visions yet see nothing that resembles the mystical world!
5) Spain’s metric system is more of a general average rather than an exact science
Perhaps one of the most insane and funny but true things about the Camino de Santiago has to do with math. Spain’s definition of 1 kilometer seems to vary from place to place and sign to sign with a +/- variance of +4 or +10! Wait or was it -22?
But seriously, reading your guidebook or maps will drive you insane as you walk for endless kilometers on end with no similar scale from day to day. Even legitimate government road signs will vary along the many hours you spend walking toward Santiago, only to find out the next sign added 5 kilometers to the initial sign you read that morning!
6) You will hate energy & water conservation, but only in the bathroom
Spain seems to be doing wonderful work with energy conservation as you see the beautiful horizons lined with windmills. However, after awhile you are willing to sign any petition that will get the timers off the bathroom lights or the shower water button to last longer than 38 seconds!
7) No one will question that you are following graffiti to your destination
The Camino de Santiago might be the only time in your life where you will deliberately follow crappy yellow spray painted arrows across an entire country and no one will think you are crazy! I mean imagine if you were back home and you told your parents that you found some spray paint markings under some bridges or on random trees & you wanted to see where they led. They would definitely try to talk you out of it! But on the Camino, you search for them and start get nervous when you don’t see them after awhile!
8) You will carry the Camino with you every day
No this isn’t some sort of deep thought! This is a literal statement. Of course, you will carry with you, the symbol of a pilgrim, your scallop shell. But also, every time you take off your boots you will pour out pounds of dirt, rocks, and unknown particles! Suddenly you will feel like Andy from the Shawshank Redemption as he emptied his escape route into the prison yard.
9) You will become a Pyrenees Snob
Well you might become a Pamplona snob, a Burgos snob, a Leon snob, or another location snob to anyone who starts after you! I mean come on, you suffered far harder circumstances and have become an expert on the Camino in the 3 days before they started! Well, everyone can agree that the jerks that start in Sarria will never understand! It’s weird when you realize your contempt for those who start in Sarria as they complete the bare minimum length of the Camino. Even in John Brierly’s guidebook, he warns to “Beware of signs of irritation at the intrusion on ‘my’ camino…” as new pilgrims enter at Sarria!
10) You will Gain Weight
The Camino de Santiago must be the only event where you will burn 9 million calories a day hiking and come home 15 lbs. heavier! How? Perhaps, it is because the only things to do besides walking is eating & drinking! Every day you stop for a second and third breakfast before lunch. Then, there is the pilgrim’s menu served everyday for $10 or less where you eat like Arnold getting ready for a Mr. Universe body building competition. Plus, with 95% of the Camino participating in Siesta, the only thing you have to do in the afternoons is eat and drink wine or ice cold pints of beer!
11) Everyone smiles in the same language
It doesn’t matter where people are from or how good your foreign language skills are, you will be able to talk to anyone – if you want. Don’t get me wrong, you may become an expert at charades by the end of the Camino, but it will be worth all the laughter and memories!
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Here at Totally Spain we’ve been planning Camino itineraries for clients since we started out in business over 16 years ago. Being based in Cantabria, we are keen walkers and hikers in our own spare time and we’ve recently decided to take on our first Camino as a family in 2017. Our chosen route is the Camino Lebaniego (pronounced Leh-bahn-yeh-go) which is the name of the ancient pilgrimage route that weaves its way inland from the sandy and dramatic Cantabrian coastline to the impressive Picos de Europa mountain range.
Travellers often get confused when hearing about the Camino Lebaniego and think it ends in Santiago de Compostela like almost all of the other Caminos in Spain. This one doesn’t. But it is easy to see where the confusion comes from.
Is the Camino Lebaniego part of the Camino de Santiago?
Yes and no. We’ve written about the many different Caminos in Spain here (when we wrote about Camino-themed driving routes) and we’ve separately outlined how you can walk, cycle and yes, drive the Camino here. To get back to the question at hand, yes, the Camino Lebaniego does run parallel to the Camino del Norte from San Vicente de la Barquera, but only for two hours. The Camino Lebaniego is essentially a de-tour from the main Camino to visit the largest-surviving piece of Jesus’ cross – the Lignum Crucis – which is kept in a monastery that overlooks the Picos de Europa National Park. Apparently in the Middle Ages no self-respecting pilgrim would contemplate taking on the Camino de Santiago without walking to the Santo Toribio Monastery to see this cross. Walkers would then, as many do now, continue on to Santiago via the Ruta Vadiniense.
Why Walk the Camino Lebaniego?
We like the idea of starting off with the Lebaniego Way as a family because not only is it on our doorstep but it’s quite an unknown Camino outside of Spain. We’ll be walking the trail over the school holidays, so we will be joined by other pilgrims no doubt but it shouldn’t be as busy as some of the other Caminos. We like it too because it is short! It measures just 72km and is walked over three days. We’re very familiar with many of the locations on this Camino as we’ve driven through and explored here on lots of occasions and have even walked and crossed small sections of it when holidaying in the Picos de Europa. But we’ll still have lots of new scenery to enjoy as the Camino takes in a number of walking trails and tiny country roads we haven’t been exposed to before. So we have the familiarity of the terrain with plenty elements of surprise too!
2017 – A Very Special Year for the Camino Lebaniego
Of course, we won’t be the only ones doing the Camino Lebaniego in 2017 as it’s the “Año Jubileo” which dates back to Pope Julius II’s time in the 16th century. The Jubilar Year is celebrated when the Saint’s Day of Toribio which is April 16th, falls on a Sunday. It doesn’t happen often and the next one isn’t until 2023, so the entire Liebana region tends to celebrate in style when it is a Jubilar Year. There’s already quite a build-up locally and you can see the countdown clocks outside the cathedral in Santander reminding us that it’s not so long to wait. Of course, for some, that might be a reason to avoid the Camino Lebaniego in 2017 – but we are always up for a celebration or party and want to experience this first hand for ourselves on the Camino.
Planning the Camino Lebaniego
The Camino Lebaniego is usually walked over three days which is just enough time to relax and unwind and put the brain into neutral – and really get a sense of how special the Spanish Caminos are. Whether you are walking the Camino Lebaniego in the Jubilar Year or not, it’s essential to book accommodation before you set out and Totally Spain can help you with this as well as booking transfers. And if carrying a backpack is a problem for you, we can arrange for a driver to take your bags from one hotel to the next. Should you want a knowledgeable local guide to accompany you each day, we can arrange that too. And how about a really nice place to stay when you’ve finished the Camino and need a bit of pampering?
How to Get to the Camino Lebaniego?
It’s really easy to get to San Vicente de la Barquera where the Camino Lebaniego commences. You can fly direct into Santander’s Seve Ballesteros airport from London, Lisbon, Brussels, Rome, Edinburgh, Dublin, Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid (see Iberia and Ryanair). And Brittany Ferries arrives into the centre of Santander from the English ports of Plymouth and Portsmouth. We can arrange a private driver to pick you up from the port or airport and take you to San Vicente. Remember to collect your credentials in the cathedral in Santander before leaving the city! If Bilbao Port or Airport offers you better connections, we can also arrange a driver to collect you and bring you to the start of the Camino. Of course, if you have lots of time, you could even walk the Camino del Norte from Bilbao or Santander to San Vicente. You’d need 9 days to walk from Bilbao to San Vicente or just 3 days from Santander to San Vicente. If you don’t want to walk but would like to visit the Camino del Norte landmarks, we can arrange for your private driver to stop off at the picturesque towns of Santillana del Mar and Comillas which are on the Northern route.
The Specifics of the Camino Lebaniego Walking Route
Below we’ve summarised an overview of the territory (see the original trail info here in Spanish) to give you a sense of what you will come across on the Camino Lebaniego. And you should probably download or print out this map too!
Day 1 San Vicente de la Barquera – Cades (28.5km)
The fishing port of San Vicente is a wonderful place to start any walk as it not only has a charming beach and castle but also boasts magnificent views of the Picos de Europa mountains. The Camino Lebaniego actually runs parallel to the Northern Camino from San Vicente for about 10 kilometres, passing through a number of hamlets and villages such as La Acebosa and Hortigal until the two paths separate at Muñorrodero. From here, the Lebaniego trail takes you through the lovely valleys surrounding Camijanes and onto Cabanzón. Your day’s walk finishes up at Cades where you’ll find a pilgrim hostel to rest and recover. For Totally Spain clients we’d recommend staying in a charming and fully-restored 19th century Cantabrian Casona in Herrerias (just before you get to Cades) where full bed and board is available as well as a jacuzzi if you book the suite. When in Cades, you should visit the foundry that dates from 1752.
Day 2 Cades – Cabañes (30.53km)
The second day is a slightly longer walk. You’ll take in Sobrelapena and La Fuente where you should seek out the charming 12th century Santa Juliana church build in the Romanesque style. You’ll take in views of the stunning Lamasón Valley and descend down into Cicera, a small hamlet where you’ll find a hostel if you need to overnight here. If you are continuing on, you’ll get to enjoy the charming 9.6km wooded walk until you reach Lebeña. Rest up at the Santa Maria de Lebeña church which dates from 925. Walk on to Allende and if you need to stop, in Cabanes you’ll find a hostel to overnight. For Totally Spain clients , we can arrange a collection point and have you driven to a nearby comfortable hotel or casa rural.
Day 3 Cabanes – Santo Toribio (13.7km)
Don’t be fooled by the short distance. It’s a very pleasant walk but there is a significant incline to factor in at the end. From Cabanes you’ll pass through Pendes which is well-known in Cantabria for its delicious cheeses and more recently because a re-make of Heidi was filmed there. Pass the hermitage of San Francisco de Tresvega and make your way to Tama. Take the Camino de Campañana to avoid the main road and before you know it, you’re in Potes.
From here, you’ll need to gather your strength for the ascent. Make sure to eat and rest a bit. As you leave the town, you’ll see the Torre del Infantado – which you will probably not want to visit now but make a mental note to visit it on your way back down. Take the road to up to the monastery of Santo Toribio which is just 4.2km but involves a steep incline. As you climb you’ll see the monastery which dates from the 13th and 18th centuries. This is where you’ll find the largest surviving piece of Lignum Crucis which is believed to be the cross upon which Jesus Christ was crucified. We’ll also be looking to see the Puerta del Perdon which can be translates at the Door of Pardon – and we’ll probably have a bit of apologising to do – after the pain of the blisters settles down and the euphoria of completing the Way sets in.
Although many of our fellow walkers will be continuing on the Ruta Vadiniense to hook up with the French Camino, we’ll be more than happy to call it a day from here. There is a hostel at the monastery but for Totally Spain clients we recommend the delightful Hotel del Oso in nearby Cosgaya – which is a firm favourite among our clients. We also love to stay here as you can see here. After a night or two of pampering, we’re sure we’ll be ready to return to the real world with hopefully some new perspective on life to bring home, to school and to the office.
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The band's sophomore album The Dark is out August 11 via DBLBLK Records/Elektra Records.
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The Band Camino are in their healing era, whether they actively realize it or not. When it comes to romantic relationships, the Nashville-based trio have been known in their music to be self-deprecating and even admit to unhealthy patterns for the sake of love.
But their sophomore album, The Dark, despite its title, looks different. On “Same Page,” singer and guitarist Jeffery Jordan lets go of a relationship that seems perfect on paper, but things aren’t as they seem. On “Novocaine,” Spencer Stewart (vocals, guitar) allows himself to open back up to love — even if he feels like he needs something to numb the fear. On “Let It Happen,” the boys do as they say and let life come to them as it will.
“This album feels more mature,” Jordan tells Billboard, with Stewart agreeing and adding, “It’s another year of life and we’ve been trusting ourselves a lot more.”
And while the romantic and psychological themes of the album come from a more mature headspace, so does the music. The group took the emotion-filled lyricism and infectious hooks that fans love and “refined it,” as Jordan notes, with the final result diving deep into what a healing heart feels like, encompassed with sleek guitar riffs and swelling drum beats to help dance through the emotional rollercoaster of musical therapy. The Dark paints the picture of a band who is in fact the same page, as the aforementioned song title seeks.
“I feel like when we first started out and we got our record deal, we were so immersed in the whole whirlwind of it,” drummer Garrison Burgess recalls, “But we figure out how we work together better as time goes on because we’ve gotten to know each other and longer. We can go through hard things in our own lives, and get to live together through each other’s individual hardships.”
Jordan playfully adds, “If we didn’t like each other, this would be a lot harder.” He then takes a more serious tone, continuing, “We lucked out with compatibility, for sure. It’s hard to find it with people whom you’re touring with, creating with and in the studio with all the time.”
Stewart offers that the trio “communicate really well,” as can be seen on the most basic level in how coherent their albums always sound. “When you know, you know,” he says of his bond with his bandmates.
While chatting with The Band Camino, one topic that comes up frequently is the pressure of a sophomore slump after a successful 2021 self-titled debut that featured lasting hits including “I Think I Like You” and “Song About You.”
“If you start thinking about a sophomore album in the wrong way, it can f— you up,” Jordan admits, before Stewart chimes in to comfort his longtime friend and musical collaborator, marking yet another indication of the group’s emotional synchronicity.
“Growth is never linear ever,” Stewart assures Jordan, adding, “It can be tough to have that pressure to make sure you always succeed in order. You don’t want to fail and fall out of people’s eyes and then go on to make your best work on the third one but it’s too late.”
Jordan quickly finds grounding in the conversation, once more proving his mental and emotional growth over the last few years. “The pressure does force me to think about why I love doing what I’m doing,” he concludes. “It pulls me out of the numbers game and the success game and the Instagram attention game. I think about the fact that I started this because I was in my bedroom, playing my piano and it made me feel something.”
As we wrap our conversation, it became abundantly clear how much digging into The Dark stepped the Band Camino directly into the light. The Dark is out August 11 via DBLBLK Records/Elektra Records.
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My Camino de Santiago journey, Day 47, walking from Pedrouzo to Santiago de Compostela. We made it to Santiago! Lots of Camino and Cathedral photos.
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We made it to Santiago de Compostela!
It was a 20-kilometer walk to Santiago. We were lucky that the rain didn’t start until several hours into our journey.
As the kilometers ticked off I found myself recalling many of the trials, the people, the beauty and the experiences that I’ve had in the last 46 days. And I have discovered that I love walking long distances. I didn’t really want it to end, nor could I believe that the next day I would not be on the road again, traveling through quaint, albeit deserted villages, eating the same Spanish foods that I have grown to detest for their lack of variety or imagination, meeting new people and reuniting with others, pushing myself past the limits of comfort only to discover that not only do I survive, but I thrive.
At the crest of a hill we see Santiago and now it’s really pouring rain. Like in Burgos, there is a long walk into the city (and oddly enough, Santiago is the first place in the last 800 kilometers that did not have clear yellow arrows to direct the pilgrim).
We traveled from ugly suburban outskirts to the cobblestone streets of the old city. We heard the whine of Galician bagpipes and entered under an ancient archway that has received pilgrims for 1000 years. And there was the Cathedral on the plaza. I stared at it. This is the Cathedral that I have only seen in pictures. In front of me. We did it. Lots of mixed emotions although surprisingly, I did not cry. I was, however, very thankful for having had the opportunity to do this.
Had the sun been shining, I would probably have done what most pilgrims do, which is to drop their pack and fall to the ground in relief and lie in the plaza like a corpse in the sun. But given the puddles made in the worn cobblestones, that was not an option.
We found a hostel and walked around old town.
We brought our credentials to the Pilgrim’s Office and at the counter a young woman asked us individually where we had started, and if we had walked the whole way, to which I righteously responded “Every single step!” That declaration was my reward for many, many miles of discomfort. I felt proud. Our names were written in Latin on our Compostela with the date of completion. It’s now official.
We went to the Cathedral. Its center is a cluster of gilded sculpture and organ pipes. The all-knowing eye looks down from the center of the ceiling. Behind the altar is a statue of St. James which is made of gold and emblazoned with jewels like something in Liberace’s closet. It is the tradition for pilgrims to hug the statue and so one by one, we entered a narrow passageway behind the altar to do so. I am not one for this kind of stuff so I gave the statue a reassuring pat as if I had just welcomed him to the corporation. Then I was struck by lightning. Jamie gave the statue a huge bear hug.
We then saw the tomb of St. James. In a tiny room, five people stood gazing at an embossed silver box, the size of a child’s coffin. Hanging above it was a silver star. Below and in front were perfect fresh roses. A spotlight shone upon the box. I stood there looking at the box and thinking about how I wasn’t feeling anything. Nothing at all. I was feeling that I SHOULD be feeling something. And then I felt like a jerk. And I wondered why I wasn’t feeling anything. And then I remembered I’m not Catholic! Other people were clearly moved, and um, … God Bless ’em? Zap.
In any case, I don’t believe that St. James is in the box (the story of his transport to Santiago is quite fantastical and there was quite a bit of political motive involved). Even if he is in the box, being physically close to body parts does nothing for me. Unless they’re living. In which case, that’s hot. Ow… Lightning strikes are painful.
So, I left feeling like a jerk or insufficiently spiritual to understand and an alien to my own people. I got over it. The fact is that the Camino has been a deeply spiritual experience for me but I have felt that on the Camino, in nature, seeing the grass in the breeze, listening to the birds…
We entered a small understated side chapel and Jamie and I both said silent prayers. The sound of the rain pouring out of the cathedral gutters added a soundtrack that was both beautiful and sorrowful.
We headed out into the streets and we ran into many Camino friends, many of whom we believed were long gone. There were numerous warm hugs. It seems that Santiago is a place of reunion and celebration. The wine flowed liberally, as did the stories, the tears and the laughs.
The universal statement in Santiago: “There is no way to explain this to people at home.” And the two questions everyone seems to be struggling with: “What’s next?” and “How will I go back to regular life?”
Pictures of the Walk from Pedrouzo to Santiago de Compostela:
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With our minimalist packs, no cell service, and sisterhood bravery, we had walked out of France, we thought, as purists
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The is an excerpt from the book Boots: A Thousand Miles on Foot and on Life that will be published in the Fall. As I walked the 500 miles across Spain as a proud purist pilgrim carrying all of my belonging for six weeks in a backpack, I met three people who would challenge my view of money and what I “needed.”
Walking as a Purist (I thought)
With our minimalist packs, no cell service, and sisterhood bravery, my friends and I walked out of France as purists. Or, at least I thought we had.
We modified along the way by adding a sim card to a cell phone to have Internet service. Beds were scarce due to an unscheduled holy year. We needed to call ahead to pilgrim hotels to insure a place to sleep each night. But, I still thought of myself as a purist until I met my first pilgrim who traveled without any money and almost no belongings. I struggled to comprehend trusting the world so completely.
Three Other Types of Purist
I saw her in a village restaurant. She asked for food and walked out fed. Curious, I followed her out of the restaurant. Young and alone, she stood out from the other pilgrims because she didn’t have a pack, just a little bag with a string for a strap that she threw over one shoulder.
I called to her and she turned. “How do you get by with carrying so little?” I asked after our initial greeting.
She was friendly and smiled, “I don’t need very much.”
“But you have less than anybody I’ve met.” I had no idea where she was from. Maybe somewhere in Europe. She didn’t have a sleeping bag and maybe not even a change of clothes. Her bag was the size of a medium purse made from dark cloth.
“I ask for what I need, so I don’t carry very much, not even money. I don’t need money. I just ask and walk.”
I had more questions, but she had smiled, turned, and moved on.
Her bravery and willingness to ask for her needs to be met by strangers left me off balance. I couldn’t rearrange my own reality fast enough. I just witnessed how she managed to obtain food. Now, what I wanted to know was where she slept.
A few days later I found myself walking behind an older man dressed in all black. He shuffled, barely lifting his feet as he stepped. Behind him, a wagon rolled along effortlessly. He was tall with beefy shoulders that rounded towards the Earth. He mumbled to himself and kept his eyes cast downward.
This is what I imagined as a traditional purist. Neither my courage nor my social skills were strong enough to approach him. Watching him left me with a lot of answered questions.
Later, I met a man from Eastern Europe with a donkey carrying camping gear. He walked in the opposite direction from almost everyone else, starting at the Atlantic Ocean and walking toward France. I stopped to pet his donkey and visit. He also walked without cash reserves, making his way by asking for donations from anyone who petted his donkey. He seemed to have plenty of time, little concern for the number of miles he completed, or if people donated.
Now, this was something I could piece together. I could see how he got his money to buy food. I could imagine him finding a camping spot along the trail at night to set up camp. He traveled from eastern Europe, Romania, I think. Somehow having a mental image of approximately where on the Earth he lived before coming here helped me see that a person could leave home without money and walk across a country. I had decided he was a purist because he didn’t have money. Later, I wondered if he was just a very clever businessman. Maybe, he and his donkey were in cahoots in getting their camping trip paid for?
Money: Security or Freedom?
On the Camino, I encountered three purists. Each of them had a different view of money than I had. They had a level of trust in the world that couldn’t comprehend. To me, money meant security. To them, it seemed, no money meant freedom. Yikes! I’d have to sit with this for a few years.
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A new vanguard emerged in the early 1940s, primarily in New York, where a small group of loosely affiliated artists created a stylistically diverse body of work that introduced radical new directions in art—and shifted the art world’s focus. Never a formal association, the artists known as “Abstract Expressionists” or “The New York School” did, however, share some common assumptions. Among others, artists such as Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), Franz Kline (1910–1962), Lee Krasner (1908–1984), Robert Motherwell (1915–1991), William Baziotes (1912–1963), Mark Rothko (1903–1970), Barnett Newman (1905–1970), Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992), and Clyfford Still (1904–1980) advanced audacious formal inventions in a search for significant content. Breaking away from accepted conventions in both technique and subject matter, the artists made monumentally scaled works that stood as reflections of their individual psyches—and in doing so, attempted to tap into universal inner sources. These artists valued spontaneity and improvisation, and they accorded the highest importance to process. Their work resists stylistic categorization, but it can be clustered around two basic inclinations: an emphasis on dynamic, energetic gesture, in contrast to a reflective, cerebral focus on more open fields of color. In either case, the imagery was primarily abstract. Even when depicting images based on visual realities, the Abstract Expressionists favored a highly abstracted mode.
Context
Abstract Expressionism developed in the context of diverse, overlapping sources and inspirations. Many of the young artists had made their start in the 1930s. The Great Depression yielded two popular art movements, Regionalism and Social Realism, neither of which satisfied this group of artists’ desire to find a content rich with meaning and redolent of social responsibility, yet free of provincialism and explicit politics. The Great Depression also spurred the development of government relief programs, including the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a jobs program for unemployed Americans in which many of the group participated, and which allowed so many artists to establish a career path.
But it was the exposure to and assimilation of European modernism that set the stage for the most advanced American art. There were several venues in New York for seeing avant-garde art from Europe. The Museum of Modern Art had opened in 1929, and there artists saw a rapidly growing collection acquired by director Alfred H. Barr, Jr. They were also exposed to groundbreaking temporary exhibitions of new work, including Cubism and Abstract Art (1936), Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (1936–37), and retrospectives of Matisse, Léger, and Picasso, among others. Another forum for viewing the most advanced art was Albert Gallatin’s Museum of Living Art, which was housed at New York University from 1927 to 1943. There the Abstract Expressionists saw the work of Mondrian, Gabo, El Lissitzky, and others. The forerunner of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum—the Museum of Non-Objective Painting—opened in 1939. Even prior to that date, its collection of Kandinskys had been publicly exhibited several times. The lessons of European modernism were also disseminated through teaching. The German expatriate Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) became the most influential teacher of modern art in the United States, and his impact reached both artists and critics.
The crisis of war and its aftermath are key to understanding the concerns of the Abstract Expressionists. These young artists, troubled by man’s dark side and anxiously aware of human irrationality and vulnerability, wanted to express their concerns in a new art of meaning and substance. Direct contact with European artists increased as a result of World War II, which caused so many—including Dalí, Ernst, Masson, Breton, Mondrian, and Léger—to seek refuge in the U.S. The Surrealists opened up new possibilities with their emphasis on tapping the unconscious. One Surrealist device for breaking free of the conscious mind was psychic automatism—in which automatic gesture and improvisation gain free rein.
Early Work
Early on, the Abstract Expressionists, in seeking a timeless and powerful subject matter, turned to primitive myth and archaic art for inspiration. Rothko, Pollock, Motherwell, Gottlieb, Newman, and Baziotes all looked to ancient or primitive cultures for expression. Their early works feature pictographic and biomorphic elements transformed into personal code. Jungian psychology was compelling, too, in its assertion of the collective unconscious. Directness of expression was paramount, best achieved through lack of premeditation. In a famous letter to the New York Times (June 1943), Gottlieb and Rothko, with the assistance of Newman, wrote: “To us, art is an adventure into an unknown world of the imagination which is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing. We assert that the subject is critical.”
Mature Abstract Expressionism: Gesture
In 1947, Pollock developed a radical new technique, pouring and dripping thinned paint onto raw canvas laid on the ground (instead of traditional methods of painting in which pigment is applied by brush to primed, stretched canvas positioned on an easel). The paintings were entirely nonobjective. In their subject matter (or seeming lack of one), scale (huge), and technique (no brush, no stretcher bars, no easel), the works were shocking to many viewers. De Kooning, too, was developing his own version of a highly charged, gestural style, alternating between abstract work and powerful iconic figurative images. Other colleagues, including Krasner and Kline, were equally engaged in creating an art of dynamic gesture in which every inch of a picture is fully charged. For Abstract Expressionists, the authenticity or value of a work lay in its directness and immediacy of expression. A painting is meant to be a revelation of the artist’s authentic identity. The gesture, the artist’s “signature,” is evidence of the actual process of the work’s creation. It is in reference to this aspect of the work that critic Harold Rosenberg coined the term “action painting” in 1952: “At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act—rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze, or ‘express’ an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.”
Mature Abstract Expressionism: Color Field
Another path lay in the expressive potential of color. Rothko, Newman, and Still, for instance, created art based on simplified, large-format, color-dominated fields. The impulse was, in general, reflective and cerebral, with pictorial means simplified in order to create a kind of elemental impact. Rothko and Newman, among others, spoke of a goal to achieve the “sublime” rather than the “beautiful,” harkening back to Edmund Burke in a drive for the grand, heroic vision in opposition to a calming or comforting effect. Newman described his reductivism as one means of “freeing ourselves of the obsolete props of an outmoded and antiquated legend … freeing ourselves from the impediments of memory, association, nostalgia, legend, and myth that have been the devices of Western European painting.” For Rothko, his glowing, soft-edged rectangles of luminescent color should provoke in viewers a quasi-religious experience, even eliciting tears. As with Pollock and the others, scale contributed to the meaning. For the time, the works were vast in scale. And they were meant to be seen in relatively close environments, so that the viewer was virtually enveloped by the experience of confronting the work. Rothko said, “I paint big to be intimate.” The notion is toward the personal (authentic expression of the individual) rather than the grandiose.
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St. James was one of the Twelve Apostles, distinguished as being in Jesus’ innermost circle and being the only apostle whose martyrdom is recorded in the New Testament. He witnessed the raising of Jairus’s daughter from the dead, the Transfiguration, and Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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St. James (born, Galilee, Palestine—died 44 ce, Jerusalem; Roman Catholic feast day July 25; Eastern Orthodox feast day April 30) was one of the Twelve Apostles, distinguished as being in Jesus’ innermost circle and being the only apostle whose martyrdom is recorded in the New Testament (Acts 12:2). In Roman Catholicism, St. James is the patron saint of pilgrims, soldiers, veterinarians, pharmacists, and people with arthritis. He is also the patron saint of Spain, Galicia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Seattle.
James and his younger brother, St. John the Apostle, are designated Boanerges (translated in Mark 3:17 as “Sons of Thunder”), perhaps referring to their characteristic fiery zeal (Mark 9:38 and Luke 9:54), though the etymology and meaning are uncertain. With Saints Peter and Andrew, James and John were the first four disciples whom Jesus called (Mark 1:16–19) and whose question (“Tell us, when will [the destruction of the Temple] be, and what will be the sign that all these things are about to be accomplished?”) sparks Jesus’ eschatological (pertaining to the end-time) discourse in Mark 13.
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As a member of the inner circle, James witnessed the raising of Jairus’s daughter from the dead (Mark 5:37 and Luke 8:51), the Transfiguration (Mark 9:2), and Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14:33 and Matthew 26:37). James and John asked Jesus to let them sit, one at his right and one at his left, in his future glory (Mark 10:35–40), a favor that Jesus said was not his to grant. James was beheaded by order of King Herod Agrippa I of Judaea.
According to tradition, James traveled to Spain to preach the gospel before returning to Judaea and becoming a martyr. This tradition also claims that his body was taken by boat to Galicia, a region in northwestern Spain, and buried there. In the early 9th century his tomb was purportedly discovered in what is now Santiago de Compostela, and a church was built on the site of his tomb. In the Middle Ages his relics attracted Christian pilgrims from all over Europe.
A common representation of St. James that emerged during the Crusades (1095–1571)—when Spain was a stronghold of Moorish rule—was that of Santiago Matamoros (Spanish: St. James the Moor-Slayer). He was depicted on horseback and brandishing a sword—iconography that served to inspire Christian knights in battle against the Muslim Moors. (Similar depictions of Santiago Matamoros were used during the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.) St. James has also been depicted as a pilgrim.
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As I have been reflecting on how to engage both phenomenologically and conceptually with Jaime Camino’s documentary about war and exile,1 as experienced by the children of ordinary, voiceless, faceless Republicans, I keep returning to one scene from the documentary, one fragment that, like the Barthesian punctum — which Roland Barthes describes as the explosive prick of contact with one’s own image repertoire — engenders, unleashes or sparks a powerful intellectual, emotional and affective response in me. In this chapter, I will attempt to focus primarily on this scene and I will tease out my theoretical interpretation of Camino’s documentary by means of a close perceptual and cognitive engagement with this scene. This scene forces us to reflect on and re-think the conventional representational devices that are used in Camino’s documentary beyond the common insistence on interpreting the documentary image in the light of its referential achievements or failures. I want to shift the focus from epistephilia, which is defined as the desire to know (Nichols, 1991), towards an ethical consideration that underpins the intellectual and affective transactions between the documentary image and the spectator. My chapter focuses on how Camino’s Los niños de Rusia (The Children of Russia, 2001), remembers, repeats, confronts or ‘works through’ individual and collective traumatic experiences associated with involuntary and premature exile during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime.
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David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Now a member of a medical convention, he looks up old friends and finds his former lover, now a married woman with a flamenco-dancing daughter. He and the daughter (Manuela Vargas) have an immediate and mutual attraction to each other. He considers running away with the exotic beauty before asking his wife to join him for an extended vacation after the convention .
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David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Now a member of a medical convention, he looks up old friends and finds his former lover, now a married woman with a flamenco-dancing daughter. He and the daughter (Manuela Vargas) have an immediate and mutual attraction to each other. He considers running away with the exotic beauty before asking his wife to join him for an extended vacation after the convention .
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EL ACEBO, Spain — About three hours into the day’s hike, having just cleared the highest mountain point of the Camino de Santiago, I looked down into the valleys pockmarked with yellow and purple spring blossoms, and froze.
Surely that faraway black office tower, seemingly no bigger than the trail stones making my scarred feet scream, could not be where I was planning to arrive that same night. Guidebook check: It was.
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Dejected, I struggled downhill into the next hamlet, El Acebo. I was barely past the first of its slate-roofed stone houses when my name — “Giovanna!” — rang out in the lilting Rio de Janeiro accent of a fellow pilgrim.
And that was my camino experience: 31 days of physical endurance through awe-inspiring landscapes, of contemplation punctuated by deep connections. It was a combination that reset my Type-A internal clock so that stopping to pick a poppy or a bunch of grapes, or to compare blisters with hikers from Seoul or Hawaii or Naples, became not only permissible but also imperative.
The “camino frances,” or French way, is an 800-kilometre (500 miles) medieval pilgrimage route that crosses Spain from the Pyrenees at the French border to the purported burial site of the Apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Of several historical routes to Santiago, this is the most popular.
It’s no wilderness hike: The longest stretch without crossing a village is 10 miles (17 kilometres) through farmland. How much solitude you get depends on when and where you start.
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In 2015, 172,243 people walked or rode bikes or horses along the camino frances, according to the Pilgrims’ Office in Santiago. More than 67,000 started in Sarria, about four days from Santiago, the end of the trail. The busiest months are May-September, with more than 20,000 pilgrims each, dropping to fewer than 900 in January. Over the last decade, yearly numbers have mostly risen, but 2010 saw the most pilgrims, likely because it was a Catholic “holy year.”
I walked the entire camino twice, in May-June 2014 and September-October 2015, averaging 26 kilometres (16 miles) daily, often for hours without seeing another pilgrim — though I got stuck for a day among hundreds of yellow-hatted German confirmation students.
With the universal greeting of “buen camino,” I met bikers from Taiwan, retirees from New Zealand, school groups from Minnesota and southern Spain, couples who started at 4 a.m. to ensure solitude and singles who got a lively party scene going most nights. The only kind of person I did not meet was one not deeply affected by the experience.
Not everyone can devote four to five weeks to go the full way, however. Here are my favourite four-day stretches:
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RONCESVALLES TO ESTELLA
After the first pilgrims’ blessing in half-a-dozen languages at the ancient stone church in Roncesvalles, a two-day downhill trek through mountain woods where Charlemagne fought and Hemingway fished takes you to Pamplona, one of four major cities the camino crosses. Refuelled with Basque txistorra sausage, you’re off through rolling hills carpeted in wheat and vines, topped by castles and crisscrossed by Roman roads and medieval bridges until Estella, whose fortress-like medieval churches and palaces huddle in a gorge.
BURGOS TO CARRION DE LOS CONDES
Burgos is the kind of city where, after plodding for half a day through suburbs, you still take 1.5-hour walking tours of the 13th-century cathedral or the main monastery, then limber along the river promenade to restaurants specializing in lechazo, roasted lamb. Beyond is the emptiness of the meseta (plains). Its shades of green and gold are interrupted by jewels like Castrojeriz, Fromista and Carrion de los Condes, with intact Romanesque churches.
ASTORGA TO O CEBREIRO
The camino’s longest climbs start just past the Gaudi-designed bishop’s palace and buzzing main square of Astorga. Through fragrant brush and below snow-covered peaks, you clamber up hamlets like Rabanal, with its mesmerizing chanted vesper prayers, then down into vineyards around pretty, riverside Villafranca del Bierzo. From there it’s uphill to O Cebreiro’s thatched-roof stone houses and Galicia’s moss-draped, cow-clogged paths.
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After two more bucolic days, the last 100 kilometres (62 miles) are crowded with the “clean-shod,” as we pilgrims hobbling on muddy boots called those who start here.
That takes nothing away, however, from arriving in Santiago, with its incense-filled cathedral covered with stern medieval statues and swirling Baroque cherubs standing tall among homes, monasteries and student pubs.
Before going back to email and schedules, there’s a stairway to climb to embrace the statue of St. James at the cathedral’s altar, and one last chance to hug fellow pilgrims.
Perhaps you exchange Facebook connections, perhaps nothing but a whispered “good luck,” because you both know that the real tough “camino” starts now.
IF YOU GO
GETTING THERE: From Madrid, take trains to any larger city along the camino; buses and taxis connect smaller ones.
LODGING: Buy a “credencial,” which gets you in most public hostels. The credencial, stamped and dated along the way, earns you the compostella when you turn it in at Santiago’s Pilgrims’ Office, oficinadelperegrino.com. Hostels (albergues) charge about 5 euros for a bed, first come, first served. Most towns also have hotels; private rooms with bathrooms average 30 euros. Services transport backpacks for 3-5 euros daily. Most restaurants have three-course pilgrims’ menus with wine, 8-10 euros.
TIPS: Train before you go; it’s strenuous. The camino frances is so well-marked with yellow arrows and its shell symbol that you never need maps. If you read Spanish, the best guide is free at http://caminodesantiago.consumer.es.
Take precautions, especially for female solo travellers. An American woman walking the trail was murdered in 2015.
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Besides having one of Larry Watson’s first panel job on his 1954 Ford, Jerry Preston also owned a 1959 Chevy El-Camino that he had customized by Bill DeCarr and painted several times by Larry Watson.
For issue #21 of Kustoms Illustrated I wrote an article about four late 1950’s photos showing four Larry Watson painted Custom Cars. At the time Larry Watson was still alive and when Luke Karosi, editor of the magazine asked Larry to help with some information about for the article he got us in contact with Jerry Preston. Jerry was the owner of the 1954 Ford shown in one of the four photos. When I contacted Jerry to ask him about his 1954 Ford, he also mentioned Larry had painted a 1959 Chevy El Camino for him, several times. Jerry emailed me three photos, all he had of his old 1959 Chevy.
Larry signed the article I created about four old photos of Custom Cars Larry had painted, for Kustoms Illustrated magazine #21.
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When the Kustoms Illustrated article was published Larry mentioned he really like the article, and even send me an signed copy of it. He also mentioned that he had more photos of Jerry’s El Camino in his Personal Collection which could have been used perfectly for that KI article. I did not see those other photos Larry mentioned until after Larry had passed away and his Personal Photo Collection was shard with the Custom Car Chronicle by Roger O’Dell. So now it is time to show you all the photos we have of Jerry Preston’s 1959 El Camino with very nice and stylish body work by Bill DeCarr, and several different paint jobs by Larry Watson.
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Jerry Preston’s ’59 El Camino at Bil DeCarr’s Shop
In 1960 Jerry Preston took his near new 1959 Chevy El Camino to the body shop of Bill DeCarr. Bill worked out of the former Ed Schelhaas body shop on Artesia Blvd in Belflower, California. In the back of his shop Bill’s good friend Larry Watson hired the paint booth to perform his color magic on many fantastic customs in 1960-61. So it was a great idea to bring the car to this shop, first have the body work masterly done by Bill DeCarr, and then push it in the paint-booth in the back to have Larry Watson perform his magic.
At the rear the stock taillights were removed and oval shaped openings were created from bend and reshaped tubing. The new shape was extended onto the tailgate and shaped with sheet metal. as can be seen in the first photo the handles and scripts had already been removed.
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On the to-do-list for Bill was a modified grille opening to fit a 1960 Mercury grille, molded headlights, removing of the the stock “eye brows” reshaping the front of the hood and top of the grille opening. At the back the taillights would be completely reshaped and styled with a similar oval shape as was used on the front to house the quad headlights. At the rear Bill used large diameter round rod and hand shaped metal to create a complete new look. All emblems were removed and the door handles shaved. Then Bill primered the sections of the body he had done work on, and the car was moved back to Larry’s paint-booth.
The new taillight metal work has all been finished and is now ready for some final lead and a coat of primer. A new molded in shape around the recess for the license plate has also been added by Bill DeCarr.
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Finished passenger side taillight shows smooth flowing lines.
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The driver side still needs some final body work and primer. Notice the nice molded in license plate surround.
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The lip on the tailgate section, covering the top portion of the taillight surround needed some extra wok to get right.
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At the front we can see the molded in headlight surrounds, which have a similar shape as the new taillight housings. Bill spend a lot of time on the front of the fenders/hood to remove the factory “eay-brows” and to make the lines just perfect. Some ’59 Chevy’s have a packed hood after this modification. But Bill decided to add rounded corners on Jerry’s Chevy and let the hood end where the grille opening starts.
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The lower grille opening bar needed some work to get in the right shape for the new hood shape and yet to be installed Mercury grille.
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Front end restyling all done and in primer.
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The first version with a light gold and darker gold accented paintjob by Larry is almost done. The roof scoops were an after thought and it was decided to add those after the car had already been painted. Notice the Johnny Zupan Merc sitting against the wall on the right.
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The temporarily turn signals sitting inside the grille indicate that Jerry used the car in the period while the restyling was going on.
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First version finished.
The first version of Jerry’s El Camino was finished in a pearl light gold with darker gold outlines pinstriped in black. Very subtile colors which looked really well on the car. When Larry was already finished with the paint it was decided that the top needed something more. So dual functional scoops were created by Bill DeCarr and then Larry repainted the top in light gold with the complete center section apart from the new scoops in the darker shade of gold. The upholstery in Jerry’s Chevy was done in white with gold accents and the tonneau cover was done in white vinyl to match the interior. This version did not lasted all too long. Jerry wanted the car to look a bit more brilliant, so it went back to the shop for an new Larry Watson paint job.
The scoops that Jerry decided he wanted to add. This photo also gives us a nice look at the dash with the pin-striping and chrome plated gauge cluster.
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Sitting in front of the Bill DeCarr / Larry Watson Artesia Blvd shop in Bellflower in its first version. The 1960 Mercury has now been installed and the rides on chrome reverse wheels with medium size white wall tires.
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Snapshot taken from the roof of Bill DeCarr’s shop gives us a nice view of the upholstered Tonneau, the interior and the two tone outline paint job.
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The interior on Jerry’s El Camino was done really nice in white and gold material. Jerry had the interior and tonneau cover done in TJ.
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Great snapshot shows many cars parked at the show. It also shows the new taillights that Bill designed. The unknown taillight lenses sit on chrome plated perforated sheet installed into the new shaped taillight houseing. Very nice. Look how nice the brilliant light gold paint gleams in the sunlight.
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Jerry Preston had mentioned he had the car painted 4 times by Larry, and that he only had the photos of the car in the last version in pale orange yellow, and nothing else. When we searched in the Watson Personal files we only found snapshots of three different paint jobs. Jerry was already incredibly happy with these new photos of the Chevy. Photos he had never seen before. This got Jerry inspired to look for more material on his old car. Jerry did find one more snapshot of the car done in root-beer candy, and we later came across one more photo of this version on the Rod & Custom website in an article on the 1962 Oakland Roadster show. This was really great, since this root-beer version is the the version missing from the Watson Collection.
Candy Root-Beer version.
Other than new Larry Watson paint the car remained as the previous version. Snapshot shows the nice slight forward rake.
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This rather poor photo of Jerry’s El Camino was taken from one of the many framed photos hanging on the walls at Larry’s museum.
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This photo shows Jerry’s el Camino at the 1962 National Roadster Show in Oakland, California. Bill Neumann took the photo and we can see the car is still running the four taillights in this version. Great to see is the fully detailed pick up bed and upholstery on the inside of the tonneau cover. (Petersen Archive)
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Jerry named his 1959 Chevy El Camino “The Bradado” and each time Larry would repaint it Jerry put a number behind it on the show cards he created for the car. The last one was the “The Bradado 3”, since the first one did not have a number added to it. The Candy root-beer version seen above was “The Bradado I”. Larry added this wonderful deep candy root-beer over a pearl base. The whole car was just done in one color, no outlines, pin striping or anything else. It looked stunning according to Jerry. Jerry also added a new set of narrow wide wall tires to the car for this version.
The pearl Lime green version.
“The Bradado II” car is now painted in a pearl lime green. For the top Larry decided to do something special this time. He painted the top in a heavy flaked silver and added cob webbing in several different colors, then applied several coats of clear to burry the webbing and create a smooth surface. The dash remained the same pale gold in which Larry painted the car in the first version. Another minor update on this version of the car were the new taillights. The perforated chrome plated steel base and the four taillight lenses were removed and replaced with a stainless base and a set of 1958 Ford taillights. This version of the car was done at Larry’s Lakewood Blvd shop in Paramount.
The side view shows a hint of the cob webbed roof and also shows Jerry had installed a set of wire wheel hubcaps, but Jerry did not care much for those so he soon would replace them.
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Still with the same lime green pearl paint Jerry installed another set of mag type wheels, which made the car look more sporty.
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This is the only photo in the Larry Watson Collection, or in Jerry’s personal albums that show a section of the show card with the name “the Bravado” on it. It also shows the addition of the number “2” behind the name.
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“Banana Gold” paint version.
The fourth and final version of Jerry’s 1959 El Camino “The Bravado 3” was painted a pale yellow-orange pearl by Larry. Larry named the custom mixed color “banana pearl” yellow. The top remained the same in silver with cob webbing just as the previous lime green version. For this version Jerry switched back to chrome reverse rims
This side view from a higher point, shows that the upholstered side panels have been removed from the pick up bed.
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Jerry had decided to update the car for the new painted version with a set of 1958 Ford taillights in the new openings.
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Larry, or on of his friends loved to take side view photos of the cars larry painted. Most of the photos in Larry’s Personal Collection are only shown in side view photos taken in front of his shops. This one shows the nice rake Jerry’s Chevy had. The “Banana Pearl” paint looks absolutely brilliant.
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This photo is one that comes from Jerry’s Personal collection.
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This one from Jerry’s Collection shows how nice the restyled front end works and give us a bit of a look of how the two toned headliner looked.
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Jerry’s fade photo of the top shows a bit of detail on the cob webbing, but perhaps more important in this photo is the wonderful tuck & roll interior done in Tijuana, Mexico.
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This photo from Larry’s personal Collection shows the cob webbing much better.
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I am planning to walk the el Camino de Santiago - Camino Frances from Sarria to Compostela in the Spring. My 70 y/o mom is walking with me, and she wants to have reservations at places to stay. They don’t have to be fancy, we are just looking for safe, simple casas rurales or along thos...
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When we made the same hike in 2019, these were the places we stayed at. Our accommodations were booked through Macs Adventure, but you should be able to make reservations on your own.
Sarria - HOTEL MAR DE PLATA. It’s about a block from the train station.
Portomarín - PENSION ARENAS PORTO (nothing fancy but clean). Some friends stayed at Vistalegra Hotel that appeared nicer.
Palas de Rei - CASA LEOPOLDO (outstanding B&B). Some friends stayed at Hotel Casa Belinde.
Arzua - PENSION BEGOÑA - reception was on the 2nd or 3rd floor. Our friends were at Pension Resaurante Teodora.
Pedrouzo - PENSION RESIDENCIA PLATAS
Santiago de Compostela- HOTEL LUX SANTIAGO. We spent a 2nd night at Hotel Rua Villar. Both hotels were fine. Lux was modern had a great breakfast buffet, but Villar had a better atmosphere and more centrally located. Our friends stayed at Hotel Herradura. It’s not as centrally located as Villar. If you wanted to splurge, then consider staying at the Parador beside the cathedral.
We also went a few days early and spent a couple nights in Lugo. Photos from our Camino to give you ideas as to what you’ll see.
Hi Craig, Jaime, and Barbara,
I can’t thank you enough for your posts!! So nice to “meet” fellow pilgrims!
Jaime, thank you for sharing your photos - I looked at every single one! What a beautiful trip!!!! Thank you for your list of places you stayed. Did you make reservations or just wing it?
To all, did you find the language to be an obstacle? I used to be fluent in Spanish, but I’ve the years it’s gotten choppy due to lack of use. My parents met in Zaragoza in high school (and are still together 53 years later!), so Spain is in my heart and in my blood, which is why I want to do this walk with my mom.
Did you all feel safe? How’s the risk of being robbed? Any tips?
Did you guys hike with a tent in case you couldn’t find accommodations?
Any tips, I would love! I’m so excited about this, but I haven’t been back to Europe since 2004 and having my mom with me, I want to do this smart and safe.
Gracias y Buen Camino!
Allie from California
Macs Adventure arranged everything for us regarding lodging and luggage transfer. I consider myself conversant in Spanish so language isn’t an issue. That part of the Camino is heavily traveled so safety isn’t a concern. Mornings, the trail is full of pilgrims, many of whom are only hiking for a few hours to say they walked the Camino. By the afternoon they have all gone and the number of pilgrims thins out. If you have lodging arranged you only need to travel with a day pack, water, and snacks. There are places along the route to use the facilities and get a meal if you’d like. For our walk the daily mileage ranged from between 10 and 19 miles.
I am 68 and just finished walking the Camino Frances in May.
You may want to walk shorter distances each day. If you look on booking dot com, you can find all kinds of places to stay for every budget. Figure out how far you want to walk each day and then book. Look at the terrain. Is it a hilly day, then maybe just 10-12km. Is it a flatter day, then perhaps a bit longer? 15-17km?
Many albergues have private rooms to book, so that you can have a fuller pilgrim experience.
You do not need to bring a tent.
Bag transport is easily arranged each day as every place you stay will have the envelopes and numbers to call (use Whatsapp)
My Spanish is minimal, but if I needed more than the basics, I used Google translate. The staff at all the restaurants and albergues, and pharmacies use it a lot. When there are 10-15 different nationalities in a place, it is so helpful.
The above mentioned website and forum is a treasure trove of information. The Wise Pilgrim app is good to download and will show you terrain. I also use this website to plan my stops that match how far I want to walk each day. Then I go book a place to stay. I have booked all my 40 nights last year and 47 nights this year.
https://godesalco.com/plan/frances
For Santiago, San Martin Pinario is fantastic. Located right next to the cathedral, it is a beautiful old stone building. Not as posh as a parador, but also not as expensive. I have stayed here on 4 Caminos and it is the 1st thing I book.
Please feel free to message me if you have any questions. I also have a FB page - Camino Jo and a YouTube channel - Camino for Everyone
Follow Jo's information. If you don't want to reserve yourself, I'd suggest contacting Carol Alexander-Price of CaminoConfidence.com. She arranges independent tours for women/woman (as well as guiding her small female only tours) based on your wants. She would also be available each day by telephone if you have any issues.
I was 69 when I walked this route in May with one of Carol's small groups (8 women max). You don't have to walk together, but you stay at the same location, etc. It's a beautiful walk. And, all the women were lovely. However, with two of you, you can have your own Camino designed per your wants, distances, etc.
PS, Jo, I love that Camino Planner!
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Learn what it takes to get ready to walk the Camino de Santiago from other first-time pilgrims and your host, Nancy Reynolds.
Walking the Camino for pilgrim Kaye
SUCCESS AND FAILURE ON THE CAMINO Meet Kaye from Australia! She and I had a fun conversation about spirituality, and we discovered we share a love for asking some of the deeper questions. In this episode we explore questions like: >> Who are you walking the Camino for? >> Why are you walking now, and …
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Author Beebe Bahrami shares her unique perspective on the Camino Francés
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?!?!? This is a question I frequently ask first-time pilgrims on the Camino Francés, as we walk together on this ancient pilgrimage path. Beebe Bahrami, author of the Moon Camino de Santiago guidebook knows the answer, and she shares the history, culture, and context of the Camino Francés in her …
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The fast way to do the Camino, with pilgrim Paul
BECOMING A PILGRIM WHILE ON THE CAMINO After completing the Camino from Sarria to Santiago, Paul from Ireland is getting ready to do the Camino Primitivo the fast way. This isn’t for everyone, and it brings up some good questions, like: >> What is a pilgrim? >> Do you have to be a pilgrim to …
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After the Camino with pilgrim Chad
BEST ALBERGUE EXPERIENCES ON THE CAMINO FRANCÉS! What makes an albergue the “best”? Find out what pilgrim Chad says about his top albergue experiences – and he names names! Here are the albergues and other places we mention in this episode: Hostel Suseia – The pilgrim’s home, Zubiri Albergue de Peregrinos Parroquial, Grañon Casa de …
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Pilgrim Georgina walks away from depression
HOW HARD WERE YOU HIT BY THE PANDEMIC? Georgina openly shares her inspiring story of experiencing severe depression, how she found her way out, and how it led her to walk the Camino de Santiago – with just two weeks lead time! Join me for this courageous journey from the dark to the light, and …
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Pilgrim Judith takes a ”slow stroll” on the Camino Francés
NOT “HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE”, BUT . . . How long do you want to take? I keep coming back to this question as I help pilgrims get started on their first ever pilgrimages on the Camino Francés. My guest today is going to take what would be considered by many a very slow …
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Pilgrim Jamie walks through her grief on the Camino Francés
+ 2 REASONS NOT TO WALK THE ENTIRE FRANCÉS ROUTE Jamie and I have one unwanted thing in common: we both lost our Dad’s recently. In this episode, Jamie shares why walking the Camino is the right thing for her to do during this time of grief. It is a story of love and friendship, …
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Pilgrim Kathy Shares How the Camino Changed Her . . . and a Few Other Interesting Stories
IS IT SAFE FOR A WOMAN TO WALK THE CAMINO ALONE? Have you thought about this, if it’s safe for a woman to walk the Camino alone? Kathy wasn’t wondering before she walked, but she sure found out about safety for female pilgrims on her walk across Spain on the del Norte route. Pro-tip: Download …
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Sean from the UK Walks the Camino Inglés
THIS SEASONED TRAVELER EXPECTS TO GET LOST ON THE CAMINO! In fact, getting lost is all part of the experience and adventure for Sean from Leeds in the United Kingdom. It takes the fear right out of wandering the wrong way. Sean shares why he is taking just a week to walk the Camino, and …
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You can take a shower and sleep in a bed every day for less than $10/day - it's crowded here, so I advise you to book your accomodation in advance.
You don't need to carry any food because you'll have access to cooked restaurant meals every few hours.
You don't even need to carry water! You cross piped water about every 45 minutes. You won't need to purify it either.
No need to carry your trash with you for days since you'll pass a trash can about every 10 minutes.
As a result of all this, your backpack could be as light as 1 kg (2.2 pounds). To compare, my ultralight backpack on the CDT weighed 3 kg. However, many pilgrims prefer to lug around all sorts of luxuries and end up with heavy backpacks of 10 kg (22 pounds) or more.
You don't need a map or navigation skills because the route is well marked.
The wide path lets you walk side-by-side with your companion(s), making for easy conversation.
You'll never have to bushwhack.
You'll never have to hitchhike to resupply.
It's flat, easy hiking nearly everywhere, with occasional gentle climbs/descents. It is graded for cars/bikes (which is even easier than equestrian trails.) - you can rent a car for your trip here.
4 good or bad traits, depending on your perspective
It's extremely social. There are lots of interesting people from all over the world to meet and talk with. (Those who prefer solitude will be frustrated.)
Anyone can do the whole trail on a mountain bike. (Some hikers don't like sharing a path with bikers.)
You'll walk through 5-20 rustic villages per day. (Those who prefer wilderness will be disappointed.)
Most Spaniards don't speak English well. Many non-Spanish speaking pilgrims were stunned and frustrated that despite attracting pilgrims from all over the world, the locals have made hardly any effort to learn the international language: English. (You, however, may cherish the opportunity to practice your Spanish. Spanish is my mother tongue so I was happy to speak in Spanish.)
Only about 1% of El Camino de Santiago is a narrow (1-meter wide) dirt trail; 99% is a road (either a dirt road, 2-track road, paved road with little traffic, or a busy highway). It's almost never a narrow footpath where pilgrims are forced to walk in a single file.
About half the time you're on a paved road or on a dirt path right next to a paved road. Some of the paved roads have little traffic, but others are quite busy.
Because you're on a paved road so often, by the end of the day your feet may feel like they've been put through a meat tenderizer. Although I've hiked over 65 km in one day in steep mountains, I found it harder to do 65 km in one day on the flat Camino. My feet just ached too much from all paved roads.
About 95% of the time, car traffic is within earshot. El Camino often gives you the illusion that cars aren't near because you sometimes can't see the nearby paved road which may have infrequent traffic. However, it takes just one car to remind you that there is indeed a road nearby.
Amenities distract from any spiritual mission you may have. With endless bars, restaurants, hotels, vending machines, tour groups, you're hardly removed from the "real world." This defeats much of the purpose of living primitively in a search for a deeper meaning or understanding of life. On the other hand, it's nice to have easy access to ice cream.
The scenery is monotonous. It's endless pastoral farmland everywhere you look. Far in the horizon, you might glimpse some real mountains. The most photogenic places are the towns and villages; since you can drive (or bike) to all of them, there's no practical need to walk between them.
It's a skin cancer magnet. Infrequent trees mean that a brutal sun is hammering you most of the day. In the summer, it's hard to tolerate.
Unfriendly commercialism. El Camino has become a big business, where the locals are sometimes unfriendly and seem to just care about getting your money.
It's a cacophony of sounds. Rumbling 18-wheel trucks, ear-splitting motorcycles, angry barking dogs, blaring music from cafes, honking horns, and ringing cell phones. El Camino assaults your eardrums. At least, there were no jack-hammers. Oh, wait. I walked by one of those too.
It's hard to take a piss. There's little privacy. Cars and pilgrims are constantly passing you by. After 3 p.m. most pilgrims retire to their albergues (huts) and you'll get more privacy to do your business. Nevertheless, at 7 p.m. one jogger still managed to catch me with my pants down.
Pilgrim: A traveler that is taken seriously. — Ambrose Bierce
El Camino de Santiago's dirty little secret
Despite all this hiking fervor, the bad news is that by 1987 Spain had paved over much of the historic Camino because the old path took the fastest and flattest way toward Santiago, which is desirable for vehicle traffic.
I rarely stayed in the albergues (huts) because I prefer to sleep outside than pay $10 to sleep with many people who snore and make a racket going to bed late. However, 5 km before Santiago, I celebrated by staying at the albergue. When I signed in, I asked the lady, "Is it a busy night tonight?"
"No, only 30 pilgrims are staying here."
"What's the maximum capacity?"
"550."
550?! It looked huge from the outside, but since I arrived at night, I couldn't tell just how enormous this albergue was. There's a series of buildings to house pilgrims. Incredibly, during the summer, they're overflowing.
To be fair, most albergues are far smaller, hosting fewer than 100 pilgrims. Still, one hundred is a lot!
Feeling like Spiderman
Comparing El Camino de Santiago with America's Triple Crown trails
Some have asked me to compare El Camino de Santiago with the Triple Crown. The Triple Crown comprises America's three most popular long-distance trails (AT, PCT, CDT).
Let's compare the distances. Most pilgrims start somewhere near the Pyrenees, doing 800-900 km. Pilgrims are impressed when someone from Switzerland, Germany, or Austria does just over 2,000 km. And those who start further become legends. One guy many talked about had walked from Jerusalem, about 6,000 km.
Now compare these distances with the Appalachian Trail (3,000 km), the Pacific Crest Trail (4,250 km), or the Continental Divide Trail (4,500 km). Anyone who does the AT walks 50% more than even the "elite" pilgrims from Austria.
Furthermore, the Triple Crown trails cover relatively isolated, steep mountain ranges. Thru-hikers may have to cover up to 300 km between convenient resupply points. On El Camino de Santiago, you'll never go more than 10 km between resupply points, and it's primarily flat terrain everywhere.
Therefore, one can argue that walking 6,000 km from Jerusalem is comparable to thru-hiking the PCT or CDT because it's flatter and has far more resupply points than the PCT and CDT. By that measure, anyone who thru-hikes the PCT or CDT has god-like hiking abilities by El Camino de Santiago standards.
The point of these comparisons is not to argue that the Triple Crown trails are "better" than El Camino de Santiago but rather to illustrate that they are nearly incomparable! They are different experiences. They're so different that if you like one, you'll probably dislike the other. Hence, this explains why I think El Camino de Santiago sucks.
Some Camino fans will argue that my way to Santiago had two major flaws. First, the alternate through Los Picos de Europa and Asturias, while scenic, made me miss out on nearly half of El Camino Frances, so my journey wasn't typical. Second, by avoiding albergues, I missed out on the social aspect of El Camino, which, for many pilgrims, is the best part of the journey.
Although I understand these criticisms, I hiked with enough pilgrims and stayed at enough albergues to get a good idea about the social side of El Camino. It's true: the social opportunities are precious and unique. Unlike America's Triple Crown, El Camino attracts a truly international crowd. However, I want more than cool international people on a trail. I can get a multicultural experience on the New York City Subway. A trail, for me, should take me away from civilization and deep into nature. On that metric, El Camino fails miserably.
Going to the very end: Fisterra
About 5% of the pilgrims don't finish in Santiago but continue walking another 88 km to the end of the world: Fisterra. The Spanish call the place Finisterra, but the local Gallegos, who have their language in the Galician region of Spain, call it Fisterra. The Romans gave its name because they believed it was the end of the earth.
As brilliant as the Romans were, they didn't have GPS. As a result, Fisterra is a big hoax. Although it may feel like you're standing on the edge of the world in Fisterra, it's not the westernmost part of Europe. That point is hundreds of kilometers further south near Lisbon, Portugal.
What's even more galling is that Fisterra is not even the westernmost point in Spain! The actual westernmost point is a few kilometers to the north. What a ripoff!
Fortunately, I knew all this as I walked there, so at least I knew that I was being an idiot.
Once you get there, however, you can see why the Romans thought this was the ultimate land's end. It feels like you're standing on the edge of the planet.
You'll never believe who did El Camino de Santiago in reverse
As I stood at Fisterra, I thought about a man who also stood there and would later become the President of the United States. This man was desperate after crossing the Atlantic Ocean: his ship was leaking and would soon sink. Fisterra was the first piece of ground available, so he landed there. However, his desperation didn't stop. The future of the United States depended on him. If he failed on his mission, the United States might collapse.
He did something incredible with no ship: he followed El Camino de Santiago in reverse! He hurried as fast as he could, eager to cover as much ground as possible. He was so hurried that he didn't even have time to see Santiago de Compostela, something he would later deeply regret. But it didn't matter at that moment – he had to save his nation, and time was running out.
He crossed all of Spain, often on El Camino de Santiago, went over the Pyrenees, through southern France, and to Paris! All of it over land and at a ferocious pace. Once in Paris, he hurried straight to the highest office in the land. His mission?
To beg.
He begged the French for money and weapons to kill the British. The French hesitated. They weren't pleased that the American diplomat didn't speak French (bien sûr!). Nevertheless, the French agreed to help this rebellious American terrorist.
It was June 1779, three years into the American Revolutionary War. Without French assistance, the United States may not have become the nation it is today. This partly explains why Americans returned the favor when they helped to liberate France from the Nazis 165 years later.
This man, who traveled much of El Camino de Santiago in reverse, from Fisterra to Paris, to save our nation, returned a hero and became America's first Vice President, serving under George Washington. Later, the United States elected this man to become the second President of the United States. His name was John Adams.
Beware of the bitch at the end of the world
"Why not?" I asked in my fluent Spanish.
"You don't have enough stamps on your credential. The trip from Santiago to Fisterra takes three days, so you should have three stamps. You only have one stamp. So you can't stay."
"No. You should have gotten your stamps even if you don't stay at the albergues."
"But sometimes the albergues are 100 meters off El Camino. Do I have to go out of my way for a stamp?"
"Yes, you should."
It had taken me 25 days to traverse the Pyrenees from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean. It also took 25 days to walk El Camino de Santiago from St. Jean Pied-de-Port to Fisterra. In sum, It took me 50 days to walk across Spain twice, once south to north and once east to west.
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Recommendations
Don't go in the summer. First, it's the most crowded period. Albergues are usually packed, and people can get cranky. Second, summer in Spain is brutally hot. Go during any other season, even winter, which sees little snow on most of El Camino.
Unless you love road walking, bike El Camino de Santiago. Mountain bikers can travel the same path the walkers use. Most say you only go twice as fast on a bike because the muddy parts, climbs, and irregular surface slows you down. However, a decent mountain biker should be able to go three times faster than a walker. Typical bikers cover 40-80 km daily (most walkers cover 20-40 km). A good mountain biker could do 100 km daily, allowing you to go from France to Santiago de Compostela in less than 10 days.
It's also possible to use a road bike because there is almost always a paved road parallel to El Camino. Fast road bikers can cover 150 km daily, allowing you to do the whole Camino in less than a week. However, I don't recommend this because biking on narrow paved roads with car traffic is dangerous. Instead, take a mountain bike and stay on El Camino.
Hike a similar route that I took. Start in Hendaye, France. Follow El Camino del Norte until you're north of Los Picos de Europe, and then climb up (south) into that national park. Once you're in the middle of Los Picos de Europa, head west, crossing the Asturias region, connecting many existing paths. Continue until you cross El Camino Primitivo (yet another designated path to Santiago), or until you get to Ponferrara or Lugo, you'll rejoin El Camino Frances. From there, join the herd to Santiago. This is the best backpacking route because it focuses on scenery, solitude, wilderness, and mountains. It's certainly the most brutal way to Santiago, but it's worth it.
Consider hiking El Camino del Norte. As I've mentioned, El Camino Frances is just one path to Santiago. The northern route runs near the coast, offering ocean and mountain views nicer than the views on El Camino Frances. You'll have more up-and-down terrain, but it's worth it for the views and varied geography. Also, the Northern Route is less famous than the Camino Frances, so you'll enjoy less competition for the facilities. However, there are not that many albergues, so they can fill up quite quickly in the summer, so be prepared to camp if you go during the summer. Although it's not as well marked as El Camino Frances, it's reasonably well marked, so you won't have to invent some route through Asturias as I did. It has roughly the same amount of road walking as the Camino Frances. This may be the best way to go for those who want a less crowded Camino yet still want to taste the experience.
Hike the Pyrenees instead. Forget El Camino. Do the Pyrenees. It's far more challenging but far more rewarding. I adored the Pyrenees. The best trail is the HRP (High Route Pyrenees), next is the GR 11 (goes on the Spanish side), and the least amazing (but still great) is the GR 10 (on the French side). There are still plenty of comforts in the Pyrenees thanks to all the refugios (where you can get a shower for $5, a meal for $15, and a bed for $35). The scenery and adventure are as great as the John Muir Trail.
Alternatively, you can join one of the tours and go hiking accompanied by a transfer and a guide:
→ Full-Day Spiritual Pyrenees Adventure from Lourdes
→ Pyrenees Mountains & Medieval Towns Small Group Day Trip from Barcelona
→ Pyrenees Hiking from Barcelona
See the books below.
Be realistic!
Many have romantic visions of El Camino that aren't realistic. The media doesn't help: one brochure about El Camino with 50 photos showed photos of civilization (e.g., towns, churches, bridges) about 80% of the time! Only 10 photos showed El Camino itself, and none showed El Camino on a paved road. Photos on websites also emphasize man-made structures and not nature, hiding most of the everyday reality of El Camino.
Let's hope you learned about the side of El Camino de Santiago that few discuss. If you decide to do El Camino de Santiago, at least you will know what you're getting into. Happy trials! Er, I mean, trails!
Buen Camino!
Alternatives to El Camino Frances Podcast
Susan Alcorn has written a couple of books about El Camino de Santiago.
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The Surrealist Dalà evoked his dreams and hallucinations in unforgettable images. While his provocations and flamboyant personality made him an art star.
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Summary of Salvador DalÃ
Salvador Dalà is among the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century and the most famous Surrealist. Though chiefly remembered for his painterly output, in the course of his long career he successfully turned to sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and, perhaps most famously, filmmaking in his collaborations with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock. Dalà was renowned for his flamboyant personality and role of mischievous provocateur as much as for his undeniable technical virtuosity. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. His paintings also evince a fascination for Classical and Renaissance art, clearly visible through his hyper-realistic style and religious symbolism of his later work.
Accomplishments
Freudian theory underpins DalÃ's attempts at forging a visual language capable of rendering his dreams and hallucinations. These account for some of the iconic and now ubiquitous images through which Dalà achieved tremendous fame during his lifetime and beyond.
Obsessive themes of eroticism, death, and decay permeate DalÃ's work, reflecting his familiarity with and synthesis of the psychoanalytical theories of his time. Drawing on blatantly autobiographical material and childhood memories, DalÃ's work is rife with often ready-interpreted symbolism, ranging from fetishes and animal imagery to religious symbols.
Dalà subscribed to Surrealist André Breton's theory of automatism, but ultimately opted for his own self-created system of tapping the unconscious termed "paranoiac critical," a state in which one could simulate delusion while maintaining one's sanity. Paradoxically defined by Dalà himself as a form of "irrational knowledge," this method was applied by his contemporaries, mostly Surrealists, to varied media, ranging from cinema to poetry to fashion.
The Life of Salvador DalÃ
Important Art by Salvador DalÃ
Biography of Salvador DalÃ
Childhood
Dalà was born in Figueres, a small town outside Barcelona, to a prosperous middle-class family. The family suffered greatly before the artist's birth, because their first son (also named Salvador) died quickly. The young artist was often told that he is the reincarnation of his dead brother - an idea that surely planted various ideas in the impressionable child. His larger-than-life persona blossomed early alongside his interest in art. He is claimed to have manifested random, hysterical, rage-filled outbursts toward his family and playmates.
From a very young age, Dalà found much inspiration in the surrounding Catalan environs of his childhood and many of its landscapes would become recurring motifs in his later key paintings. His lawyer father and his mother greatly nurtured his early interest in art. He had his first drawing lessons at age 10 and in his late teens was enrolled at the Madrid School of Fine Arts, where he experimented with Impressionist and Pointillist styles. When he was a mere 16, Dalà lost his mother to breast cancer, which was according to him, "the greatest blow I had experienced in my life." When he was 19, his father hosted a solo exhibition of the young artist's technically exquisite charcoal drawings in the family home.
Early Training
In 1922 Dalà enrolled at the Special Painting, Sculpture and Engraving School of San Fernando in Madrid, where he lived at the Residencia de Estudiantes. Dalà fully came of age there and started to confidently inhabit his flamboyant and provocative persona. His eccentricity was notorious, and originally more renowned than his artwork. He kept his hair long and dressed in the style of English aesthetes from the 19th century, complete with knee-length britches that earned him the title of a dandy. Artistically, he experimented with many different styles at the time, dabbling in whatever piqued his ravenous curiosity. He fell in with, and became close to, a group of leading artistic personalities that included filmmaker Luis Buñuel and poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca. The residence itself was very progressive and exposed Dalà to the most important minds of the time such as Le Corbusier, Einstein, Calder and Stravinsky. Ultimately though, Dalà was expelled from the academy in 1926 for insulting one of his professors during his final examination before graduation.
Following his dismissal from school, Dalà went idle for a number of months. He then took a life-changing trip to Paris. He visited Pablo Picasso in his studio and found inspiration in what the Cubists were doing. He became greatly interested in Futurist attempts to recreate motion and show objects from simultaneous, multiple angles. He began studying the psychoanalytic concepts of Freud as well as metaphysical painters like Giorgio de Chirico and Surrealists like Joan Miró, and consequently began using psychoanalytic methods of mining the subconscious to generate imagery. Over the course of the next year, Dalà would explore these concepts while working to consider a means of dramatically reinterpreting reality and altering perception. His first serious work of this style was Apparatus and Hand (1927), which contained the symbolic imagery and dreamlike landscape that would become DalÃ's inimitable painting signature.
Mature Period
In 1928, Dalà partnered with the filmmaker Luis Buñuel on Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a filmic meditation on abject obsessions and irrational imagery. The film's subject matter was so sexually and politically shocking that Dalà became infamous, causing quite a stir with the Parisian Surrealists. The Surrealists considered recruiting Dalà into their circle and, in 1929, sent Paul Eluard and his wife Gala, along with René Magritte and his wife Georgette, to visit Dalà in Cadaques. This was the first time Dalà and Gala would meet and shortly after the two began having an affair which eventually resulted in her divorce from Eluard. Gala, born in Russia as Elena Dmitrievna Diakona, became DalÃ's lifelong, constant, and most important muse, as well as being his future wife, his greatest passion, and his business manager. Soon after this original meeting, Dalà moved to Paris, and was invited by André Breton to join the Surrealists.
Dalà ascribed to Breton's theory of automatism, in which an artist stifles conscious control over the creative process by allowing the unconscious mind and intuition to guide the work. Yet in the early 1930s, Dalà took this concept a step further by creating his own Paranoic Critical Method, in which an artist could tap into their subconscious through systematic irrational thought and a self-induced paranoid state. After emerging from a paranoid state, Dalà would create "hand-painted dream photographs" from what he had witnessed, oftentimes culminating in works of vastly unrelated yet realistically painted objects (which were sometimes intensified by techniques of optical illusion). He believed that viewers would find intuitive connection with his work because the subconscious language was universal, and that, "it speaks with the vocabulary of the great vital constants, sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical notion of the enigma of space - these vital constants are universally echoed in every human." He would use this method his entire life, most famously seen in paintings such as The Persistence of Memory (1931) and Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936).
For the next several years, DalÃ's paintings were notably illustrative of his theories about the psychological state of paranoia and its importance as subject matter. He painted bodies, bones, and symbolic objects that reflected sexualized fears of father figures and impotence, as well as symbols that referred to the anxiousness over the passing of time. Many of DalÃ's most famous paintings are from this highly creative period.
While his career was on the rise, DalÃ's personal life was undergoing change. Although he was both inspired and besotted by Gala, his father was less than enthused at this relationship with a woman ten years his son's senior. His early encouragement for his son's artistic development was waning as Dalà moved more toward the avant-garde. The final straw came when Dalà was quoted by a Barcelona newspaper as saying, "sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait." The elder Dalà expelled his son from the family home at the end of 1929.
The politics of war were at the forefront of Surrealist debates and in 1934 Breton removed Dalà from the Surrealist group due to their differing views on communism, fascism, and General Franco. Responding to this expulsion Dalà famously retorted, "I myself am Surrealism." For many years Breton, and some members of the Surrealists, would have a tumultuous relationship with DalÃ, sometimes honoring the artist, and other times disassociating themselves from him. And yet other artists connected to Surrealism befriended Dalà and continued to be close with him throughout the years.
In the following years, Dalà travelled widely, and practiced more traditional painting styles that drew on his love of canonized painters like Gustave Courbet and Jan Vermeer, though his emotionally charged themes and subject matter remained as strange as ever. His fame had grown so widely that he was in demand by the rich, well known, and fashionable. In 1938, Coco Chanel invited Dalà to her home, "La Pausa," on the French Riviera where he painted extensively, creating work later exhibited at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. But undoubtedly, DalÃ's true magic moment came that year when he met his hero, Sigmund Freud. After painting his portrait, Dalà was thrilled to learn that Freud had said, "So far, I was led to consider completely insane the Surrealists, who I think I had been adopted as the patron saint. This young Spaniard with his candid, fanatical eyes and his undeniable technical mastery has made me change my mind."
Around this time Dalà also met a major patron, the wealthy British poet Sir Edward James. James not only purchased DalÃ's work, but also supported him financially for two years and collaborated on some of DalÃ's most famous pieces including The Lobster Phone (1936) and Mae West Lips Sofa (1937) - both of which decorated James' house in Sussex, England.
Dalà and Gala in the US
Dalà had a presence in the United States even before his first visit to the country. The art dealer Julien Levy organized an exhibition of DalÃ's work in New York in 1934, that included The Persistence of Memory. The exhibition was incredibly well-received, turning Dalà into a sensation. He first visited the US in the mid-1930s. And he continued to ruffle the waters wherever he went, oftentimes staging deliberate public appearances and interactions, which were in essence early examples of his love for performance. On one such occasion, he and Gala went to a masquerade ball in New York dressed as the Lindbergh baby and his kidnapper. This caused such a scandal that Dalà actually apologized in the press, an action that prompted contempt from the Surrealists in Paris.
Dalà also participated in other Surrealist events while in New York. He was featured in the first exhibition on Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art. He also made quite a scene at a showing of Joseph Cornell's Surrealist films when he knocked over the projector, famously fuming "my idea for a film is exactly that, and I was going to propose it to someone who would pay to have it made. I never wrote it down or told anyone, but it is as if he had stolen it."
After the devastation of the Second World War in Europe, Dalà and Gala returned to the United States in 1940. They would remain for eight years, splitting time between New York and California. During this period, Dalà became highly productive, expanding his practice beyond the visual arts into a wide array of other creative interests. He designed jewelry, clothing, furniture, sets for plays and ballets, and even display windows for retail stores. DalÃ's eccentric personality often took center stage in many of these pursuits - for example, while being consigned by the department store Bonwit Teller, Dalà was so angered by changes to his artistic vision that he shoved a bathtub through the window display case.
Dalà (and Gala) wanted to become stars and make a large amount of money so Hollywood was a natural destination for the couple. They did not succeed in their quest for cinematic celebrity, but Dalà was asked by the famous director Alfred Hitchcock to create the dream sequence in his thriller Spellbound (1945). In addition, Walt Disney cooperated with Dalà to create the animated cartoon Destino, but the project was suspended due to financial difficulties following World War II and not actually completed until much later (2003).
Return to Port Lligat
After being ousted from the family home in 1929, Dalà purchased a small seaside house in the nearby fishing village of Port Lligat. Eventually he bought up all of the houses around it, transforming his property into a grand villa. Gala and Dalà moved back to Port Lligat in 1948, making it their home base for the next three decades.
DalÃ's art continued to evolve. Besides exploring different artistic mediums, Dalà also started using optical illusions, negative space, visual puns, and trompe l'oeil in his work. Starting in 1948 he would make approximately one monumental painting per year - his "Dalà Masterworks" - that were at least five feet long in one or both directions and creatively occupied Dalà for at least a year. His studio had a special slot built into the floor that would allow the huge canvases to be raised and lowered as he worked on them. He painted at least 18 such works between 1948 and 1970.
In the 1940s and 1950s, DalÃ's paintings focused primarily on religious themes reflecting his abiding interest in the supernatural. He famously claimed, "I am a carnivorous fish swimming in two waters, the cold water of art and the hot water of science." He aimed to portray space as a subjective reality, which may be why many of his paintings from this period show objects and figures at extremely foreshortened angles. He continued employing his "paranoiac-critical" method, which entailed working long, arduous hours in the studio and expressing his dreams directly on canvas in manic bouts of energy.
Dalà became quite reclusive while encompassed in his studio making paintings. Yet, he continued to step out to orchestrate stunts, or what he called "manifestations" that were just as outrageous as before. Designed to provoke, these performance-based interactions reminded the public that DalÃ's inner imp was alive and well. In one, Dalà sipped from a swan's egg as ants emerged from inside its shell; in another he drove around in a car filled to the roof with cauliflower. When his book, The World of Salvador DalÃ, was published in 1962 he signed autographed copies at a bookstore in Manhattan while hooked up to a monitor recording his blood pressure and brain waves. Customers left with a signed copy and a printout of DalÃ's vitals. He also made a number of commercials for televisions and other media for companies such as Lanvin Chocolates, Alka-Seltzer, and Braniff Airlines - casting his star power far and wide.
In the 1960s when Dalà came to New York City, he always stayed at the St. Regis hotel on 5th Avenue. He made the hotel bar practically his living room, where parties raged throughout his stay. At the time Dalà had an entourage of strange and charismatic characters with whom he spent his time. Andy Warhol, another eccentric collector of outrageously wacky humans, also spent time with Dalà at the St. Regis. In one legendary story, Warhol brought a silkscreen painting as a gift to DalÃ, but the older artist threw it on the ground at the hotel and proceeded to pee on it. Rather than get offended, Warhol supposedly loved the whole episode. The group that Warhol later put together at The Factory was considered a modern evocation of the setting Dalà produced earlier.
Late Period and Death
The last two decades of DalÃ's life would be the most difficult and psychologically arduous. In 1968 he bought a castle in Pubol for Gala and in 1971 she began staying there for weeks at a time, on her own, forbidding Dalà from visiting without her permission. Her retreats gave Dalà a fear of abandonment and caused him to spiral into depression. Gala inflicted permanent damage on Dalà after it came to light that, in her senility, she had marred his health by dosing him with non-prescribed medication. The physical damage that Gala wrought on Dalà hindered his art-making capacity until his death. After her death in 1982, Dalà experienced a further bout of depression and is believed to have attempted suicide. He also moved into the castle in Pubol, the site of her death.
One of DalÃ's most important achievements during this rough time was the creation of The Dalà Theatre-Museum in Figueres. Rather than donating a single work to the city, Dalà said, "Where, if not in my own town, should the most extravagant and solid of my work endure, where if not here? The Municipal Theatre, or what remained of it, struck me as very appropriate." In preparation for the museum's opening in 1974 Dalà worked tirelessly to design the building and put together the permanent collection that would serve as his legacy.
On January 23, 1989, Dalà died of heart failure while listening to his favorite record, Tristan and Isolde. He is buried beneath the museum that he built in Figueres. His final resting place is three blocks away from the house that he was born in and across the street from the Sant Pere church where he was baptized and had his first communion.
The Legacy of Salvador DalÃ
Dalà epitomized the idea that life is the greatest form of art and he mined his with such relentless passion, purity of mission and diehard commitment to exploring and honing his various interests and crafts that it is impossible to ignore his groundbreaking impact on the art world.
His desire to continually and unapologetically turn the internal to the outside resulted in a body of work that not only evolved the concepts of Surrealism and psychoanalysis on a worldwide visual platform but also modeled permission for people to embrace their selves in all our human glory, warts and all. By showing us visual representations of his dreams and inner world laid bare, through exquisite draftsmanship and master painting techniques, Dalà opened a realm of possibilities for artists looking to inject the personal, the mysterious and the emotional into their work. In post-war New York, these concepts were incorporated and transformed by Abstract Expressionists who used Surrealist techniques of automatism to express the subconscious through art, only now through gesture and color. DalÃ's use of wildly juxtaposing found objects to create sculpture helped shake the medium from its more traditional bones, opening the door for great Assemblage artists such as Joseph Cornell. Today, we can still see DalÃ's influence on artists painting in Surrealist styles, others in the contemporary visionary arts spheres and all over the digital art and illustration spectrums.
DalÃ's physical character in the world, eccentric and enigmatic, paved the way for artists to think of themselves as brands. He showed that there was no separation between Dalà the man and Dalà the work. His use of avant-garde filmmaking, provocative public performance and random, strategic interaction brought his work alive in ways that differed from the painting - instead of the viewer merely looking at a beautiful work that evoked great imagination, they would be "poked" in real life by a manifestation of DalÃ's imagination designed to unsettle and conjure reaction. This could later be seen in artists like Yoko Ono. Andy Warhol would go on to concoct his own persona, environment and entourage in much the same way as would countless other 20th-century artists. In today's social-media landscape, artists are almost expected to be visibly and socially just as interesting as their art work.
Dalà also spearheaded the idea that art, artist and artistic ability could cross many mediums and become a viable commodity. His exhaustive endeavors into fields ranging from fine art to fashion to jewelry to retail and theater design positioned him as a prolific businessman as well as creator. Unlike mass merchandising, which is often disdained in the art world, DalÃ's hand touched such a variety of products and places, that literally anyone in the world could own a piece of him. Today this practice is so common that we find great architects like Frank Gehry designing special rings and necklaces for Tiffany or innovators like John Baldessari lending his images to skateboard decks.
Influences and Connections
Useful Resources on Salvador DalÃ
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Enter through Mexico’s only private tunnel and emerge into a world of authenticity & luxury, one designed to anticipate your every need, delight the senses, and foster a deep connection with the natural surroundings. More than a resort, Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal is an immersive experience that celebrates the heritage of Mexican culture and cuisine, nestled between the cliffside and the brilliant blue Pacific Ocean. Leave your cares behind and create unforgettable memories while relishing the privacy of your own spacious room, suite, villa, accommodation casita or private home, each with a private plunge pool and ocean views to calm and inspire you.
An Experience Rooted in Place & Heritage
Thoughtfully elevating flavors of Mexico, our iconic destination restaurants offer gourmet experiences and true Waldorf service surrounded by the beauty of the desert and sea. Enjoy legendary culinary experiences helmed by Executive Chef Gustavo Pinet, who sources the freshest ingredients from Baja California to the Yucatan. Indulge in the the seaside El Farallon to Don Manuel’s, find the best restaurants in Cabo San Lucas in one iconic location at Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal.
A culinary journey like no other. We welcomed the culinary virtuoso, Chef Mitsuharu Tsumura, from Maido – World’s 50 Best Restaurants #6 and Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants #1, to the enchanting shores of Los Cabos.
Experience the timeless flavors of Mexico in a cozy traditional kitchen and airy hacienda setting that evolves throughout the day to offer eclectic dishes and the highest quality regional ingredients, highlighted by a warm and welcoming atmosphere.
Travesía features an array of well-prepared dishes from established chefs who strive to highlight the essence and dynamism of Mexican cuisine. Acknowledging the popularity and growing ubiquity of Mexico’s beloved taco, we set out to celebrate the regions responsible for the delectable ingredients that both form and enhance the taco experience.
Neutral Coffee Lab is an elevated coffee experience at its finest. With coffee varieties from around the world including a focus on local coffee communities, our guests experience culture-rich traditions in a nature-conscious, sustainable environment, learning the origins, methods, and people behind the beans. Our goal is to bring an elevated coffee experience to Los Cabos, that is intentional, well-made, and always respecting the coffee culture
The best Los Cabos seafood with an unparalleled view of the sea. Perfect for indulging in the freshest ceviche, sushi, briny oysters, and cocktails while immersed in a glistening infinity pool that seems to flow into the horizon.
Gather at Don Manuel’s bar prior to dinner for an extensive list of rare spirits from around Mexico, curated by our in-house mixologists. Nightly live music and light bites are the perfect way to start your evening.
Experience deep renewal and transformative treatments at the ultimate Los Cabos spa. Reap the rejuvenating benefits of organic treatments inspired by the lunar cycle, the sea, and authentic Mexican folk healing. Waldorf Astoria Spa is a lagoon for guests to rest, rejuvenate, and tap into the lunar cycles, the sea, and the natural healing culture of Baja.
This enviable location places you at the heart of Mexico’s most exciting experiences while tucking you a world away in a secluded retreat. From scuba diving and parasailing to horseback riding, there’s plenty to thrill the adventure seeker in you—or relax by the beach or pool while our attentive team caters to you. No matter what you desire, your Personal Concierge or private butler will anticipate and meet your every need.
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1937 oil painting by Pablo Picasso
GuernicaArtistPablo PicassoYear1937MediumOil on canvasMovementCubism, SurrealismDimensions349.3 cm × 776.5 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in)LocationMuseo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Guernica (Spanish: [ɡeɾˈnika]; Basque: [ɡernika]) is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.[1][2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history.[3] It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.[4]
The grey, black, and white painting, on a canvas 3.49 meters (11 ft 5 in) tall and 7.76 meters (25 ft 6 in) across, portrays the suffering wrought by violence and chaos. Prominently featured in the composition are a gored horse, a bull, screaming women, a dead baby, a dismembered soldier, and flames.
Picasso painted Guernica at his home in Paris in response to the 26 April 1937 bombing of Guernica, a town in the Basque Country in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy at the request of the Spanish Nationalists. Upon completion, Guernica was exhibited at the Spanish display at the 1937 Paris International Exposition and then at other venues around the world. The touring exhibition was used to raise funds for Spanish war relief.[5] The painting soon became widely acclaimed, helping to bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War that took place from 1936 to 1939.
It is widely thought that Surrealist photographer and anti-fascist activist Dora Maar, Picasso’s romantic partner at the time, had a significant influence on the style and politicized theme of Guernica.[6]
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In January 1937, while Pablo Picasso was living in Paris on Rue des Grands Augustins, he was commissioned by the Spanish Republican government to create a large mural for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. This piece was to help raise awareness of the war and raise necessary funds.[7] Picasso, who had last visited Spain in 1934 and would never return, was the Honorary Director-in-Exile of the Prado Museum.[8]
Picasso worked somewhat dispassionately from January until late April on the project's initial sketches, which depicted his perennial theme of an artist's studio.[1] Then, immediately upon hearing reports of the 26 April bombing of Guernica, poet Juan Larrea visited Picasso's home to urge him to make the bombing his subject.[1] Days later, on 1 May, Picasso read George Steer's eyewitness account of the attack, which originally had been published in both The Times and The New York Times on 28 April, and abandoned his initial idea. Acting on Larrea's suggestion, Picasso began sketching a series of preliminary drawings for Guernica.[9]
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Bombing of 26 April 1937
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During the Spanish Civil War the Republican forces, made up of communists, socialists, anarchists, and others with differing goals, united in their opposition to the Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, who sought to establish a fascist dictatorship. The Nationalists perceived Guernica, a quiet village in the province of Biscay in Basque Country, as the northern bastion of the Republican resistance movement and the center of Basque culture.[10]
On Monday, 26 April 1937, warplanes of the Nazi Germany Condor Legion, commanded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed Guernica for about two hours.[11][10] In his 30 April 1937 journal entry von Richthofen noted that when the squadron arrived "there was smoke everywhere" from the attack by three aircraft, and since nobody could see the roads, bridges, and suburbs "they just dropped everything right into the center. The 250s toppled a number of houses and destroyed the water mains. The incendiaries now could spread and become effective. The materials of the houses: tile roofs, wooden porches, and half-timbering resulted in complete annihilation."[12]
Monday was Guernica's market day, and many of its inhabitants were congregated in the center of town. When the main bombardment began the roads were already full of debris and the bridges leading out of town destroyed, and they were unable to escape.
Guernica, the capital of Biscay, was 10 kilometers from the front lines and in-between the front lines and Bilbao. A Republican retreat towards Bilbao, or an advance towards it, had to pass through it.[13] Richthofen's 26 April 1937 diary entry states Guernica was targeted "...to halt and disrupt the Red withdrawal which has to pass through here." The following day, Richthofen wrote in his diary, "Guernica burning".[14] The nearest actual military target, a war product factory on the village's outskirts, went through the attack unscathed, so the attack was widely condemned as a terror bombing.[15][16]
Aftermath
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Most of Guernica's men were away fighting on behalf of the Republicans, and at the time of the bombing the town was populated mostly by women and children[17] as reflected in Picasso's painting. Art theorist Rudolf Arnheim writes:
The women and children make Guernica the image of innocent, defenseless humanity victimized. Also, women and children have often been presented by Picasso as the very perfection of mankind. An assault on women and children is, in Picasso's view, directed at the core of mankind.[10]
The Times journalist George Steer propelled this event onto the international scene, and brought it to Pablo Picasso's attention, in an eyewitness account published on 28 April in both The Times and The New York Times. On the 29th it appeared in L'Humanité. Steer wrote:
Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basques and the centre of their cultural tradition, was completely destroyed yesterday afternoon by insurgent air raiders. The bombardment of this open town far behind the lines occupied precisely three hours and a quarter, during which a powerful fleet of aeroplanes consisting of three types of German types, Junkers and Heinkel bombers, did not cease unloading on the town bombs weighing from 1,000 lbs. downwards and, it is calculated, more than 3,000 two-pounder aluminium incendiary projectiles. The fighters, meanwhile, plunged low from above the centre of the town to machinegun those of the civilian population who had taken refuge in the fields."[17]
Picasso lived in Paris during its World War II German occupation. A widely repeated story is that a German officer saw a photo of Guernica in Picasso's apartment and asked, "Did you do that?", and Picasso responded, "No, you did."[18]
Creation and the influence of Dora Maar on the painting
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Dora Maar found a large enough studio for Picasso to paint Guernica in. Through her connections in the left-wing community, she gained access to a space on Rue des Grands-Augustins, near Notre-Dame. This building had previously served as the headquarters of the ‘Contre-Attaque’ group, of which Maar was a dedicated member. Having listened to anti-fascist speeches there, she recognized it as the ideal location for Picasso’s monumental protest artwork.[20] Not only did she find the studio large enough for Picasso to paint Guernica in, she also had exclusive access to photograph the work in progress.[20]
“Maar’s practice of photography influenced the art of Picasso – she had a great influence on his work,” said Antoine Romand, a Dora Maar expert. “She contested him. She pushed him to do something new and to be more creative politically.[6] At Picasso’s request, Maar painted part of the dying horse in Guernica.[6] Maar accompanied Picasso in the studio, giving her the opportunity to observe each phase of Guernica’s creation over 36 days. While Picasso painted, she took photographs, turning Picasso into her photographic subject.[20] Scholars and art critics argue that the black and white photographic style of the painting can be attributed to Maar's own black and white photographs, in stark contrast to Picasso's usual colorful style.[20]
Guernica was painted using a matte house paint specially formulated at Picasso's request to have the least possible gloss.[1] American artist John Ferren assisted him in preparing the monumental canvas,[21] and photographer Dora Maar, who had been working with Picasso since mid-1936 photographing his studio and teaching him the technique of cameraless photography,[22] documented its creation.[6] Apart from their documentary and publicity value, Maar's photographs "helped Picasso to eschew color and give the work the black-and-white immediacy of a photograph", according to art historian John Richardson.[1]
Picasso, who rarely allowed strangers into his studio to watch him work, admitted influential visitors to observe his progress on Guernica, believing that the publicity would help the antifascist cause.[1] As his work on the mural progressed, Picasso explained: "The Spanish struggle is the fight of reaction against the people, against freedom. My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. How could anybody think for a moment that I could be in agreement with reaction and death? ... In the panel on which I am working, which I shall call Guernica, and in all my recent works of art, I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death."[23]
Picasso worked on the painting for 35 days, and finished it on 4 June 1937.[1]
Composition
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The scene occurs within a large room. On the left, a wide-eyed bull, with a tail suggesting rising flame and smoke as if seen through a window, stands over a grieving woman holding a dead child in her arms. The woman's head is thrown back and her mouth is wide open. A horse falls in agony in the center of the room, with a large gaping hole in its side, as if it had just been run through by a spear or javelin. The horse appears to be wearing chain mail armor, decorated with vertical tally marks arranged in rows.
A dead and dismembered soldier lies under the horse. The hand of his severed right arm grasps a shattered sword, from which a flower grows. The open palm of his left hand contains a stigma, a symbol of martyrdom derived from the stigmata of Christ. A bare light bulb in the shape of an all-seeing eye blazes over the suffering horse's head.
To the horse's upper right a frightened woman's head and extended right arm reach through a window. As she witnesses the scene she carries a flame-lit lamp in her right hand, and holds it near the bare bulb. Below her a woman in shock staggers from the right towards the center while looking into the blazing light bulb with a blank stare.
Daggers that suggest screaming have replaced the tongues of the horse, the bull, and the grieving woman. To the bull's right a dove appears on a cracked wall through which bright light from the outside shines.
On the far right of the room there is a fourth woman, her arms raised in terror. Her wide-open mouth and thrown back head echo the grieving woman's. She is entrapped by fire from above and below, her right hand suggesting the shape of an airplane.
A dark wall with an open door defines the right side of the room.
A "hidden" image formed by the horse appears in Guernica:[24] the horse's nostrils and upper teeth can be seen as a human skull facing left and slightly downward.
Another hidden image is of a bull that appears to gore the horse from underneath. The bull's head is formed mainly by the horse's entire front leg which has the knee on the ground. The leg's knee-cap forms the head's nose. A horn appears within the horse's breast.
Symbolism and interpretations
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Interpretations of Guernica vary widely and contradict one another. This extends, for example, to the mural's two dominant elements: the bull and the horse. Art historian Patricia Failing said,
"The bull and the horse are important characters in Spanish culture. Picasso himself certainly used these characters to play many different roles over time. This has made the task of interpreting the specific meaning of the bull and the horse very tough. Their relationship is a kind of ballet that was conceived in a variety of ways throughout Picasso's career."
When pressed to explain the elements in Guernica, Picasso said,
...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.[25]
In The Dream and Lie of Franco, a series of narrative sketches Picasso also created for the World's Fair, Franco is depicted as a monster that first devours his own horse and later does battle with an angry bull. Work on these illustrations began before the bombing of Guernica, and four additional panels were added, three of which relate directly to the Guernica mural.
According to scholar Beverly Ray, the following list of interpretations reflects the general consensus of historians: "The shape and posture of the bodies express protest"; "Picasso uses black, white, and grey paint to set a somber mood and express pain and chaos"; "flaming buildings and crumbling walls not only express the destruction of Guernica, but reflect the destructive power of civil war"; "the newspaper print used in the painting reflects how Picasso learned of the massacre"; "The light bulb in the painting represents the sun"; and "The broken sword near the bottom of the painting symbolizes the defeat of the people at the hand of their tormentors".[11]
Alejandro Escalona said, "The chaos unfolding seems to happen in closed quarters provoking an intense feeling of oppression. There is no way out of the nightmarish cityscape. The absence of color makes the violent scene developing right before your eyes even more horrifying. The blacks, whites, and grays startle you—especially because you are used to see war images broadcast live and in high-definition right to your living room."[26]
In drawing attention to a number of preliminary studies, the so-called primary project,[27] that show an atelier installation incorporating the central triangular shape which reappears in the final version of Guernica, Becht-Jördens and Wehmeier interpret the painting as a self-referential composition in the tradition of atelier paintings such as Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. In his chef d'oeuvre, Picasso seems to be trying to define his role and his power as an artist in the face of political power and violence. But far from being a mere political painting, Guernica should be seen as Picasso's comment on what art can actually contribute towards the self-assertion that liberates every human being and protects the individual against overwhelming forces such as political crime, war, violence and death.[28]
Exhibition
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1937 Paris International Exhibition
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Guernica was unveiled and initially exhibited in July 1937 at the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition,[29] where Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had huge pavilions. The Pavilion, which was financed by the Spanish Republican government at the time of civil war, was built to exhibit the Spanish government's struggle for existence contrary to the Exposition's technology theme. The Pavilion's entrance presented an enormous photographic mural of Republican soldiers accompanied by the slogan:
We are fighting for the essential unity of Spain.
We are fighting for the integrity of Spanish soil.
We are fighting for the independence of our country and for the right of the Spanish people to determine their own destiny.
The display of Guernica was accompanied by a poem by Paul Éluard, and the pavilion displayed The Reaper by Joan Miró and Mercury Fountain by Alexander Calder, both of whom were sympathetic to the Republican cause.[citation needed]
At Guernica's Paris Exhibition unveiling it garnered little attention. The public's reaction to the painting was mixed.[30] Max Aub, one of the officials in charge of the Spanish pavilion, was compelled to defend the work against a group of Spanish officials who objected to the mural's modernist style and sought to replace it with a more traditional painting that was also commissioned for the exhibition, Madrid 1937 (Black Aeroplanes) by Horacio Ferrer de Morgado.[1] Some Marxist groups criticized Picasso's painting as lacking in political commitment, and faulted it for not offering a vision of a better future.[31] In contrast, Morgado's painting was a great success with Spanish Communists and with the public.[1] The art critic Clement Greenberg was also critical of Guernica,[32] and in a later essay he termed the painting "jerky" and "too compressed for its size", and compared it unfavorably to the "magnificently lyrical" The Charnel House (1944–1948), a later antiwar painting by Picasso.[33]
Among the painting's admirers were art critic Jean Cassou and poet José Bergamín, both of whom praised the painting as quintessentially Spanish.[34] Michel Leiris perceived in Guernica a foreshadowing: "On a black and white canvas that depicts ancient tragedy ... Picasso also writes our letter of doom: all that we love is going to be lost..."[35] Jean Cocteau also praised the painting and declared it a cross that "[General] Franco would always carry on his shoulder."[36]
Possibly as a riposte to Picasso’s painting, the Nazis in June or July 1937 commissioned their official war artist Claus Bergen to produce a patriotic painting of The Bombardment of Almeria by the 'Admiral Scheer' (National Maritime Museum, London).[37][38] The work, done in a realistic style, was completed quickly for display in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich, 1937.[39]
European tour
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Guernica, for which Picasso was paid 150,000 francs for his costs by the Spanish Republican government, was one of the few major paintings that Picasso did not sell directly to his exclusive contracted art dealer and friend, Paul Rosenberg.[40] However, after its exhibition Rosenberg organised a four-man extravaganza Scandinavian tour of 118 works by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and Henri Laurens. The tour's main attraction was Guernica.[citation needed]
From January to April 1938 the tour visited Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Göteborg. Starting in late September Guernica was exhibited in London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. This stop was organized by Sir Roland Penrose with Labour Party leader Clement Attlee, and the painting arrived in London on 30 September, the same day the Munich Agreement was signed by the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany. It then travelled to Leeds, Liverpool, and, in early 1939, Manchester. There, Manchester Foodship For Spain, a group of artists and activists engaged in sending aid to the people of Spain, exhibited the painting in the HE Nunn & Co Ford automobile showroom for two weeks.[41] Guernica then returned briefly to France.
American tour
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After Francisco Franco's victory in Spain, Guernica was sent to the United States to raise funds and support for Spanish refugees. It was first shown at the Valentine Gallery in New York City in May 1939. The San Francisco Museum of Art (later renamed the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) gave the work its first museum appearance in the United States from 27 August to 19 September 1939. New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) then mounted an exhibition from 15 November until 7 January 1940, entitled: Picasso: 40 Years of His Art. The exhibition, which was organized by MoMA's director Alfred H. Barr in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago, contained 344 works, including Guernica and its studies.[42]
At Picasso's request the safekeeping of Guernica was then entrusted to the Museum of Modern Art, and it was his expressed desire that the painting should not be delivered to Spain until liberty and democracy had been established in the country.[8] Between 1939 and 1952, Guernica traveled extensively in the United States. Between 1941 and 1942, it was exhibited at Harvard University's Fogg Museum twice.[43][44]
Between 1953 and 1956 it was shown in Brazil, then at the first Picasso retrospective in Milan, Italy, and then in numerous other major European cities before returning to MoMA for a retrospective celebrating Picasso's 75th birthday. It then went to Chicago and Philadelphia. By this time, concern for the state of the painting resulted in a decision to keep it in one place: a room on MoMA's third floor, where it was accompanied by several of Picasso's preliminary studies and some of Dora Maar's photographs of the work in progress. The studies and photos were often loaned for other exhibitions, but until 1981, Guernica itself remained at MoMA.[8]
During the Vietnam War, the room containing the painting became the site of occasional anti-war vigils. These were usually peaceful and uneventful, but on 28 February 1974, Tony Shafrazi—ostensibly protesting Second Lieutenant William Calley's petition for habeas corpus following his indictment and sentencing for the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre—defaced the painting with red spray paint, painting the words "KILL LIES ALL". The paint was removed with relative ease from the varnished surface.[45]
Establishment in Spain
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As early as 1968, Franco had expressed an interest in having Guernica come to Spain.[8] However, Picasso refused to allow this until the Spanish people again enjoyed a republic. He later added other conditions, such as the restoration of "public liberties and democratic institutions". Picasso died in 1973. Franco, ten years Picasso's junior, died two years later, in 1975. After Franco's death, Spain was transformed into a democratic constitutional monarchy, ratified by a new constitution in 1978. However, MoMA was reluctant to give up one of its greatest treasures and argued that a monarchy did not represent the republic that had been stipulated in Picasso's will as a condition for the painting's delivery. Under great pressure from a number of observers, MoMA finally ceded the painting to Spain in 1981. The Spanish historian Javier Tusell was one of the negotiators.[citation needed]
Upon its arrival in Spain in September 1981,[46] it was first displayed behind bomb-and bullet-proof glass screens[47] at the Casón del Buen Retiro in Madrid in time to celebrate the centenary of Picasso's birth, 25 October.[46] The exhibition was visited by almost a million people in the first year.[48] Since that time there has never been any attempted vandalism or other security threat to the painting.
In 1992, the painting was moved from the Museo del Prado to a purpose-built gallery at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, both in Madrid, along with about two dozen preparatory works.[49] This action was controversial in Spain, since Picasso's will stated that the painting should be displayed at the Prado. However, the move was part of a transfer of all of the Prado's collections of art after the early 19th century to other nearby buildings in the city for reasons of space; the Reina Sofía, which houses the capital's national collection of 20th-century art, was the natural place to move it to. At the Reina Sofía, the painting has roughly the same protection as any other work.[50]
Basque nationalists have advocated that the picture be brought to the Basque Country,[51] especially after the building of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. Officials at the Reina Sofía claim[52] that the canvas is now thought to be too fragile to move. Even the staff of the Guggenheim do not see a permanent transfer of the painting as possible, although the Basque government continues to support the possibility of a temporary exhibition in Bilbao.[50]
Tapestry at the United Nations
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A full-size tapestry copy of Picasso's Guernica, by Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach,[53] hangs at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City at the entrance to the Security Council room.[54] It is less monochromatic than the original and uses several shades of brown.
The Guernica tapestry was first displayed from 1985 to 2009, and returned in 2015. Originally commissioned in 1955 by Nelson Rockefeller, since Picasso refused to sell him the original,[55] the tapestry was placed on loan to the United Nations by the Rockefeller estate in 1985.[56]
On 5 February 2003 a large blue curtain was placed to cover over the work at the UN, so that it would not be visible in the background during press conferences by Colin Powell and John Negroponte as they were arguing in favor of war on Iraq.[57] On the following day, UN officials claimed that the curtain was placed there at the request of television news crews, who had complained that the wild lines and screaming figures made for a bad backdrop, and that a horse's hindquarters appeared just above the faces of any speakers. Some diplomats, however, in talks with journalists claimed that the Bush administration pressured UN officials to cover the tapestry, rather than have it in the background while Powell or other US diplomats argued for war on Iraq.[5] In a critique of the covering, columnist Alejandro Escalona hypothesized that Guernica's "unappealing ménage of mutilated bodies and distorted faces proved to be too strong for articulating to the world why the US was going to war in Iraq", while referring to the work as "an inconvenient masterpiece".[26]
On 17 March 2009, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Marie Okabe announced that the Guernica tapestry had been moved to a gallery in London in advance of extensive renovations at UN Headquarters. The Guernica tapestry was the showcase piece for the grand reopening of the Whitechapel Gallery. It was located in the 'Guernica room' which was originally part of the old Whitechapel Library.[58] In 2012 the tapestry was on loan from the Rockefeller family to the San Antonio Museum of Art in San Antonio, Texas.[59] It was returned to the UN by March 2015.[60] Nelson A. Rockefeller Jr., the owner of the tapestry, took it back in February 2021.[61] In February 2022, it was returned to the wall outside the UN Security Council.[54]
Significance and legacy
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During the 1970s, Guernica was a symbol for Spaniards of both the end of the Franco regime following Franco's death and of Basque nationalism. The Basque left has repeatedly used imagery from the picture. An example is the organization Etxerat, which uses a reversed image of the lamp as its symbol.[62] Guernica has since become a universal and powerful symbol warning humanity against the suffering and devastation of war.[26] There are no obvious references to the specific attack, making its message universal and timeless.[26]
Art historian and curator W. J. H. B. Sandberg argued in Daedalus in 1960 that Picasso pioneered a "new language" combining expressionistic and cubist techniques in Guernica. Sandberg wrote that Guernica conveyed an “expressionistic message” in its focus on the inhumanity of the air raid, while using "the language of cubism". For Sandberg, the work's defining cubist features included its use of diagonals, which rendered the painting's setting "ambiguous, unreal, inside and outside at the same time".[19] In 2016, the British art critic Jonathan Jones called the painting a "Cubist apocalypse" and stated that Picasso "was trying to show the truth so viscerally and permanently that it could outstare the daily lies of the age of dictators".[63][64]
Works inspired by Guernica include Faith Ringgold's 1967 painting The American People Series #20: Die; Goshka Macuga's The Nature of the Beast (2009–2010), which used the Whitechapel-hosted United Nations Guernica tapestry; The Keiskamma Guernicas (2010–2017); and Erica Luckert's theatrical production of Guernica (2011–2012).[65][66] Art and design historian Dr Nicola Ashmore curated an exhibition, Guernica Remakings, at the University of Brighton galleries from 29 July 2017 to 23 August 2017.[65]
See also
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Guernica, 1950 film directed by Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens
The 2018 television series Genius features Picasso's life and work, including Guernica
The Weeping Woman, 1937 Picasso painting
Guernica, 1937 sculpture by René Iché
The Charnel House, 1944–45 Picasso painting
Massacre in Korea, 1951 Picasso painting[67]
Dove, 1949 Picasso lithograph
1980 BBC series 100 Great Paintings
"Guernica", 2023 song by Ian Hunter
The Hiroshima Panels, a series of 15 panels each measuring 1.8 metres x 7.2 metres depicting the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima
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International travel is something that’s changed my life. I’m more open-minded, empathetic, and knowledgeable from my experiences abroad. Regular international travel is something Jamie and I are committed to, and I wrote about that here.
This year, we’re walking the Camino de Santiago, a 500 mile pilgrimage across Spain that people have been doing for over a thousand years. I’m excited for the sights, food, and friends, but I’m especially interested in the reflections that 8 hours of walking per day will afford. I plan to post some of my daily thoughts on this constantly-updating page.
Day 0 — Boise => Reykjavik
After spending the day finalizing the packing and getting the house cleaned up so it's hassle-free when we return, we're off!
Thoughts & Discussions: Anxiety about leaving something important behind… Feeling sad to leave Wookiee behind… We’re so lucky to get so much help from my dad while we’re gone…
Day 1 — Reykjavik => London
Jet lag galore. Now I remembered why I hate red eye flights. But, I do love the Reykjavik airport. It’s like a small, friendly IKEA airport where everything is cute and friendly.
Then we flew to London Heathrow, tubed to Waterloo station, and spent the evening around South Bank, London. We were pretty pooped, so we didn’t do a lot, but our evening adventure involved Black Friar’s Pub and walking along the Thames on the way back to our Airbnb.
Thoughts & Discussions: London’s a pretty cool place… If money was no object, and you were going to travel for a year, where would you go and how would you do it?… Jet lag is like a multi-day hangover… So far, this has gone remarkably smoothly (knock on wood)…
Day 2 — London => Irun
Sleep was pretty tough. Jamie and I were both up half the night, but we managed 5 or 6 hours. (I was adjusting Zapier automations for Idaho Speaks on my phone between 1 and 2:30am. 😬)
Once we checked out of the Airbnb, we walked a couple miles to Liverpool Street Station and caught our train to Stanstead Airport, where we caught or plane to Biarritz.
After we landed, we bussed to Irun, checked into our first albergue (hostel for pilgrims), got our pilgrim passport, and had dinner nearby.
Thoughts & Discussions: How am I going to be able to find satisfying breakfasts on this trip that don’t involve bread and dairy?… Timing your poops with walking and coffee is hard… Doing the Camino without speaking Spanish or being Christian feels especially foreign…
Day 3 — Irun => San Sebastian
2 hours of sleep. We simmered in our own sweat in a hellhole of a human-heated sauna dormitory. And then breakfast was white bread and pastries. Bad start, but when we got walking, everything was great. Until mile 12 or so, when I was dead. But we did it. All 16.5 miles.
When we got to San Sebastian, Jamie and I found a hostel and Jamie helped me avoid a exhaustion-induced meltdown with some coffee and a snack. Once I’d had my medicine, I perked up quickly. Just in time for us to hang out with Jamie’s family friends Pili and Etienne.
We experienced an annual Basque festival dance and customary burning of a live tree, bringing in the summer. Later we went to a street party for locals and ate tortillas espanola and drank Basque cider. And I found my true Spanish love, pintxos (Basque tapas). These small bites are DELICIOUS, and I can try tons of them inexpensively. LOVE IT!
Thoughts & Discussions: The best way to travel is definitely with friends and locals… Other cultures have so many more (and richer) traditions than Americans do… Pintxos are so amazingly awesome. Life before pintxos was so dull…
Day 4 — San Sebastian => Getaria
Jamie slept through the night and I got about 6 hours. That’s a big improvement. Being at a youth hostel, the setting was a little different than an albergue (hostel dedicated to pilgrims) — as we were packing up to leave at 6:30am, I saw 2 young, drunk, naked German dudes standing in the hallway brushing their teeth (SMH).
We took a coffee and pintxos break in a homey little town called Orio, where we met another one of Jamie’s friends, Elizabete. That was a really nice visit. Later in the day, we made our first camino friends: Nicolai from Denmark and Edmund from Australia.
At dinner, we met an interesting Irishman named Mihal. We were eating our Ensalata Mixta and he said “Have you had the salad with cider? It’s better than wine.” We said no, and kept eating. A minute later, he came back with a bottle and poured us two glasses without saying a word. That’s a good way to make friends! Later he told us he’s been coming to this specific town with his family for 10 years, doing informal house sharing. I asked if he had family connections, and he said no, that he shares an affinity for the Basque independence movement, being from North Ireland. Talking to him about that was fascinating. I’m pretty sure he’s big into it, and mentioned at one point that “we used to be much stronger in the past.” I’m reminded of the saying, “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
Thoughts & Discussions: The American melting pot, versus multicultural societies… Where to spend a week for a relaxing vacation… How Amazon rules the world… Home sharing really makes travel more affordable… America is so much worse than everywhere else in the amount of vacation time we take in a year — two weeks versus six…
Day 5 — Getaria => Deba
I slept the whole night for the first time! Bye bye, jet lag. You took your sweet ass time…
Today was only a 12 mile day, down from our average of 15 or 16, because the coming towns are separated in such a way, and there aren’t many conveniences, that most people are doing a shorter day today and a longer day tomorrow. We didn’t mind going a bit mellower.
We’re making more friends! After breaking the ice the first few days, and seeing the same people several times and nodding, we’re starting to chat. We bonded with Edmund (the Aussie) more today, and walked together for the last 3 miles or so. His family has a farm in rural Queensland, and he just sold his share to his siblings and is travelling the world — 3 months in Europe so far, doing the Camino now, and then will be flying to Vancouver, BC to work with a friend laying floors for 6 months, then down to the US to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, and then maybe some time in Latin America. The dude is travelling like a boss. #Impressed
Our albergue (hostel for pilgrims) tonight is in an old railroad station that’s been half converted. It’s really cool. Since we’re faster hikers than most, we’re usually one of the first to the new town and check into the hostel. That gives us some nice time to get situated before thing get busy later in the afternoon.
Thoughts & Discussions: Tell us about Australian food… Do Australians travel much?… European countries have a lot less open spaces. No wonder they travel so much. I think it’s more for the climate they want (that they don’t have in their country), than it is for the culture. Americans have such a huge country with varied climates, they mostly travel for a cultural experience, not for climate… Someone should make a badass app using modern tech to disrupt travel books and trail guides…
Day 6 — Deba => Bolivar
We started the day intending to stop in Markina-Xemein (15 miles). Then Edmund and a new friend, Arianna (Italian), told us they were planning to go 5 miles further to stay at a cool monestary to get a different experience. It sounded great! The monks cook for you, the price is by donation, and you get a change of pace from the city alburgues. I was sold.
But Jamie wasn’t so sure. Her feet were hurting, she was going slower than usual, conversations were at a minimum, and she was clearly not crushing the day. She wasn’t sure if she could handle going extra. But when we saw the group in Markina-Xemein, and they were still excited about going there, she was into it. We bought some groceries, ate some fruit and chocolate in the shade, filled up on water, and were good to go.
5 miles later, we can see the monestary in the distance, and we’re very excited. We’ve worked our asses off — 20 miles! We get there, and the monk at the desk says they’re full. And the other alburgue next door was closed.
SHIT. That was our backup plan. So we’re fucked. He said we could walk 2 more miles to the next alburgue, but when we researched it, we saw it only has 10 beds, and at 5:45pm, that’s not promising at all. We call ahead. No answer. We check the only other place in town. Online it’s full. We call ahead. No answer. I’m fully intending to camp out on the monestary’s lawn that night, but Edmund says he thought he saw an albergue in Bolivar, 1 mile back. We hadn’t, and our book didn’t mention one there, so it hadn’t crossed our mind. We googled it, called, and they said they had a private room left for 50 euros (normal alburgue bunks cost 10 -15). Well, that beat the grass for Jamie, so that’s what we did.
We hiked down, got checked into our room (it’s super nice!), and all we wanted was a 6-pack for the hammocks outside. But apparently Bolivar’s 4-day summer festival just ended (we saw them taking down the stage), so every (EVERY) store and restaurant was closed. So here we are, at 7:45pm, showered, doing laundry, but very thirsty and not sure how we’re going to eat tonight. 😖
Day 7 —Bolivar => Gernika
Yesterday was frustrating, but it’s a new day. Today’s plan was a light day (13 miles). We went a little slower, and though we expected a really hot one today (100 degrees), it was cool and breezy the whole way to Gernika. We got into town, bought snacks for tomorrow, checked into our hostel, showered, and went downtown for our lunch. Now, it’s late afternoon, and we’re hand-washing some laundry and hanging out.
We’ve figured out our daily schedule, for the most part. Coffee for breakfast (if we can), leave by 7:15, hiking until we get to our destination (between 12–2, usually), shower, a big lunch (available between 1 and 3), then relaxing until 7 or so, when we have a lighter dinner and drinks while people-watching at the city plaza. It’s nice. ☺
Thoughts & Discussions: How do people keep their houses looking this nice?… How many people quit the camino after the first day? They’re like, FUCK THIS, and go spend the rest of their vacation on a beach until their return flight… I can’t figure out how the Spanish schedule works. When we think people should be working, they’re out and about. When we think the should be out and about, there’s no one. 🤔…
Day 8 — Gernika => Bilbao
We’re getting bolder. When I woke up at midnight and it was like 90 degrees in our tiny, crowded hostel room, I didn’t just resort to bunk purgatory like I did the first night. I jumped out of the top bunk, walked over to the closed window (what idiot did that?!) and shoved my blanket in the hinge to hold it open. With that modification, it was a tolerable 80 degrees in there. That’s at least underwear-only sleep-able. #ProblemSolving
Today was a big hike (19 miles). I tweaked my ankle a bit, so now I’ve joined Jamie in the ailments group (she has a gnarly pinky toe blister). We got an early start, and it got hot, but we trudged on. We walked into the outskirts of Bilbao at about 2:40, and found a lunch spot right before they stopped serving (3pm). We stuffed our faces, as usual, got to the hostel, showered, I took a little nappy, we got some groceries, and now we’re hanging out on a park bench in a busy plaza watching everybody out on the town for Friday night.
Thoughts & Discussions: Having a fairly minor injury could really kill the camino walking buzz… Some of the cities we stay in are really big and exciting (like Bilbao), and I need to fight the urge to see all of it in the few hours we’re here before we move on… I wonder if there are more independence movements in Spain besides the Basque Country and Catalonia… What kind of house would you live in if you were a hundred millionaire?…
Day 9 — Bilbao => Pobena
We’ve been making a bunch of friends the last few days. There’s Lifka from Germany, Lee from the UK, Majana from Poland, and Philip and Stain from Belgium (a cool father and son pair that started from Bruge in April!!!). And Edmund and Arianna are in the group as well. We’ve been seeing everyone off and on since we started, mostly, so the familiarity has really started to bond everyone. We’re starting to have the social Camino experience we’ve heard of. It just took a few days of ice breaking to get there. Though some people hike with each other all day, Jamie and I typically prefer to hike alone, and pace and take breaks at will, but we enjoy running into friends on the trail and hanging out at the albergue in the evening.
Today’s walk was 18 miles, and it was almost entirely on pavement. That’s never bothered me much before, but after ~120 miles walked in a week, that sort of thing really starts to take a toll. Your feet start to feel like they’ve been hammered and pulverized by the hard ground. Many hikers try to get around this by walking on the side of the pavement, on a trail, or grass, or gravel, or anything besides concrete, asphalt, pavers, or boulders. Ultimately, I find this more challenging than dramatic elevation grades. Those are hard, and they get your lungs going, but at the end you feel fine. After walking on hard surfaces, the soreness sticks with you.
Day 10 — Pobena => Castro Urdiales
Today was a lighter day. Given that we’d walked 20 or more miles 3 of the last 4 days, we were ready to give ourselves a little break. Also, there are a few places coming up that we don’t want to miss (like staying in a nunnery), and if we went longer today, it’d be a really short hike tomorrow. Also also, Jamie and I sometimes enjoy rolling into our destination around noon and having the whole day to get settled, relax, and explore. So, yeah, it felt like the right thing to do today.
We’ve learned that walking the Camino is like a vacation sampler. We walk through about a half dozen towns each day, and we stay in a different one every night. So, we’re seeing a huge amount of Spain that we probably wouldn’t if we were on a normal vacation, or even lived in Spain. So far, our favorite town for a vacation would be Deba, and our favorite town for an extended stay / living situation would be Gernika.
Thoughts & Discussions: It’s weird how my ankle felt back to normal just one day after tweaking it… It’s great to be back to the seaside. Inland is hotter and generally seems less pretty… There are a lot more dogs around than I would have expected… Maybe I’ll post about my top 10 lessons learned from the Camino on Patreon…
Day 11 — Castro Urdiales => Laredo
Today we went off the normal path. And it was an adventure. On the Camino, yellow arrows point the way from start to finish, so it’s pretty hard to get lost. Unless… you choose to do some alternative route that’s uncommon. That’s what we did today — life outside the arrows.
We met Kate (from Oregon) during a coffee break this morning with Majana. As often happens, we compared routes and plans for the day. Lately, there’s been a few different ways you can go — for instance, the coast or the mountains — and pilgrims often compare notes. Kate told us about a route that she saw in her app, that none of us had heard about in our guidebooks. We figured what the hell, and went for it. We bushwhacked for about a mile, and then popped out in a town at the foot of a mountain. A local stopped us, and kept repeating “Be careful.” We shrugged it off and went for it.
This mountain was STRAIGHT UP, with a narrow, uneven trail and a cliff below. I thought the hike to the top would never end. And finally when it did, we needed to grip a cable to round a corner near another cliff. And then coming down on the other side was pretty perilous. It had rained over night, so everything was really slick. Near the bottom, I fell and got a little scratched up from a thorn bush, but it wasn’t bad. We guessed at which way we needed to go to converge with the main path, and phew... We guessed right, and we saw yellow arrows again. We made it.
Thoughts & Discussions: What should Majana do right now? Her life is at a crossroads… It’s a good thing we didn’t go to the albergue some of our friends did last night! Sounded terrible… (During mass at the nunnery we’re staying at) That a priest comes into the nunnery to run the mass feels like the patriarchy to me…
Day 12 — Laredo => Guemes
We started the day with a community breakfast at the nunnery. It was great for two reasons: 1) we have a lot of friends now, and they were all there hanging out (we needed to take a ferry, and it didn’t start running until 9, so everyone had nowhere else to be), and 2) they had an abundance of coffee. You wouldn’t think a coffee shortage would happen at included breakfasts, but that’s been the rule, not an exception. For the first time this trip, I had two cups of coffee. ☕☕
Today’s 16 miles included two gigantic, beautiful beaches, one small mountain, and several cute idyllic towns. We arrived in an amazing albergue at 3, and now we’re relaxing in the grass and shade with our buddies. Our newest friends include Jonus (Sweden), Shawn and Ron (Connecticut), and Jacqueline (Australia).
Thoughts & Discussions : Where can I get a meal?… How is Lee so goddamn fast?… How do quantum computers work?… People often ask: is this your first camino? I think we’ll do something like this again, but I’m guessing we’ll do walks in other countries before we’d come back for another camino…
Day 13 — Guemes => Santa Cruz de Bezana
I slept like a rock last night, and I didn’t even use ear plugs (just the second night since we’ve been here). The albergue we stayed in was fantastic, and the room was full of our good buddies at this point. Jackie, Lee, and Jonas were all in there with us. Breakfast wasn’t until 7am, so we all slept in a bit (normal wakeup has been 6:30 for us). After another two cups of coffee (YAS), we packed up and hit the road.
It was a beautiful stretch of coastal trail, past cliff after cliff with great sand beaches below and surfers catching waves. It rained last night, so everything had a special freshness to it. By about 11, we’d made it to the end of the coastal route, and we caught our ferry to Santander, probably the second-biggest city we’ll see during the Camino (after Bilbao). Unlike in Bilbao, we cruised on through there, because we’ve found the big cities seem to be more hassle than their worth when you’re backpacking. We did the extra 6k to get to Santa Cruz, and checked into an extremely cute little albergue. We got there 20 minutes before we opened, and I’m glad we did, because I think they filled up about 45 minutes later (only 15 beds).
Thoughts & Discussions: Which of our friends do we need to make sure we get contact information from?… We’ve been extremely lucky, not having rain during the day. Our shoes aren’t waterproof, so our feet might suffer… Damn it, got my first legit blister…
Day 14 — Santa Cruz de Bezana => Santillana Del Mar
I didn’t set an alarm this morning because I didn’t remember what time the group of 20 decided everyone would wake up the next morning (that’s how the albergue manager runs things), and I knew Jamie would wake me up. Breakfast, like dinner last night, was lovely. It was prepared by the very cool albergue owner, in her home, and honestly it was the best one of our trip. And then I made up for my guilt of not helping with dishes during dinner the previous night by doing 90% of them for breakfast. This place, like about half of the places we’ve stayed is “donativo” (by donation), and we left the most generous amount yet (20 euros each).
Today’s walk was short (11 miles), but it was very hot, and the entire route was on pavement. We, like many of our fellow pilgrims, have been really disappointed by how much pavement-walking is part of the route of the Camino del Norte. Between the start (Irun) and Bilbao (about 30% through), it was about 80% trails. Since then, it’s been about 80% pavement. All the pilgrims I know have decided to change course in a few days and get on the “Primativo” — another camino route that is entirely trails and has less towns and infrastructure. It also so happens to be the oldest stretch of the original route taken by the king of Asturia (a region of Spain) in the 800s. We’d been considering it for a few days, but decided today we’d make the shift as well, and Jamie’s already on top of it — she bought a book, downloaded an itinerary, chatted with a few other pilgrims, and figured out which reservations we need to make in advance. Travelling with Jamie is SO EASY. I’m a lucky man. One of my major marriage perks. ☺
Thoughts & Discussions: Spain is SO AFFORDABLE. This whole Camino thing wouldn’t work in another country. Between the 5–15 euro albergues and the 10 euro “menu del dia”s, you get unprecedented value on your money… Cider is a big thing in Asturia (the region we’re about to enter), and I’m excited to drink a bunch of it… It’s really cool to stay in convents and monestaries that are repurposed as albergues. Today’s is SUPER NICE. We have a private room for 32 euros. It’d be >$80 in the States for sure… Sigor (new Basque Spanish friend) is such a character. Also, a man of many talents…
Day 15 — Santillana Del Mar => Comillas
When we started walking today, it was raining. This was a first for us on the trip. Up until today, we’d gotten really lucky and the rain was happening at night, so it didn’t affect our gear setup at all. So we got a chance to break out our backpack rain covers and our raincoats. Thankfully, it didn’t last long, and we were able to dry out our stuff and pack it back up. I was a little worried about getting our shoes wet — since they’re not waterproof, and a lot of miles on wet feet might cause a blister issue — but with only a light rain, our socks stayed dry. After that, the walk was great — cool weather, side roads, cute towns, and good views.
Thoughts & Discussions: Some people seem to travel and live abroad constantly, into their thirties and beyond. I wonder if it starts to feel like ‘same thing, different place’ and lack meaning… Most people we’ve gotten to know have been at some crossroads in their life. Are we at a crossroad?… Having a day where you stay at home and don’t go anywhere sounds great…
Day 16 — Comillas => Buelna
Today was a bigger one — 18 miles. We thought it would be quite a bit more than that actually, but we found a few shortcuts to shave off a few kilometers. We had to go further than we would have otherwise because people have been having a lot of trouble finding beds in the last few cities. So we decided to go a bit further than most people do, and also reserve our beds.
Today was also a first for us — the first time we walked most of the way with others. We met up with Arianna and Edmund about 1/3 of the way in, and we went the rest of the way together. It was great! Since we’ve spent quite a bit of time together prior to this, it didn’t feel like the same old small talk, and we didn’t feel too much pressure to maintain conversation since we’re already comfortable with them. Once we arrived, we all had a big lunch, and because of Sigor, we ended up with quite a bit of wine! 5 drinks later, we’re checked into our albergue, and everybody’s taking showers.
Thoughts & Discussions: Arianna, I’m hungry. Tell me about all the most amazing Italian foods… American and Australian politics… Farm stuff (Edmund is a farmer in Australia)… We snuck into the back of the albergue and put our dirty clothes into the laundry machine without permission. Sigor said we should…
Day 17 — Buelna => Celorio
Short day: 11 miles. We’ve figured out our selection criteria for where we want to sleep the next day, and therefore, how far we plan to walk. First, the goal is to walk somewhere between 14 and 20 miles per day, and we might want to go bigger or smaller based on the previous day, or if we know a big stretch is coming. Then, you look in the guidebook for towns that have both an albergue (hostel for pilgrims) and also have restaurants. Ideally, since there’s been a lot of competition lately for a limited number of beds, you call ahead and make a reservation. So, for example, the rationale for Celorio was: 11 miles was the furthest town with both an albergue and restaurants, that wasn’t far away, since we had a big day yesterday. The next town, Villahormes, was another 5 miles away.
Today we split up with most of our friends 😢. Edmund and Arianna decide to do a mega-day (46km). Sigor’s bussing home to Bilbao, and Lee’s flying back to San Sebastian. There are a few of our other pilgrim friends continuing on our same general itinerary (they’re in Pòo), but all of the friends around our age have moved on. It’s kind of sad, since we’ve spent so much time together and bonded a bunch, but it’s how the Camino goes. And, in some ways, it offers new opportunities. Now, Jamie and I can plan some of our stages maybe differently than we might have if we had a big group we wanted to coordinate with. Also, it’s almost like starting over. We made these great friends in two weeks, and we have another two weeks to make new ones! And with us starting a brand new route in a couple days (the “Primativo”), we may fall into lockstep with a bunch of other cool pilgrims. So, overall, bittersweet.
Thoughts & Discussions: I wonder if there’s any love interest between some of the single pilgrims that meet each other… We’ve really gotten in a groove with the Camino now. Our legs feel good, we have good routines, feelings strong… Where will we stay in Santiago?… There are household gardens everywhere. Should we have a garden and grow the vegis that we eat most often in our salads?…
Day 18 — Celorio => Vega
Today. Amazing. Where to begin?
We left Celorio planning on a big day, 31 kilometers (19 miles). It rained last night and it was misting this morning. We started at 6:40 at a quick pace, hoping to get in a few kilometers without needing to put on raincoats and backpack rain covers. We put in a solid two hours before we started looking for a place for breakfast. After a few towns, we found the best one yet in Nueve. We had a ton of food, took care of some #2 business, and when we left, we felt like a million bucks.
Pro Tip: Albergue breakfasts are shit. Whether they’re "included," or an additional 4-5 euros, they’re terrible. They’re coffee, bread, and maybe cereal. We learned early on to skip them. Now, we only get breakfasts at cafes along the way where we can buy tortilla de patatas (basically, huge quiches), coffee, fresh squeezed orange juice, and small sandwiches. WAY BETTER. And basically the same price. It pays to wait.
We decided to take the more lengthy, coastal route. (There are often different routes we can pick. Usually the more scenic one is longer distance or more difficult, and there’s a shorter, eaasier one along the road.) Unlike most places on the Camino, there were very few signs, but we managed to find some INCREDIBLE views using Google Maps and trial and error. We snapped some great photos (if I do say so myself). And we soaked our shoes walking through water-drenched, overhanging brush along the way. Then we got lost in a jungle obstacle course along a narrow inlet and ended up on the other route, which added extra km to an already long day.
We rolled into Ribadesella about an hour and a half later than planned, and we were exhausted and starving. We found a menu del dia, and a bit later (beer and wine, appetizers, main entrees, dessert, coffee), we were looking to stay there. Jamie made a bunch of calls, and everything was booked. Our original goal was to hike another 6 km (3.5 miles) to a very cool-sounding, but tiny albergue in a small town. We had hoped to get there at 3:30, when they opened, but it was 5 now. We decided to walk that way, and call when we were close, and if they were full, we’d check into our backup option, which was on the way. Lo and behold, there ended up being 3 beds left, and we got into our ideal scenario at 6--far later than anyone can expect to get a bed. WE LUCKED OUT. We had a lovely community dinner, and drank a bottle of wine on the beach with our new Czech friend, Mira. Great day.
Day 19 — Vega => Amandi
Even thought we had 20 miles to go, we slept in a bit and had a slow start to the morning. And when we left, I was a bit over-confident on the route we should take. Unfortunately for us, it was our first big navigational mistake. We went in the wrong direction for a couple miles and had to backtrack to get on the official route. With the late start, and then a wrong turn, it was 9am before we made any real progress — about two hours later than usual. Then, Jamie had more blister issues than usual, and we needed to stop a few times to address those. All told, we were race walking into Villaviciosa at 3:30 to try and find a menu del dia for lunch at the last minute, since that’s when they typically stop serving. (For context, menu del dia is my favorite part of the day. I REALLY, REALLY hate missing menu del dia.) We missed it. But we managed with two big beers each and some stale sandwiches from a bar before hiking the last mile to our albergue.
And we were reunited with Edmund and Arianna! We thought we wouldn’t see them again after they went out ahead of us a few days ago, but with two 20 mile days in a row, we caught back up, and coincidentally we went to the same albergue! It was great to catch up, hang out on the nice shaded lawn, play with the albergue’s two tiny kittens, and drink a bunch of camino vino. It was a great night, and we fell asleep happy. ☺️
Thoughts & Discussions: Is life worth living without a menu del dia?… We cut it too close. There are a bunch of things out of your control that can slow you down, but we need to get started earlier, so we don’t miss menu del dia…
Day 20 — Amandi => Pola de Siero
Breakfast was lovely. Tons of freshly brewed, real coffee (not that instant bullshit) from Colombia. This truly was the best albergue we’ve visited. It had a great vibe, great hosts, and we loved it. Like all our favorites, it was by donation (donativo), and we gave the most we have yet, 45 euros (considered a very generous amount).
Today was the first official day of us taking the “Primativo” route. This is a divergence from the Camino del Norte, the coastal route we started on, and originally intended to walk the entire way to Santiago. The Primativo is a more rugged, more elevation, more trails, less traveled option, and it was actually the original route taken by the first official pilgrim to Santiago in the 800s. Pretty cool. Today we climbed probably 2,500 vertical feet of elevation, about 17 miles total, but we finished early, at about 1:30pm.
Edmund actually has his brother with him now, Mateland, and he’s a fascinating guy. He’s 24, but he’s travelled more than anyone I’ve ever met. I told him we were thinking about our next major international trip, to Colombia, and he said he’s spent over 6 months there. He gave me a bunch of tips about how to best spend 4 weeks there. And then later, he, Edmund, and I had great conversations about national origin stories, Trump, climate change, psychedelics, mindfulness, life extension, and many other things. We have great Camino friends.
Day 21 — Pola de Siero => Oviedo
(Written a day later…) Last night, the host at the municipal albergue asked us if we’d hang around until 8 the following morning so that we could be filmed as pilgrims in a Camino de Santiago promotion. Apparently we’d get some good breakfast out of it. We said sure. Later on, the local president of the Friends of the Camino chapter (Manuel) was over, and Jamie and him hit it off. They chatted for hours about the Camino, it’s history, and the Primativo route we were about to take. Jamie got to use a lot of Spanish, and she was thrilled. I felt like a mute dummy. After that, our group went out for dinner and drinks, and we had a great time.
I woke up at 4am to a somewhat distant sound of a woman’s voice and slamming. At first I thought, “WTF is someone doing using their outdoor voice at 4am?!” When it kept happening, I was very annoyed. I tried to sleep through it. And then I realized the voice kept saying the same thing, on the same cadence. Then I thought it might be an alarm, and it would continue all night. So I got out of the top bunk and investigated. It was the elevator, glitching out. The door was opening and closing repeatedly, shining light, making slamming noises, and saying that annoying sentence. I pushed every button, but it wouldn’t stop. At this point Jamie was up too, and we started troubleshooting together. When nothing worked, we found the phone numbers of the albergue hosts and called. Right as one of them answered, it stopped, but they said to use ‘the box’ to shut it off if it happened again. We went back to bed, and it started 15 minutes later. Jamie went downstairs to the fuse box, turned it off, problem solved.
Knowing we’d be around until 8am, we slept in, and came downstairs with our packs. The Spanish film crew was late (typical), but Manuel brought the food on time, so we just watched that and salivated until it was show time. I thought we’d be in the background, just chatting, but we actually acted! I had to pour Spanish cider on camera, and so did everybody else. We were nervous, but after our 5th bottle, everyone had a good buzz on, and the acting was easier. Afterwards, they told us that it’d be used for Camino de Santiago promotions across Europe. 😳 We got a late, full-tummy, buzzed start to our walk, and it ended up being a hot day into one of the biggest cities yet, full of smog, cars, and noise.
Thoughts & Discussions: Is it weird that we haven’t had major life realizations yet?… Gill (new friend from England, also in the promo video) is really cool… Big cities are overwhelming when you’re backpacking…
Day 22 — Oviedo => Grado
Our walk out of Oviedo was really foggy, and we spent the whole hour looking for a water fountain. In EVERY other city, they’re everywhere you look, but in Oviedo, nowhere. Jamie drinks water like a fish (about 3 times as much as I do), so, of course, she had run out from the previous day. Eventually, I poured her half of the water I had left over from the previous day. But then we found a fountain in a small town after walking about 4 miles. Thanks for nothing, Oviedo… (dicks!)
Today was light, 15 miles. We checked into our albergue at 2:15, got situated, and walked to a menu del dia for lunch. Like all our lunches, it was a 3 course affair, for dirt cheap, and we drank two pints of beer and a bottle of wine. 🥴 (We’re not alcoholics; that’s what comes standard! (But the beers were extra… 🤫)). We got back to the albergue at about 4:30, and that gave me an hour to take a shower and mostly sober up for a job interview at 5:30. 😋 It went well! Now we’re hanging out in the shade and figuring out what to do with our evening.
Thoughts & Discussions: How can we adopt some of the Spanish norms we like into our Boise lifestyle?… Maybe Jamie and I should go out to breakfast together one weekday morning a week… Maybe I should start trail running in the morning… Maybe I should set a new year’s resolution to complete the Idaho Centennial Trail, in segments, by the end of 2020…
Day 23 — Grado => Bodenaya
Today's walk was 18 miles, and a lot of it was uphill. So, we earned our menu del dia in Salas, about 4 miles from our final destination. And it was a first of it's kind! 3 savory courses and dessert, instead of 2. 🤯
Also, this was the second time I've hiked drunk. I'd like to announce that drunk hiking is great. It gives me an extra gear, and with my buzz on, I feel like my legs are disconnected from the rest of my body. They're just churning, like a machine, and I'm just along for the ride, enjoying the sights and sounds. I ran-hiked for about 2 miles, straight up, and didn't slow down a bit. #CheatCodeUnlocked
Day 24 — Bodenaya => Campiello
The albergue we stayed in last night was amazing. It’s in contention for the best one of the trip. We made reservations a few days in advance when we were told it’s a must stay, and when we arrived around 4pm, the host told us “I’m going to smoke a cigarette, but set your packs down, grab a beer from the fridge, and help yourself to fruit or cake on the table. This is your home for tonight.” And they told us to throw our dirty laundry in the hamper, and breakfast, everything would be cleaned and dried, and laying out for us. And so it was. Amazing. These donation hostels (“donativo”) are incredible. Everything is shared, and everyone donates what they can into the box before they leave. There’s not passive aggressive recommendations, or anything. There’s a culture of abundant sharing. I’ve never felt so at home while travelling.
Today’s hike got me really excited about starting the Camino Primitivo. It’s the original pilgrimage route from 840, and it runs through the Spanish mountains, to Santiago. Though the coastal walks of the Camino del Norte were very nice, I’m enjoying more of a traditional hiking challenge with elevation and mountain scenery. Tomorrow we’ll be hiking past the highest point of the route.
Day 25 — Campiello => Berdocedo
We hiked through the highest point of the Camino today, ~1200 meters. It was beautiful, and all our friends thought it was amazing. Don’t get me wrong, it was cool. But, it’s got nothing on Idaho and Nevada.
After lots of elevation and a longish feeling day (28km), we arrived at our menu del dia ready to plow through whatever they put in front of us. They gave us a ton of chicken and beef, 3 bottles of wine, and we were extremely satisfied. That’s when Jamie walked back into the dining room after a phone call and broke the news — the albergue reservation we had for five feel through. Apparently, “no one wrote it down.” Ensue collective freakout.
One hour later, we’ve called on about 8 albergues in the 3 nearest towns, and THEY’RE ALL FULL. A huge tour group booked out an entire place to themselves, and the municipal albergue was closed for improvements. Shitballs. Edmund, Maitland, and Arianna decided to camp out, but Jamie managed to find one private room for us to stay in two towns ahead. I was feeling mopey, but Edmund bought everyone a round of beers while we waited for our bus.
After a windy mountain road version of Crazy Taxi, our bus dropped us off, and we barely managed not to vomit. We checked into our dilapidated hotel room, that had rusty water dripping down the walls, the biggest spider I’ve seen in a long while in the sink, and an exceptionally dirty bathroom. We handled our laundry, prayed that we wouldn’t wake up with bedbugs, and rolled around while noisy locals yelled at each other over beers until 2am. Great night. We woke up early to catch the bus back to where we left our buds, and started the next day. “The camino always gives you what you need. Not always what you want.”
Day 26 — Berdocedo => Castro
Today’s hike was traversing a canyon, crossing a dam, and going back up the other side, mostly on a mountain road. It was pretty, but thankfully, it was a short day.
For the last few days I’ve been thinking about big walks as a great form of vacation, personal development, and cultural education. By walking through cities, towns, and countrysides over the course of weeks, you learn a ton about a country, their language, their sense of humor, mannerisms, food (my favorite part), lifestyles, and religion. I’ve loved doing this in Spain, and I feel like I’ve “caught the bug” to do this more places. I can’t think of a better way to travel.
Day 27 — Castro => O Pineiral
The albergue in Castro that we stayed at last night was great. It was a good facility, with a great selection of healthy foods and drinks, set in a tiny rural town, about 2 miles outside of the bigger town, Grandas. We loved it and found it very relaxing. A few Russian pilgrims that we’d seen off and on for the last few days were also there, and we finally chatted with them. We had a great discussion about Russian and American politics and society. It was one of their birthdays, so we bought and shared a bottle of wine with them. Very nice.
Today’s hike was extremely foggy. Visibility was only about 20 yards or so until about 2pm. Though it was novel, and kind of fun, it was a little bit of a bummer because we were walking through some scenic areas with a fair amount of elevation. Oh well… We stopped in Fonsagrada for menu del dia and some shopping, and then trudged on to our all-inclusive albergue two miles further, in the woods. The facilities are amazing, probably the best, and we have the whole place to ourselves pretty much. It’s really weird, since we’ve been battling with hoards of pilgrims for every bed in the albergues for the last 10 days or so. 🤷♂️
It was actually really good timing for me, because I’m in an interviewing process with CREDO right now, and I just got sent an assessment exercise to complete in the next few days. So I took advantage of the solid wifi and lack of neighbors. I holed up in the kitchen for two hours and wrote SQL code on my phone (wasn’t easy). I think it turned out okay. I’ll find out next week if I’m moving on to the final step. 🤞
Day 28 — O Pineiral => Castroverde
We hit the road a bit after 8am today with the plan of passing the town that most people would be going to and going an extra 8 km to dodge the crowds. As I’ve mentioned a few times, it’s been a “bed race” in the mornings to get to the bunkhouses that don’t take reservations. Of those that do take reservations, they’re booked out for days. One tour bus of retirees is walking short segments, without packs, and then their air conditioned bus takes them to their next section, with refreshments of course. There’s nothing wrong with that on it’s own — ”everyone’s has their own camino” — but they’re booking out entire bunk houses that normal pilgrims would stay in. Some of them aren’t getting beds. Not cool at all. This group is a topic of conversation with virtually all pilgrims, and some are orienting their itineraries to avoid them (like us). It’s a pity. This isn’t how the Camino is supposed to work.
After seeing our buddies on the way this morning, and stopping at 10am for a pitcher of sangria (🥰), tortillas de patatas, and coffee, we split up and powered through another 20 km (12 miles) in 4 hours without stopping. (We’re pretty badass at this point.) We checked into our albergue (it’s really cool), and went downtown for a menu del dia and a short shopping trip. Now we’re all stocked up, showered, and going to do a bit of laundry before hanging out. Later, we’ll probably get a glass of wine or two near the city plaza and chill out.
Day 29 — Castroverde => Lugo
Today’s hike was a short one, at 22 km (~13 miles). For the first hour or so, we reflected on how weird it is that we’re only 4 walking days from finishing. The first week, it was daunting, and our bodies took a beating. The second week, we felt tire and blistered, and it felt like the Camino would last forever. The third week, we healed and got stronger. We figured out our processes, and got in the flow of things. We were more present and enjoyed things more. It went by really fast. Now, in the fourth week, we’re shocked to see that we’re almost done. We feel like we’re in our element now. Fully healthy, strong, great endurance, and things feel easy. It’s bittersweet that it’s ending. We’re already feeling nostalgic about it.
Day 30 — Lugo => As Seixas
Lugo was incredible. It’s a beautiful, walled Roman city with a ton of character. We walked the whole length of the wall in the afternoon, and then we partook in their famous bar scene. After 8pm, anywhere you buy a drink, they bring you two tapas (small bites) for free — one from a platter of 4–6 thinks they carry around, and one that you get to choose from the kitchen. I wasn’t expecting much, considering the tapas we’d had the last couple weeks, but these were AMAZING. Such good food. So, naturally, I wanted to game the system. We each got 5 drinks in about two hours, all at different places, and got to try lots of great little foods. At the end of the night, we’d only spent 25 euros. Incredible.
Day 31 — As Seixas => Arzua
Today was our last normal length day of walking, 28 km (17 miles). We only have 40k left to walk, and we’re going to do it in two leisurely 20k days. Our Camino has practically ended, and we’re feeling reflective. It’s very bittersweet, and feels like a graduation of some sorts — at times feeling ready to be done, at others, not wanting it to end.
Day 32 — Arzua => O Pedrouzo
Yesterday we ate some of the most delicious pizza of our lives at a random Italian pizzeria, off the main road. We just got lucky — no recommendation or anything. And two groups were so impressed with the pizza we ordered, they asked what it was. At the end, some Italians sitting next to us told us this is very good pizza, even for Italians. We were pleased. I was tempted to stay in that town an extra day, just to eat there again.
Today’s walk was short (12 miles) and uneventful. Tomorrow, our camino ends. Weird.
Day 33 — O Pedrouzo => Santiago
In Santiago. The final destination. The 31 days and 500 miles, to get here. We did it. It’s surreal.
Standing in the plaza, looking at the cathedral, it was hard to believe it’s over. The walk was so big, and took so long, that for most of the time, we didn’t quite comprehend a finish — it just felt like it would go on forever. But now it’s over.
Jamie’s brother, Daniel, joined us right after we got there, and he’s with us for the rest of our trip — two days in Santiago, then a week in Porto, Portugal. Chilling a few days on the beach, and then four days in the city, is just what the doctor ordered.
And now, my walk has ended.
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This morning I took a bus from Santiago to Finisterre. I do plan to one day walk this Camino, but I’ve had my fill of walking for this trip. The three hour bus ride through the hills, along the coast, and past fishing villages was lovely.
Mike from New Zealand had just completed the Portuguese Coastal Camino with his grandkids from Australia. He said this may be his last long walk so he wanted to share it with the family. They were about to board the bus to Finisterre.
Fisterre is the town at the end of the road, a destination for tourists and pilgrims with plenty of hotels, albergues, and restaurants. Finisterre is the point you walk to past the town, the fabled “End of the World”. The area reminded me of Forillon National Parc in Gapse, Quebec, and Twillingate in Newfoundland, Canada.
Juan
Juan lives in Fisterre, Spain and made the last official stamp of my Caminos with wax. He and the rest of the staff at Antico Cafe Bar Tito Dal 1910 have all completed Caminos. The bar is decorated with Camino memorabilia and a mural of the French route from France to Finisterre. They also serve excellent tiramisu.
The bus took me back to Santiago and I stayed one last night at the Last Stamp Albergue. The next day I was going to take a bus to Porto, Portugal for three nights, where I would meet friends from home. From there I would take a bus to Lisbon, spend two more days, and fly home.
I walked 16.7 km this day.
Polish Pilgrims
While in Porto on April 19, 2023, I met four confused Polish Pilgrims trying to get their bearings in the old city. I introduced myself as a fellow pilgrim and showed them to their hotel and their Camino starting point, the cathedral. I wished them Bom Camino. As my adventure was ending, theirs was just beginning.
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A beautiful adaptation that deftly integrates the raw elements of the existing structure with a clean, modern restoration, this vacation home rental in Spain bridges rural old world charm with modern living. We love the meticulous craftsmanship and detail and the simple, subtle update that honors the original intent of a traditional country home.
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A beautiful adaptation that deftly integrates the raw elements of the existing structure with a clean, modern restoration, this vacation home rental in Spain bridges rural old-world charm with modern living. We love the meticulous craftsmanship and detail and the simple, subtle update that honors the original intent of a traditional country home.
Immersed within a vast nature reserve along the Galician coast, this vacation home rental in Spain is located in a secluded and idyllic location surrounded by forests and vineyards where the wild, sparsely inhabited land meets the Atlantic.
Discovered by chance by London-based architect Jamie Fobert and his partner who stumbled upon the property while on holiday, the 19th-century house was in an advanced state of ruin but the couple was struck by its beauty and potential and the peaceful location. Turns out it was a 12-years-long journey….
Completed in 2017, the granite walls anchored the house and served as the perfect starting point for reimagining what a simple country house could be. The roof, which was long gone, was replaced with locally produced tiles and additional granite and locally sourced chestnut wood were used to complete the material construction.
Entering through a Corten steel gate at the side, a flight of granite stairs takes you down to the central courtyard which serves as the heart of the property where the outdoor kitchen and dining and lounge spaces are sheltered and the infinity pool cascades down one wall. From the courtyard, three large Corten shutters slide away to reveal floor-to-ceiling glass entrances into the main house.
The ground floor is a bright open space that was created by burrowing into the hillside and includes a sitting room with a fireplace and a sleek minimalist kitchen with a vernacular barrel-vaulted ceiling made from handcrafted terracotta tiles as well as three of the four ensuite bedrooms. On the upper floor is the master bedroom, which leads out to the pool and gardens with lovely views.
The rough-hewn granite walls and chestnut ceiling are exposed on the interiors enhancing the simply detailed and meticulously crafted finishes, revealing the building's original rustic design.
There is a separate dwelling with a mezzanine bedroom and a kitchenette that was originally a small farm storage space but now matches the home's calm and chic aesthetic with room for two.
An appealing and seamless blend of simple rustic living with a creative and respectful modern translation, this is a lovely Galician retreat.
Please note: There is a €140 cleaning fee that is payable in cash on arrival.
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The Aldan region of Galicia has a unique microclimate and is one of the most temperate in Spain. From the house you can walk to two beautiful uncrowded beaches (Barra is over three kilometers long) through unspoiled nature preserves along the Cabo do Home as well as to the tiny village of Donon with great local markets and just a couple of cafes and bars.
The northwest region of Galicia is known as the four-leaf clover of Spain due to its four green provinces of Pontevedra, Coruña, Ourense and Lugo and has remained one of the most unspoiled parts of the country. Flanked by beautiful mountains and idyllic Atlantic coastline dotted with islands, it’s a region of great diversity.
The nearby province of Pontevedra, features the lush green beauty of the Miñor Valley with many local vineyards and the spectacular Atlantic Islands National Park, a protected chain that includes the islands of Cies, Ons, Salvora and Cortegada. Just north of Vigo and within ninety minutes from the grand UNESCO capital of the region, Santiago de Compostela, you are also an hour north of the border of Portugal.
Location
Donon, Galicia, Spain. Nearest airports: Vigo (30 mins), Porto Airport (1 hr 45 mins), Santiago (90 mins), La Coruña (2 hrs)
Best time to visit
The weather from June through September is the best while November through March is often rainy, but still great for walks and sitting by the fire.
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In winter the front yard plants wither and retreat into their roots. For this small house in Los Angeles the seasons bring life and death. Juan Miranda, 22, died in winter but his final work was complete by spring.
Juan remains an enigma if not at fault of his shyness, at fault of strenuous world circumstances which have plagued the lives of every person. And at the same time, Juan remained genuine. He acted for others equally whether they be family, a friend or a coworker. He made himself available for any task which needed tending, only reserving time when a Dodger’s game was on.
A journalist by nature, a baseball fan, a young college student already awarded at a state level, a relatively quiet fall compared to the avalanche of deaths COVID-19 has claimed so far.
Juan died on Jan. 22, 2021, from thrombosis yet remains a central force in the minds of those who knew and loved him. A mark unyielding and foundational. The mere mention of his name brings smiles to people’s faces. Through short laughs and shrugs, they piece him together. A hard worker, a selfless person, a funny and charismatic man.
He was the youngest of eight children. The baby of the family his brother Jose Miranda, 25, said. Being the youngest one earned him special treatment as his mom, Adela Miranda, would always let him eat whatever food he wanted while the rest had to settle for what was already prepared at dinner. But Juan was humble his brother Jose said, never liked to brag or worry his mother with complaints. Not even making big deals out of his academic achievements. Juan moved quickly from staff writer to managing editor at The Union to Warrior Life magazine editor-in-chief, a position which normally extends across two semesters but one Juan was only able to retain for one before his death.
During his first semester on staff for the student paper, The Union, Juan helped write a piece on the homeless encampments on the El Camino Colleg campus. When the story won the Best of SNO award, he told his brother about it almost in passing.
“And this is something that always [characterized] my brother, that he was so down to earth. He was like ‘oh, I got an award last night,” Jose says.
He’d found out about it while dropping off Juan for class one morning.
“It was kinda hard for my parents to see because my parents don’t understand English that well, you know, and I told him that I was proud of him that day,” Jose says.
They’d been raised in a loud and eventful immigrant home with a pug named Kobe and a little old chihuahua named Emi. Juan’s parents arrived from Guerrero, Mexico, in the late ’80s and raised a family of Dodger’s fans. Their love for the team had flourished thanks to their neighbors who befriended Juan’s family early on. Jose recalls their neighbors took both of them to their first Dodgers game as children and from then on, they were hooked.
A sporty family, Juan and Jose were in a soccer team together when Juan was in high school. In the early summer of 2013 they won a soccer final, Jose says that was one of his favorite memories with his brother.
To Diego Flores Perez, Juan’s best friend, he was like a brother. They had known each other since 2014. It was Juan who challenged him during discussions in a political science class they took together at ECC. It was Juan who taught him empathy and who, he says, is the person that made him who he is today.
But it was Diego who convinced Juan to join the student paper, and he who told Juan to keep pressing a source on his first story for an interview. Scoring interviews became easier for Juan after that.
“He’s a fast learner,” Diego says.
He recalled Juan with joy. Simultaneously struggling to find the words to describe him and then struggling to find the words to describe how he’s bad with them. He’d learned of Juan’s death when a mutual friend of theirs called him to ask if it was real. Diego, not knowing what he was talking about at first and subsequently refusing to believe him, called Juan’s phone twice. The first call went to voicemail. That worried him. It was unlike him to not pick up his phone, Diego said. On the second attempt it was Juan’s nephew who picked up his phone, that’s when Diego knew it was true.
“I think just some days it feels a lot more lonely without somebody to talk to and like, that’s when it actually gets me,” Diego says.
Their friendship was playful. Filled with jabs and teasing but unlikely at a closer glance. Diego is a devout Catholic whose favorite soccer team is Chelsea, and Juan was an agnostic whose favorite soccer was Manchester United. Juan would always meet him face-to-face Diego says, never letting their differences stain their friendship.
While self admittedly an “indoor person,” Diego was not shy when it came to partying and neither, apparently, was Juan. They had a love for going downtown together and would save up money for their occasional trips. Juan was especially fond of Little Tokyo and enjoyed eating ramen. Perez, a more frequent drinker than Juan, would also take him to bars.
On one occasion after Juan was gifted two free tickets to a USC vs. Stanford football game, they asked around for a nearby bar after the game. To their surprise the quiet drink they had imagined turned into a more eventful night. The bar was hosting a rave which ended with Juan and Diego lifting up a man they’d just met over their shoulders and nearly getting into trouble. But it was always good fun.
On a separate occasion, Juan was invited to one of his editor’s 22 birthday. Sparring the details, Rosemary Montalvo, a photographer who worked with Juan at The Union, says the party revealed a much livelier side of him.
The last time Diego and Juan saw each other was when Juan took an Uber to his house, honoring their tradition of having a drink at the end of each semester. Diego says he was concerned about Juan leaving his house during the pandemic as Juan had asthma and was more vulnerable to COVID-19 than others, but he didn’t send Juan back home when he arrived.
They shared a drink and pizza. That was the first time Perez’s father met Juan, as well as his sister-in-law. Diego recalls that as Juan was leaving, the hug they shared was longer than usual. Shortly after Juan’s death, Diego learned that his brother and his sister-in-law were going to have a child together. The first baby of the family.
“[Juan] wouldn’t want me to be miserable. Heck, if I would’ve been the one that passed away, I definitely wouldn’t want him to be miserable,” Diego says. “So, I don’t know, I just remember him for who he was and actually live my life like always.”
In the newsroom he created similar friendships. He always stayed late working on stories or helping colleagues with their homework for a professor he’d coincidentally taken in the past.
At home he had similar work habits. His normally loud and lively house only sat quiet while Juan worked alone in his room for hours. His lone companion was Emi the chihuahua who would curl up beside him and take breaks from her naps when Juan took breaks from work, yet Kobe was the one who enjoyed the spotlight making multiple appearances during classes over Zoom.
Following his death, Juan’s work continued to win awards, co-placing first for “Best News Series” at the annual Journalism Association of Community Colleges awards for his coverage of a missing student who was later found dead. A scholarship was later started at ECC under Juan’s name and currently sits at $1,000 which will be awarded to one or more journalism students at the end of the spring semester.
Rosemary first met Juan on October 22 while on assignment. She was a photography student at ECC and was there to take photos of a cultural event during Hispanic Heritage month which Juan was writing a review about. It was an enjoyable experience for the both of them, Rosemary recalls. They arrived early and left late following true journalistic standards, striking up conversations with everyone at the event.
He made her feel comfortable, Rosemary says. Juan charmed everyone present and was able to spark intimate conversations with attendees and performers on everything from their mental struggles to their religious ideologies. There was no other reporter who could get people to open up as Juan could, Rosemary assured. It was a skill unique to him, something she could never do herself.
“That was just Juan. He could talk to everybody, and everybody wanted to talk to him,” Rosemary says with a smile.
She pulled the collar of her grey shirt over her lips and then seemed to forget herself in expressive bursts of excitement as she sat in her car. Moments of silence brought tears to her eyes as she quietly remembered Juan, though she spoke of him as if he were still present.
There Juan met a student with skills ranging from music, literature and science. He’d later write a profile piece about her, one which would earn him much attention from his editors.
“I remember that piece, that piece was beautiful,” Rosemary says. “I think that’s when everyone was really like ‘wow, Juan is a great writer.’ This is when everyone was like, fighting. All the editors were fighting; ‘oh, I want Juan on this, oh I’m gonna get Juan on this’.”
When the bulk of editors that semester graduated, Rosemary remembers much tension at the question of who would lead Warrior Life magazine next. She knew the magazine would be in good hands once Juan applied for the position. All the former editors were, she recalls.
She found out about Juan’s death through former news editor Fernando Haro, who messaged their old editor’s group chat on Snapchat and urged them to join a video call. Rosemary said they sat there in silence for several minutes slipping between not believing what they were hearing and shock.
“We weren’t ever really serious around each other,” Rosemary says. “I don’t know, I think I started caring for [Juan] instantly. He’s just one of those people you just wanna see do the greatest things.”
The group had decided they wanted to gather in Juan’s memory, but Rosemary felt it wouldn’t be right to gather and not tell Juan’s family. The short gettogether then turned into a memorial at Kenneth Hahn Park where family and friends were invited. Old colleagues of Juan stepped forward to share how he’d changed them. They shared stories of the humanitarian values he instilled onto his work and his gentle character as a person.
During his time at ECC, Juan wrote stories which centered the community. From homeless encampments to an aspiring scientist, a tragic series covering the murder of a student and a personal column in which he revealed his own history with mental struggles.
“I always felt that I suffered from a mental disorder, and I thought it could be something I could overcome alone and in silence because I come from a traditional, old-school Mexican family,” Juan wrote.
His brother Jose read the first half of the column when it was posted but didn’t finish it until after Juan’s death.
“When I read it, I shed some tears because you know, you always see someone working hard but you don’t see the effort or you don’t see some of the struggles [that] are behind another human being,” Jose says. “Especially us as Hispanics, it’s kinda hard to vent with a person because, how he said, we come from an ‘old school family’ where we kinda had to say ‘suck it up’ or you get over it instead of facing the problems.”
Jose recalls his brother always wanted to be a teacher for English learning or first-generation students. He believes Juan kept his switch to a journalism major a secret from his parents out of fear they would not understand his decision.
At his memorial his mom revealed she had come to discover his change in major and admitted being scared it would lead her son down a dangerous path but Juan consoled her, she said. He assured her he wanted to be a writer and he would be working at a desk where he would be safe from the dangers his mom wanted to keep him away from.
When the doors of Inglewood’s mortuary building opened, a white casket adorned with gold peeked from the other side. The service was held in the parking lot due to COVID-19 restrictions with the forum overlooking his family’s prayers. He was buried to the sound of his uncle playing guitar and the crippling cries of his mother dressed in white repeatedly asking herself why her son had died if she had loved him so much and he was her youngest.
Showered in flowers from friends and family, Juan was lowered into his grave and the earth pounded into place above him. Tufts of grass were laid atop the brown dirt and watered so they may take root easier and mend the grass bed in time.
A legend, an inspiration and a young talent.
His grave now stands as a scar which heals itself but remains.
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1969 film
Spain AgainDirected byJaime CaminoWritten byRomán Gubern
Jaime Camino
Alvah BessieProduced byJaime Fernández-CidStarringManuela VargasCinematographyLuis CuadradoEdited byTeresa Alcocer
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Spain Again (Spanish: España otra vez) is a 1969 Spanish drama film directed by Jaime Camino. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film was also selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 41st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]
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Manuela Vargas – María
Mark Stevens – Dr. David Foster
Marianne Koch – Kathy Foster
Enrique Giménez 'El Cojo' – Maestro Miguel (as Enrique 'el cojo')
Luis Serret – Manuel Oliver
Luis Ciges – Padre Jacinto (as Luis Cijes)
Joaquín Pujol – Hijo de Manuel
Alberto Berco – Dr. Gavotty
Alberto Puig – Dr. Tomás (as Alberto Puig Palau)
Flor de Bethania Abreu – Teresa (as Flor de Bethania A.T.C.)
Manuel Muñiz – Hombre Extraño (as Pajarito)
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List of submissions to the 41st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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Say goodbye to manual tool configuration, slow site setup, and clunky local development workflows, and say hello to Studio by WordPress.com, our new, free, open source local WordPress development environment.
We’ve built Studio to be the fastest and simplest way to build WordPress sites locally.
Designed to empower developers, designers, and site builders, Studio offers a seamless solution for creating and running WordPress sites directly on your local machine, as well as showcasing work-in-progress sites with your clients, teams, and colleagues.
Check out a few of our favorite features in the video below:
A new way to develop WordPress locally, available for free
Studio is now available to use for free on Mac*, and you can get up and running with a new local site in just a few minutes:
Download Studio for Mac.
Install and open Studio.
Click Add site, and you’re done!
Once you have a local site running, you can access WP Admin, the Site Editor, global styles, and patterns, all with just one click—and without needing to remember and enter a username or password.
You can even open your local sites in your favorite development tools, such as VS Code, PhpStorm, Terminal, and Finder, making it even easier to add Studio to your existing development workflow.
Plus, Studio is open source; feel free to fork away on GitHub.
*A Windows version of Studio is available now, too! Download for free here.
Effortlessly share your work and keep moving forward
In the realm of web development, showcasing local work has often been a challenge when projects live solely on your machine. With Studio’s demo sites, you have a convenient, built-in solution for sharing your progress with your team, clients, or designers.
These publicly-accessible demo sites, hosted on WordPress.com, are a convenient way to share your work without the need for complex server setups or lengthy deployments. In less than 15 seconds, you can have a shareable link to your local site that stays active for seven days.
The best part? Demo sites can be refreshed to reflect your latest build, allowing you to easily convey any updates or changes!
Breaking free from traditional constraints
Unlike traditional local environment tools like MAMP or Docker, Studio takes a fresh approach to local WordPress development. Studio is a lightweight and efficient solution that minimizes overhead and maximizes simplicity by forgoing the need for web servers, MySQL servers, or virtualization technologies.
Behind the scenes, Studio uses WordPress Playground, the WebAssembly-powered PHP binary. Thanks to this technology, there is no need to use a traditional web server, making your development experience much quicker and smoother.
Say goodbye to complex setups and compatibility issues. Studio makes it easier than ever to build and manage WordPress sites locally.
Let’s get building
At WordPress.com, we’re committed to making your website management experience seamless. In the last few years alone, we launched staging sites with synchronization features, SSH and WP-CLI access, global edge caching, GitHub Deployments, and more.
Studio is yet another powerful feature to add to your toolkit. Stay tuned for more exciting updates, and remember to follow our blog to stay in the loop.
And, of course, download Studio today. Your local development workflow will thank you.
Major kudos to the Studio team on this launch! Antonio Sejas, Antony Agrios, Kateryna Kodonenko, Philip Jackson, Carlos García Prim, David Calhoun, Derek Blank, Siobhan Bamber, Tanner Stokes, Matt West, Adam Zielinski, Brandon Payton, Berislav Grgicak, Alexa Peduzzi, Jeremy Massel, Gio Lodi, Olivier Halligon, Matthew Denton, Ian Stewart, Daniel Bachhuber, Kei Takagi, Claudiu Filip, Niranjan Uma Shankar, Noemí Sánchez, and our beta testers.
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These books set in Spain will have you feeling like you're there. If you want a good book about Spain, look no further. These Spanish Novels are the best.
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There are affiliate links in here. I get a small commission if you purchase through them at no extra cost to you.
Admittedly, Spain isn’t the top of my bucket list. However, after reading a few books set in Spain, I know it will crawl its way up my list. I’ve compiled this list of Spain travel books, Spain memoirs, novels set in Spain, Spanish non-fiction, and more.
Basically, everything you could look for in books about Spain. So grab a pot of coffee, sit back, and get that Kindle out (or however you read, no judgment here) and get reading!
If you’re interested in Scribd! You can get your first month free there as well.
By The River Piedra, I Sat Down And Wept
Young love doesn’t always work out, but what happens when they reunite eleven years later? Pilar has grown to be a strong and independent woman and her childhood friend has become a charismatic spiritual leader.
She learned how to bury her feelings and he turned to religion as a refuge from inner conflicts. They are now on a journey together full of difficulties after blame and resentment resurface after more than a decade, but their relationship is examined by the waters of the River Piedra.
This is one of those classic books set in Spain that you just have to read.
The Queen’s Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile
Isabella is barely a teenager when she and her brother are taken to live with their half-brother King Enrique and his sultry, conniving queen. Before she knows it, Isabella is thrust into a plot (unwittingly) to dethrone Enrique.
She is torn between loyalties until, at seventeen, she is the heiress of Castille, the largest kingdom in Spain. She is plunged into a deadly conflict to secure her crown and marry the one man she loves but is forbidden – Fernando, Prince of Aragon.
They unite their two realms and face an impoverished Spain. Her throne is at stake while she resists the demands of the inquisitor Torquemada even as she is seduced by the dreams of an enigmatic navigator named Columbus.
Soon, the Moors of the southern domain of Granada declare war and Isabella’s resolve, courage, and belief in her destiny are tested.
The Muse
Odelle Bastien gets a job at the Skelton gallery in London in 1967 and knows her life will change forever. She struggled to find her place in London after moving from Trinidad five years before, but she knows her life is about to change when she accepts the job as a typist under the glamorous Marjorie Quick.
While Marjorie helps her unlock her confidence and find her place, she becomes lost again when a masterpiece with a secret history is delivered to the gallery.
Back in 1936 in rural Spain, we find out the history of the painting with Olivia Schloss, the daughter of a renowned art dealer, has secret ambitions of her own.
Soon we meet Isaac Robles and his half-sister Teresa who weave themselves into the Schloss family with explosive and devastating consequences. This is one of my favorite books ever. I had no idea what it was when I got it in a mystery book box, but I love it!
Winter in Madrid
It’s September 1940 and Madrid is in ruin as the Germans continue their march through Europe. General Franco of Britan is debating on abandoning neutrality and entering the war.
Enter Harry Brett, a reluctant British Spy traumatized by his experience in Dunkirk. He is sent to gain the confidence of Sandy Forsyth, an old school friend, now a shadowy Madrid businessman.
Meanwhile, Barbara Clare, Sandy’s girlfriend an ex-Red Cross nurse, is on her own mission: to find her ex-lover Bernie Piper who disappeared on the battlefields of Jarama thanks to a love for Communism.
The Prisoner of Heaven
It’s Christmas in Barcelona in 1957 and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have a new baby, Julian, and a close friend, Fermín Romero de Torres, that is soon to be wed.
But that is all disrupted soon when a stranger shows up in the Sempere bookshop threatening to spill secrets from the city’s dark past.
Soon Fermín and Daniel are plunged into an adventure back in the 1940s, during the dark days of Franco’s dictatorship. Their lives are transformed on this journey fraught with jealousy, suspicion, vengeance, and lies. This is a great choice if you’re looking for a book set in Barcelona.
Until the Curtain Falls
Jack Telford is a foreign correspondent on the run from a territory controlled by Franco’s fascists in northern Spain in October 1938. Telford is a hunted man after killing someone close to the Generalismo’s heart.
Jack will learn a lesson about mortality and survival in a climactic chase from Madrid to the Republic’s last outpost in Alicante during the closing days of the Spanish Civil War.
The Time In Between
Sira Quiroga is left penniless in Morocco by her lover when she forges a new identity for herself. Before she knows it, she is the most sought after couture designer for socialite German Nazi officer wives.
Soon, she is embroiled in a dangerous political conspiracy as she passes information to the British Secret Service through a code stitched into the hems of her dresses.
Camino de Santiago In 20 Days
Maybe it was middle-age. Maybe it was diet cola. Whatever it was, Randall St. Germain found himself called to the 500-mile long Camino de Santiago in 2010. His trip was a dedication to his mother, a personal challenge, and historical enlightenment.
A million steps and a few pounds of gauze and tape later, he finds himself in Santiago de Compostela with a better understanding of himself. Oh, and he did it all in 20 days.
This is perfect for anyone looking for a book set in Spain that also likes books about walking long distances!
A Late Dinner
In this book, we get to hear the stories of the people who grow, cook, and eat the hugely varied and little-known foods of Spain.
We are immersed in coastal foods, ancient shepherd cooking, and modern cuisine from cities like Madrid, Barcelona, and San Sebastian where chefs are setting trends across the globe. If you’re a foodie, this is a must-read. If you’re looking for a good foodie book set in Barcelona, look no further!
Alberto’s Lost Birthday
Alberto is old, but he doesn’t know how old. He doesn’t remember anything before his arrival at an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War.
He doesn’t think about his childhood. Well, not until his grandson Tino discovers he’s never celebrated a birthday. Together, they set out to find Alberto’s birthday so they can change that.
The search takes them deep into the heart of Spain, a country that pledged to forget it’s painful past. He realizes he lost part of himself as he hears the stories of courage, cruelty, and love, but with Tino’s help, they might just find that part again.
The Way Is a River of Stars: A Buddhist’s Journey Through Northern Spain on the Camino Pilgrim Route
Helen finds herself walking through Northern Spain along the picturesque Camino Way, a Christian pilgrimage revered since the medieval times.
Ancient towns and villages with their own cultures and cuisines dot the Camino and her memories and miles intertwine the countryside, her Christian upbringing, and her later life as a Buddhist.
Helen contemplates the heart of two religions on a quest for a deeper meaning that can unite us all with recollections of meditation and monasteries.
With the Fire on High
Emoni Santiago, a high school senior, faces tough decisions while caring for her daughter and supporting her Abuela, but she has to do what must be done.
Thankfully, in the kitchen, she can let her responsibilities go a little and add some magic to everything she cooks. Still, she knows she doesn’t have time for her school’s new culinary class, much less the class trip to Spain, and that she shouldn’t still be dreaming of working in a real kitchen.
Even with all the rules she has for life, her only choice in the kitchen is to let her talent break free. This one os still hanging out on my TBR.
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
María Menocal is showing us a new portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years to undo the familiar notion of it being a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation.
It starts with a young prince in exile when he finds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. The new kingdom and its successors, with its combination of the best of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian cultures, influenced the rest of Europe in dramatic ways.
The Glory of the Andalusian kingdoms lasted until the renaissance when Christian monarchs forcibly converted, executed, or expelled non-Catholics from Spain.
No Turning Back
In Barcelona, in 1986 the dictatorship is over, but Elisa can’t forget what happened in the seventies. Her past comes back to trouble her in the form of her ex-husband Arnau, who needs her help exonerating an old comrade.
Elisa relives her Catholic childhood, her marriage, her blind loyalty to the Communist party, her experiments in feminism, and her prison time to create an emotional history of the political Left in Spain.
The women who faced all of this with her weave their stories together making it more than a novel and give a voice to the silenced.
Shadows, Shells, and Spain
Jamie Draper is searching for his estranged wife, Pam, who left him without explanation or warning, on the island of Mallorca.
He finds himself looking in her last known location when he comes across a letter she left behind promising a full explanation, but to get that he has to find a series of letters hidden along the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain. Now that he has clues, he starts to track her down and meets plenty of colorful characters along the way.
Granada: The Light of Andalucía
Steven Nightingale wants change so he moves his family to the ancient Andalucian city of Granada. However, as he explores the hidden courtyards, gardens, and plazas, he realizes that Granada’s past and present can’t be separated. This begins his eight-year quest to discover more.
At one time Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived harmoniously and arts and sciences flourished, but soon places of worship and books were burned to the ground.
It had a turbulent rise over the next three centuries as deterioration worsened. Nightingale shares a portrait of the now thriving city and all the joy he discovered there.
Roads to Santiago
If you want a book about traveling in Spain, this is for you. This is the story of Cees’ thirty-five years living in Spain, his second home. He shares the architecture, art, landscapes, villages, and people of little-known Spain.
He presents a version of Spain not easily seen by tourists through the spirits of El Cid, Cervantes, Alfonso the Chaste and Alfonso the Wise, the Hapsburgs, and Velazquez. He writes with the depth of a historian, the bravado of an adventurer, and the passion of a poet.
Follow That Arrow: Notes on Getting Here From There
Gwen lost everything at once: her center, her marriage, and her future. This inspires her to find a new path and she sets off on the Camino de Santiago, a journey that redefines her life.
The Basque History of the World
The Basques are Europe’s oldest nation without ever being a nation, tucked into a corner of France and Spain marked on no maps but their own. No one has been able to determine their origin and even their language, Euskera, the most ancient in Europe, doesn’t resemble any other language on Earth.
However, their influence has been felt for centuries. Human stories are flawlessly blended with economic, political, literary, and culinary history in this rich heroic tale.
The Shadow of the Wind
In 1945, Barcelona was a city slowly healing from its war wounds. Daniel is the son of an antiquarian books dealer mourning the loss of his mother when he finds solace in a book called The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax.
When he sets out to find his other works, instead he finds someone has systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written.
Daniel may have the last of his books in existence and his quest opens the door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets. This is another classic book set in Barcelona that everyone needs to read. I keep seeing it on Facebook and everyone loves it!
The Drago Tree
Ann Salter is a geologist being haunted by demons of her past and present that seeks sanctuary on the island of Lanzarote. Once there she meets Richard Parry, a charismatic author, and Domingo, an indigenous potter and they explore the island together.
Ann struggles to figure out who she is, was, and wants to be as she encounters the hidden treasures of the island.
The Tale of Senyor Rodriguez
Thomas Sebastian is an English Conman on the run, hiding out on an old Spanish Finca in Mallorca in the 1960s. He discovers the house is untouched since the death of its last owner, Senyor Rodriguez. There is fine art on the walls, a library full of books, and a cellar full of wine.
Thomas easily slips into his new life and falls in love with his new neighbor, Isabella Ferretti, but once he slips into Rodriguez’ white linen suit and heads into the city, things start to get out of hand.
The Obedient Assassin: A Novel Based on a True Story
Ramón Mercader was picked from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets to murder Leon Trotsky, the great intellectual leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin.
While he is training for the task, he adopts a new identity and lives a lush life in Paris befriending famous artists, like Frida Khalo. He is ordered to seduce a left-leaning Jewish woman to get at Trotsky, but falls in love with her instead.
Happy as a Partridge: Life and Love in Madrid
Evie Fuller is approaching her thirtieth birthday and is fed up with her life in London. Soon she heads to Madrid at the offer of a free month of language lessons, the perfect escape route.
She blossoms from being a shy English girl under the Spanish sun and learns the hardest part about moving abroad is deciding to go home. If you want a book about moving to Spain or living in Spain, this is a good choice.
Leaving the Atocha Station
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, unreliable, young American Poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid struggling to establish his sense of self and relationship to art.
Instead of following the dictate of his fellowship, his research becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond.
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
The easy part for Chris Stewart was handing over a check. The hard part was telling his wife Ana that they were now the proud owners of a sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain.
While the farm may be lush in olive, lemon, and olive groves, it is quite lacking in running water, electricity, and an access road. Then there’s the problem of the previous owner that won’t leave, Pedro Romero.
Pedro is a perpetual optimist and Chris has an unflappable spirit that nothing can diminish.
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
In 1934 a young man walked from the Cotswolds to London to make his fortune where he would play the violin and work on a building site. At least until he decided to see Spain when he knew one Spanish phrase.
He spent a year traveling through the country, even with signs of civil war clearly visible. Thirty years later Laurie Lee captured the atmosphere and beauty of the Spain he saw as a young man.
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World 1st Edition
Catalina dee Erauso escaped a Basque convent in 1599 dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history.
She was a soldier in the Spanish army, traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even accidentally killed her own brother in a duel. This is one of the oldest known autobiographies of a woman and is a translation of her own work.
Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools
Joe and Vicky moved to a tiny village in the Alpujarra Mountains, but would they have if they knew what it would really be like? They reluctantly become chicken farmers and happen to have the most dangerous cockerel in Spain.
They are befriended by an 85-year-old spliff-smoking sex-kitten and are even rescued by a mule. Life is never dull on this five-year plan, but at the end of their five years, they have to decide: stay or go?
Two Old Fools in Spain Again
After their year in the Middle East, Victoria and Joe return to their Spanish mountain village, ready to return to their normal life, but the village won’t allow that, especially with Lola Ufarte’s behavior and a new millionaire neighbor.
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
The “Pact of Forgetting” was broken more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended when mass graves containing victims of Fransisco Franco’s death squads were found.
When this happened, Giles Tremlett started off on a journey around the country and it’s history to see why some of Europe’s most voluble people stayed silent for so long.
Tremlett delves into emotional questions like who started the civil war and why Catalans hate Madrid while offering observations on modern life in Spain, like why Spainards dislike authority figures but are cowed by a doctor’s white coat and how women have embraced feminism without men noticing.
It’s Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels
Polly Evans is single and stressed in the hustle and bustle of living in Hong Kong meanwhile having visions of mountains, orange groves, and matadors on a hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle.
While the dream was perfect, the reality was less so as she began to experience thighs screaming in pain, goats trying to derail her, strange local delicacies, and overzealous suitors. We are taken on her journey across the country from the towering Pyrenees to the vineyards of Jerez de la Frontera.
The Yellow Rain
The last living inhabitant of Ainielle, a village high in the Spanish Pyrenees, is at death’s door, but he lingers on in the deserted village ruins.
As the “yellow rain” of leaves fall around him and the first snowfall of the year happens, he recalls the life he lived and the ghosts of his friends and neighbors who have take possession of his solitude.
Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain
Jack Hitt walks the Camino de Santiago, visiting and exploring the sites that people believe God once touched like the fortress said to contain the real secret Adam heard when he bit into the apple, the sites associated with the Knights Templar murdering monks, and the places home to the relics including a vial of the virgin Mary’s milk and a sheet of Bartholomew’s skin.
He finds himself on this journey with a strange group of fellow pilgrims: a Flemish film crew, a drunken gypsy, a draconian Belgian air force officer, a one-legged pilgrim, and more.
Along with a few good meals and some dry shelter, they find some fresh ideas about old-time zealotry and modern beliefs. This is a good choice if you’re looking for a book about the Camino de Santiago.
Only in Spain: A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in Love
One day, Nellie Bennett falls in love with Flamenco in a dance studio in Sydney, but that’s not enough and she’s bored of her retail job so she packs her bags for Seville, Spain to get closer to the real thing. Soon she realizes Flamenco is a way of life, not just a dance and she finds herself in love three times before discovering it’s the country that held her heart all along.
Into the Thin: A Pilgrimage Walk Across Northern Spain
It was a bad year. A father figure passed. A friend and mentor suffered a mental illness. One child entered psychosis. Another took his life. And a 14-year marriage ended.
As a new life began, he was called to the Camino de Santiago halfway across the world. This is the story of following the same trail as Saint James with its miraculous and mysterious ways.
Other book posts you may like:
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You can take a shower and sleep in a bed every day for less than $10/day - it's crowded here, so I advise you to book your accomodation in advance.
You don't need to carry any food because you'll have access to cooked restaurant meals every few hours.
You don't even need to carry water! You cross piped water about every 45 minutes. You won't need to purify it either.
No need to carry your trash with you for days since you'll pass a trash can about every 10 minutes.
As a result of all this, your backpack could be as light as 1 kg (2.2 pounds). To compare, my ultralight backpack on the CDT weighed 3 kg. However, many pilgrims prefer to lug around all sorts of luxuries and end up with heavy backpacks of 10 kg (22 pounds) or more.
You don't need a map or navigation skills because the route is well marked.
The wide path lets you walk side-by-side with your companion(s), making for easy conversation.
You'll never have to bushwhack.
You'll never have to hitchhike to resupply.
It's flat, easy hiking nearly everywhere, with occasional gentle climbs/descents. It is graded for cars/bikes (which is even easier than equestrian trails.) - you can rent a car for your trip here.
4 good or bad traits, depending on your perspective
It's extremely social. There are lots of interesting people from all over the world to meet and talk with. (Those who prefer solitude will be frustrated.)
Anyone can do the whole trail on a mountain bike. (Some hikers don't like sharing a path with bikers.)
You'll walk through 5-20 rustic villages per day. (Those who prefer wilderness will be disappointed.)
Most Spaniards don't speak English well. Many non-Spanish speaking pilgrims were stunned and frustrated that despite attracting pilgrims from all over the world, the locals have made hardly any effort to learn the international language: English. (You, however, may cherish the opportunity to practice your Spanish. Spanish is my mother tongue so I was happy to speak in Spanish.)
Only about 1% of El Camino de Santiago is a narrow (1-meter wide) dirt trail; 99% is a road (either a dirt road, 2-track road, paved road with little traffic, or a busy highway). It's almost never a narrow footpath where pilgrims are forced to walk in a single file.
About half the time you're on a paved road or on a dirt path right next to a paved road. Some of the paved roads have little traffic, but others are quite busy.
Because you're on a paved road so often, by the end of the day your feet may feel like they've been put through a meat tenderizer. Although I've hiked over 65 km in one day in steep mountains, I found it harder to do 65 km in one day on the flat Camino. My feet just ached too much from all paved roads.
About 95% of the time, car traffic is within earshot. El Camino often gives you the illusion that cars aren't near because you sometimes can't see the nearby paved road which may have infrequent traffic. However, it takes just one car to remind you that there is indeed a road nearby.
Amenities distract from any spiritual mission you may have. With endless bars, restaurants, hotels, vending machines, tour groups, you're hardly removed from the "real world." This defeats much of the purpose of living primitively in a search for a deeper meaning or understanding of life. On the other hand, it's nice to have easy access to ice cream.
The scenery is monotonous. It's endless pastoral farmland everywhere you look. Far in the horizon, you might glimpse some real mountains. The most photogenic places are the towns and villages; since you can drive (or bike) to all of them, there's no practical need to walk between them.
It's a skin cancer magnet. Infrequent trees mean that a brutal sun is hammering you most of the day. In the summer, it's hard to tolerate.
Unfriendly commercialism. El Camino has become a big business, where the locals are sometimes unfriendly and seem to just care about getting your money.
It's a cacophony of sounds. Rumbling 18-wheel trucks, ear-splitting motorcycles, angry barking dogs, blaring music from cafes, honking horns, and ringing cell phones. El Camino assaults your eardrums. At least, there were no jack-hammers. Oh, wait. I walked by one of those too.
It's hard to take a piss. There's little privacy. Cars and pilgrims are constantly passing you by. After 3 p.m. most pilgrims retire to their albergues (huts) and you'll get more privacy to do your business. Nevertheless, at 7 p.m. one jogger still managed to catch me with my pants down.
Pilgrim: A traveler that is taken seriously. — Ambrose Bierce
El Camino de Santiago's dirty little secret
Despite all this hiking fervor, the bad news is that by 1987 Spain had paved over much of the historic Camino because the old path took the fastest and flattest way toward Santiago, which is desirable for vehicle traffic.
I rarely stayed in the albergues (huts) because I prefer to sleep outside than pay $10 to sleep with many people who snore and make a racket going to bed late. However, 5 km before Santiago, I celebrated by staying at the albergue. When I signed in, I asked the lady, "Is it a busy night tonight?"
"No, only 30 pilgrims are staying here."
"What's the maximum capacity?"
"550."
550?! It looked huge from the outside, but since I arrived at night, I couldn't tell just how enormous this albergue was. There's a series of buildings to house pilgrims. Incredibly, during the summer, they're overflowing.
To be fair, most albergues are far smaller, hosting fewer than 100 pilgrims. Still, one hundred is a lot!
Feeling like Spiderman
Comparing El Camino de Santiago with America's Triple Crown trails
Some have asked me to compare El Camino de Santiago with the Triple Crown. The Triple Crown comprises America's three most popular long-distance trails (AT, PCT, CDT).
Let's compare the distances. Most pilgrims start somewhere near the Pyrenees, doing 800-900 km. Pilgrims are impressed when someone from Switzerland, Germany, or Austria does just over 2,000 km. And those who start further become legends. One guy many talked about had walked from Jerusalem, about 6,000 km.
Now compare these distances with the Appalachian Trail (3,000 km), the Pacific Crest Trail (4,250 km), or the Continental Divide Trail (4,500 km). Anyone who does the AT walks 50% more than even the "elite" pilgrims from Austria.
Furthermore, the Triple Crown trails cover relatively isolated, steep mountain ranges. Thru-hikers may have to cover up to 300 km between convenient resupply points. On El Camino de Santiago, you'll never go more than 10 km between resupply points, and it's primarily flat terrain everywhere.
Therefore, one can argue that walking 6,000 km from Jerusalem is comparable to thru-hiking the PCT or CDT because it's flatter and has far more resupply points than the PCT and CDT. By that measure, anyone who thru-hikes the PCT or CDT has god-like hiking abilities by El Camino de Santiago standards.
The point of these comparisons is not to argue that the Triple Crown trails are "better" than El Camino de Santiago but rather to illustrate that they are nearly incomparable! They are different experiences. They're so different that if you like one, you'll probably dislike the other. Hence, this explains why I think El Camino de Santiago sucks.
Some Camino fans will argue that my way to Santiago had two major flaws. First, the alternate through Los Picos de Europa and Asturias, while scenic, made me miss out on nearly half of El Camino Frances, so my journey wasn't typical. Second, by avoiding albergues, I missed out on the social aspect of El Camino, which, for many pilgrims, is the best part of the journey.
Although I understand these criticisms, I hiked with enough pilgrims and stayed at enough albergues to get a good idea about the social side of El Camino. It's true: the social opportunities are precious and unique. Unlike America's Triple Crown, El Camino attracts a truly international crowd. However, I want more than cool international people on a trail. I can get a multicultural experience on the New York City Subway. A trail, for me, should take me away from civilization and deep into nature. On that metric, El Camino fails miserably.
Going to the very end: Fisterra
About 5% of the pilgrims don't finish in Santiago but continue walking another 88 km to the end of the world: Fisterra. The Spanish call the place Finisterra, but the local Gallegos, who have their language in the Galician region of Spain, call it Fisterra. The Romans gave its name because they believed it was the end of the earth.
As brilliant as the Romans were, they didn't have GPS. As a result, Fisterra is a big hoax. Although it may feel like you're standing on the edge of the world in Fisterra, it's not the westernmost part of Europe. That point is hundreds of kilometers further south near Lisbon, Portugal.
What's even more galling is that Fisterra is not even the westernmost point in Spain! The actual westernmost point is a few kilometers to the north. What a ripoff!
Fortunately, I knew all this as I walked there, so at least I knew that I was being an idiot.
Once you get there, however, you can see why the Romans thought this was the ultimate land's end. It feels like you're standing on the edge of the planet.
You'll never believe who did El Camino de Santiago in reverse
As I stood at Fisterra, I thought about a man who also stood there and would later become the President of the United States. This man was desperate after crossing the Atlantic Ocean: his ship was leaking and would soon sink. Fisterra was the first piece of ground available, so he landed there. However, his desperation didn't stop. The future of the United States depended on him. If he failed on his mission, the United States might collapse.
He did something incredible with no ship: he followed El Camino de Santiago in reverse! He hurried as fast as he could, eager to cover as much ground as possible. He was so hurried that he didn't even have time to see Santiago de Compostela, something he would later deeply regret. But it didn't matter at that moment – he had to save his nation, and time was running out.
He crossed all of Spain, often on El Camino de Santiago, went over the Pyrenees, through southern France, and to Paris! All of it over land and at a ferocious pace. Once in Paris, he hurried straight to the highest office in the land. His mission?
To beg.
He begged the French for money and weapons to kill the British. The French hesitated. They weren't pleased that the American diplomat didn't speak French (bien sûr!). Nevertheless, the French agreed to help this rebellious American terrorist.
It was June 1779, three years into the American Revolutionary War. Without French assistance, the United States may not have become the nation it is today. This partly explains why Americans returned the favor when they helped to liberate France from the Nazis 165 years later.
This man, who traveled much of El Camino de Santiago in reverse, from Fisterra to Paris, to save our nation, returned a hero and became America's first Vice President, serving under George Washington. Later, the United States elected this man to become the second President of the United States. His name was John Adams.
Beware of the bitch at the end of the world
"Why not?" I asked in my fluent Spanish.
"You don't have enough stamps on your credential. The trip from Santiago to Fisterra takes three days, so you should have three stamps. You only have one stamp. So you can't stay."
"No. You should have gotten your stamps even if you don't stay at the albergues."
"But sometimes the albergues are 100 meters off El Camino. Do I have to go out of my way for a stamp?"
"Yes, you should."
It had taken me 25 days to traverse the Pyrenees from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean. It also took 25 days to walk El Camino de Santiago from St. Jean Pied-de-Port to Fisterra. In sum, It took me 50 days to walk across Spain twice, once south to north and once east to west.
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Recommendations
Don't go in the summer. First, it's the most crowded period. Albergues are usually packed, and people can get cranky. Second, summer in Spain is brutally hot. Go during any other season, even winter, which sees little snow on most of El Camino.
Unless you love road walking, bike El Camino de Santiago. Mountain bikers can travel the same path the walkers use. Most say you only go twice as fast on a bike because the muddy parts, climbs, and irregular surface slows you down. However, a decent mountain biker should be able to go three times faster than a walker. Typical bikers cover 40-80 km daily (most walkers cover 20-40 km). A good mountain biker could do 100 km daily, allowing you to go from France to Santiago de Compostela in less than 10 days.
It's also possible to use a road bike because there is almost always a paved road parallel to El Camino. Fast road bikers can cover 150 km daily, allowing you to do the whole Camino in less than a week. However, I don't recommend this because biking on narrow paved roads with car traffic is dangerous. Instead, take a mountain bike and stay on El Camino.
Hike a similar route that I took. Start in Hendaye, France. Follow El Camino del Norte until you're north of Los Picos de Europe, and then climb up (south) into that national park. Once you're in the middle of Los Picos de Europa, head west, crossing the Asturias region, connecting many existing paths. Continue until you cross El Camino Primitivo (yet another designated path to Santiago), or until you get to Ponferrara or Lugo, you'll rejoin El Camino Frances. From there, join the herd to Santiago. This is the best backpacking route because it focuses on scenery, solitude, wilderness, and mountains. It's certainly the most brutal way to Santiago, but it's worth it.
Consider hiking El Camino del Norte. As I've mentioned, El Camino Frances is just one path to Santiago. The northern route runs near the coast, offering ocean and mountain views nicer than the views on El Camino Frances. You'll have more up-and-down terrain, but it's worth it for the views and varied geography. Also, the Northern Route is less famous than the Camino Frances, so you'll enjoy less competition for the facilities. However, there are not that many albergues, so they can fill up quite quickly in the summer, so be prepared to camp if you go during the summer. Although it's not as well marked as El Camino Frances, it's reasonably well marked, so you won't have to invent some route through Asturias as I did. It has roughly the same amount of road walking as the Camino Frances. This may be the best way to go for those who want a less crowded Camino yet still want to taste the experience.
Hike the Pyrenees instead. Forget El Camino. Do the Pyrenees. It's far more challenging but far more rewarding. I adored the Pyrenees. The best trail is the HRP (High Route Pyrenees), next is the GR 11 (goes on the Spanish side), and the least amazing (but still great) is the GR 10 (on the French side). There are still plenty of comforts in the Pyrenees thanks to all the refugios (where you can get a shower for $5, a meal for $15, and a bed for $35). The scenery and adventure are as great as the John Muir Trail.
Alternatively, you can join one of the tours and go hiking accompanied by a transfer and a guide:
→ Full-Day Spiritual Pyrenees Adventure from Lourdes
→ Pyrenees Mountains & Medieval Towns Small Group Day Trip from Barcelona
→ Pyrenees Hiking from Barcelona
See the books below.
Be realistic!
Many have romantic visions of El Camino that aren't realistic. The media doesn't help: one brochure about El Camino with 50 photos showed photos of civilization (e.g., towns, churches, bridges) about 80% of the time! Only 10 photos showed El Camino itself, and none showed El Camino on a paved road. Photos on websites also emphasize man-made structures and not nature, hiding most of the everyday reality of El Camino.
Let's hope you learned about the side of El Camino de Santiago that few discuss. If you decide to do El Camino de Santiago, at least you will know what you're getting into. Happy trials! Er, I mean, trails!
Buen Camino!
Alternatives to El Camino Frances Podcast
Susan Alcorn has written a couple of books about El Camino de Santiago.
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Nicholas Galanin created this work with the same steel tubing used to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall, also echoing its 30-foot height. The metal was cut and reassembled to spell out LAND in a format reminiscent of Robert Indiana’s 1966 sculpture, LOVE. The anti-climbing plate seen atop the border wall appears here on the upper letters, and the text repeats in four layers to create a dynamic, open structure. As our point of view changes, the text shifts between legibility and abstraction.
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Nicholas Galanin created this work with the same steel tubing used to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall, also echoing its 30-foot height. The metal was cut and reassembled to spell out LAND in a format reminiscent of Robert Indiana’s 1966 sculpture, LOVE. The anti-climbing plate seen atop the border wall appears here on the upper letters, and the text repeats in four layers to create a dynamic, open structure. As our point of view changes, the text shifts between legibility and abstraction.
Galanin is a member of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska (b.1979 Sitka; Lingít and Unangax̂). As an Indigenous person, he practices subsistence in his homeland. For him, the free movement of life is essential, and all life is deeply connected to Land. Galanin adapts aspects of pop art and minimalism, such as repetition, text, and industrial production to protest oppressive systems of division and control. The title, In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra, combines English and Spanish, two languages imposed in North America since colonization. The work reminds us that Indigenous peoples persist and permeate borders despite the forcible removal of rights, languages, and access to Land and Water. For Galanin, “barriers to Land directly reflect barriers to love, love for Land, for community and for future generations.”
Nicholas Baume
Artistic & Executive Director, Public Art Fund
Nicholas Galanin (b. 1979, Sitka, AK) creates art rooted in his perspective as an Indigenous man connected to the land and culture to which he belongs. His work is embedded with incisive observation and critical thinking to advocate for social and environmental justice. Through concept, form, image, and sound, Galanin expands and refocuses the intersections of culture, centering Indigeneity. His works are vessels for knowledge, culture and technology—inherently political, generous, unflinching, and poetic. Deftly engaging with past, present and future, Galanin celebrates the beauty, knowledge and resilience of Indigenous people. Avoiding binaries and categorization, Galanin’s multilayered practice seeks to envision, build and support Indigenous sovereignty.
Over the past two decades Galanin’s work has ranged across media, materials and processes, including powerful examples of public art. In 2020 Galanin excavated the shape of the shadow of the Capt. James Cook statue in Hyde Park for the Biennale of Sydney, examining the effects of colonization on land, critiquing anthropological bias, and ultimately suggesting the burial of the statue and others like it. In 2021 he created an analog to the Hollywood sign for the Desert X Biennial in Palm Springs CA, which reads “INDIAN LAND”, directly advocating for and supporting the Land back and Real Rent initiatives. Ultimately, his practice invites us to analyze and rethink the assumptions of embedded power structures and revalue those of Indigeneity, including care for land, community, and future generations.
Galanin holds a BFA from London Guildhall University in Jewellery Design and an MFA in Indigenous Visual Arts from Massey University in New Zealand, prior to which he apprenticed with master carvers and jewelers in his community; he is represented by Peter Blum Gallery in New York, and his music is released by Sub Pop Records in Seattle. Galanin lives and works with his family on Lingít Aani, Sitka, Alaska.
Hear more from the artist! Visit the Public Art Fund digital guide on the free Bloomberg Connects app for exclusive audio content on this exhibition (type in lookup #4)
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The Camino del Norte, or the Northern Way is also known as Ruta de la Costa or the Coastal Way and is the oldest route pilgrims followed from France to Santiago de Compostela. Its history dates back to the 9th century when King Alfonso II of Asturias made the first pilgrimage to the newly discovered relics of St James. At that time travel through central Spain was dangerous as Moorish armies moved northward. With the reconquest of Spain in the 11th century, Camino Frances or the French Way became the more popular route. The current route passes through four beautiful yet distinct regions: Basque, Cantabria, Asturias, and Galicia. The Spanish people are are helpful, and friendly.
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Q&A: Justin Torres on creating ‘sustained and deep engagement’ with literature
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The bestselling author and UCLA professor discusses his new novel, ‘Blackouts,’ and the writers who inspire him today.
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Justin Torres was just 31 years old when his first novel, “We the Animals,” caused a literary sensation. Narrated by a young boy of mixed heritage who is finding his way amid family struggles and a budding queer identity, the novel received the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and became a bestseller as well as an award-winning film.
Since its publication more than a decade ago, Torres has experienced the kind of broad, enduring recognition that eludes many authors. The literary landscape has also changed significantly in the last decade; today, literature by and about Latinos continues to gain ground. Torres, a professor of English since 2015, is a leading voice in bringing more of these works to light for his students and for all readers.
“I recently taught a seminar called ‘The Latinx Now,’ where we looked at works published in the last five years — and the syllabus could have been three times as long,” said Torres, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. “And these are books worth discussing: literary, challenging texts.”
His second novel — the experimental “Blackouts,” which has been named a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction — will publish next week. Torres, who will participate in a book launch featuring a discussion, Q&A and book signing at Skylight Books on Oct. 9, spoke with us about his latest work, some authors past and present that everyone should read, and why progress is about more than visibility.
Your new novel, “Blackouts,” incorporates vignettes, imagery and poetry in service to storytelling. Can you share more about the book and the inspiration behind it?
The book largely takes the form of a dialogue between two characters: the narrator, who is in his late twenties, and a much older man named Juan Gay, who is on his deathbed. They make up movie plots and narrate them in the dark. They tell one another stories about their pasts, their families, their lovers — but Juan also explains to the narrator the history of a major study of homosexuality that took place in the 1930s. This is a real-life clinical study which resulted in a medical text called “Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns.” As you can imagine, this kind of early sexology was rife with pathological language and disturbing pseudoscientific practices — but, still, the testimonies of the participants in the study make for fascinating reading.
Anyway, Juan keeps a copy of the book in his room, only the pages have been blacked out into little erasure poems. Images of those blackout poems and other historical and personal photographs are interspersed throughout the novel. It’s a bit of a puzzle of a book, but intentionally so — one of its themes is historical erasure, and the messiness and confusion of looking backward.
What do you hope readers will take away from reading “Blackouts”? How is it different from or related to “We the Animals”?
I hope they’ll come away curious — about what histories may still be recovered or uncovered — and I hope they feel moved by reckoning with all that’s been lost.
To answer the second question, I’d say that whereas Juan is a very literary character (he’s seemingly read everything, and he’s funny, wry and very patient with the narrator), the narrator is a bit of a hungry ghost, drifting through his own life. A reader who’s read “We the Animals” will notice a lot of overlaps between the young, unnamed narrator of that book and the narrator of this one, and I think the character could easily be read as a grown version of the boy from “We the Animals” — but it’s not essential to read him that way or to have read “We the Animals” to understand the dynamics driving “Blackouts.”
You’ve seen outstanding success as a young author. What are your thoughts on how the visibility and reception of Latino literature have been changing?
Young, you say? Ha, I’ll take it. On the one hand, I’m delighted by the plethora of Latinx books being published these days ... as I’m writing this, I’m about to do an event with John Manuel Arias, who’s written a wonderful debut. You’ve got folks like Manuel Muñoz, Angie Cruz, Javier Zamora and so many more writing literary works that are bestsellers and winning awards. And, of course, a lot of excellent work is coming from smaller independent and university presses. Rigoberto González, a brilliant writer himself, edits a series called Camino del Sol, publishing Latinx voices and stories.
On the other hand, I think “visibility” is overemphasized in the culture at the moment — and, when it comes to literature, perhaps too low a bar. The question is more about whether there’s sustained and deep engagement. What is Latino/Latinx/Latine literature? (I’m agnostic about the naming conventions.) What are some of its traditions? Many readers would be able to name some of the canonical writers, but who are the iconoclasts and outsiders? How does Latinx literature relate to other traditions and aesthetic movements in American literature, Latin American literature, postcolonial and European literatures, etc.?
I’m hopeful that more overlooked works of the recent Latino past will be reissued ... or reexamined. Books like Tomás Rivera’s “…y no se lo tragó la tierra” / “And the Earth Did Not Devour Him” or Jesús Colón’s “A Puerto Rican in New York” have so much to teach, not just about how to understand the history of Chicano migrant workers or the Puerto Rican diaspora, but they were both brilliant stylists as well. They have much to teach about how to get the story down; how to write.
At UCLA, you’ve taught innovative courses like “Queering Latinx Literature: From Machismo to Feminism and Beyond.” What are you excited to teach next?
I want everyone to read Luis Negron’s “Mundo Cruel” (hilarious, irreverent) and Rita Indiana’s “Tentacle” (dystopic, electrifying). Both are set in the Caribbean and originally in Spanish with excellent English translations. I want everyone to read Jaime Manrique, like his entire corpus, but most especially “Eminent Maricones.” John Rechy’s “City of Night” is recognized for being a “first” in a lot of ways — a landmark, pre-Stonewall book about hustling and queer culture — but it’s also brilliant in form and style. I’m always excited to teach Emma Perez, Carla Trujillo, Achy Obejas.
Gil Cuadros’ “City of God” is one of my favorite books of all time, and that’s not hyperbole; it’s just a book I read in the right moment, that has stayed with me, and that I return to again and again. He died from AIDS-related complications at 34. I thought I’d only ever have that one book from him but then recently, my colleague Rafael Pérez-Torres alerted me that he was one of the editors working to bring out a new book of Cuadros’ uncollected writing. He asked if I’d want to write a foreword, and I jumped at the chance. It’s called “My Body is Paper,” and it’ll come out next year. It’s excellent. I am excited to read it and teach it for years to come.
What do UCLA and Los Angeles mean to you and your work?
It took years to research and write “Blackouts,” and UCLA and the English department in particular have been spectacularly supportive throughout. Everyone in the department is trying to get research and writing done — whether that’s scholarly work or creative — and as a junior colleague, I’ve felt guided and encouraged and just generally boosted. It’s a trip to come to work and know that everyone is passionate about literature. Colleagues recommend books; grad and undergrad students share with me what novels they’ve been enjoying. And I love reading the short stories my students come up with for my workshop — a peek into the soul of the next generation.
As for L.A. in general, well ... I’m from the East Coast. I still feel like a recent transplant, even though I’ve been living in L.A. for coming on a decade. I set “Blackouts” near, but not quite in, Southern California. The novel takes place in a single room in the desert — a long stopover on an even longer journey, as the narrator migrates from East to West Coast. I suppose, geographically, “Blackouts” is something of a transitional novel; I wasn’t yet ready to write about Los Angeles. Now I feel more ready, and my next book is set here; I’m doing my best to capture what I’ve come to know of this remarkable city — and always very aware of how much I’ve yet to learn.
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Day 5: Puente la Reina to Estella It was as if the landscape very slowly passed us by than we it. Sometimes it seemed as if we became a part of the landscape. – Conrad Rudolph From 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m., I begin to hear my bunkmates wake, move around, and pack their belongings for […]
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It was as if the landscape very slowly passed us by than we it. Sometimes it seemed as if we became a part of the landscape. – Conrad Rudolph
From 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m., I begin to hear my bunkmates wake, move around, and pack their belongings for their daily trek. TIP (Camino Etiquette): For those who want to get a head start and leave earlier than the masses, it’s kind to lay out your clothes and pack your backpack the night before. This allows for little disruption in the morning for the other sleeping pilgrims. Also, pilgrims should not carry plastic grocery bags, but purchase waterproof pouches at their local camping/recreational store. One does not realize how loud grocery bags are at 6:00 a.m.!
This morning I lay there utterly shattered. My heel is still tender, and the small room Marilee and I were assigned to is filled with all men from Spain. This means a couple of things… Surprisingly the Europeans do not like to sleep with the windows open. Each time I open the window for fresh air, one of the men would immediately close it. The room is hot and stuffy, thus I was extremely uncomfortable all night. Secondly, some Spanish men or I should say, large men in general, tend to be very loud snorers. Needless to say, I was lucky to catch a few hours of sleep last night. However, we must go on! Marilee and I decide tonight is worthy of a private hotel room in Estella to catch up on our z’s.
Since my heel is still sore, but I am determined to stay on schedule, I put in place my backup plan. I decide to walk with my Tevas (hiking sandals) today. Luckily, at this stage of the Camino, it is expected to be somewhat easy, and we will only cross a few minor hills.
TIP (Camino Gear): I am so grateful I brought two pairs of hiking shoes. Pilgrims usually walk in hiking boots in the non-summer months and then carry a pair of trekking sandals or tennis shoes. I chose to bring Tevas as my second pair of shoes. They also serve as a double duty in the shower; thus I didn’t have to bring additional flip-flops. Plus, the Tevas allow my feet to breathe and do not rub against my heel.
Our monastery, Padres Repardores, contains a very large main room lined with long tables and benches. This communal room hosted pilgrim gatherings, card games, and laughter last night. This morning we join the hubbub, while many eat breakfast and say goodbye.
At sunrise we cross the Puente la Reina Romanesque bridge we explored the day before. We then follow the Camino arrows and signs through the beautiful Spanish countryside. We walk by endless farmland and feel the Camino spirit from the locals. One villager installed a pilgrim weather vane on top of their house.
Marilee and I stick together but take our own time walking ahead or behind, to think and be inspired by our own music on our iPhones or by our own thoughts. We pass and are passed by many familiar pilgrims, and stop a few times to break and catch our breath or snack. Even though we may walk in silence together, or walk separately from others, I now understand we are one on the Camino.
We continue to enjoy the scenery, and about halfway in our journey, we come across a modern-day aqueduct. I stood under it in amazement, realizing the same technology to transport water thousands of years ago is still being used today. We then stop for a short break on a beautiful, medieval stone bridge arched over the Rio Saldo, while Jamie & Tom from CA pass by shouting, “Buen Camino!”
Our journey continues through a few more country villages, along Roman roads, and through a few tunnels lined with interesting graffiti crafted by locals and pilgrims. There is no rush, so I make sure to stop, look, and soak in their talent and artistry.
My Teva backup plan seems to be working out great; however, the lack of arch support quickly makes me tired. I am so thankful to see the first signs of Estella at the end of the day.
Upon entering each day’s destination town or village, our first task is to find a place to sleep. (Although, some of our friends locate a bar. LOL! :-)) During our walk, we consult our guidebook for a hotel, which is located in the center of Estella (Spanish for ‘star’).
TIP (Camino Guide Book): Anyone English-speaking on the Camino tends to use the guidebook, A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino de Santiago: St. Jean • Roncesvalles • Santiago by John Brierley. In his book, John provides a list of the alburgues, casa rurals (rural houses), and hotels (hotels or B&Bs). He also includes a brief description of the amenities found in each location.
We determine which hotel we want to stay in and search for the main square. Unfortunately, we get completely lost. Funny how we lose all navigation skills when a Camino arrow or sign isn’t present. I eventually get the courage and approach a local, pointed out the name of the square we were searching for in my guidebook, and he kindly escorts us to the plaza.
We continue to hunt for the hotel and finally find it in the next plaza over. Thank the Lord! After we checked in, I take off my sandals – the sweetest part of the day – and continue along with my daily routine of showering and cleaning clothes.
Since we are in a hotel (by the way it’s very basic and nothing fancy), I began a search for a hairdryer. I am determined to FINALLY blow dry my hair for the first time in days. After locating the host’s private door, I quietly knock and ask for the luxury appliance. She does not speak English, and I have no idea how to translate “hairdryer” into Spanish. I have gotten pretty good at charades, so while standing in her hallway, I use all my drama skills by acting out and drying my hair. Her eyes open wide, and she smiles. YES, she gets it! She finally understands, disappears into the depths of her apartment, and brings back the most ancient hairdryer I have ever seen in my life. I don’t care; I’m thrilled to have a hairdryer in my hands and the opportunity to feel like a girl again!
Clean, rested, and hair styled with an amazing blow-out, Marilee and I head back to the main plaza to purchase food and water for tomorrow’s journey. We then hope to meet our Camino sisters (Anne from Ireland, Ki from Sweden, and Angela from the UK) and celebrate Ann’s birthday. We wait and wait in the main plaza, but the girls are not here. I began to feel panic… Did we get the wrong time? Are we in the wrong plaza? After waiting a bit longer, we spot the ladies and jump in excitement. We eventually find a restaurant and enjoy a wonderful evening of Cava, wine, and a divine Spanish meal.
Tummies full and feeling slightly buzzed from the spirits, we say our goodbyes. Unfortunately, the ladies are staying in Estella for a few days of rest. We make sure to exchange contact details and hope to meet again on the Way.
I feel a little sadness in my heart as I head back to the hotel. Each day new bonds are made, but because everyone walks their “own” Camino, we must sadly part and go our own way. In these moments, I feel a bit of …loss. I look to God and a thought comes to me – if He brought that person or those people into my life, others like them will surely cross my path tomorrow. I just need to keep the faith, keep my eyes on Him, and continue to move forward. Continue to walk “my” Camino.
Once nestled in my hotel, my heart is calm. I look forward to a full night of rest…and NO snoring!!!
Buena noche dear family & friends.
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Saint James was one of the 12 Apostles, known as ‘James the Greater’. He was a son of Zebedee and a brother of John the Apostle and the brothers were also related to Jesus himself.
The name James is found in different forms in modern day Spanish, including Santiago, Iago, Jaime, Diego and Jacobo. In Gallego, the language of Galicia, you will see variants such as Xaime and Xacobe.
It is believed that after Jesus’ death, James came to modern day Spain to preach, but returned to Rome about 7 years later, only to be beheaded on the order of Herod sometime around the year A.D. 44. As this is the only death of an apostle recorded in the New Testament, James is said to be the first apostle to have been martyred.
Upon his death, legend has it that James’ followers secretly took his body away to avoid the fate of it being torn asunder, placing it in a marble or stone boat which somehow found its way to the Galician coast at Iria Flavia (modern day Padrón). The name Padrón takes its name from the stone flag to which they moored the boat (pedrón in Gallego) and the town is now perhaps most famous for the ‘Pimientos de Padrón’, a dish of peppers with varying degrees of spiciness!
The body of James was buried at a rural hillside in Libredón along with those of Atanasio and Teodoro, two of his followers, where it would remain undiscovered for 750 years.
In 813, a local hermit named Pelayo was drawn to this spot by a bright star. From this probably comes the modern day name of ‘Santiago De Compostella’, meaning ‘Saint James of the field of the star’. The local bishop, Theodomirus declared that the newly discovered bones were those of St. James and his two followers and subsequently, James was declared the patron saint of Spain by Alfonso II. King of Asturias.
The timing of these events couldn’t have been better as it was a time when Christian Spain was in danger of being completely overrun by the Moors. In 844, the Battle of Clavijo (near modern day Logroño) saw an outnumbered Christian force overcome a Moorish force, aided by the apparent appearance of St. James on a horse. This image of ‘Santiago Matamoros’, James, the killer of Moors, was to be a continued inspiration to Christians in their fight to reclaim their land from the Moors.
King Ramiro I of Asturias ordered that a pilgrimage should be made to the shrine of St. James in gratitude and over the next couple of centuries the pilgrimage grew in importance. Perhaps the greatest factor in this growth in importance was the loss of Jerusalem to the Muslims, thus closing off that particular pilgrimage avenue for Christians.
The growth of the Camino led to the birth of many towns bearing its name, such as Rabanal Del Camino and Boadilla Del Camino. Many new refugios sprung up to provide shelter for the pilgrims and religious orders grew in prominence in step with the increase in traffic along the way. One of these orders was the Knights Templar whose influence can still be seen in many ways from the castle in Ponferrada (see photo) the placename of Terradillos de los Templarios. It is said that the Templars were the first large banking institution in Europe as they developed a system of honouring letters of credit from the church hierarchy. Indeed, the Templars grew so much in importance that the became a perceived threat to the Church itself and on Friday 13th of October, 1307, the Grand Master of the order, Jacques De Molay, was executed along with many of the order’s leaders. Legend has it that this is the reason for Friday the 13th to be considered bad luck.
In 1179, Pope Alexander III decreed that a plenary indulgence would be granted to anybody who completed the pilgrimage in a Holy Year, that being a year when July 25th fell on a Sunday. This is a tradition that continues to this day and the numbers undergoing the pilgrimage spike in Holy Years, the most recent being 2010 and the next being in 2021.
The Camino grew in popularity amongst both nobles and peasants and even saw the practice of nobles sending servants to walk the Camino on their behalf, either to gain the plenary indulgence or as an atonement for the sins of the nobles. Needless to say, the benefits were all snapped up by the nobles!
In 1488, the great Spanish rulers, Queen Isabel of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragón (whose daughter, Catherine of Aragón, married Henry VIII of England) undertook the pilgrimage and while this was a golden age in the history of Spain, it also marked the decline in importance of the Camino. Different factors led to the Camino falling into disuse over a period of centuries – the plague swept across Europe and the continent became embroiled in a series of wars. The relics of St. James also went missing from 1588-1879, adding to the apathy towards the Camino.
In 1879, the relics were found again when the cathedral in Santiago was being remodelled. While the return to popularity was slow initially, the 1980’s can be seen as the rebirth of the Camino to the point today where numbers have now passed the 200,000 per annum mark. In 1987, it was declared the first European cultural itinerary while 6 years later, it joined UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Pope John Paul II’s journeys to Santiago further increased its popularity and today we find ourselves taking part in an incredible movement with a history spanning three millennia.
Bishops and Knights, Kings and Queens, Princes and Paupers. All crossing mountains and rivers, staying in huts and castles, facing into weather both glorious and inclement. They all got blisters like you will, they ate the same food and drank the same wine. It’s a shared history and your footprints can make their mark alongside those who have passed before you. It’s waiting there for you.
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She was radiant.
A large smile beamed from her face, the make-up gleaming off her ebony skin as she strutted under the lights of the runway in El Camino College’s 2019 spring semester fashion show. Cheryl Brewer, 61, Inglewood resident and fashion design major at EC, was no stranger to the runway. She breathed and lived for the runway.
And El Camino’s annual runway wasn’t her first foray in walking the walk. She had some experience modeling at a Barbie convention in the ‘90s before attending EC.
But this time was different.
Tonight she wasn’t wearing someone else’s design for the walk. Cheryl was wearing clothes she brought from home. Nice clothes, but not to show off on the runway.
Instead, she was leading a group of other women wearing designer garments.
Her designs.
Fashion and making clothes was always a part of Cheryl’s repertoire of hobbies growing up. It’s why she chose to start majoring in fashion design at El Camino College.
If it weren’t for the COVID-19 pandemic, she would be preparing outfits to display in EC’s now-canceled annual spring fashion show. She never imagined how much she would come to love and crave something like a fashion show.
Cheryl grew up in a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood on San Pedro street, where instead of “playing outside until the street-lights came on” she would play with toys that were a constant source of inspiration and practice for her passion.
“I sat countless hours hand-sewing clothes for my Barbie dolls,” Cheryl says. “I was so passionate about it, I was using a sewing machine needle to hand-sew clothes.”
Having no idea it was a sewing machine needle, she would start sewing with a friend on the steps of their home, making clothes for dolls. By the time she was eight-years-old, she taught herself how to crochet.
With the skills she knew, Cheryl made sure to incorporate as much needlecraft as she could, especially at school.
When she began school at Horace Mann Middle School in Los Angeles, she took as many of the sewing classes as possible. Later at Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, she joined a club called The Future Homemakers of America.
There her teacher, Ms. Saucy, made Cheryl and other students in her class practice sewing techniques until they were of a satisfactory standard.
This passion and dedication, however, would be stifled after she graduated high school in 1976 and attended California Polytechnical State University in San Luis Obispo for a semester doing general education classes.
Feeling homesick she decided it would be best to return home.
To be closer to home, she enrolled in Southwest Community College, majoring in child development, where she held a couple of jobs at local schools as a teacher’s assistant while enrolled in college.
However, it became too much for her. She liked being active, so she concluded that her ideal job, at the time, would be one in the outdoors.
After graduation in 1984, she jumped on a new opening as a mail courier at the US Post Office, hoping this would allow her to be active. But, she became more intrigued about the uniform.
In her eyes, the uniform had a certain style to it that she appreciated. Over time as the uniforms changed, she made an effort to keep a sense of style as she made adjustments to the uniform to fit her wishes while maintaining an official post office look.
“I would take my uniform, change the uniform, design it, keep all the patches and everything on it but my uniforms were totally different and professional-looking from everyone else’s,” Cheryl says. “A lot of people at work would say ‘Cheryl, you are in the wrong profession, you need to be designing and sewing.’”
Fashion and design would find its way back to Cheryl’s life.
In the 90s, Cheryl was a member of a Barbie Doll Collector Club that would occasionally hold conventions and fashion shows. During one of these conventions, Cheryl designed and modeled a garment she styled in honor of the first black Barbie doll, released in 1980.
“They had other black Barbie dolls, but this one was particular,” Cheryl says. “They used the name Barbie on the box and that was a big deal to black people, to actually have a doll named Barbie that looked like us.”
It wasn’t until 2001, when Cheryl enrolled at El Camino College, that she would fully rekindle her joy for needlework and fashion, particularly on the runway.
In 2003, while walking through campus after one of her classes, she saw an ad for EC’s annual spring fashion show. This ad, in particular, was asking for model participants of any age and size.
“That’s me,” Cheryl thought.
Despite her initial fears of being rejected, she showed up to the first rehearsal for the fashion show thanks to some encouragement from friends and family. Cheryl knew this was what she wanted to do.
She participated that year as a model and was hooked.
After that, she would walk on the EC runway every year she could, as she worked around her post office job and raising her family in Inglewood, which consisted of a 15-year old son, 9-year-old daughter, and her husband.
She had found her home away from home.
In the back of her mind, she worried there wouldn’t be anything for her to model in upcoming shows.
At the time, there would usually be one or two things for her to wear, most of the other garments were made for younger, thinner women. So, Cheryl started submitting a few individual pieces of her own, for her to strut in during her annual walk.
“I decided it was time for me to start making my own designs,” Cheryl says. “And then I wouldn’t have to worry about there not being anything for me to model.”
From that moment on, Cheryl, just as she’d done in middle school, started taking as many fashion and design classes as she could at EC. She worked at the post office at the same time until she retired in 2015 and transitioned into a full-time student.
Now here she was, leading a line of women wearing garments she made in the crochet style in the 2019 spring fashion show. She felt the style needed more representation and was her motivation for choosing it.
That show led Cheryl to win the Best of Show award with one of her pieces, worn by model Erika Leyva, 19-year-old psychology major at El Camino College.
The 2020 spring semester fashion show was going to be Cheryl’s opportunity to grow and show off her newfound trademark. She had plans to incorporate crochet designs in her submissions for this year’s show and Erika was ready and willing to help Cheryl with that goal.
“I asked her [through message] whether there was gonna be a fashion show this semester because I wanted to model again,” Erika says. “I still have the other designers’ [contact information] but… when I spoke to them [last year], it would be like ‘Oh, I’m only doing this semester. I’m not sure if I’m gonna do next semester.’ If I needed answers, Cheryl is the one who’d know.”
Erika was not a student at El Camino College this spring semester. She was obligated to take a semester off to take care of her sick mother, which was not related to the COVID-19 pandemic. She did have plans of returning as a student and participating in the spring fashion show as a model again.
However, due to the pandemic, Erika, like many others, was forced to put her plans on hold. She did not re-enroll for the 2020 spring semester.
Instead, she hopes to continue her studies at EC in the fall, hoping that the dangers of COVID-19 subside and allow for life to return to a sense of normalcy, including a fashion show in spring 2021.
“We’re gonna have all kinds of fun, getting bigger and better than before,” Erika says. “We’re gonna make up for this year.”
For both of these women and many others in the community, the annual fashion show at EC was an opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of fashion, be it as a model, designer, planner, or just an admirer of the artistic interpretations of fashion and beauty presented.
But the COVID-19 pandemic has overtaken the world and put a pause to daily life. Shutting down work and school, and postponing or canceling event after event. Even something as local as the EC’s spring fashion show was affected.
On a global scale, the fashion industry has taken a large toll. Places like India has experienced around $2 billion worth of order cancellations in apparel goods, according to a statement from India’s Apparel Export Promotion Council President A Sakthivel to The Times of India publication on April 7.
Around the world, fashion shows have started canceling or postponing shows, many of them transitioning into a digital format. The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, France’s governing body for all things fashion, has recently announced plans for its Paris Fashion Week to be conducted in a video-only format, slated for July 9 through 13.
Despite the global slowdown, Cheryl continues to dabble in fashion, even if with no fashion show. She still has plans to develop her brand and trademark of crochet finishing on her garments. She continues to work on individual projects, currently working on a crochet piece for her niece.
For Cheryl, fashion is life.
“Modeling and fashion is really a part of me,” Cheryl says. “If I couldn’t do it, I’d still find a way. I’m in my element when I’m designing, and it just feels great; I feel like I have something to contribute to others in the world. I couldn’t imagine life being without it.”
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The name James is found in different forms in modern day Spanish, including Santiago, Iago, Jaime, Diego and Jacobo. In Gallego, the language of Galicia, you will see variants such as Xaime and Xacobe.
It is believed that after Jesus’ death, James came to modern day Spain to preach, but returned to Rome about 7 years later, only to be beheaded on the order of Herod sometime around the year A.D. 44. As this is the only death of an apostle recorded in the New Testament, James is said to be the first apostle to have been martyred.
Upon his death, legend has it that James’ followers secretly took his body away to avoid the fate of it being torn asunder, placing it in a marble or stone boat which somehow found its way to the Galician coast at Iria Flavia (modern day Padrón). The name Padrón takes its name from the stone flag to which they moored the boat (pedrón in Gallego) and the town is now perhaps most famous for the ‘Pimientos de Padrón’, a dish of peppers with varying degrees of spiciness!
The body of James was buried at a rural hillside in Libredón along with those of Atanasio and Teodoro, two of his followers, where it would remain undiscovered for 750 years.
In 813, a local hermit named Pelayo was drawn to this spot by a bright star. From this probably comes the modern day name of ‘Santiago De Compostella’, meaning ‘Saint James of the field of the star’. The local bishop, Theodomirus declared that the newly discovered bones were those of St. James and his two followers and subsequently, James was declared the patron saint of Spain by Alfonso II. King of Asturias.
The timing of these events couldn’t have been better as it was a time when Christian Spain was in danger of being completely overrun by the Moors. In 844, the Battle of Clavijo (near modern day Logroño) saw an outnumbered Christian force overcome a Moorish force, aided by the apparent appearance of St. James on a horse. This image of ‘Santiago Matamoros’, James, the killer of Moors, was to be a continued inspiration to Christians in their fight to reclaim their land from the Moors.
King Ramiro I of Asturias ordered that a pilgrimage should be made to the shrine of St. James in gratitude and over the next couple of centuries the pilgrimage grew in importance. Perhaps the greatest factor in this growth in importance was the loss of Jerusalem to the Muslims, thus closing off that particular pilgrimage avenue for Christians.
The growth of the Camino led to the birth of many towns bearing its name, such as Rabanal Del Camino and Boadilla Del Camino. Many new refugios sprung up to provide shelter for the pilgrims and religious orders grew in prominence in step with the increase in traffic along the way. One of these orders was the Knights Templar whose influence can still be seen in many ways from the castle in Ponferrada (see photo) the placename of Terradillos de los Templarios. It is said that the Templars were the first large banking institution in Europe as they developed a system of honouring letters of credit from the church hierarchy. Indeed, the Templars grew so much in importance that the became a perceived threat to the Church itself and on Friday 13th of October, 1307, the Grand Master of the order, Jacques De Molay, was executed along with many of the order’s leaders. Legend has it that this is the reason for Friday the 13th to be considered bad luck.
In 1179, Pope Alexander III decreed that a plenary indulgence would be granted to anybody who completed the pilgrimage in a Holy Year, that being a year when July 25th fell on a Sunday. This is a tradition that continues to this day and the numbers undergoing the pilgrimage spike in Holy Years, the most recent being 2010 and the next being in 2021.
The Camino grew in popularity amongst both nobles and peasants and even saw the practice of nobles sending servants to walk the Camino on their behalf, either to gain the plenary indulgence or as an atonement for the sins of the nobles. Needless to say, the benefits were all snapped up by the nobles!
In 1488, the great Spanish rulers, Queen Isabel of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragón (whose daughter, Catherine of Aragón, married Henry VIII of England) undertook the pilgrimage and while this was a golden age in the history of Spain, it also marked the decline in importance of the Camino. Different factors led to the Camino falling into disuse over a period of centuries – the plague swept across Europe and the continent became embroiled in a series of wars. The relics of St. James also went missing from 1588-1879, adding to the apathy towards the Camino.
In 1879, the relics were found again when the cathedral in Santiago was being remodelled. While the return to popularity was slow initially, the 1980’s can be seen as the rebirth of the Camino to the point today where numbers have now passed the 200,000 per annum mark. In 1987, it was declared the first European cultural itinerary while 6 years later, it joined UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Pope John Paul II’s journeys to Santiago further increased its popularity and today we find ourselves taking part in an incredible movement with a history spanning three millennia.
Bishops and Knights, Kings and Queens, Princes and Paupers. All crossing mountains and rivers, staying in huts and castles, facing into weather both glorious and inclement. They all got blisters like you will, they ate the same food and drank the same wine. It’s a shared history and your footprints can make their mark alongside those who have passed before you. It’s waiting there for you.
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Parking spaces will make way for bike lanes along El Camino Real next year after the Palo Alto City Council voted on June 18 to approve an ambitious proposal that has split local merchants and energized area cyclists.
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Parking spaces will make way for bike lanes along El Camino Real next year after the Palo Alto City Council voted on June 18 to approve an ambitious proposal that has split local merchants and energized area cyclists.
The bike project that the council backed with a 5-1 vote, with Lydia Kou dissenting and Greg Tanaka absent, differs in some way from the one that members saw and rejected on April 1. It now includes wider bike lanes, narrower vehicle lanes and additional barriers separating the two in various stretches of the corridor.
It also now includes restrictions on right turns on red lights along El Camino at 17 locations, with a focus on areas close to schools. The list of El Camino crossings that will now have right-turn restrictions includes Arastradero Road, Stanford Avenue, Page Mill Road, Churchill Avenue, Matadero Avenue and Los Robles Avenue, among others.
These revisions followed months of negotiations between the state Department of Transportation, which is spearheading the project, city staff and a council committee composed of Vice Mayor Ed Lauing and Council member Pat Burt. Both were unimpressed with the earlier plans that Caltrans presented in April. Both enthusiastically supported the revised ones, with the recently added safety measures.
The council also acknowledged that its ability to reshape the project is limited. El Camino Real, also known as Route 82, is a state highway and, as such, is within Caltrans’ jurisdiction. While Caltrans has requested that the city approve a resolution authorizing the removal of parking, the agency has the authority to modify El Camino even without the council’s support, according to City Attorney Molly Stump.
“City approval is not required for them to make changes to the street and, as a legal matter, they do have the authority to design and redesign the street over the city’s objections,” Stump said at the June 18 hearing.
For Caltrans, the bike lanes are a component of a broader $30.9 million project to repave a stretch of El Camino. The bike lanes were added last year as a safety measure to address what Caltrans described as a pattern of collisions along the Palo Alto stretch of El Camino. Its data showed 33 collisions involving bicyclists between 2016 and 2020, with 32 injuries and one fatality.
Not everyone, however, bought the idea that El Camino bike lanes would improve safety. Many residents and some bike advocates posited that encouraging cyclists to ride along a busy, six-lane road would create more problems than it would solve.
Council member Pat Burt, who frequently bikes, was among the skeptics. At the April 1 hearing, he proposed refining the Caltrans plan to make it more consistent with a “safe system” approach, which seeks to minimize conflicts between different modes of transportation. Since then, he and Vice Mayor Ed Lauing worked with the city, Caltrans and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority staff to add various safety features to the plan.
“We didn’t have a great deal of leverage, and yet we have a drastically improved outcome as a result of the council’s initiative on this,” Burt said at the June 18 hearing.
Lauing said the collaboration entailed numerous meetings as a long workshop at City Hall in which staff virtually walked every block of the El Camino corridor. Caltrans, he noted, made it clear immediately that the decision to put bike lanes and remove parking was “unchangeable.”
“The core of discussions was to focus on the areas where we had complete common agreement and that is on safety,” Lauing said. “And I’d say that it worked very well.”
The revised plans also won rave reviews from a key constituency: parents of students. The Palo Alto Council of PTAs endorsed the latest approach and urged the council to approve the new safety features, most notably the restrictions on right turns around school corridors. Lara Anthony, who chairs the PTA council’s Safe Routes to School Committee, spoke in favor of the bike lane proposal. She noted that without restrictions on right turns on red lights, drivers often look left to find a gap in traffic and then make the right turn without checking to see whether there are pedestrians or cyclists in the crosswalk.
Ken Kershner, a bike advocate with the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, also lauded the safety improvements, including the removal of parking.
“The most critical safety enhancement is removing parking to establish clear sight lines, addressing broadside crashes at intersections, driveways and bus stops,” Kershner said.
Others saw the removal of parking as potentially disastrous. Galen Fletcher, owner of Sundance Steak House, argued that the move could be devastating to his business unless the council takes additional action to ensure his employees and his guests have a way to park. With the project advancing, Fletcher said, he is at a risk of joining the dozens of businesses on El Camino that are out of business.
“There needs to be concessions made so we can all coexist with a balanced approach that works for everyone,” Fletcher said.
Tony Lee, who owns the Stanford Coin Wash laundromat on El Camino, similarly said that he depends on El Camino parking to stay in business. The project, he said, could have a detrimental effect on his life.
“Removing the parking along El Camino Real would not only kill my business but also negatively impact the lives of our customers, who rely on my services and of course my livelihood as a small business owner who gives so much to the city,” Lee said.
Gregg Hood, owner of Bike Connections, also spoke out against the proposal. Prior to the council discussion, he had visited nearly two dozen El Camino businesses. He submitted to the council petitions from 22 establishments, including owners of Lux Eyewear, New Mozart School of Music, Innovation Endeavors and Jack in the Box. The business owners asserted that they were not notified of the bike plan, which they argued will have a “catastrophic effect” on their businesses, employees and customers.
Council member Lydia Kou similarly opposed the bike lane plan. She questioned the need for installing bike lanes on El Camino and argued that removing parking would undermine the business community. She called the proposed plan “overengineered” and voted against it.
“We do want to separate bicyclists, but is El Camino, a state highway, the best place to be doing this?” Kou said.
Most council members, however, shared Mayor Greer Stone’s assessment that the new bike lane is a huge improvement over what was proposed or not. Stone noted that other cities along the corridor, including Mountain View, Los Altos and Menlo Park, are similarly slated to get El Camino bike lanes, which makes the construction of the Palo Alto segment particularly critical.
To address concerns from businesses, the council also agreed as part of its vote to explore longer term safety improvements, including redesigns of bus stops to eliminate conflicts with bike lanes. City staff also plans to reach out to businesses and residents in and around Evergreen Park, Mayfield and Southgate to discuss changes to their residential parking programs so that businesses along El Camino could get passes for their employees to park in the neighborhoods.
“We can either have a seat on the table and improve these designs … or we can bury our head in the sand and Caltrans is going to move ahead with this project regardless,” Stone said. “It’s better that we work together to make these improvements that will ultimately serve our community.”
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A detailed guide to walking the Camino Primitivo, with costs, accommodation, food and drink, and more, plus day-by-day descriptions.
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When people talk about “the Camino de Santiago,” in general they’re talking about the Camino Frances, a nearly-800km walking trail across northern Spain. There are many other Camino routes, however: you’ll find a dozen or more just in Spain, all finishing at the great cathedral in Santiago de Compostela.
The Frances, while by far the most popular, isn’t the original route. That honour goes to the Camino Primitivo (primitivo means original or first in Spanish), a trail that was first walked by the Spanish king Alfonso II in the ninth century. At the time much of what is now Spain was under Moorish rule, with only the northern part still independent.
Having walked the Frances and Portuguese routes in previous years, it was time for a new challenge. Looking for a challenging but beautiful two- week walk in Europe in fall/autumn, the Primitivo seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Spoiler alert: it very much did.
It’s taken me about as long to write this guide to the Primitivo as it did to walk it, and I’ve broken it up into two main sections, covering planning and the walk itself.
If you’re preparing for your own Camino Primitivo and want to know things like how hard it is, the easiest ways to get to and from the trail, where to stay, distances, costs, and what the food and drink options are like, and other logistical details, read the first part.
If you prefer pretty photos, or want a route summary, daily distances, or a detailed day-by-day description of the walk, check out the second section.
Or, if you’d rather, just read it all!
Planning and Logistics
How Hard is It?
The Camino Primitivo is regularly described as “the most difficult” of the northern Camino routes, but I don’t really agree. Assuming you start somewhere near the French border like most people do, the Frances and Norte routes are both well over twice as long and there’s a lot more road walking as well. For me, at least, that makes them harder overall.
Any given day on the Primitivo, however, is likely to be more difficult than most days on the other routes. Much of the trail runs through the mountains and for a week and a half, if you’re not going steeply uphill, you’re going equally steeply down the other side. The views make it all worthwhile, but you may not believe that at the time.
Combine that with noticeably less accommodation than the other routes, and you’ll often end up having to either walk a sub-15km day or commit to double that. Some days, especially if you take the Hospitales route, you don’t get a choice about it: it’s 25km from one village to the next, with no infrastructure of any sort between them.
That said, there are (usually) taxis and (occasionally) buses that can take you between towns. Once you’re walking, though, you may not be near a road for a few hours. Alternative transport options can be limited if you get tired or injured.
Weather can also be a factor. The Primitivo is generally cooler and wetter than the other Camino routes, with fog and strong winds a factor in the mountains as well. We were incredibly lucky with the amount of sunshine and blue skies we got, but you may well not be.
It’s not just about the discomfort, although there’s definitely that as well. If the weather’s bad enough, there’s a real safety issue on some sections of the route. I’ve never checked the weather forecast on any other Camino as much as I did on the Primitivo!
All of that said, if you’re fit, healthy, and have appropriate gear for the conditions you encounter, you should be able to walk the Primitivo without any real problems. This isn’t hardcore back-country hiking by any stretch of the imagination!
How Scenic Is It?
Compared to the Frances, Portuguese, or the section of the Mozarabe routes I’ve walked, when it comes to scenery the Primitivo is the best Camino by far. The first week in particular was full of spectacular views and beautiful countryside, undoubtedly helped by the unusually good weather we had.
With much further between accommodation, and the villages typically being very small when we did get to them, the forests and mountains often felt devoid of other humans. That was especially true on the Hospitales route (below), where for hours we shared the trail with cows, wild horses, and almost no other people.
Other than walking into Santiago itself, there was virtually none of the trekking through suburbia and industrial estates that marred some days on the other routes, even when entering and leaving good-sized cities like Oviedo and Lugo.
In short, if your hope for the Camino is more time in nature and less time in towns and villages, the Primitivo is where it’s at.
Where Does It Start and Finish?
As with any Camino, where you start and finish the Camino Primitivo is really up to you. The “official” route, however, runs roughly south-west from the cathedral in Oviedo, through the mountains of Asturia and the forests of Galicia, to the famous cathedral in Santiago de Compestela.
Along the way, it goes through a few larger towns like Grado, Tineo, and Grandas de Salime, and a couple of cities, Melide and Lugo. The rest of the time, though? You’re walking from one small village to another, often with several hours of trail between them.
How Long Is It?
Between Oviedo and Santiago, the marked route runs for approximately 320km (200 miles) from one cathedral to the other. As with any long-distance trail like this, though, you’ll end up walking more than that.
Finding your accommodation, tracking down food, and any random exploring you have the energy for will all add a bit of extra distance. My Fitbit told me I’d walked a total of 360km by the time I was done, and even though it tends to overestimate a bit, that’s probably not all that far off.
How Well Is It Signposted?
As with other popular Camino routes, the Primitivo is very well waymarked. Between fancy signposts, concrete markers, and the ubiquitous yellow arrows, it’s rare to be out of sight of some kind of route confirmation for more than a few minutes. Basically, whenever you’re walking in daylight and good weather, you’ll rarely go too far off track.
That said, it’s not impossible. Surprisingly, perhaps, this happens most often in the cities, not out in the countryside. Cities like Oviedo and Lugo embed metal scallop shells in the pavement for pilgrims to follow, which are stylish, subtle… and easy to walk straight past when there’s a crowd of pedestrians.
Walking in the dark (which is pretty common, given it doesn’t start getting light until after 7:30am in Spain in mid-September) also adds an extra degree of difficulty. Reflective signs show up in the light of a head torch, but painted arrows? They’re a different story, and you can miss them from a few feet away. Fog has the same effect, and snow buries many of the waymarks entirely in winter.
Long story short? It’s worth having a GPS map of the route on your phone. You’ll rarely need to use it, but it saves stumbling around in the dark or spending half an hour trying to spot invisible metal shells. I used the one in the Buen Camino app, and it worked well.
How Long Does It Take to Walk?
Most people take about two weeks to walk the full length of the Camino Primitivo. That’s an average of about 23km (14 miles) a day, although that average is deceptive: you’ll almost always be walking noticeably more or less on any given day.
My girlfriend and I took 13 days in total, which was a little faster than we’d planned. After a couple of shorter days in the beginning, we walked some longer days toward the end. Sometimes that was by choice, mostly it was just due to the accommodation options or lack of.
Of course, you can walk the Primitivo faster or slower than we did. We met people who were planning to walk it in as little as eight days, and others who’d taken the better part of three weeks. Anything less than about 10 days will be tough and needs good fitness, decent weather, and no injuries to achieve.
If you’re short on time, you’re better off walking part of the route rather than trying to crank out huge distances every day. You could walk for a bit over a week and finish in Lugo, for example, or even start there and just walk the last 100km.
Is It OK to Walk It Solo?
While I walked this Camino with my girlfriend, I’ve done the others solo. Or at least, solo for the first day or two until I started making friends along the trail or in restaurants and albergues at the end of the day. While I could always spend time alone when I wanted it, it was very rare for there not to be an English speaker to chat or have a meal with each day.
The demographic was a bit different on the Primitivo, at least during the two-week period that we were walking it, with more groups of Italian and especially Spanish friends and family. Locals have started to walk routes like the Primitivo more frequently to get away from the summer crowds on the Frances, and that was the case in early to mid-September as well.
If you speak Spanish or Italian, you’ll likely have a solid group of people to walk with by the end of the first day. That was certainly the case for some Spanish-speaking friends of mine who walked the same route a couple of years earlier.
Our Spanish is barely-functional at best, certainly not good enough to be holding down conversations with native speakers. Coupled with comparatively low numbers of walkers overall, it took us a bit longer to meet people. Even so, we’d made a few acquaintances by the end of the first week, and had a solid Camino family by the time we got to the cathedral.
Getting To and From the Trail
Getting to Oviedo isn’t difficult. The nearest airport (Asturias) is on the coast about 30 miles north of the city, and buses run roughly every hour for much of the day. You may sometimes find a direct flight from the UK and other nearby countries, but otherwise you’ll be more likely to go via Barcelona or another large Spanish airport.
Long-distance train and bus services also run to Oviedo. The terminals are beside each other, within easy walking distance of the city centre. We’d spent a few days in the Basque country before starting the Primitivo, and took an ALSA bus from San Sebastian along the north coast to Oviedo. It took around 6.5 hours, and cost 27€ per person when booked three weeks in advance.
Getting back from Santiago is even easier. Flights depart regularly for other airports in Spain and several European countries. Long-distance trains and buses will also take you anywhere in Spain you’d like to go, albeit perhaps with a layover or two along the way. ALSA buses also run south to Porto and Lisbon in Portugal, with several stops along the way.
Public transport along the Primitvo route is relatively sparse, although it does exist. Lugo is reasonably well served, for example. If you want to get on or off the route somewhere else, it may require a taxi to the nearest larger town or city.
Bag Transport
We carried everything we needed for the Primitivo in our backpacks, but you don’t have to. The Spanish postal service (Correos) offers bag transportation services, where your pack gets collected from your accommodation each morning and dropped off at your intended destination before you arrive.
Hiking with just a daypack holding little more than water, snacks, and a jacket would certainly make life easier. Since you’re more likely to be booking your accommodation in advance on the Primitivo than some other Camino routes, this approach could work pretty well if it’s something you’re looking for.
Pricing is quite reasonable, from 4€ per bag per day if you’re booking several stages or an entire route. You can book your transport online or via email, phone, or WhatsApp the day before, and at least some of the albergues have forms like the one shown above that you can use as well.
Weather
Moreso than on many other Spanish Camino routes, the weather on the Primitivo can be unpredictable at any time of year. Because the first half in particular winds through the mountains, there’s a decent chance of fog, rain, and cool weather even when it’s bright sunshine elsewhere in the north of the country.
We walked during the first half of September, and were extremely lucky. There were only a couple of days where it rained, and even then it didn’t last the entire day. The rest of the walk was spent largely under blue skies and bright sunshine, although there was often some fog around in the morning.
Even the Hospitales detour, where you climb to 1200m and spend hours walking along an exposed ridgeline, was gloriously sunny. Windy, yes, but blue skies as far as the eye could see.
That said, what rain there was didn’t seem to drain away particularly quickly. If you like mud, rest assured, you’ll get plenty of it. If you don’t like mud, well, you’ll still get plenty of it. Especially if it’s rained recently, don’t expect clean boots at the end of the day.
It rarely got uncomfortably hot, even on the days we were walking late in to the afternoon. That’s a stark contrast to the other routes I’ve walked in Portugal and northern Spain at the same time of year, and a welcome one. It wasn’t until we descended from the mountains and joined the Frances route for the last couple of days that the heat became a factor.
You, of course, might not be so lucky with the weather. Warm clothes and a good waterproof layer are mandatory on the Primitivo, no matter what time of year you’re walking. It’s the only Camino route I’ve walked so far where I seriously considered taking waterproof boots. I’m glad I didn’t in the end, but would have a very different opinion if I’d had a week of rain!
Accommodation
While there’s plenty of accommodation in Oviedo, Lugo, and Santiago, options diminish quickly elsewhere and can fill up fast. I’m a firm believer in not booking ahead on the Camino since it eliminates the spontaneity that makes it so enjoyable, and yet by the midpoint we were booking rooms just like everyone else.
Why? Well, it had a lot to do with spending half an hour tracking down the very last room in Berducedo, having just walked 33km over the mountains to get there. The next town was apparently full as well, just to add to the urgency.
Even so, I dug my heels in about making bookings until a couple of days later. Just after lunch we were the first to arrive at a nice-sounding albergue in Fonsagrada, only to be told that every bed in the place had been reserved in advance. This was in the second week of September, theoretically after peak season was finished.
While finding a room wasn’t always easy, what accommodation there was was mostly pretty good. A few new albergues have been built in the last couple of years to cater for the increasing number of people walking the Primitivo, so hopefully the current shortage is somewhat temporary.
We stayed in a mix of municipal and private albergues, both dorms and private rooms, as well as pensions, hotels, and a monastery dating back to the 11th century. Per-person prices ranged from 5€ in the monastery to 35€ in a fancy hotel in Lugo.
As a general guide, expect to pay 5-7€ for a dorm bed in a municipal or religious albergue, 10-12€ for a dorm in a private albergue, and 17-25€ per person for a double room in an albergue or pension.
You’ll find some accommodation listed online on Booking.com, and we booked a couple of places that way. If your Spanish isn’t great, that’s probably the easiest way to do it when you can.
If booking online isn’t an option, it’s time for a phone call. I was usually able to make myself understood with my kindergarten Spanish, thanks more to the patience of the person on the other end of the line than my language skills. If you’re really not confident about it, just ask the person at your previous accommodation if they’d be happy to call on your behalf.
I go into more detail about each place in the day-by-day summary below. For the sake of having an accommodation list in one place, though, here’s everywhere we stayed along the Camino Primitivo with a link for more information where possible.
Apps and Guidebooks
Printed guidebook options are rarer for the Camino Primitivo than the more popular routes. The (in)famous Brierley guidebooks so beloved of English speakers on other Caminos don’t cover the Primitivo, so your best option is the Camino del Norte and Camino Primitivo guide from Cicerone.
Having been happy with app-based guides on other Caminos, though, I didn’t bother with a physical one for the Primitivo either. As with the books there aren’t many electronic guides available, but a few do exist.
I tried out a few different apps before leaving, and settled on Buen Camino (Android/iOS). I also saved a few online guides to my phone as PDFs, but didn’t really end up using them. The app covered all of my needs, from food, drink, and accommodation to distances and GPS maps.
It was straightforward to edit the suggested daily stages to suit ourselves, and to figure out how far we’d have to walk each day. Information was largely up to date, albeit with the occasional price change or new albergue that hadn’t made it into the app yet.
A word of warning, though: Buen Camino was great at the time (September 2019), but a major update since then has made it less reliable, at least on Android. Using it again while writing this post, it worked fine on one of my phones and barely at all on the other. If you’re planning to rely on it, my advice is to test it out thoroughly before you go.
While you’ll be able to rely on Wi-Fi being available in most albergues and some bars, being able to get online while you’re walking helps with everything from loading maps to booking your next albergue.
Cell service is good along most (not all) parts of the Primitivo. Unless you’ve got free or very cheap roaming with your home cell company, picking up a Spanish eSIM before leaving home or local SIM card when you arrive will save you a bunch of money.
Food and Drink
I’m not going to lie: as great as the Primitivo was in many ways, the food outside the cities was not one of them. We ate well in Oviedo, Lugo, Melide, Santiago, and occasionally elsewhere, but in general the meals were a method of replenishing the calories we’d burned that day and not much more.
Walkers (especially vegetarians and vegans) complain about the food on every Camino route, but in my experience at least, it was a little fresher and more varied on the Frances and especially Portuguese routes than on the Primitivo.
Restaurants and bars in small villages in rural Spain don’t always have the resources available to whip up wonderful meals at the drop of a hat, especially if they’re only getting a handful of walkers eating there each day. Stale bread and soggy chips were a staple, usually with some kind of protein in the form of chicken, pork, or as we got closer to the coast, seafood.
Menus de peregrino (pilgrim menus) weren’t always available, especially in the very small villages, but provided good value for money when they were. As with every other route I’ve walked in Spain, drinkable wine was always provided in large quantities for very little money. Another good reason to walk a Camino!
Breakfasts consisted of whatever happened to be available. Tortilla española was fairly common, but sadly my staple pan con tomate from earlier Caminos was rarely on the menu. Sometimes, it was just a shot of espresso and a piece of yesterday’s fruit. That said, if you like pastries, you’ll usually have more options. My body doesn’t tolerate cow’s milk, so I took to keeping a bit of extra food in my bag instead just in case.
Lunch was, more often than not, a bocadillo. Occasionally this was a delight, huge chunks of fresh baguette full of fresh salad and ham, tuna, or pork loin. Most of the time, however, it was… not so delightful. Now and then we’d find a great little bar or restaurant to stop at for lunch, and took full advantage. In general, though, the long, luxurious lunch breaks of my other Caminos were a distant memory.
Once we hit Melide (home to the best Galacian-style octopus I’ve eaten anywhere) and joined the Frances route for the final stretch into Santiago, the food options and quality noticeably increased in proportion with the number of other walkers.
Packing List
Even though I’d walked most of my other Caminos in September as well, I still put a bit of thought into my packing list for the Primitivo due to its reputation for long days and bad weather.
As mentioned earlier, I seriously considered buying waterproof hiking shoes (most likely the waterproof version ) of the Merrell Moab 3 that I usually wear, but didn’t bother in the end. At the end of a couple of the long, hot days toward the end in particular, my feet were thanking me for the extra ventilation.
In the end, the changes I made from earlier Caminos were quite small. My long-sleeved Icebreaker merino top was starting to wear out anyway, so I bought a slightly thicker version of the same thing. I also swapped out the flip-flops I usually wear at the end of the day for some lightweight travel sneakers, replaced my sleeping bag and water bottle, and bought a different brand of socks.
I try to keep my bag under about 10% of my body weight. For me, that means everything I need to stay safe and comfortable, including water and snacks, needs to come in under 7-8kg. I managed that on the Primitivo, but only just. My backpack was the Osprey Talon 44 that I’ve reviewed separately in the past, and it was ideal.
Rather than recreating everything here, I just updated my Camino packing list instead. It’s been a work in progress over the course of a thousand miles, tweaked and modified after each Camino, and I think it’s pretty close to a final version now. I guess we’ll see after I walk the next one!
Finally, don’t forget travel insurance. While most pilgrims suffer little more than a few blisters and the occasional bruise or scratch, a small minority end up with more serious illness and injuries, and hospital bills and replacement flight costs can mount up very quickly.
I’ve used many different providers over the years, but these days generally start with Heymondo. I’ve found them to be an affordable and reliable option, whether I’m only after medical cover or want a policy that handles things like theft and damage, missed flights, and lost luggage as well. Compared to some of the others, the website is refreshingly simple and does a good job of explaining exactly what I’m buying.
Costs
Like most of the other Spanish and Portuguese Camino routes in particular, the Primitivo can be walked very cheaply. You could set yourself a daily budget of 20€ and stay inside it quite easily, as long as you were happy to stay in a municipal or parochial (ie, religious) albergue whenever you could and self-cater some of your meals.
Likewise, you could easily spend double or triple that if you stay in private rooms or hotels, dine at higher-end restaurants, and enjoy plenty of the local vintage along the way. While it’s very possible to walk the Camino on a tight budget, it’s not a given that you will.
Other than your gear, the only cost you’ll incur before you start walking the Camino is your credential, or pilgrim passport. Stamps in this cardboard booklet mark your progress, and if you want a completion certificate from the pilgrim office in Santiago, you’ll need a pilgrim passport with one or two stamps per day for at least the last 100km of your route.
Many albergues, especially municipal ones, will also ask to see your credential to ensure you’re actually walking or biking the Camino and not just wandering in off the street. Any accommodation aimed at walkers will have a stamp, as will many bars and cafes along the way and even some roadside chapels and other buildings.
You can order a credential online from various sources, but I’ve never bothered. Assuming you begin from a major city, you’ll be able to pick one up from the cathedral that marks the start of the route. The Primitivo is no exception: we bought ours from the ticket office inside Oviedo Cathedral, for the princely sum of 2€ each.
As a rough guide, breakfast will typically set you back a couple of euros for a pastry and coffee, and a bit more if you have tortilla and/or orange juice. A bocadillo and soft drink, beer, or wine for lunch usually costs around 5€, and a menu de peregrino is about 10€ for three courses (starter, main, and dessert) plus wine or water.
As a result, if you’d prefer to eat out for every meal, not be too concerned about an extra cup of coffee or glass of wine here and there, and stay in private albergues more frequently, expect to spend 25-30€/day. Dorm beds usually cost 5-15€ depending on how new the albergue is and whether it’s privately-run or not.
Private rooms, on the other hand, typically costs anything from around 30€ at the low end (small single room with a shared bathroom in a municipal albergue) to 40-50€ for a double room in a pension or private albergue. Hotels may cost a bit more, and on the Primitivo you’ll really only find them in the cities.
Don’t expect single rooms to be available in all (or indeed, many) albergues or pensions, but double, twin, and triple rooms are more common. Some places offer a single occupancy rate for a twin room that’s a little cheaper.
My daily costs varied more on this Camino than others I’ve walked, primarily because it was the first one I’ve walked with my girlfriend. In the past I’d stayed almost entirely in dorms, but we splashed out on private rooms about two-thirds of the time on the Primitivo. Sometimes that was by choice (more sleep is good), sometimes it was by necessity when they were the only beds left in town.
The least I spent on any day was 17€, and the most was 63€ thanks to a big celebratory meal with friends in Santiago . The average per day was 39€.
The Walk Itself
All distances mentioned below are approximate. They were recorded on my Fitbit, which doesn’t use GPS and usually over-estimates mileage a bit. You can probably take 5% or so off the listed numbers.
Day 0: Oviedo
Arriving mid-afternoon after the lengthy bus ride from San Sebastian, we only had a few hours to explore Oviedo. It’s an attractive little city, especially in the old part of town, with some beautiful stone buildings and spacious town squares.
Ditching our bags at our accommodation (the modern and spotlessly-clean Hotel Rosal), the first stop was the nearby cathedral. We needed to pick up our pilgrim passports, and it made more sense to find the start point when we had plenty of time that afternoon than hurriedly the next morning.
That process took about three minutes, after which we spent the next couple of hours wandering around enjoying the sunshine and trying to find anywhere serving food and wine for an early dinner. Of course, “early dinner” by Spanish standards is about 8pm, so while the the wine wasn’t hard to track down, the food took a bit more work.
We eventually ended up at Sidrería Tierra Astur Parrilla, which as the name implies, specialises in the local cider that the Asturias region is renowned for. Typically poured into the glass from above the waiter’s head, it’s no surprise the floors in these establishments are wooden and easy to mop down.
The cider was unusual and tasty, the food was heavy and meat-based, and there was more of both than two average-sized humans probably needed. The perfect preparation for two weeks of hiking, I guess!
We’d planned to explore more of the city after dinner, but with bellies full of food and a cold wind cutting through the evening sunshine like a knife, our feet carried us back to the hotel without bothering to discuss the idea with our brains first. Tomorrow, we’d walk!
Day 1: Oviedo to Paladin
After a quick breakfast of coffee and pinchos at a nearby bar, we posed in the chilly morning mist for a couple of photos outside the cathedral, glanced up at the sign pointing toward Santiago, and set off.
Someone in Oviedo had the foresight to embed metal shells in the pavement to mark the route out of town, which worked wonderfully for about three minutes until we missed one and ended up wandering aimlessly through the city past well-dressed men and women on their way to work. Great start, Dave.
Back on track, we picked up a couple of other walkers who were both starting their first Camino, and together our small group headed west. It didn’t take long to leave what passed for suburbia behind, the mist burning off as we had our first coffee stop at a small bar a couple of hours later.
We made good time into Escamplero: too good, in fact, as the only bar in town that was open that day didn’t start serving food until the better part of an hour later. Oh well, any excuse for a long lunch break and a couple of large glasses of wine in the sun, I guess.
We’d toyed with the idea of staying in Escamplero that night, but refreshed after our endless lunch and with plenty of time left in the day, we chose to keep going. Perfect blue skies and some lovely woodland trails rewarded that decision, and it wasn’t until right at the end that we had any real road walking.
Villa Palatina was virtually brand new, and one of the nicest private albergues I’ve stayed in on any Camino. It’s hard to complain about anything when you’re sitting on a grassy lawn enjoying a kalimotxo (red wine and Coke over ice…don’t knock it til you’ve tried it) in the last of the afternoon sun.
With no other accommodation, bars, or restaurants around, dinner was at the albergue. Fortunately it was delicious, with grilled sardines the highlight. Another drink and bed by 10pm, just in time for the snoring to start from the neighbouring bunk. It wouldn’t be a Camino without it.
Total distance: 22.3 km (13.8 miles). Bed in 8-person dorm: 15€
Day 2: Paladin to Cornellana
Rising suitably unrefreshed, we grabbed a light breakfast at the albergue bar and headed out into the mist once more. With only a short day planned, there was no rush, and we ambled along beside the river toward Grado and second breakfast.
The highlight of this stretch was undoubtedly the Asturian horses galloping wildly around a little paddock just outside town. Look at those tiny chonky boys!
That was definitely more of a highlight than what lay in store on the other side of Grado: a long, hot uphill slog. As usual, though, the views almost made up for the sweat and sore feet. That’s what I was telling myself, at least.
The descent on the other side of the hill was nearly as steep, and I found myself speeding down the cracked concrete roadway. Probably a good thing, really, as it didn’t give me time to think about the small snake on the side of the road as I passed it at a near-jog. At least it was dead. Probably.
Ambling into Santa Eulalia at the bottom of the hill, I was hoping for food and ended up settling for a warm Coke at a table in what looked for all the world like an extension of someone’s living room, but was advertised as a bar and albergue. It was, of course, all three.
Mildly unnerved by the unyielding stare of both the owner and the solitary other customer who looked like he’d been sitting there since Alfonso II himself wandered these parts, we kept going. It was only another 3km through some pretty woodland to the 11th-century Monastery of San Salvador in Cornellana, our planned stop for the night.
We were one of the first to arrive, and after paying our 5€ donation and being pointed to a dorm full of empty bunks, we headed back out past the crumbling walls to track down lunch. The minimal menu at La Taberna promised little, but the huge plate of roast chicken and chips turned out to be surprisingly delicious. Or maybe we were just starving.
The delights of Cornellana didn’t take long to explore, but we dragged them out until we could join the locals and few other walkers for 1€ buckets glasses of wine in the evening outside a bar on the main street. Not a terrible way to end the day.
Total distance: 20.1 km (12.5 miles). Bed in a 12-person dorm: 5€
Day 3: Cornellana to La Espina
Perhaps it was the religious setting, but a Camino miracle had delivered a shocking lack of snorers overnight. Waking up with the sun instead of a stranger’s nasal symphony is a rare treat in any albergue, and I savoured every non-waking minute of it.
We walked the five minutes back to the main street for breakfast, and set off under clearing skies…straight up the side of a mountain. Lung-busting climbs were already becoming a theme of this Camino, but so were the views and lack of road walking, so no complaints from me. Not that I had the breath for them anyway.
There was nowhere to stop until Salas, over 10km away, but those dirt trails and cool temperatures meant the miles passed quickly. It had been slowly clouding over as we walked, though, and by the time we finished our uninspiring baguettes for lunch, the rain was starting to fall. It wasn’t heavy, but it was persistent. Time to break out the Quasimodo poncho.
With the rain came the hills, and it was a slow, steady, and damp trudge for the next couple of hours. The views would have been lovely on a clear day, but this wasn’t one. Not that we really had much chance to look at the views anyway: avoiding the worst of the mud was a bigger priority.
The rain slowed to a drizzle as we entered La Espina, which seemed as good a place as any to stop. The town didn’t have much going on during a drizzly Thursday afternoon in September, but we found an open bar at the end of town where we could watch the rain fall and sip wine for an hour or two.
Accommodation for the night was at El Texu, a nice, homely albergue run by a lovely Polish woman named Kaisa who offered a home-cooked dinner to us and the group of Italian friends who’d come in shortly after us. We’d end up crossing paths with them most days for the rest of the walk.
The albergue had a grassy seating area out the front that would have been lovely on a sunny day, and a fridge stacked with beer, wine, and soft drinks paid for via an honesty box. Despite the weather, it was my kind of place!
Total distance: 23 km (14.3 miles), bed in 18-person dorm: 10€
Day 4: La Espina to Campiello
My diary note for the morning reads “Snoring all night, alarms at 5 and 5:30am, bag rustling for two hours: welcome to the Camino.” There’s nothing more to add.
After breakfast at a nearby bar, we dragged our tired bodies out of town under overcast skies. It had rained again overnight, and the muddy trails of the day before were now definitely more mud than trail. Luckily the cold wind soon blew the clouds away, and we were hiking under sunny skies again by mid-morning as we climbed ever-higher.
The views were incredible, and combined with the sunny but cool weather, made this one of the better days of walking I’ve done on any Camino. There were no towns or villages for the first 11km, but the pace was pretty quick once we got past the muddy sections of trail, and we found ourselves descending into Tineo right on lunchtime.
Bar Tineo was an unexpected gem. A little restaurant with all the ambiance of a church hall, we chose it primarily because it was open. The owner wisely gave up on trying to understand my appalling Spanish, and instead just ushered us to a table, gave us water and wine, and motioned for us to wait.
Ingredients came and went from the kitchen, clattering of dishes ensued, and out came some of the most delicious fish soup I’ve ever had the pleasure of eating. Paired with baskets of bread beforehand and platefuls of fried chicken afterward, we definitely weren’t hungry by the time we were sent on our way an hour later. 10€ well spent!
The trail kept rising, the weather and views kept improving, and the afternoon flew by. The last 3km along the road into Campiello were a bit of a slog on what was now a pretty warm afternoon, but all in all it had been a fantastic day of walking.
After the lack of sleep of the night before, we opted for a private room at Casa Herminia. There are only a couple of albergues in Campiello, and Casa Hermiana was definitely trying to be a one-stop pilgrim shop. It offered everything from meals, drinks, and accommodation to groceries, hiking equipment, souvenirs, and whatever else your hiker’s heart desired.
After the usual go-round of showers and doing laundry in the sink, we spent the rest of the day much like every other: wine at the bar, dinner in the restaurant, and bed. It was an early night: we’d be hiking the (in)famous Hospitales route the next day.
Total distance: 26.4 km (16.4 miles), double room: 20€ per person.
A Note on the Hospitales Route
Just after the village of Borres, about an hour out of Campiello, the Primitivo splits. The lower route is slightly longer, going via Pola de Allande and staying at comparatively low altitude until a steep 600m climb up to Puerto del Palo (and an even steeper descent down the other side.)
The higher “Hospitales” route rises more gradually up to 1000m+, but stays there for a good part of the day until the routes rejoin at Puerto del Palo. With the exception of the small Sanblismo albergue at the start, there are no towns, villages, or services of any kind on the Hospitales route: once you’ve left Borres, that’s it until you get to Berducedo 25km later.
The remains of four medieval pilgrim hospitals are dotted along this section (hence the name), which gives some idea of how tough it can be. Even with beautifully sunny weather like we had, it’s a long, hard day, with strong gusts and exposed conditions along the ridgeline. In bad weather it can be downright dangerous, you’ll see nothing, and there are few options for shelter once you’re up on the mountain.
In return for the challenges, though, come easily the best views I’ve encountered on any Camino. The surrounding countryside was absolutely gorgeous, and with few other walkers around, we had long stretches where the only sounds were birds, the tinkling bells of wandering sheep, and our own laboured breathing. If the weather’s good, this should definitely be your first choice.
If you think you might want to walk the Hospitales route, you need to arrange your earlier stages so that you stay in Campiello, Borres, or Sanblismo the night before. Any further back than that, and you’re looking at a nearly 50km day over the mountains.
Even then, check the weather forecast carefully, and ask the locals if you’re not sure. There’s no shame in decided to take the lower route based on the conditions, and either split it into two short days staying in Pola de Allande overnight, or one long, tough one into Berducedo.
If you’re walking the Hospitales, take plenty of food and water, protection from sun and rain, and enjoy the views!
Day 5: Campiello to Berducedo
The weather had been clear the night before, and was just the same when we woke up before dawn. With no rain in the forecast, the decision made: we were taking the Hospitales route today.
What a great decision that turned out to be.
We were walking by 8am, after the world’s largest cup of coffee at the albergue bar. The staff were happy to open up the supermarket so we could grab supplies: mostly fruit, nuts, cured meat, and anything else with lots of calories in a small package.
The first 3km to Borres was flat and unexciting, but everything changed from the minute we took the Hospitales turnoff. The track turned uphill, and didn’t really flatten out again for several hours.
If my breath hadn’t been taken away by the climb, it would have been by the views. I know I’ve kept saying how good they were on previous days, but this was the pinnacle in every sense of the word — the point where the two routes converge is the highest on the Primitivo.
Before that, though, lay several kilometres of exceptional walking. There were few other people on the trail, usually seen from a distance, so it felt like we had this incredible stretch of countryside all to ourselves. The Hospitales route is often covered in cloud and fog, so having clear skies in every direction felt like a blessing from the Camino gods.
Taking one look at the steepness of the trail ahead, we stopped for a snack break beside the ruins of Hospital de Paradiella with only the cows for company. It was a beautiful spot, but just one of many throughout the day. Slogging our way up the hills, we swapped the cows for a herd of those awesome Asturian horses before finally getting to the ridgeline and the trail flattening out. Well, comparatively, at least.
With no shelter from the wind any longer, the cooling breeze we’d had all morning became an icy blast whipping up the valley. I wasn’t sad about it — the sweat had been pouring off me — but on a different day, it’s not something I would have enjoyed walking in for hours!
The next section passed quickly, even with a lazy lunch break in a rare sheltered spot. The views, of course, were not getting any worse.
The upper and lower paths finally converged and for about half a second we thought the hardest part was over. And then we looked down.
The descent to the hamlet of Montefurado (population: one person, many cows) is around 300m over less than two kilometres, on a stony track that was very slippery in dry conditions. I can only imagine what it would have been like in the rain. As it was, Lauren spent more time on her butt than on her feet, and I was sorely tempted to be a human toboggan as well.
I ended up alongside the trail more than on it, where the ground was much more rough and uneven but at least I had some grip most of the time. Let’s just say it was not a fast descent for either of us.
It was a long 7km from Montefurado to Berducedo, the first place with any accommodation, and while the descent and final walk through the forest were pretty enough, we were definitely ready to stop by the time we staggered into town in the late afternoon.
We’d noticed that the municipal albergue was closed for a refit on the way in, and when we saw a sign outside one of the other albergues saying the owners were on holiday, our chances of finding somewhere to sleep took a sudden nosedive.
Unsurprisingly all of the beds at the main bar/albergue in town were taken, and when we mentioned that to someone sitting outside, he said there were no beds in the next village (A Mesa) either. Hmm. I was starting to see taxi rides to somewhere off-trail in our very near future.
After wandering around fruitlessly for a while longer, a kindly local noticed our plight and pointed us toward Hostel Rural Camin Antiguo. The grumpy owner shouting down from her balcony demonstrated the truth of the bad online reviews, but while the dorm beds were all taken, she was happy to overcharge us for the last remaining twin room.
After nine hours and over 30km of walking, let’s just say budgetary concerns took a back seat. The room was nothing special, but it had a hot shower and non-lumpy mattresses. That’s all we needed, and it was certainly better than sleeping in a ditch on the side of the road.
We had drinks (several) and dinner (massive) back at the main bar, and collapsed into bed as soon as it got dark. What a day!
Total distance: 32.6 km (20.3 miles), twin room: 25€ per person
Day 6: Berducedo to Grandas de Salime
Helped by the lack of breakfast options at the only open bar in town the following morning, we were on the road just as the sun peeked over the horizon. Cool and mostly flat for the hour or so into A Mesa, it got warmer and much less flat immediately afterward.
Passing several wind turbines at the top of the lengthy uphill, thick cloud coated the valley below us. Dropping through it was quite eerie, not helped by the blackened stumps of trees all around us thanks to a large forest fire that ripped through the area back in 2017.
Once we got below the cloud layer, though, gorgeous views awaited. You used to be able to walk across the valley until 1954, when it was flooded as part of a hydro dam project. The walk is now much longer, since you have to walk across the dam itself, but at least you get scenic views while you do it.
It’s a long old descent from the top of the hill down the dam, dropping around 800m over the course of around 8km of switchbacked dirt trail. Steep in parts, it was still easier overall than the precipitous drop into Montefurado the day before, but my knees weren’t loving me by the time we finally got to the bottom and crossed the dam.
The crumbling infrastructure alongside wasn’t anywhere near as pretty as the reservoir itself, but on the upside, the terrace of the bright-yellow Hotel Las Grandas beckoned on the other side. Filled with other walkers, it had that friendly, buzzing Camino vibe I’d enjoyed on other routes but struggled to find so far on the Primitivo.
The views were lovely, the bocadillo was delicious, and the ice-cold Coke disappeared in about three seconds flat. You can spend the night there if you so desire, and I seriously considered it on the strength of that bread roll alone. It took a long time to find the motivation to keep moving.
When we finally found it, we were rewarded by an uphill slog along the road almost all the way to Grandas de Salime. Not much of a reward really, but at least the town itself was nice, if pretty quiet on a Sunday afternoon.
We opted for the municipal albergue, which had the advantage of being cheap, and the disadvantages of large, cramped dorms and flooded bathrooms. Still, it had beds available, and for that we were grateful.
It had been a relatively short day, so we had plenty of time to kill. Most of that time was spent either eating, drinking, or lying in a park…which, lets be honest, is a pretty good way to spend any afternoon. Shoutout to the surprisingly good hamburgers for dinner at Cafe de Jaime.
Total distance: 24.2 km (15 miles). Bed in 12-person dorm: 6€
Day 7: Grandas de Salime to A Fonsagrada
Given that the rest of our dorm room was made up almost entirely of large middle-aged male cyclists, there was less overnight snoring than I might have expected. Less doesn’t mean none, however, and when I leaned over the side of my bunk at 5:45am to see Lauren staring back at me, we decided to just get up and go.
Walking in the dark on any Camino is always an odd mix of enjoying the peace and tranquility, and a continual mild concern that you’ll miss an arrow and end up miles off-trail. As I learned, having a GPS map on your phone does wonders for the latter and leaves more head space for the former.
The sun didn’t start to come up until just outside the village of Castro, where I’d half-expected to find a bar serving breakfast. If it existed, I didn’t spot it. No coffee for me, but at least the road walking of the previous hour gave away to softer trails. That was welcome, even if the thick fog and steep climb was less exciting.
The fog was so thick that I almost missed the tiny bar at O Acebo at the top of the pass. Lauren was a bit behind me at this point, and actually did miss it. Luckily she realised after a few minutes and backtracked, otherwise we’d probably still be searching for each other to this day.
Having crossed from Asturias into Galicia shortly before, it was time for my first Santiago tart of this Camino. This almond-based cake is common in this part of Spain, rare outside it, and one of the few desserts I can eat (no lactose!) As a result, if I see it on the menu, there’s a good chance I’ll be ordering it.
Washed down with a strong coffee, and with the bar now full to the brim with other walkers, we headed back out into the gloom. Not for long, though: like the day before, we descended below the cloud layer and into sunshine for the rest of the walk.
Despite the long climb and descent, the day had felt relatively easy overall as we approached Fonsagrada. Lucky, then, there was one final steep ascent to get up into the town. The Camino Primitivo: There’s Always a Hill. If that’s not the official slogan yet, it should be.
Due to that early start, we arrived in Fonsagrada around 1pm and headed to the lovely-sounding Canterbrico albergue and pension. Apparently we weren’t the only ones who thought it sounded nice: despite being the first walkers to get there that day, every bed had already been reserved. Half a dozen backpacks that had been transported by van sat neatly lined up beside the door awaiting their owners.
The staff member was nice enough to call one of the other places in town, Casa Manolo, and confirm there was a double room available there for us. The change of plans wasn’t a big deal, but helped make up my mind about booking ahead for the rest of the walk, at least for smaller villages. The bed race was real. Sigh.
The room at Casa Manolo was plain, but the shower was exceptional, and the restaurant downstairs did a decent pulpo (octopus)-based pilgrim menu for 15€. Small victories.
Wandering around the town afterward, we ran into a group of Italian, Spanish, and Swiss guys on the street that we’d vaguely got to know over the last few days, and stood around chatting about nothing and everything for ages. Slowly but surely, the Camino vibe was starting to grow.
Total distance: 26.7 km (16.6 miles). Double room: 20€ per person
Day 8: A Fonsagrada to Cadabo
Today was my birthday, and after waking up in the night to heavy rain, it had looked like my present was going to be getting soaked for eight hours. Luckily the downpour turned into more of a light drizzle by daybreak, which came and went all morning. Cloud, sun, wind, rain, rinse and repeat.
We left Fonsagrada just before dawn, walking through damp woodland for a while before starting a long, mostly gradual climb through the forest. With the weather changing every five minutes, it wasn’t unusual to climb up one side of a hill in sunshine, and be hit by rain and a howling gale on the other. Fun times.
At the top of the rise lay a cluster of wind turbines. Given that I was being almost blown off my feet at the time, it didn’t take much imagination to figure out why they’d been put there. Right alongside lay the remains of a medieval pilgrim hostel, the crumbling stone walls a stark contrast to the gleaming white turbines behind them.
The descent from the top was straightforward but long, and by the time we approached the Casa Meson bar at Paradavella, my stomach was definitely rumbling. Full of other walkers, the staff were doing a great job of taking orders, slinging coffees and soft drinks left and right, and keeping everybody fed and watered.
Fresh bread had been a rare luxury on the trail in Asturias, but we were in Galicia now, and things were different. Very different. My tuna and olive bocadillo was the tastiest (and probably, largest) lunch I’d had in a week. There was no way that Lauren and I needed one each. We ordered one each anyway, and didn’t regret it for a second.
The temperature dropped and the rain came back as we were finishing up, which was all the incentive we needed to keep moving. We were both shivering as we set off, but the long, steep uphill soon afterward dealt with that problem. Up, down, up, down, it’s the Primitivo way.
The weather stayed unpredictable during the afternoon as well, although at least there was a bit more sun and a bit less rain. We arrived in Cadabo around 2.30pm, walking past the municipal albergue that was apparently already full. Because of course it was.
Luckily we’d booked a room at Albergue San Mateo (I didn’t plan to celebrate my birthday by sleeping in a barn), which followed the trend of being plain, perfectly serviceable, and offering much more sleep than a dorm! The shower was nicer than the room itself, which was a bit unusual.
Sitting outside in the fleeting sunshine with a bottle of cider, I contemplated another birthday on the Camino. This was the second time I’d done it (the first was on the Frances when I turned 40), and it was hard to think of a better way to celebrate.
The weather soon clouded over again, so after a ten-minute wander to explore the highlights of Cadabo (there weren’t many), it was the usual Camino combo of a pilgrim menu dinner at the albergue restaurant and an early night.
Total distance: 26.3 km (16.3 miles). Double room: 17.50€ per person
Day 9: Cadabo to Lugo
Coffee for breakfast again, and out into the early-morning mist around 7:30am. We met Cailyn on the way out of town, a fellow walker from Seattle who’d walked half the Camino del Norte before dropping down onto the Primitivo. With almost everyone else we’d met being Spanish or Italian, finding a fellow native English speaker felt like a rare treat, and we chatted all the way to a breakfast stop in Castroverde nearly two hours later.
A couple of Danish guys she knew showed up shortly afterward, and we sat around slurping coffee and swapping hiking stories for ages. Nobody was in a hurry to move on, and so for nearly an hour, nobody did.
The mountain section of our Primitivo was now over, and it showed. The trail was much flatter and easier today, but also less pretty, with most of the walking being through farmland and tiny villages. We made good time, helped by there being hardly any services for the 22km between Castroverde and Lugo: just a vending machine in the middle of nowhere, and an outdoor cafe beside an albergue in Vilar de Cas with coffee, cold drinks, and cake.
Coming into a proper city like Lugo was a shock after several days of small towns and villages, but our fancy accommodation was an even bigger surprise. Lauren’s birthday present for me was a night at Puerta de San Pedro, and the crisp linens and well-dressed clientele were quite the contrast to lumpy dorm beds and stinky hikers like us.
Lugo itself was an attractive city, with fortified Roman walls that stretch around the entire old town. I amused myself by wandering around the inner city and on top of the walls for a while (apparently the 30km I’d walked to get there wasn’t enough…), until I was waved over to an outdoor table in the main square by a few other hikers we’d got to know along the way. The wine flowed, the tales got ever-less believable, and the pain in my feet disappeared for a couple of hours. Good times.
Not used to having more than two options of where to eat for dinner, we dawdled around for ages trying to decide before ending up in Cafetaria Abrente, a little outside the city walls. Just like the restaurant in Tineo several days before, it had zero ambiance, impressively-good food, and friendly staff. I’d go back in a heartbeat.
Total distance: 30.1 km (18.7 miles). Double room: 37.50€ per person
Day 10: Lugo to San Romao
After eating far too much of the breakfast buffet at the hotel, we set off into the mist around 8am. Signs and shells guided us past the cathedral, over the Roman bridge, and up a steep hill (of course) as we headed out of town.
After a week and a half, this was the first day of the Primitivo spent mostly walking on the road rather than soft trails. That’s a much better ratio than the other routes I’ve walked, but even so, the hard surface took its toll on our feet and knees. The fog had burned off by mid-morning, and the idea of a long, hot day on tarmac became less appealing with each passing step.
There were still a few highlights, of course, including the mid-morning snack at the fanciest vending machine I’ve ever seen (set in its own little shelter with a bathroom, microwave, seating area, and Google Maps rating printed out and stuck on the wall), and the traffic jam caused by a dog cheerfully leading his flock of sheep down a country lane.
We hobbled into Albergue O Candido in the tiny hamlet of San Romao early afternoon, to find pretty much everyone we’d met along the route sitting outside eating lunch.
Some of them were staying the night there, others were continuing on a bit further, but our throbbing feet combined with the hammocks and very large glasses of wine on offer sealed the deal for us. A short day it was going to be!
A long snooze in the hammock answered the question of what I was going to do with the rest of my afternoon, followed by dinner and drinks with some acquaintances who quickly became friends. It had ended up being a really social day all around, and that coupled with the short distance made it particularly enjoyable. Yay!
Total distance: 20.2 km (12.6 miles). Double room: 17€ per person
Day 11: San Romao to Melide
With little in the way of accommodation between Lugo and Melide, a shorter day yesterday inevitably meant a longer day today. We expected it to be hot and full of road walking as well, and in the end it lived up (down) to all three expectations.
Starting out early to try to beat at least some of the heat, we were walking by 6:45am. It was the right decision, with two or three hours of quiet, cool conditions before the sun really got going. There was nowhere open for more than a drink all morning, but I really liked the donation-based coffee and homemade art stall in a tiny hamlet somewhere around the 10km mark.
The day heated up super-fast after that, just in time for the occasional gravel and dirt trails to disappear completely in favour of asphalt and concrete. Great. We stopped for a snack in the last of the shade, shortly after spotting Melide from the top of a small hill.
It didn’t look all that far away, but we knew it was at least 10km, and felt every single minute of the 2+ hours it took to get there. The final slog through the suburbs was particularly tough, with no shade and sweltering heat reflecting from the road and concrete buildings.
Melide is where the Camino Primitivo joins up with the Camino Frances, and it couldn’t have been more obvious. Having seen no more than a hanful of other walkers for the last 11 days, we walked into the city to what felt like a near-riot of other pilgrims. I’m sure it was no worse than when I’d walked the Frances myself four years earlier, but the sudden change was pretty jarring this time around.
With plenty of accommodation in Melide there’d been no need to book somewhere in advance, and we picked Albergue Pereiro at random. It was a good choice, with modern, near-new double rooms out the back and plenty of space in the outdoor courtyard.
What I was most excited about, however, was a return visit to Pulperia a Garnacha. Done right, Galician-style octopus is incredibly delicious, and the pulpo at Garnacha is definitely done right.
I’d eaten a huge plate of the signature dish at this restaurant four years earlier, and I was determined to introduce Lauren to its delights. She’d heard me go on about it for nearly half a decade, after all.
Luckily for both of us, it was just as good as I remembered. Washed down with wine, plus plenty of bread and boiled potatoes to keep the carb levels high, we’d walked in starving and left full to bursting. If you like octopus and find yourself in Melide, you really need to eat here.
Total distance: 27.8 km (17.3 miles). Double room: 20€ per person
Day 12: Melide to A Brea
With another hot day in store, we were up early to make the most of the cool pre-dawn conditions. Inevitably, then, we left our hiking poles behind at the front door as we exited the albergue via the (self-locking) rear gate. Cue half an hour of waiting around in the dark for someone else to leave so we could get back inside to retrieve them. Sigh.
With that out of the way, we strode purposefully out of town. For an hour or so, at least, until we arrived in Boente and saw El Aleman, a stylish German albergue and cafe that looked brand-new and was advertising breakfast. The coffee was good, the bread was even better, and the owner was super-friendly. Say what you will about the Frances route, but it’s well set up for walkers.
I’d remembered a lot of road walking on the final couple of days from Melide, but apparently my memory is fading in my old age. There definitely wasn’t as much as I’d expected, but the next couple of hours into Arzua were still a bit of a slog, especially towards the end when the sun was out in full force.
Arzua is quite a large town, but not a particularly attractive one along the main street. Still, that’s where the arrows point, so that’s where we went. After stopping for a Coke at what I’m almost certain was the same cafe I stopped at for the same thing four years earlier, we pushed on into some woodland and welcome shade.
After a close encounter with some cows and a surprisingly-good bocadillo for lunch at Bar Lino just outside Outeiro (any excuse to get out of the sun for a while), we spent the afternoon wandering slowly toward A Brea. I’d hoped to get a little further, but the promise of a swimming pool at Pension ‘The Way’ lured us in.
In the end the pool was freezing, but the outdoor setting was lovely and the large glasses of wine even lovelier. Our double room with shared bathroom was a bit overpriced for what it was, but the husband and wife that ran the place were friendly and helpful, and cooked up a mean group dinner for the dozen or so walkers staying there. Highlight: home-made coffee liqueur to finish. I don’t know what was in it, but it was delicious!
Sadly this place didn’t survive the pandemic, and has now closed down. It’s a shame–I’d definitely recommend staying there otherwise!
Total distance: 27.8 km (17.3 miles). Double room: 22.50€ per person
Day 13: A Brea to Santiago
Our last early start, and another one of those cool, clear mornings that makes walking before dawn so worthwhile. The volume of other walkers and cyclists grew steadily all day, in terms of both numbers and sound, as the final rush to the cathedral took over.
Before that, though, lay a couple of hours of soft trails and quiet woodland. Being a Sunday, several of the cafes and bars were closed, so it took a while until we found a roadside bar in O Pedrouzo for breakfast. Fortified by carbs and strong coffee, we pushed on past the chain link fence surrounding Santiago airport and back into the forest.
It’s funny how close the airport seems to the city when you’re taking a bus between them, and how far apart they seem on foot. Grabbing a quick lunch in Lavacolla alongside several dozen other walkers, it was time for the final uphill of this Camino.
Topping out at Monte de Gozo, a small hill overlooking Santiago with a large pilgrim monument at the top, we grabbed a drink from the nearby kiosk and savoured the view. You can’t quite see the cathedral from there, but the end was very much in sight.
Down the hill and through the eastern suburbs we walked, and the hour of concrete monotony was just as hot, ugly, and dull as the previous time. Entering from the south, which you do on the Portuguese route, is a far nicer experience. Even so, the excitement was palpable as we joined the stream of pilgrims walking through the heart of the city.
The sound of Galician bagpipes filled the air as we walked through the final archway and out into Praza do Obradoiro. Turning to face the cathedral was breathtaking, even moreso than my other Caminos because the scaffolding that had covered the front for many years was no longer there.
Somehow we’d managed to finish just a few minutes after all of the friends we’d met along the way, who called us over and pressed cold cans of beer into our hands. Just like that we had our Camino family, exactly when we needed it.
Lauren had declared several times in the previous two weeks that she’d never walk another Camino, but in that moment in front of the cathedral, everything changed. Within minutes she was planning a solo month on the Frances. The Camino is addictive, even if you don’t realise it until right at the end!
We sat sipping our beer and basking in the sunshine, finally with nowhere else to go and no more walking to be done. Promising to meet up again for dinner, the group eventually broke up an hour or so later, and we limped our way back to the lovely Stellae Luscofusco.
It’s slightly further out of the centre than some of other accommodation, but as a result, much better value for money in a city that’s not exactly renowned for it.
Our last Camino meal was everything we might have hoped for, even if it did take a bit of wandering to find somewhere with space for us all. Platefuls of food filled the table, our wine glasses were never empty, and laughter filled the little square we were sitting in.
Tomorrow our multicultural group would split up and start heading for all corners of the globe, but tonight it was the Camino that united us all.
Total distance: 26.3 km (16.3 miles). Double room: 23€ per person
Final Thoughts
So overall, how would I rate the Camino Primitivo?
In so many ways, it was fantastic. The mountains and forests of the first week or so in particular were exceptional, with seemingly every climb (of which there were many) rewarding with spectacular views to the horizon. Walking along the woodland trails for hours was a delight, whether the trees were dripping from recent rains or casting welcome shade from the hot sun.
The walking was hard at times, due to the mix of long days, steep hills, and comparatively few places to stop along the way. That’s the kind of difficulty I like, though, much better than the blister-filled, knee-busting hardship of endless cobblestones, concrete, and asphalt you’ll find on the other northern Caminos.
We had wonderful weather, on a trail that’s not known for it. Waking up to clear skies most mornings was a welcome relief, and let us make the most of those exceptional views. On the odd occasion it did rain during the day, it was usually light and only for a few hours. Nothing my poncho couldn’t handle!
Before Melide (and especially before Lugo), there were few other walkers. That didn’t mean there were no problems with accommodation (as mentioned, this is the only Camino where I’ve booked rooms ahead of time) but it did mean plenty of peace and quiet to appreciate the beautiful surroundings.
That lack of fellow pilgrims, though, did mean it took longer to make friends than on my other Caminos. If you’re not an extrovert like me, you may view that as a bonus, but I can’t say that I did. Still, it’s at least partially my own fault: if I spoke more than very basic Spanish, it would have happened much faster.
The food was also a bit of a letdown, at least prior to Melide. We never starved (quite the opposite), but mealtimes were usually more about calorie replenishment than gastronomic delight. Asturias has a proud food culture, but we didn’t find much evidence of it along the Primitivo route. The wine, however, was always drinkable and in plentiful supply.
If that’s all I have to complain about, though, it really isn’t much. When it comes to summarising how I feel about any long walk, in the end it boils down to one simple question: having done it once, would I do it again?
In the case of the Camino Primitivo, it’s quite simple. Yes. I definitely would.
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Lawmakers in Mexico heard testimony this week about the presence of alien life on Earth that included two "corpses of extraterrestrials." NASA's UAP study team isn't so sure.
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UFOs and aliens are once again in the headlines this week.
Unfortunately, this is not because a mothership landed on the White House lawn, but because NASA released a long-awaited report published by the independent study team the agency commissioned to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). UAP is the new term for UFOs, encompassing not only unexplained things in the air but also in space, under water and everywhere in between.
However, the release of NASA's first UFO report wasn't the only story about possible non-human lifeforms to make headlines this week. According to Reuters, lawmakers in Mexico heard testimony this week about the presence of alien life on Earth that included two "corpses of extraterrestrials." These alleged alien corpses looked "white and like stereotypical depictions of aliens — big head, little body, three fingers," NPR reported.
The supposed alien mummies (well, the creepy ... whatever they are) were displayed by Jaime Maussan, a longtime UFO personality with a history of hoaxing alleged non-human remains. Despite Maussan's history of faking alien corpses and mummies, the story has now gone wide — so wide, in fact, that it was brought up during NASA's briefing about the new UAP report which took place on Thursday (Sept. 14).
Related: NASA UFO report finds no evidence of 'extraterrestrial origin' for UAP sightings
During Thursday's briefing, BBC News Digital journalist Sam Cabral asked whether or not NASA has been in touch with Mexican authorities about "the rather sensational revelations" concerning the alleged alien mummies. In response, the chair of NASA's UAP study team, David Spergel, responded that if there is any evidence of alien remains, then those in possession of the material should make it publicly available for study.
"When you have unusual things, you want to make data public," Spergel said. "I think of this as like, NASA has one of the most valuable samples from outer space — lunar rocks — what do we do? We make them available to any scientists who want to work on this.
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"We don't know the nature of those samples that were shown in front of them," Spergel added. "If I was the Mexican government, if I would make a recommendation to the Mexican government — that's not our charge here, we're doing this for NASA — my recommendation [would be]: If you have something strange, make samples available to the world scientific community and we'll see what's there."
Dan Evans, assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, chimed in to add that the entire point of NASA's UAP study team is to dispel the type of sensationalism and pseudoscience displayed for Mexican lawmakers this week.
"I'll just add one of the main goals of what we're trying to do here today, is to move conjecture and conspiracy towards science and sanity," Evans said. "And you do that with data, as David says, and that's the whole purpose of this study."
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As it turns out, Maussan has a history of wheeling out fake alien remains. Micah Hanks, Editor of The Debrief and a longtime UAP researcher, says that Maussan's latest alien body hoax is "unfortunately not the first time this sort of thing has happened."
In 2015, Maussan organized an event in Mexico City marking the release of a blurry photograph depicting what appeared to be the remains of a small mummified humanoid alien. "However, once clear copies of the image were circulated online just hours after their unveiling at the event, it was quickly determined that the image actually depicted historic remains belonging to an indigenous American child which, decades ago, had been displayed for a time in a museum," Hanks told Space.com "Some of the individuals involved at the time issued public apologies on account of the child's remains being misrepresented in such a way."
It remains unclear what these most recent "alien mummies" might be, but an analysis of their physiology posted to social media suggests they have been assembled from parts of various mammals such as llamas.
As Reuters reported, some of the other alleged alien corpses Maussan has presented over the years have turned out to be cobbled together from the remains of mummified children.
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Brett is curious about emerging aerospace technologies, alternative launch concepts, military space developments and uncrewed aircraft systems. Brett's work has appeared on Scientific American, The War Zone, Popular Science, the History Channel, Science Discovery and more. Brett has English degrees from Clemson University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In his free time, Brett enjoys skywatching throughout the dark skies of the Appalachian mountains.
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Royal armor in the Renaissance was far more than protective equipment for the battlefield. Most often worn at court ceremonies and in parades, pageants, and jousting tournaments, it proclaimed the rulers' strength and power. Elaborately decorated with imagery drawn from history, mythology, or the Bible, armor symbolically presented emperors and kings as the new Caesar, the equal of Hercules and other ancient heroes, the defender of the faith, or the model of chivalry. Etched or engraved images of saints or the Virgin and Child asserted that the rulers enjoyed divine protection. Much more costly than portraits by the leading painters of the day, suits of royal armor are dazzling works of wearable sculpture that affirmed their owners' right to govern.
The Art of Power presents many of the most splendid suits of armor, helmets, shields, and equestrian armor from the Royal Armory in Madrid. One of the finest collections of armor in the world, it was created by Spanish members of the Habsburg dynasty that ruled much of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Armor once belonging to Holy Roman Emperors and Spanish monarchs is exhibited alongside tapestries and paintings show the armor in use. Several suits of armor are paired with portraits by Alonso Sánchez Coello, Anthonis Mor, Diego Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, and other artists who depicted rulers wearing the same armor.
The Order of the Golden Fleece
The most prestigious chivalric order was that of the Golden Fleece, founded in 1430 by Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, to defend the Christian faith and "exalt the noble order of knighthood." In the sixteenth century, membership was limited to the sovereign plus fifty knights from royal or noble families. The order's insignia, a ram's fleece worn suspended from a collar or necklace, alludes to the mythical quest of the Greek hero Jason to seize the Golden Fleece, guarded by a dragon on the Black Sea.
Because Jason's success enabled him to regain his rightful place as king of Iolcus in Thessaly, the Golden Fleece became associated with kingship. One of the principal symbols of power associated with the Spanish crown since the later 15th century, it appears frequently on the armor, including the helmet of Philip the Good's great-grandson, Charles V.
This striking parade helmet is also a portrait of Charles V, who was noted for his golden-red hair. Its maker, Filippo Negroli, is considered the greatest Italian armorer of the Renaissance, famed for his designs based on the art of antiquity. He may have known similar ancient Greek or Roman portrait-helmets from surviving examples or, more likely, from their depiction in antique sculpture. The three small holes around the opening are for the attachment of a plate, now missing, that completed the upper part of the face.
Spain and al-Andlaus
For most of the fifteenth century, Spain was divided into the kingdoms of Castile and Leon, Aragon, and Navarre, with the Muslim emirate of Granada in the south. The Muslim presence in Spain dates to the 8th century, when it rapidly extended over most of the Iberian Peninsula. The Christian reconquest of Toledo in 1085 reduced al-Andalus to the southern half of the country.
The intellectual heart of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain, had long been Cordoba, a center of advancements in science, philosophy, history, and the arts, as well as the first city in Europe to provide public libraries and modern amenities such as street lamps for nighttime illumination. The unification of Spain began with the marriage of Isabella, Queen of Castile, and Ferdinand, King of Aragon, in 1469. During their reign, the Spanish reconquest of the peninsula concluded with the fall of Granada in 1492. By the mid-13th century, nearly constant warfare with the Christian kingdoms to the north had shrunken Muslim-controlled territories to the region around Granada, ruled by the Nasrid dynasty under which the palatial fortress of the Alhambra was built.
Mary is portrayed as the Virgin of Mercy who spreads her cloak to shelter the faithful from the dangers of sin, symbolized by two demons hurling arrows. At left, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile appear with their children and a cardinal. At right, a group of Cistercian nuns is led by an abbess, probably Leonor de Mendoza, the cardinal’s sister. She was the founder of the convent of Las Huelgas in Burgos, which still owns this altarpiece.
Maximilian I
Maximilian I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519, having previously ruled jointly with his father, Frederick III. The Holy Roman Empire arose from the ruins of the Carolingian empire of Charlemagne, which splintered following his death in 814. The eastern portion encompassing the German-speaking lands of central Europe developed into the Holy Roman Empire, which from the 15th century onward was ruled almost exclusively by members of the House of Habsburg. Originally from Switzerland, the Habsburgs governed from Austria after 1278. They began expanding their dominions when Maximilian's marriage to Mary of Burgundy in 1477 brought the Duchy of Burgundy and the Netherlands under Habsburg control. Spain became part of the empire after their son, Philip the Handsome, married the daughter of the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella in 1496.
The son of Maximilian, Philip was born in the Burgundian Netherlands (modern Belgium), which he had inherited from his mother. After his marriage in 1496 to Joanna ("the Mad"), daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, he became Philip I of Castile, the first Habsburg ruler in Spain. This portrait is the earliest known representation of an armor-clad king of Spain. Philip’s surcoat, worn under his coronation robe and over his armor, bears the arms of the Spanish kingdoms and Burgundy.
Charles V
The grandson of Maximilian and son of Joanna ("the Mad") of Castile, Charles became king of Spain, where he ruled as Charles I, in 1516. Three years later he was elected Holy Roman Emperor, reigning as Charles V from 1519 to 1556. He was then the most powerful man in Europe, with domains extending across central Europe, the Netherlands, Flanders, Burgundy, Spain, the Duchy of Milan, the Kingdom of Naples, enclaves in North Africa, and much of the Americas.
Before ascending to the Spanish throne, Charles lived in the Burgundian Netherlands, where he had been born in 1500. Raised there by Maximilian's daughter, he shared his grandfather's preference for German armorers. Charles' patronage of Kolman and Desiderius Helmschmid of Augsburg brought them fame and set a fashion for elegant armor in which smooth surfaces alternate with vertical bands of gilded and engraved decoration. As a result of his conquest of the Duchy of Milan in 1525, Charles also gained access to the renowned workshop of Filippo Negroli, the sole armorer mentioned by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists of 1550. Charles' lavish commissions made the Royal Armory one of the greatest repositories of German and Italian armor in existence.
Armor with a tonlet, or flaring skirt, was designed for combat on foot within an enclosed field, a tournament sport in which swordsmen were awarded points according to the quantity and location of the blows they dealt. Decorated with a hunting scene showing a bear, deer, and wild boar chased by hounds, this ensemble has been known as the "Hunt Tonlet" armor since the sixteenth century.
Because of the decoration over the elbows, shoulders, and helmet, this armor is known as the "Mask Garniture." (Garnitures are sets of armor with interchangeable parts that adapted the suit for use on horseback or on foot, in tournaments or on the battlefield.) It is the only suit of armor signed and dated by Filippo (in an inscription under the visor) and is thus considered the key work of the Negroli workshop. The exquisite damascening, a technique for inlaying the gold designs, is the work of Filippo’s talented seventeen-year-old brother, Francesco.
Philip II and the Royal Armory
The Royal Armory was created by Charles V's son, Philip II, whose long reign as king of Spain lasted from 1556 to 1598. His wills stipulated that his collection could not be dispersed after his death, but should instead be handed down to his descendents. Philip's great respect for his father and for the material and symbolic value of the emperor's armor led him to purchase Charles' collection, which had been slated for sale to pay off outstanding debts at the time of his death in 1558. Armor made for subsequent monarchs was later added to those two core collections.
Unlike arsenals, which keep weapons and armor to equip an army for battle, the Royal Armory includes trophies of war as well as armor received as diplomatic gifts or worn in pageants, parades, and tournaments. The process of decorating such armor, often by embossing or hammering the steel from the reverse to create designs in relief, weakened the metal. The armor is consequently more propagandistic than utilitarian, serving to impress viewers with its opulence and imagery extolling the wearer's power, valor, and chivalry.
Ancient wars were a popular subject for Renaissance parade armor, as on this shield and burgonet (an open-faced helmet) depicting scenes from the Trojan War. The left side of the helmet shows the Judgment of Paris, the Trojan prince who declared Aphrodite the most beautiful goddess after she promised him Helen, wife of the king of Sparta. On the right side, Trojans tear down part of their city walls to make way for the huge Trojan horse in which Greek warriors were hidden. Paris’ abduction of Helen and the Greeks’ departure for Troy appear in the center of the shield.
This masterpiece of the Negroli workshop was made from a single sheet of steel that was hammered out from the underside in a technique known as embossing or repoussée (French for "pushed out"). A Turkish soldier with bound arms arches over the top of the helmet, while two female figures personifying Fame and Victory grasp his mustache. The scene symbolizes victory over Islam and Charles’ role as defender of the Christian faith. The inscription compares him to "Invincible Caesar."
Designed by the Italian painter Giulio Romano, this richly symbolic scene celebrates Charles V's triumphs. The emperor stands at the prow of a ship, gripping a standard on which the double-headed imperial eagle perches. Fame holds a shield inscribed with his motto, "Plus Ultra" (Further beyond), while overhead, winged Victory crowns him with a wreath of laurel. The sea god, Neptune, at far left and the Pillars of Hercules refer to Charles' territories beyond the Straits of Gibraltar. Below, the river god Quadalquivir reclines next to a bound female captive, personifying Africa. Like the adjacent pillar topped by a turban, she alludes to the emperor’s victories over the Ottoman Turks.
Ancient wars were a popular subject for Renaissance parade armor, as on this shield and burgonet (an open-faced helmet) depicting scenes from the Trojan War. The left side of the helmet shows the Judgment of Paris, the Trojan prince who declared Aphrodite the most beautiful goddess after she promised him Helen, wife of the king of Sparta. On the right side, Trojans tear down part of their city walls to make way for the huge Trojan horse in which Greek warriors were hidden. Paris' abduction of Helen and the Greeks' departure for Troy appear in the center of the shield.
Gift of the Duke of Savoy to Philip III
This intricately worked helmet and shield and the armor for a horse are from a spectacular parade garniture (a set of armor) probably commissioned by the Duke of Savoy on the occasion of his marriage to a daughter of Philip II in 1585. Eighteen years later, it was presented to Philip III as a gift from the duke, which his sons delivered to the king when they were sent from their native Turin to Madrid to be educated at the Spanish court.
The chanfron protected the horse's face, while the crinet guarded the back of the neck.
The Mühlberg Armor
On April 24, 1547, the Catholic forces of Charles V defeated a league of German Protestants at the Battle of Mühlberg, on the Elbe River east of Leipzig. The victory reaffirmed Charles' authority over rebellious German princes seeking not only religious freedom but also greater autonomy from the Holy Roman Empire. The suit of armor Charles wore at Mühlberg as well as parts of the equestrian armor were used on that occasion.
An iconic symbol of imperial power, the Mühlberg armor appears in several portraits of Charles V. Shortly after the battle, the emperor's favorite artist, Titian, created two likenesses of him wearing this armor: a monumental equestrian portrait and a full-length standing portrait. The latter work is now lost, but is known from copies by the Spanish artist Pantoja de la Cruz, considered the definitive version of Titian's original.
Renaissance armor was often patinated to retard rusting, and so appears black in Pantoja's portrait. The "Mühlberg Armor," however, may never have been patinated as it is described as "white" in old inventories. Possibly, Pantoja added the patina for aesthetic reasons so that the gilded decoration stood out against a dark background. In other respects, Pantoja recorded the armor with precision, even including the image of the Virgin and Child on the breastplate and the insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece around Charles’ neck.
The Burgundy Cross Armor
Philip II wore this armor at the Battle of Saint-Quentin against the French on August 10, 1557, when he won his first victory as king. The armor's association with triumph led the Netherlandish painter Anthonis Mor to portray the king dressed in part of the suit he wore on horseback "as he sallied forth on the day of Saint-Quentin." The same armor appears in Carreño de Miranda's portrait of Charles II, Philip's great-grandson. Both paintings preserve the armor's original blackened surface, which once set off the gilded decoration, but has worn away over the centuries.
Through marriage, Philip inherited the Portuguese crown and rode into Lisbon on a horse partly outfitted in this armor for his coronation as king of Portugal in 1581. The armor for man and horse had been made for him when he was still a prince by his favorite armorer, Wolfgang Grosschedel of Landshut in Bavaria. The decoration includes the insignia of the Golden Fleece, as well as x-shaped crosses alluding to the cross on which Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Burgundy, was crucified. As a result of the marriage of Philip's great-grandfather, Maximilian, to Mary of Burgundy in 1477, the cross became a Spanish royal emblem.
The Diet of Augsburg
The Holy Roman emperor was elected by a body of seven German princes and archbishops who met for that purpose at Augsburg in 1550. Charles promoted the candidacy of his son Philip, arranging for him a grand tour of European courts that culminated with his arrival in Augsburg to attend the imperial Diet, or formal assembly. The exquisite suit of armor commissioned for that occasion was probably intended to lend Philip a majestic appearance that would impress the electors. Philip, however, succeeded his father only as king of Spain, for the electors chose Charles' brother Ferdinand, archduke of Austria, to become the next emperor.
The German shield at left was apparently made in competition with Filippo Negroli, the famed Milanese armorer who specialized in armor with raised, or embossed, decoration. On the upper part of the rim, a bull lunges to gore a warrior holding a tiny shield labeled "Negrol" (written backward)—Helmschmid’s boast that he could surpass his rival. In the circular inscription at the center, Desiderius proudly describes himself as "Armorer to His Imperial Majesty." The four medallions depict the Triumphs of Wisdom, Peace, War, and Strength.
Peter Paul Rubens' equestrian portrait of the king dressed in this armor was commissioned after his death by his grandson Philip IV (reigned 1621–1665). The artist borrowed the pose of the horse and rider from a portrait of Charles V, but replaced the emperor's face and armor with those of Philip II, basing them on a likeness of the king that Titian had painted from life. Unusually, the royal flower-pattern armor also appears in Velázquez's portrait of a member of the high nobility, Juan Francisco Pimentel, count of Benavente, who was awarded the collar of the Golden Fleece in 1648 in recognition of his military service to the king.
Philip III
As the youngest of Philip II's four sons, Philip III (1598–1621) was an unlikely successor to the throne. The presumed heir, the mentally unbalanced Don Carlos, died after he was deemed unfit to rule and two brothers did not survive early childhood. The suits of armor here were made for Prince Philip when he was seven, the year he took the oath as Prince of Asturias, the title for the heir apparent. Because that event relieved fears that the Habsburg dynasty in Spain would come to an end, suits of armor that had belonged to the seven-year-old prince took on special significance. Consequently, they appear in his portraits by Justus Tiel and Pantoja de la Cruz, even though Philip was by then older and would have outgrown the armor. He ascended to the throne in 1598 and ruled until his death at the age of forty-three.
By the time of Justus Tiel's portrait, Philip was twelve years old and could not have posed wearing the armor. Its imagery probably inspired this painting, which also alludes to the virtues expected of a future king. Tiel portrayed the prince attended by a female figure of Justice who hands him scales and a sword, symbolizing prudence and power; the staff, known as a caduceus, representing peace; and a bridle and reins, suggesting moderation and restraint. Behind them, Chronos (Time) pushes blind Cupid aside and Justice forward. The hourglass with a still-empty lower chamber balanced on Chronos' head signifies the prince's youth.
The size of the armor indicates that it was made for Philip when he was about seven years old. Its exuberant decoration of masks, grotesques, and military trophies includes an image of the warrior goddess Minerva (in the center of the breastplate), flanked by personifications of Fortitude, standing next to a column, and Prudence, holding a mirror. Other virtues meant to govern the prince's life—Justice and Temperance—are depicted on the backplate. Fame and Victory appear near the top of the breastplate and on the elbow guards.
Royal Armor: The Last Phase
The widespread use of firearms and waning popularity of jousting tournaments caused a steep decline in the production of armor in the seventeenth century. Because the symbolic value of armor outlived its effectiveness in battle, sumptuous examples were still made as diplomatic gifts and appeared in portraits of members of the royal family. Gradually, however, royal armor became dissociated from the rulers for whom it had been made. Rather than projecting an image of their their power, the collection of the Royal Armory became a resource for artists seeking elegant models for the armor they depicted in paintings of non-royal subjects, such as Pedro Núñez del Valle's Jael and Sisera.
The Habsburg line in Spain ended in 1700 with the death of Philip IV's son and successor, Charles II. In 1660 Philip's daughter Maria Teresa had married Louis XIV, paving the way for the French House of Bourbon to assume the Spanish throne. Their grandson Philip V was the first of the Bourbon dynasty to rule Spain and the grandfather of Charles III, whose portrait is the last to portray a king of Spain in armor.
As told in the book of Judges, Jael was an Old Testament heroine who rescued the Israelites from the Canaanites. The Israelites, led by Barak, fought against their oppressors with such vengeance that the Canaanite leader, Sisera, fled and sought refuge in Jael's home. She received him with false hospitality, offering him milk and a place to rest, but while he slept, she pounded a nail into his temple. Núñez del Valle depicted the moment when Barak arrives in search of his enemy and finds him dead. The artist based Sisera's armor on the Roman-style suit shown here, and that of Barak on the armor that had been made for Charles V by Desiderius Helmschmid.
Roman-style armor recalled the leather cuirasses of antiquity, which imitated a warrior's muscled chest. Although such armor is often depicted in Renaissance tapestries and paintings, this suit is the only complete surviving Roman-style armor in the world. Presented as a gift to Philip II, it served as the model for the armor worn by the fallen figure of Sisera in the painting by Pedro Núñez del Valle.
Emmanuel Philibert was the grandson of Philip II , the cousin of Philip IV, the supreme commander of the Spanish navy in the Mediterranean, and viceroy of Sicily. While living in Palermo, he summoned the Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, then based in Genoa, to paint this court portrait of him wearing the armor shown here. Executed the year Emmanuel died of the plague at the age of thirty-six, the portrait exemplifies an early seventeenth-century ruler, combining a sense of martial prowess with foppish elegance.
This armor was made for Emmanuel Philibert when he was about eighteen years old for tournament on horseback and on foot. The unknown Milanese armorer signed his works with a tiny castle on the neck of the breastplate. All parts of Emmanual Philibert’s armor are decorated with a repeating pattern of lozenges containing military trophies and palm leaves passing through a crown. Only traces remain of the original gilt finish of these motifs, which stood out against a darkened background that has also worn away.
Philip II's daughter Isabella Clara Eugenia, governor of the Spanish Netherlands, sent several sets of opulent armor as a gift to her nephew, Philip IV. For this portrait of the king, Gaspar de Crayer combined features of two different garnitures for artistic effect. He copied the type of armor from one set, but borrowed its decoration of gilded foliage from another.
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“The church is so happy with this status; it’s a dream come true,” said Gustavo Mendez, senior pastor of the newly organized El Camino a Cristo Spanish church.
More than 20 years ago, a group known as El Evangelio Eterno was formed by members who sacrificed their time, money, and talents to push God’s mission forward. In 2010, this group was organized as El Camino a Cristo Spanish company, and 13 years later, the congregation celebrated its new church status.
For Pastor Mendez, who has been senior pastor for about two years, this milestone is especially meaningful. Ten years ago, El Camino a Cristo Spanish company was his first assignment as a youth pastor in the United States. “For me, it’s like coming back home,” he said. “When I first arrived at the church, they were so welcoming. They gave me the opportunity to grow, and many years later when I received the call to come back home, I knew I was ready to come back.”
The Sabbath afternoon celebration began with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Southern California Conference (SCC) officers Velino A. Salazar, John H. Cress, and Kathleen Diaz and Hispanic Region Director Jaime Heras were present. Cress, SCC executive secretary, prayed over the congregation before Diaz, SCC treasurer/CFO, cut the ribbon. Then, everyone walked into the sanctuary together as a praise team sang “Onward Christian Soldiers.”
This moment was inspired by the Israelites’ crossing the parted Red Sea, being in the midst of God’s miracles. “For our church, it’s been a history of continuous miracles,” Mendez said.
During the service, Salazar shared a message challenging the congregation to continue God’s mission in creating disciples. Cress and Salazar presented Mendez and church leaders with the certificate of organization, and Diaz provided a gift of $2,500 for evangelism.
While members Hector and Armando shared church history, they talked of the church’s food ministry outreach, which started during the pandemic in 2020. Just before the organization ceremony began, members were finishing up this outreach. Every Saturday, 30 volunteers serve about 100 people through the food bank, and that Sabbath was no exception. “The food bank helps us to connect with the community to provide spiritual and even financial support,” Mendez shared.
The celebratory day continued into the evening with the start of a week-long evangelistic series led by Bradford C. Newton, Pacific Union Conference (PUC) president, and Alberto Ingleton, PUC vice president for Hispanic Ministries, and livestreamed by TV Tu Mundo. By the end of the series, more than 20 people were baptized.
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On Monday, June 27th, 2016, I embarked on perhaps one of my greatest adventures of my life. I flew to Europe and made my way to France so that I could fulfill Adventure Activities and Experiences Bucket list item:
#109) Walk the Camino de Santiago from France to Santiago, Espana.
The Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of St. James, is 490+ mile pilgrimage across Spain. There are multiple routes, but I had decided to join the traditional Camino Frances Route. This route, in general, starts in St Jean-Pied-de-Port on the French side of the Pyrenees. From there, I became a pilgrim or peregrino and began my walk toward Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
Why does one walk the Camino?
The main purpose for the Camino is to make your way to the city of Santiago de Compostela. It is here where it is believed that the remains of the Apostle St. James the Greater are buried. But, people make the pilgrimage for many other reasons. Some use it as a retreat for their spiritual growth. Others walk to discover their past or reveal their future. There are even some people walking in hopes that a miracle. To them, they believe that the Camino may heal them or someone they love. It all kind of sounds like some mystical, religious, self-discovery adventure right out of a C.S. Lewis or Paulo Coehlo novel.
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Funny But True Things about the Camino de Santiago
For me, I walked for a mix of it all discovered a lot about myself and my relationship to others. But while you walk on the Camino for days on end, there are also many real-life quirks, funny truths, and even insanities that accompany you on this journey.
Here are some of the funny but true things about the Camino de Santiago I learned along the Way:
1) You will give away the deed to your house back home for a bottom bunk
It doesn’t seem to matter if you are 18 or 80, the idea of climbing up to the top bunk at the end of a hard day of walking is enough to make anyone cry! In most albergues, it is kind of a first come first serve situation, while in others they have an over 40 rule. However, you will bargain your treasures for the bottom bunk. If you are unfortunate enough to get the top bunk, then you must take care of everything before the climb because you will then enter the contest of “how long can I hold it before I have to climb back down to use the bathroom!”
2) You will politely HATE ALL CYCLISTS!
The first time you see a cyclist struggling to push their bicycles loaded with their saddle bags up a mountain, a sense of pity will encompass you. Don’t fret, that will only last about 4 hours because then you will pray for them to crash down a mountain. Why? Because these cyclist will come zipping by you, out of no where, at top speeds nearly clipping your arms and shoving you off the trail as they happily shout, “Buen Camino!” It’s insanity to say the least. They own a $1,000 bicycle and can’t afford an effing $2.00 bell to warn you! Stupid Cyclists… “Buen effin Camino!!”
3) By day three everyone qualifies as a registered podiatrist
Feet, feet, feet! Everyone discusses their feet or the feet of others on the Camino. Between blisters, bruises, twisted ankles, and lost toe nails every possible subject regarding feet is discussed – by everyone! The earliest records of visits paid to the shrine dedicated to St. James at Santiago de Compostela date from the 9th century. So, as you walk you will start to wonder what type of space aged leather the pilgrims used for shoes as the Roman roads beat your feet into mush like Ivan Drago beat Apollo Creed’s face in Rocky IV!
Safety Tip: Walking the Camino de Santiago is a relatively safe adventure. But as in any place you travel please use common sense and stay to main areas while exploring. Plus, with any physical activity, please make sure you pay attention to your body. To give you some added security while in Spain, we strongly recommend that you consider getting Travel Insurance from World Nomads. It is simple and flexible insurance to keep you safe while tackling any bucket list adventure.
4) Everyone has seen The Way, read The Pilgrimage, & owns a Brierly guidebook
You are so excited to start walking in the beginning, especially after seeing THE WAY or reading The Pilgrimage or your Brierly guidebook! You will ask everyone if they have seen or read them and openly admit that you they are the catalyst to this adventure for you. I mean why not, they make it seem so wonderful and easy! But by the first week, you will wonder what map Martin Sheen had because his character was all over the place! On day 2 you will start to create voodoo dolls of John Brierly and wonder if he has ever even walked the Camino because this is way harder than he describes. With regards to The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coehlo, you will think he must have been tripping out on some serious shrooms as you walk through towns he visited and had his visions yet see nothing that resembles the mystical world!
5) Spain’s metric system is more of a general average rather than an exact science
Perhaps one of the most insane and funny but true things about the Camino de Santiago has to do with math. Spain’s definition of 1 kilometer seems to vary from place to place and sign to sign with a +/- variance of +4 or +10! Wait or was it -22?
But seriously, reading your guidebook or maps will drive you insane as you walk for endless kilometers on end with no similar scale from day to day. Even legitimate government road signs will vary along the many hours you spend walking toward Santiago, only to find out the next sign added 5 kilometers to the initial sign you read that morning!
6) You will hate energy & water conservation, but only in the bathroom
Spain seems to be doing wonderful work with energy conservation as you see the beautiful horizons lined with windmills. However, after awhile you are willing to sign any petition that will get the timers off the bathroom lights or the shower water button to last longer than 38 seconds!
7) No one will question that you are following graffiti to your destination
The Camino de Santiago might be the only time in your life where you will deliberately follow crappy yellow spray painted arrows across an entire country and no one will think you are crazy! I mean imagine if you were back home and you told your parents that you found some spray paint markings under some bridges or on random trees & you wanted to see where they led. They would definitely try to talk you out of it! But on the Camino, you search for them and start get nervous when you don’t see them after awhile!
8) You will carry the Camino with you every day
No this isn’t some sort of deep thought! This is a literal statement. Of course, you will carry with you, the symbol of a pilgrim, your scallop shell. But also, every time you take off your boots you will pour out pounds of dirt, rocks, and unknown particles! Suddenly you will feel like Andy from the Shawshank Redemption as he emptied his escape route into the prison yard.
9) You will become a Pyrenees Snob
Well you might become a Pamplona snob, a Burgos snob, a Leon snob, or another location snob to anyone who starts after you! I mean come on, you suffered far harder circumstances and have become an expert on the Camino in the 3 days before they started! Well, everyone can agree that the jerks that start in Sarria will never understand! It’s weird when you realize your contempt for those who start in Sarria as they complete the bare minimum length of the Camino. Even in John Brierly’s guidebook, he warns to “Beware of signs of irritation at the intrusion on ‘my’ camino…” as new pilgrims enter at Sarria!
10) You will Gain Weight
The Camino de Santiago must be the only event where you will burn 9 million calories a day hiking and come home 15 lbs. heavier! How? Perhaps, it is because the only things to do besides walking is eating & drinking! Every day you stop for a second and third breakfast before lunch. Then, there is the pilgrim’s menu served everyday for $10 or less where you eat like Arnold getting ready for a Mr. Universe body building competition. Plus, with 95% of the Camino participating in Siesta, the only thing you have to do in the afternoons is eat and drink wine or ice cold pints of beer!
11) Everyone smiles in the same language
It doesn’t matter where people are from or how good your foreign language skills are, you will be able to talk to anyone – if you want. Don’t get me wrong, you may become an expert at charades by the end of the Camino, but it will be worth all the laughter and memories!
How to walk your own Camino to Santiago de Compostela
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This has been our first experience. We decided about a month ago, we both had free time and we wanted to see each other and do something together, something different. The Camino de Santiago seemed to us an interesting experience, even more so in times of Coronavirus. We were interested in the possibility of following a route which meant us walking through places that we do not usually visit. Because we usually travel by car but we do not enter the towns, while on the Camino you walk through them, you talk to people, you get to know more about the place and the mentality of the people.
Sometimes we go hiking, but we had no experience of something similar to the Camino. My brother-in-law had done the Camino and he told me about his experience on the Primitivo. We really wanted to experience something similar, but in the end we decided on the Central Portuguese Way.
We couldn’t have imagined that on the first day we would already have giant blisters! In that sense, ours has been a road with a lot of suffering, because the injuries made things quite difficult, but even so, it was definitely worth it. The relationship with the people in the hostels and in the shelters made up for all the negative aspects. Our experience with the problem of the Coronavirus was to find fewer people walking, but, at the same time, a very familiar treatment, in the shelters and hostels of the Camino they treated you like family, you arrived in pain, but you forgot about it immediately thanks to treatment you received.
The truth is that we had problems, but we always carried on, we knew how to continue. It was difficult at first because of the pain, but we always tried to encourage each other and we succeeded. We laughed a lot about everything, we encouraged each other, as pilgrims we turned out to be a bit like “crazy people on the Camino” because we were always laughing and making others laugh. In addition, we not only shared our experiences and jokes with the other pilgrims, but also with our friends, every day we made videos that we sent them, we gave them a name: “radio Camino” we called them, it was a broadcast to share everything with friends .
Not only the relationship with people helped us, the good things compensated for the injuries and problems. There were also other very simple things that we found every day and that are a spectacle: vineyards, streams …
Regarding the pilgrims, in Portugal there were few people, but we met some: a Danish couple, two Spanish people from Madrid and two German women who accompanied us for almost the whole way. In the Spanish part there were many more people and we made many friends, for example, with a Valencian couple whom we met up with again days later and finally also in Padrón.
Really, the few pilgrims who were on the Camino formed a family, you got closer to the people and it was like being with a family. For example, last night, having dinner in Santiago, we met a group from Almería, very old people, and we were together. We greet each other on the Way, knowing that we are pilgrims is enough to be together, it is established as a brotherhood between pilgrims, that is what we feel: a brotherhood between pilgrims.
Solidarity is also important. If you see someone who is going wrong, you stop with him and try to help him, we saw that there are people who suffer and some who leave, we wanted to help.
In our case we arrived with bad feet, full of blisters, but a very high morale, we had to arrive and we did.
We suffered a bit for being beginners. For example, we started with a lot of weight in our backpack, with bad meal times … The day we walked from Barcelos to Ponte de Lima, we found ourselves asking each other: how many times have you thought about leaving it today ? We both suffered a lot, but when we finished the stage and regained energy, we laughed so much that we completely changed our vision of the Camino. In the Barcelos stage, Pedro kept saying “we’re in Ponte de Lima” and Nico threatened “I’ll take a taxi, I can’t take it anymore”… When the hostel was two kilometers away, we were feeling so bad that the lady from the bar gave us a little present. Later we returned to that place for dinner and she treated us wonderfully, her treatment compensated us for all the pain. That was our Way: feelings, experiences, words of affection, smiles, conversations with the people in the towns.
We also noticed the difference between Portugal and Spain. In Portugal there were not many pilgrims, but the people of the villages had a huge desire to speak to you, everywhere, also the few pilgrims. Some spoke to you with such emotion that it affected us. In Spain there were more people and the kindness was just as great in the hostels and hostels, but in the villages there was not as much interaction as in Portugal, there it was incredible. Being able to travel through two countries on a Camino is important, learning to communicate and, in our case, one being Portuguese and the other Canarian, to see the country you are passing through with the eyes of the other.
It was an incredible experience, without overcrowding this year, with great peacefulness, but also with the possibility of meeting people who did not distrust you, who wanted to greet and welcome you. And then there was the important element of overcoming obstacles and meeting the challenge It was like this from the beginning, but also at the end: Pedro limped through his last 23 kilometers, it seemed impossible for us to get there … but when entering Santiago, without a cane or anything, he began to walk as if I had nothing wrong with him! And then it was spectacular to arrive at the Obradoiro square and lie down on the ground to look up at the cathedral.
It is important to meet this challenge and to have arrived despite everything. But even more so the human side, from the human point of view they were spectacular days: I give you a hand, always a smile, always try to help …the Camino is what we can keep. I would like to write a book. We had incredible experiences, but what was central was the experience of meeting people and the experience of our own friendship that sustained us. It was incredible! An important experience that we want to share with friends and family, with my 15-year-old son who I hope will do it one day (Nico). And we learned a good lesson: despite the blisters and the physical suffering, we believe that everything is in the mind, it’s all mental!
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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo - A Voyage of Exploration
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo led the first European expedition that explored what is now the west coast of the United States. Cabrillo departed from the port of Navidad, Mexico on June 27, 1542. Three months later he arrived at "a very good enclosed port," which is known today as San Diego Bay. Historians believe he anchored his flagship, the San Salvador, on Point Loma's east shore near the land that becomes Cabrillo National Monument. Cabrillo later died during the expedition, but his crew continued on, possibly as far north as Oregon, before thrashing winter storms forced them back to Mexico.
Cabrillo National Monument, established in 1913, remembers Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's voyage of exploration. It was the first contact between the coastal California Indigenous tribes, like the Kumeyaay, and men from Europe. Though the San Salvador stayed only six days in San Diego harbor, this journey and future Spanish journeys to the area would shape southern California’s complex history.
Cabrillo’s Early Life
Born in the Iberian Peninsula, Cabrillo was a conquistador in his youth. The term “conquistador” is the name applied to the mostly Spanish soldiers who explored, conquered, and settled in the New World. We know little of Cabrillo's early years until 1519, when his name appears in the ranks of those who served in the army of famous conquistador Hernan Cortes. In the terrible battles between the Aztecs and the Spanish, Cabrillo fought as a captain of crossbowmen.
Metal weapons and effective tactics made the conquistadors formidable opponents. The Aztecs, however, were also very brave and they greatly outnumbered the Spanish. Ultimately, smallpox tipped the scales in favor of the Spanish. . The disease, previously unknown in the New World, swept through Aztec defenders and killed perhaps a quarter of their population. Everywhere the Spanish went, advanced disease went before them making it possible for a relatively few Europeans to conquer the New World. After the defeat of the Aztecs, Cabrillo joined other Spanish military expeditions in what is today southern Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Eventually Cabrillo settled in Guatemala.
A Businessman in the Spanish “Encomienda” System
By the mid-1530s, Cabrillo established himself as a leading citizen of Guatemala's primary town, Santiago. Cabrillo was one of the Iberian Peninsula-born men who benefited from the “encomienda” system in the New World. In this system, the king of Spain granted long term leases for land that often came with the right to use forced Indigenous labor. In Spanish society, this was viewed as a reward for services to the crown, and it also served as a way to keep Spanish landowners in power. In Cabrillo’s case, he was granted the right to farmlands and mines. Cabrillo’s businesses on land and at sea - and so his resulting wealth - depended on slave labor. Indigenous Guatemalans were enslaved by the Spanish and forced to work not only on his farms and in his mines, but also in his shipyards and on his vessels.
After establishing himself, Cabrillo traveled to Spain in 1532 to marry his business partner’s sister, Beatriz Sanchez de Ortega. Cabrillo had a previous relationship and children with an Indigenous Guatemalan woman, but his children from this union could not inherit his wealth because Spain required landowners to be white Spaniards. Beatriz had two sons who inherited much of Cabrillo’s wealth.
Cabrillo was also known for his shipbuilding operations. Using a port on Guatemala's Pacific Coast, Cabrillo imported and exported goods in the developing trade between Guatemala, Spain, and other parts of the New World. The ships he used for this trade were constructed in Guatemala by skilled laborers from Spain and Indigenous Guatemalans forced into hard physical labor. Some of these ships were used for trade and others were used in Spain’s early exploration efforts.
Why Explore California?
The Governor of Guatemala, Pedro de Alvarado, selected Cabrillo to build and provision ships to explore the Pacific because of his skills as a leader and businessman. Alvarado planned to use the ships to establish a trading route between Central America and the Spice Islands (modern day Indonesia) . When Alvarado died during an Indian uprising, his business partner, the Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, prompted Cabrillo to lead one of two expeditions to explore the Pacific. Cabrillo accepted and soon set out to explore the coast north and west of New Spain (Mexico). Meanwhile, the other expedition, led by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, sailed directly across the Pacific to the Philippines.
The Cabrillo expedition sailed out of the port of Navidad, near modern day Manzanillo, on June 27, 1542 with three ships. Accompanying Cabrillo were a crew of sailors, soldiers, enslaved people, merchants, a priest, livestock, and provisions for two years. The expedition was also seeking the seven fabulously wealthy cities known as Cibola that some believed were near the Pacific coast beyond New Spain, and the possibility of a route connection from the North Pacific to the North Atlantic - the Straits of Anian.
Exploring California
One hundred and three days into the journey, Cabrillo's ships entered San Diego Bay. He probably landed at Ballast Point (visible from the Visitor Center) where he claimed the land for Spain, though no Europeans settled in the area at that time. Cabrillo described the bay as "a closed and very good port," which he called San Miguel. The name San Miguel was changed to San Diego 60 years later by another explorer, Sebastian Vizcaino. The Kumeyaay tribes had already lived in the area for thousands of years and would continue to be the primary human shapers of the landscape until the Spanish established a fort in San Diego in 1769.
The expedition continued north to Monterey Bay and may have reached as far north as Point Reyes before storms forced the ships to turn back. The expedition failed to sight the entrance to San Francisco Bay, which remained undiscovered until 1769. Discouraged by foul weather, Cabrillo decided to winter in the Channel Islands. There, after a fall suffered during a brief skirmish with an Indigenous tribe , Cabrillo shattered a limb and died of complications on January 3, 1543. Following Cabrillo's death, the disheartened crew again sailed north, this time under the leadership of Bartolome Ferrer. The expedition may have reached a latitude as far north as the Rogue River in Oregon, but thrashing winter winds and spoiled supplies forced them to return to Mexico.
The Voyage’s Impact
While Cabrillo's contemporaries considered the expedition a failure, it left behind our first written glimpse of the west coast of North America from a newcomer’s perspective. There was no known lasting Spanish impact on Kumeyaay culture until the fort and mission system was established in 1769.
Future Spanish explorers used Cabrillo’s records to better navigate the Pacific. They learned that a wide, slow current flows from north to south along the Pacific coast of North America. It is a quick route to return from Asia, but nearly impossible to travel north as Cabrillo and his crew found out.
References
Cabrillo National Monument Foundation. An Account of the Voyage of Juan Rodríquez Cabrillo. San Diego, CA: Cabrillo National Monument Foundation, 1999.
Kelsey, Harry. Juan Rodríquez Cabrillo. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1986.
Kramer, Wendy. “Juan Rodríquez Cabrillo: A Voyage of Rediscovery.” Mains’l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History 55, 1-4 (2019): 16 – 85.
Lemke, Nancy. Cabrillo: First European Explorer of the California Coast. San Luis Obispo, CA: EZ Nature Books, 1991.
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Tales from the Camino: Gateful Dread When our Camino group arrived in Estelle, we were beat. The walk from Puente la Reina was hot and enervating, as we paralleled Spanish Route N-111 the whole day. We walked past the bull ring, past the Rio Ega, and past several town plazas. As we entered the center…
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When our Camino group arrived in Estelle, we were beat. The walk from Puente la Reina was hot and enervating, as we paralleled Spanish Route N-111 the whole day. We walked past the bull ring, past the Rio Ega, and past several town plazas. As we entered the center of town our steps were getting more and more plodding. Our legs were weary and our gate was sluggish. It had been a long day. We arrived at our hotel door about 20 minutes later.
Settling into the lobby, the concierge mentioned that there are some massage boutiques back in town. We washed our clothes, took showers and met back in the lobby for some healing body rubs. The owner of one massage parlor agreed to pick us up and drive us back into town. That sounded like a winning combination to us.
The owners of the massage parlor had some special treats for those brave enough to take the plunge: kissing fish! My sister, Mary, was the first to stick her feet into the aquamarine water and it did not take long to feel the rush. The hoots and hollering she gasped were from shock and joy, as the tiny fish nibbled on the soft skin, calluses, and dead skin on Mary’s tired and weary feet and ankles.
The husband of the parlor owner was supposed to give me a lower back and legs deep-tissue massage. It soon became apparent that despite his confidence, he was zero training in the art of massage or deep tissue anything. Instead, after a cursory back pat, he rubbed the surface of my skin violently in circles for many minutes.
He kept up the rubbing as he worked on my calves, thighs, and lower legs. His rubs were so constant and circular that the hair on my legs started rolling up into knots. The hair balls were tight and clumped but not particularly painful at first. Only the massage oil, which lubricated the knots, kept me from yowling in pain.
When I got back to the hotel, though, the massage oil was wearing off. My wife, Tracy, said, “Hey, you got dreadlocks in Estelle!” Not amused by the gateful dreads, I asked her to cut out the hair balls so that I could be dread-free and walk without grimacing again.
Yikes, that was the first and only massage I had on our Camino. Next time I will go for the kissing fish instead.
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Highlights
Hike on a less-traveled and more rural Camino route with stops at three UNESCO World Heritage cities - Lisbon, Porto, and Santiago de Compostela
Savor a traditional local dinner over sounds of fado in Porto, Portugal's foodie capital, and explore the Douro Port wine region
Discover beautiful and historic villages on the way, including Ponte de Lima, Portugal's oldest village
Portugal & Spain El Camino Portugues Hiking
Start: Lisbon, Portugal End: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Start/End locations may vary. Do not book flights until your trip details are confirmed.
Itinerary
Arrive in Lisbon, Portugal's Enchanting Capital
Day 1
Arrive in Lisbon in the afternoon, and transfer from the airport to the hotel. Relax and refresh, then meet your guides and group in the lobby for introductions. Venture out to the city's historic district. Roam the maze of alleyways in the ancient quarter of Alfama, see the cathedral, and discover the elegant Chiado neighborhood. Marvel at the 12th-century Saint George's Castle, and take in the city panoramas from the iconic Santa Justa elevator. Return to the hotel for a welcome dinner.
Accommodation: The One Palacio da Anunciada
Activity: City walking tour
Meals: Dinner
Asseiceira and the Templar City of Tomar
Day 2
Enjoy a scenic bus ride from Lisbon, heading north. Reach the sleepy Atalaia, a town with a rich farming history that sits between two rivers, Targus and Almonda. Visit the Igreja Matriz de Atalaia, then start your day's hike from this charming village. Along the way, enjoy spotting colorful wildflowers and marvel at eucalyptus plantations planted where oak forests used to be. Stop for lunch in Asseiceira, then transfer to Tomar, the city that grew out of the 12th-century Templar stronghold, and home to the Convent of Christ which today towers over the town. Stroll through the town with your guides, from the Castle of Tomar to various monuments, arriving at the Praca da Republica and our hotel for the night.
Accommodation: Hotel Republica
Activity: 5 hours/8 miles hiking with 650' elevation gain and 600' elevation loss
Transportation: 1.5-hours private transfer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Take in the Conimbriga Roman Ruins
Day 3
After a bus ride to Algorve, start off hiking through forests and small villages to the town of Conimbriga. Founded by the Celts, the town flourished in the 2nd century under Roman rule. Explore the wonderfully preserved Conimbriga Roman Ruins, including the fascinating villas and splendidly kept floor mosaics. Transfer from there to the historic university city of Coimbra.
Accommodation: Hotel Quinta das Lagrimas
Activity: 6-7 hours/12.5 miles hiking with 620' elevation gain and 1,180' elevation loss
Transportation: 1-hour private transfer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
University of Coimbra, the Land of Port, and Fado Music
Day 4
Visit Coimbra's landmark UNESCO-listed university, the oldest in Portugal, founded in 1290. Afterwards, transfer to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Porto, capital of port wine and beloved by foodies for its wine, cheese, croquettes, and cod. Today's urban hike will include the Mosteiro da Serra do Pilar and its magnificent view of the Douro River, a walk along the river, a visit to a wine bodega, the Ponte Luis I bridge, the cathedral, Sao Bento station, the Clerigos Tower, and the Lello bookshop. After a rest at the hotel, enjoy dinner in a traditional restaurant accompanied by fado music.
Accommodation: InterContinental Porto Palacio das Cardosas
Activity: 4 hours/5 miles hiking with 590' elevation gain and 580' elevation loss
Transportation: 1.15-hours private transfer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Continue on to Beautiful Braga
Day 5
After breakfast, transfer to Sao Pedro de Rates, a wonderful Roman-style church, for a visit before starting your hike from there. Trek between small villages along quiet pathways and sections of peaceful roads. Take time for lunch on the trail, then end the day in Barcelinhos and its gorgeous church, Igreja Matriz de Santa Maria Maior. From here, transfer to elegant Braga, famous for it religious festivals and Barqoue churches.
Accommodation: Vila Gale Collection Braga
Activity: 6-7 hours/12 miles hiking with 660' elevation gain and 985' elevation loss
Transportation: 55-minute private transfer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Travel to Ponte de Lima
Day 6
Travel to Balugaes, the starting point of your hike to Ponte de Lima. As you walk this seven-mile section made up of dirt tracks, cobbled paths, and the occasional paved road, take in the vine-covered landscapes and small shrines along the way. On Rio Lima, you'll find the pretty Ponte de Lima, one of the oldest villages in the country with medieval houses, lovely flower gardens, pretty squares, and many ancient religious buildings.
Accommodation: Carmo’s Boutique Hotel
Accommodation: Calheiros Manor
Activity: 6-7 hours/12 miles hiking with 660' feet elevation gain and 985' elevation loss
Transportation: 40-minute private transfer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Hike the "Queen Stage"
Day 7
Start today's hike from Ponte de Lima, crossing the bridge over the Lima River. This is one of the most beautiful portions of the Portuguese Camino - the “Queen's Stage” - during which you will cross the hill of “the Witch” and hike up to Pilgrims Cross. Descend to the bus and transfer to Tui for two nights.
Accommodation: Parador de Tui
Accommodation: Hotel Minho
Activity: 7-8 hours/11 miles hiking with 1,800' feet elevation gain and 820' elevation loss
Transportation: 20-minute private transfer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Venture on to the Final Portuguese City, Valenca
Day 8
Transfer back to Rubiaes, where you ended yesterday's hike and start walking along an old Roman road, between forest and small villages. After lunch and more urban terrain, arrive in Valenca, the last Portuguese city on the route, with a wonderful citadel overlooking the Mino River, the natural border between Portugal and Spain. Once in Galicia in Spain, you will reach the hotel, where you will spend your second night. If time and energy allow, visit the 12th-century Santa María Cathedral in the Old City of Tui.
Accommodation: Parador de Tui
Accommodation: Hotel Minho
Activity: 7 hours/13 miles hiking with 1,575' feet elevation gain and 1,050' elevation loss
Transportation: 20-minute private transfer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Cross the Verdugo River
Day 9
In the morning, transfer to Arcade, where you begin your hike across the Verdugo River via the Pontesampaio Bridge. Walk through narrow streets and beautiful forest along the way. Prepare to be amazed by your arrival into Pontevedra and its old town.
Accommodation: Parador de Pontevedra
Activity: 6 hours/9.5 miles hiking with 985' feet elevation gain and 1,150' elevation loss
Transportation: 40-minute private transfer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Travel Through Galicia to the Ultimate Goal, Santiago
Day 10
Transfer to Escravitude, near Padron, famous for Padron peppers, which you'll have opportunity to taste along the way, as well as for being the former Roman city where apostle Santiago's remains were brought from Jerusalem. As you hike along, notice the horreos, granaries built of wood or stone in Galicia and raised from the ground to keep out rodents. Finally, at long last, arrive in Santiago and visit the Cathedral in the wonderful town square. Spend the night in one of Spain's oldest hotels, the Parador de Santiago de Compostela.
Accommodation: Parador de Santiago de Compostela-Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Activity: 7 hours/13 miles hiking with 1,575' feet elevation gain and 1,050' elevation loss
Transportation: 35-minute private transfer
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Bid Farewell to El Camino Portuguese
Day 11
With your Camino passport stamped, and your heart full, bid farewell to your fellow travelers and tour leaders. After breakfast, transfer to the airport in Santiago de Compostela for departures home.
Meals: Breakfast
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Why Travel With Us?
MT Sobek has been leading journeys in Europe for more than 50 years and has decades of experience on Camino pilgrimage routes.
This 11-day adventure blends hiking and history, plus it includes delicious cuisine and elegant accommodations along the way. There is also back-up vehicle support for those who need it.
Guided by a top-notch team of local experts, hikers enjoy historical and cultural tours in ancient towns on the way from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela.
Your Guides
The best people to immerse you in a destination are the ones who live there, which is why we feature local Adventure Guides on our trips. Here are a few that you might meet on this adventure.
Leo S.
Leo was born in the mountains of Spain's Basque Country and made his home in Jaca, in the heart of the Pyrenees, where he spends his winters on backcountry skis. He has been guiding in the Pyrenees for many years, as well as in Nepal, Morocco, Tanzania, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Pakistan, India, and the French Alps. He has also taught skiing in Colorado. He is an International Certified Mountain Guide (UIAGM) and a professional ski instructor (ISIA). Leo is fluent in English, French, and Basque.
Fernando G.
Fernando is a IFMGA Mountain Guide with an extensive backgrouond in mountaneering and guiding. He has hiked the Great Himlayan Trail from India, Sikkim, Buthan, Nepal and Pakistán over a period of 6 months. Fernando was the first man to ever climb to the peak of Cho Oyu (26,906') solo and in Winter. He holds the world record of permanence in altitude, remaining at the summit of Aconcagua (22,841') for 66 days; and he has climbed Aconcagua 40 times. Fernando has been guiding in the Alpes, Andes, Himalaya and Pyrenees and other Mountains in Spain for more than 40 years.
David S.
David was born in Lisbon and is an expert walking guide and outdoor enthusiast. Having an academic background in anthropology, he's equally interested in the local history and rural culture of the region, where he has his family roots. David has also spent the last few years immersed in the study of the geography and flora of Northern Portugal. Married and father of three, David and his family now live between Barcelos and Ponte de Lima, right along the Portuguese Camino de Santiago.
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Transfer back to Rubiaes, where you ended yesterday\'s hike and start walking along an old Roman road, between forest and small villages. After lunch and more urban terrain, arrive in Valenca, the last Portuguese city on the route, with a wonderful citadel overlooking the Mino River, the natural border between Portugal and Spain. Once in Galicia in Spain, you will reach the hotel, where you will spend your second night. If time and energy allow, visit the 12th-century Santa María Cathedral in the Old City of Tui.
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In the morning, transfer to Arcade, where you begin your hike across the Verdugo River via the Pontesampaio Bridge. Walk through narrow streets and beautiful forest along the way. Prepare to be amazed by your arrival into Pontevedra and its old town.
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Transfer to Escravitude, near Padron, famous for Padron peppers, which you\'ll have opportunity to taste along the way, as well as for being the former Roman city where apostle Santiago\'s remains were brought from Jerusalem. As you hike along, notice the horreos, granaries built of wood or stone in Galicia and raised from the ground to keep out rodents. Finally, at long last, arrive in Santiago and visit the Cathedral in the wonderful town square. Spend the night in one of Spain\'s oldest hotels, the Parador de Santiago de Compostela.
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With your Camino passport stamped, and your heart full, bid farewell to your fellow travelers and tour leaders. After breakfast, transfer to the airport in Santiago de Compostela for departures home.
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Activity Level
This trip is rated activity level 4. Moderate hikes of up to 12 miles per day on well-marked trails and country roads with bus transfers to help shorten the hikes.
Learn more about activity levels here.
Activity Snapshot
Day 1
City walking tour
Day 2
5 hours/8 miles hiking with 650' elevation gain and 600' elevation loss
Day 3
6-7 hours/12.5 miles hiking with 620' elevation gain and 1,180' elevation loss
Day 4
4 hours/5 miles hiking with 590' elevation gain and 580' elevation loss
Day 5
6-7 hours/12 miles hiking with 660' elevation gain and 985' elevation loss
Day 6
6-7 hours/12 miles hiking with 660' feet elevation gain and 985' elevation loss
Accommodations
Comfortable and luxury historic hotels with modern conveniences, restaurants, and ideal locations.
Parador de Santiago de Compostela-Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Travel back in history with a stay in this grand hotel — originally a royal hospital built in the 15th century — in the center of Obradoiro Square. Four-poster beds, brocade linens, warm woods, and rich velvets adorn the comfortable rooms. The restaurant serves a delicious menu of Galician-style food, although endless culinary delights await outside the hotel.
Hotel Republica
Designed and built entirely by Portuguese companies, this five-star boutique hotel oozes local vibes. Its 19 rooms come complete with many comforts, from marble bathrooms with walk-in showers to plush bathrobes. Right in the heart of town, the hotel places you perfectly for easy exploration of Tomar and its sights.
InterContinental Porto Palacio das Cardosas
This elegant, five-star, city center hotel was created from the 18th-century Palacio das Cardosas and boasts an enviable view of the emblematic Avenida dos Aliados and the Belle Epoque-era Praca da Liberdade. Surround yourself in old-world luxury, beneath crystal chandeliers and in the English library-esque bar, with its grand piano and extensive selection of local port wines. Rooms are surprisingly spacious with a contemporary feel and period accents, from the detailed crown molding to the ceiling-height mirrors.
Parador de Tui
A replica of a traditional Galician country house, Parador de Tui enjoys a central position in Tui, surrounded by mountains and overlooking the river. Its airy rooms feature traditional decor, and come complete with WiFi, minibars, and flat-screen TVs. The hotel's restaurant serves regional specialties, while its outdoors facilities include a lush garden, a tennis court, and a seasonal pool.
Parador de Pontevedra
Occupying a beautiful 16th-century Renaissance palace, this four-star hotel bedazzles with elegant details like the marble staircase in the lobby and the exposed beams in the bar. The rooms feature vintage furnishings, flat-screen TVs, and mini refrigerators. The ambiance pairs perfectly with the convenient location, just minutes away from Basílica de Santa María a Maior.
Vila Gale Collection Braga
With its peaceful garden and indoor and outdoor swimming pools, Vila Gale Collection Braga feels reminiscent of a regal estate. The former Sao Marcos hospital, which dates back to 1508, now offers comfortable guest rooms with modern amenities such as free WiFi, room service, and available spa treatments. It's all conveniently close to Braga's dining, shops, and attractions, including the notable Braga Cathedral.
The One Palacio da Anunciada
Located in the heart of historic Lisbon, The One Palacio da Anunciada is a 5-star hotel within easy walking distance of Avenida da Liberdade and Praca dos Restauradores. The hotel's 83 rooms feature sophisticated interiors crafted from high-quality materials and decorated with hand-painted ceramics. Award-winning designer Jaime Beriestain combined the original 16th century building with the modern comforts of a top-notch hotel including a striking swimming pool and soothing spa.
Carmo’s Boutique Hotel
Carmo's Boutique Hotel is a countryside gem surrounded by lush gardens in northern Portugal. Listed as a Small Luxury Hotel, the property makes an excellent base to explore nearby UNESCO-listed heritage sites. Eighteen spacious rooms and suites feature canopy beds, soaking tubs and wide windows to let in the light. Taste traditional dishes at the onsite restaurant, relax at the spa, or explore vintages at the wine atelier.
Calheiros Manor
Perched on the hills above the Lima River Valley in northern Portugal, family owned Paco de Calheiros is housed in an 8th century manor house surrounded by vineyards and spectacular views. Rooms are decorated with antique furniture with traditional elegance and modern amenities. Sample the estate's vinho verde, relax in the spa or pool, or play a game on the tennis courts.
Hotel Quinta das Lagrimas
The historic Quinta das Lagrimas is said to be the site of a 14th-century prince's forbidden love affair. Surrounded by botanical gardens, the grand palace exterior is complemented by charming modern rooms with a nod to the site's history. The garden spa includes indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a Turkish bath and steam room. The restaurants focus on fresh ingredients, locally sourced, sometimes from the hotel's own garden.
Hotel Minho
Located in the heart of Alto Minho, in Vila Nova de Cerveira, where narrow streets are lined with 17th and 18th century mansions, Hotel Minho is a modern haven with an inviting outdoor swimming pool surrounded by sun loungers and shade umbrellas, and full spa including indoor pool, Jacuzzi, Turkish bath, sauna, massage, and other treatments. Relax in comfortable rooms with balconies or terraces after a meal of traditional Portuguese dishes accompanied by regional wines in the adjacent restaurant and wine bar.
Weather
Spring and fall mornings are cool but warm up to 70F at midday, cooling back down to about 50F in late afternoon.
May
Sep
Lisbon
High
Low
High
Low
Lisbon
72
57
80
63
Porto
High
Low
High
Low
Porto
68
53
75
58
Santiago de Compostela
High
Low
High
Low
Santiago de Compostela
66
48
74
54
FAQs
Which one of your Camino de Santiago trips should I do?
Both! Our Camino Portugués trip links nicely with some departures of our Camino Frances. Call for details!
Do I have to walk every step of the way?
No! We will provide ample vehicle support, so you can shorten your walks if you need to.
Will I receive the Pilgrimage Certificate at the end of this Camino?
No. The certificate of accomplishment is given to pilgrims upon completing at least the final 62 miles of the Way of St James. We will each get a Pilgrims Passport.
What is the cuisine of Portugal?
Northern Portugal is famous for its Bacalhau (cod) dishes, fresh shellfish, and Petiscos (Portuguese version of tapas.)
What type of scenery will we hike through?
Vineyards, rolling hills, olive groves, cobblestone streets, ancient bridges, old Roman roads, stunning coastal views, and historic hilltop villages!
I did your Camino Frances trip already. Will this Camino be similar?
Yes! We've designed our Camino Portugués to invite a return with the same team of lead guides, the same level of service, same standard of accommodations, and same level of challange.
What is the minimum age for this trip?
The standard minimum age for this trip is 18, but check out our private trip options for families and groups with younger guests.
How difficult is El Camino Portugues?
The difficulty of the El Camino Portugues can vary depending on the route and individual fitness levels. Generally, it is considered to be of moderate difficulty, with well-marked paths and a mix of flat stretches and inclines, making it accessible to a wide range of hikers. Mountain Travel Sobek's Camino Portugues is rated Level 4, which is moderate to challenging.
Is the Camino Portugues an official pilgrimage route?
Yes, the Camino Portugués is recognized as an official pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. It holds the same status as other popular routes like the Camino Frances and is part of the broader network of Caminos leading to the shrine of St. James in Spain.
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El Camino de Santiago de Compostela is the road of Santiago de Compostela or—as is more well-known in English—Saint James’ way. Did you know that there are more than ten routes to walk el camino de Santiago de Compostela and become a pilgrim?
In this post we are going to learn all about them, learn who St. James was and why he is important, and why he has a path and many more things about el camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
Before walking many miles, get ready to scroll down and learn. Get comfortable and join me unraveling El Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
Who Was El Apóstol Santiago?
El apóstol Santiago el Mayor (St. James the Great, the disciple) was one of Jesus Christ’s 12 disciples who accompanied Him throughout his 3 years of public life.
Afterward, Jesus sent St. James to preach to Hispania (Spain and Portugal) and he disembarked in Gallaecia (Galicia). He sent Saint Peter to preach to Rome and Jesus lived his public life in Jerusalem. That is why Rome, Jerusalem, and Santiago de Compostela are the three Christian pilgrimage cities.
Around 800 years after St. James’ death, Alfonso II of Asturias found a Roman tomb with a beheaded body (which was probably St. James’), because of some lights he saw in a mount, and ordered them to build a Church over the cemetery which they had found.
Why Is St. James Santiago in Spanish?
Saint James and Santiago both come from the Hebrew name, Iaakov, which then in Latin was translated to Jacobus. Thanks to this, the Spanish names Jaime, Diego, Tiago, and Santiago all have the same root.
The word Compostela, in the City, might come from Latin campus stellae, meaning field of stars.
Where Is Santiago de Compostela?
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of La Comunidad Autónoma (the autonomous community) of Galicia, which lies on the NorthWestern tip of Spain, just above Portugal. Santiago de Compostela is 372 mi (600 km) away from Madrid, the capital of Spain.
How To Get to Santiago From Madrid?
There are four ways to get to Santiago de Compostela from Madrid, en avión (by plane), en auto o coche (by car), en bus (by bus) and en tren (by train).
If you take the plane it is a 70-minute flight, if you take the car it can be around 6 hours, if you take a bus it can take up to 8 hours and if you take the train it can vary anywhere between 4 and a half hours and 6 hours.
And of course, the most obvious and important one, caminando (by walking!)
When Is the Best Time to Visit Santiago?
Any time is a good time to visit Santiago de Compostela or try to walk El Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
According to Iago Vázquez, a Galician who has spent 14 years living in Galicia, “the summer is the best time to visit Santiago because the weather is amazing and the atmosphere in the city is great overall.” In the summer of 2021 Santiago de Compostela received around 95,000 people.
However, as I write this, there are still pilgrims who visit the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Iago mentioned that “there are pilgrims in Santiago de Compostela every day in every season.”
The fall and the winter can get a bit tough in Galicia since the average temperature reaches 47°F (8.6°C), but you are going to see much fewer people than in the summer.
PRO TIP: Take into account that Santiago de Compostela is the second Spanish city with the rainiest days in a year, only behind the Basque city of San Sebastián. Santiago de Compostela averages 140 rainy days a year.
The Pilgrim Routes To Make El Camino de Santiago de Compostela
There are ten different routes to make El Camino de Santiago de Compostela
The English Way
The first Camino de Santiago de Compostela is el camino inglés. This way owes its name to the Northern Europeans who arrived in Ferrol and Coruña and walked to Santiago from either city. The difficulty of this path is classified as medium and you can start off from either Ferrol or Coruña.
If you start from Coruña the way is shorter, it takes 45 mi (73 km). If you start from Ferrol it is 69 mi (112,5 km.) Both ways find each other in the Spanish town called Bruma and make the last 24 mi (40 km) together.
Fisterra Muxía Way
The second Camino de Santiago de Compostela is el camino de Fisterra Muxía. This path is very peculiar, because it takes you from Santiago de Compostela to Fisterra or Muxía, two important Galician towns. This is also a medium difficulty path, and some Galicians say that this is the true Camino de Santiago de Compostela. The reason is that it takes you to La Costa de la Muerte (the coast of Death) in el fin del mundo (the end of the world). If you go to Muxía-Fisterra you’ll have 73,5 mi (118,4 km), if you do Fisterra-Muxía you’ll have 73 mi (117,5 km).
FUN FACT: Fisterra got its name when Roman conquerors found what they believed was the end of the world, since they saw the Atlantic Ocean “swallowing” the Sun, they believed there was no more land further.
The French Way
The third Camino de Santiago de Compostela is el camino francés. This is the most well-known way of El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the classic. Aymeric Picaud, a French cleric described this way in 1135, in a book called Codex Calixtinus.
Just like el camino inglés and el camino Fisterra Muxía you have two ways of walking this one. Take the San Xil way and walk 96 mi (154,7 km), or take the Samos way and walk 100 mi (161,7 km.) San Xil and Samos are also two medium-difficulty paths.
The Northern Way
The fourth Camino de Santiago de Compostela is el camino del norte. British, Dutch, German, and Scandinavian people walked this path, especially in the middle ages. Just like all the others mentioned above, there are two ways you can take this one. In Ribadeo you’re walking 118,5 mi (190,7 km) and in Santiago de Abres 114,76 mi (184,7 km.)
Both ways pass through Obiedo, an important Spanish city in the autonomous community of Asturias. They are both medium-difficulty paths.
The Portuguese Way
Our fifth Camino de Santiago de Compostela is the Portuguese way. The Portuguese way became relevant when Portugal became independent from the Kingdom of Galicia, and it takes you through Portuguese lands, starting off in Tui, you’re going to walk 73,7 mi (118,6 km) to Santiago de Compostela passing through the Miño River, Pontevedra, and Padrón—a Spanish city famous for its bell peppers. This path is a medium-low difficulty one.
The Portuguese Way of the Coast
The sixth way to take on El Camino de Santiago is el camino portugués de la costa. You start off in the Portuguese town of A Guarda and see Mt. Santa Trega. From there you walk 101 mi (162,8 km) to Santiago de Compostela, still passing through Pontevedra and Padrón, but adding the Galician city of Vigo into the mix, home to the Spanish soccer team Celta de Vigo. This is also a medium-low difficulty path.
The Primitive Way
The seventh Camino de Santiago de Compostela is a special one, because UNESCO declared it world heritage in 2015. People of Asturias and Galicia took this path in the 9th and 10th centuries to reach Santiago de Compostela.
You can start off in Alto do Acevo and soon you are met with two choices, going through San Xoán de Padrón, which is a route of 98,98 mi (159,3 km) or taking a route through A Proba de Burón, which is slightly longer at 99,66 mi (160,4 km). Both paths have a low difficulty.
Route of the Sea of Arousa and River Ulloa
The eighth Camino de Santiago de Compostela is a low-difficulty one. You start off in the Galician town of Sanxenxo and as always, finish in Santiago de Compostela.
However, this is a special one, because this route is inspired by the route that the body of St. James’ took when someone transported him from Jerusalem to Galicia by sea. On your trip, you are going to see one of the three Rías Baixas (Low Rías), the ría of Arousa.
Southeast Way, Mozárabe Way, Silver Way
The penultimate way of El Camino de Santiago de Compostela has three different ways to take it:
Through Laza – 138 mi (223,5 km)
Through Verín – 157 mi (253 km)
Through Feces – 123 mi (198 km)
They all are a medium-difficulty path. And it is called el camino Mozárabe because in the year 997, Almanzor, an Arabian conqueror, took this route to attack Santiago de Compostela, and centuries later, Spaniards took the bells that he had taken from the Cathedral through this path.
Winter Way
The last way to take El Camino de Santiago de Compostela is el camino de invierno. This is the hardest way to make El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, because it is a medium-high path.
If you want to explore Galicia, this is your path, because it passes through the four Galician provinces—Lugo, Pontevedra, Ourense and Coruña. This path follows 146 mi (235 km) from Las Médulas, in León, just outside of Galicia and from there you follow the Sil River as it takes you all the way to Santiago de Compostela.
The Cathedral at the End of the Way
Regardless of which Camino de Santiago de Compostela you take (except the Fisterra one) every path takes you to the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, an astonishing building right in the middle of el casco antiguo de Santiago (the old town in Santiago), with a Roman, Gothic and Baroque style.
This astonishing building has a lot of history, and it took Galizians from 1075 to 1211 to build this imposing Cathedral with all of its façades. The Cathedral in Santiago has four façades:
The most famous facade is la fachada del Obradoiro, the one in the picture below. The Cathedral has 86,111 sq ft (8,000 sq ft) and two towers with the names of:
La Berenguela Tower – La torre de la Berenguela
The bells and the rattle Tower – La torre de las campanas y la carraca
Both of them make the tallest structures in Santiago de Compostela, with 246 ft (75 m.)
Besides St. James’ tomb, inside La Catedral de Santiago de Compostela you can find O botafumeiro—the world’s biggest incense burner, which needs 8 men to move, weights 116 lb (53 kg), is 4,9 ft (1,5 m), they suspend it at 65 ft (20 m) and it can reach up to 42 mph (68 kph.)
While, thanks to the Spanish law, accessing the Cathedral and seeing everything inside, attending mass and confessing is completely free, and you can access it every day (except special dates) from 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The Cathedral offers an entrance to access the Cathedral’s museums for 13,61 USD (12€.)
The Cathedral hosts four museums: El museo catedral Pórtico de la Gloria (The Cathedral Museum Glory’s Porch), El museo catedral cubiertas y torre de la carraca (Cathedral museum, covers and Rattle tower), El museo colección permanente (The permanent collection museum), Santa María Real de La Sar (Santa María Real de La Sar).
FUN FACT: La Catedral de Santiago de Compostela has 16 chapels.
What (Else) To Visit in Santiago de Compostela
Praza do Obradoiro
When you visit the Cathedral you are going to be in Praza do Obradoiro (Workshop Square). you are going to find the cathedral and three other amazing buildings:
Rajoy Palace – El Palacio de Rajoy
Hostal of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain – El hostal de los Reyes Católicos
St. Jerome School – Colegio de San Xerome.
Campus de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
La Universidade de Santiago de Compostela is one of the oldest universities in Europe, because it started on September 4th, 1495! The University has two campuses in Santiago:
El Campus Norte – Northern Campus
El Campus Sur o Campus Vida – The Southern Campus or Campus Vida
Walking through the University Campus can offer a relaxing experience and you can see the university’s life and more than 30,000 students that study there yearly.
Historical Center
El Centro Histórico de Santiago de Compostela is a breathtaking little place. Strolling through its medieval streets can teleport you in time, and make you feel like you are in the early days of the city.
It is a charming place full of different scents of bakeries, pubs, bars, cafeterias, clothes shops, night clubs and apartments on top of all of this. Walking from end to end takes around 15 minutes and you can find thousands of different things, drown in the smell of local bakeries and cafés and visit the famous Mercado de Abastos de Santiago, the old local market.
The Pilgrimage Museum
El museo de las peregrinaciones (The pilgrimage museum) is one of the thousands of little buildings you can find in the historical centers of Santiago.
It has five floors with different things about pilgrims, photographic expositions, and the Cathedral’s models. Visiting it can take more than two hours if you take your time. Officially, the general entrance fee is 2,72 USD (2,40€), thanks to COVID, the entrance has been free.
Kampus
This last place is not as cultural as the ones I mentioned above, but it is worth visiting! Kampus is a cafeteria made for students close to the Southern Campus.
The amazing thing about the place is that it is not expensive, and they offer you a lot of good quality tapas with every beverage you order! They play hits from the 00s and you can be there as long as you want! If you want to taste a little bit of Galician tapas you can visit Kampus!
FUN FACT: A great option to taste some other great tapas is Cafe Bar el 13. This is closer to the Northern Campus.
Learn Spanish Before Becoming a Pilgrim
Arriving at Santiago de Compostela by walking El Camino de Santiago de Compostela is an enlightening adventure that will live inside you for the rest of your life. But before taking this awesome trip, sign up for a free Spanish class today, and prepare yourself by learning Spanish!
While people in Santiago like to speak Galician, all of them do speak Spanish (and they are highly similar.) Learning Spanish will open the doors to more than 22 countries that speak Spanish officially, and it will also improve your cognition and decision-making abilities! If that alone does not seem enough to start learning Spanish, speaking to more than 53,000,000 people in the U.S. might do the trick. The best part is, that Spanish can also land you a better paycheck at the end of each month!
To put a cherry on top of everything, people decide to learn Spanish with Homeschool Spanish Academy because we have been teaching for over 10 years to more than 24,000 active students monthly, still offering one-on-one lessons, earned high school credit, flexible schedules, and different payment options! Don’t just sit there, learn Spanish today!
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I woke up one morning with a voice in my head that just wouldn’t go away…
“You’re going to walk the Camino.”
I had only heard of the Camino de Santiago previously, about 5 or so years earlier, when I randomly stumbled upon the movie The Way. Like many who have walked before me, this movie was my first introduction to the Camino de Santiago. Only, at the time of watching, I hadn’t felt compelled or even remotely interested in this pilgrimage.
As I finished the film I thought “thats cool…” and then moved on with my life as though nothing had happened. Until this voice creeped into my head years later and spoke the words to me “You’re going to walk the Camino.”
At first it was subtle. I thought “I must have seen something that triggered this… some sign somewhere and my subconscious brain is just telling me about it…” and then tried to ignore and lock the voice away into some area of my mind where it would eventually just disappear.
But disappear it did not. It only grew louder like a flashing STOP sign at an intersection.
Soon realizing that this was not some regularly scheduled programming by my subconscious and was actually something much more, I decided to listen. Without much planning beyond picking which route I would follow, I booked my plane ticket and off I went to France.
I'm guessing something like this may have happened to you. You watched The Way, maybe watched one of my vlogs, or heard about this walk from a friend, and had voice in your head saying “You should do this… You should walk the Camino de Santiago”. In celebration of whatever may have brought you here today, and in honoring of the spirit of the Camino, I’ve compiled some of the most helpful information for walking the Camino Frances.
While I’m not an expert on the Camino Frances, these are things that I found the most helpful on my pilgrimage and things I wish someone would have shared with me before I landed in Saint Jean Pied de Port, France.
what we’ll cover in this blog:
what to expect
how long it will take (and routing advice)
my full accommodation list
common mistakes for first-time pilgrims
what to pack
cost
safety on the Camino Frances
what I would do differently
helpful resources
what to expect
The only thing I can say for sure about this journey is that it will change you in some way. If you talk to any pilgrim who has walked the Camino de Santiago, whether it be The French Way or another route, they will say “It changed my life.” It’s only the HOW that looks different for everyone.
While the landscape can be absolutely stunning, so much of the adventure is internal and lies within, so it’s a bit difficult to put into words what your expectations of the walk could be. Your may show up hoping to heal from a relationship or to find answers to life’s most burning questions: “What is my purpose? What should I do next with my life?” and, while you may receive those answers, you also may not.
I showed up with a few questions of my own and while I may not have received the answers, I found something much more significant. Your journey will be different and no doubt in my mind, just as incredible.
Instead of listing what you can expect on the way, I would invite you to just show up and take in everything this experience has to offer.
Be open to living completely different than you do at home.
Stay curious.
Don’t rush the walk or try to hurry to your hostel each day.
Take breaks frequently and enjoy the view.
This is no one right way to walk The Way.
Show up. Walk. Let everything take care of itself.
Only one thing is truly certain: if you are walking during the Summer, you can definitely expect HEAT.
how long will it take?
The Camino Frances, also known as The French Route, is the most popular of the Camino de Santiago routes. If you are choosing to walk the entire route from St. Jean Pied Pied de Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain the distance will be around 500 miles or 790 km. For the purposes of this blog I will be focusing on the full route rather than the last 100km from Sarria to Santiago.
Most pilgrims complete the Camino Frances within 30-35 days.
I personally created my itinerary to have several days off and much shorter days in various sections so my itinerary ended up being 60 days which is almost twice as long as most people and to be honest, not really necessary.
I tacked on 2-3 extra hours per day for filming and used my days off to organize files for the vlog, which most people will not be doing.
I would suggest taking a few days off in larger cities for sight-seeing though, or if you feel you may not be in the best physical shape currently, adjusting the route with shorter days so there is less stress on your body.
The time it will take to finish the Camino Frances will depend on your fitness levels and the time you have to walk. I would say 40-45 days would be the sweet spot for someone who wanted to take their time. This would keep your average walking per day at around 12-13 miles or 20km.
The Camino Guidebook has an example of this kind of itinerary on their website here.
Everyone will have different itineraries on this walk and there is A LOT of infrastructure on the Camino Frances. There are many small towns and villages in between the larger stops where you can find lodging. Be sure to watch my accommodation video for more tips on routing your perfect Camino Pilgrimmage!
tip: When looking at itineraries with average times on any website or guidebook, I noticed that the average walk time was totally off UNLESS you are a speed walker or don’t stop for breaks. If you plan to take your time and enjoy the scenery I would add on an extra 1-2 hours to the day whenever you see “average walk time for the day.”
With all that said, let’s dive right into my accommodation list and route below!
accommodation list
Like I mentioned above, my route included many days off and some shorter days. If I were to do it again I would have less days off, except in large cities where I wanted to visit cathedrals, museums, go grocery shopping, and do my laundry. Instead I would focus on shorter days, especially in the beginning stages of the Camino when my body was just getting used to the daily schedule. Being an avid hiker, I thought it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. Daily walking, however, versus hiking a few days in a row, turned out to be much more difficult than I had anticipated.
While most pilgrims stay in dorm rooms, I opted for all but two (Gite Makila & Refuge Orrison) private rooms. I admit, at first I booked several dorm rooms but soon realized there really was no need to do so as the experience was the same except I got better sleep and had more spaciousness to reflect, journal, and have time to myself.
I personally can say I am very happy with this decision and it was only further confirmed as time went on and I heard everyone’s gripes about people snoring, seeing men’s private bits, and not having enough hot water for a shower.
If you also are an introvert like I am or just want quiet time after a day of walking and possibly chatting with a lot of other people on the trail, then having private rooms may help you deepen into the experience. I know it did for me.
And do not fret about missing out on any community experiences! Almost every place I stayed had communal living spaces to hang out and plenty of group dinners as well. As long as you are willing to just say “Hello” to a fellow pilgrim you will make friends and have a wonderful time!
Be sure to watch the FULL VIDEO of my accommodation stays and other tips below!
Here is a lis of almost every place I stayed along the Camino Frances. If a city/town is missing, it’s because the place I stayed is now closed permanently or I would not suggest the stay for various reasons.
Saint Jean Pied de Port, Gite Makila & Gite Compostella
$29/$62 p/night
I stayed in two places while in SJPDP. There are a TON of places to stay so you won’t have an issue finding something that works well for you. I would highly suggest picking a place that has a group dinner on your first night so you can meet fellow pilgrims. I stayed in a private room in Gite Compostella for a few days before transferring over to Gite Makila on the night before I headed out. Both were great though Gite Compostella didn’t feel very communal. The space was lovely though. Gite Makila had a beautiful outdoor area and a group breakfast before we all headed out for the day. I liked this place quite a bit and it is right near the Camino Store and restaurants.
Pyrenees Mountains, Refuge Orisson
$45 p/night
I highly suggest saying here instead of making the trek to Roncesvalles. You don’t want to overdo it on the first day! The view is incredible and this is a great spot to make friends. I met almost everyone I walked with during the Camino at this stop and am so happy with my experience here! You MUST book in advance. Please note they are VERY difficult to get ahold of sometimes so be patient with a response.
tip: book all your arrangements via Booking.com or email the albergue/pension directly.
Roncesvalles, Posada de Roncevalles
$95 p/night
A lot of people stay at the monastery in town but I booked here instead so I could get a private room. From what I heard, that was a good decision as people said it was crowded and wasn’t exactly what they expected.
tip: Don’t miss the mass at The Royal Collegiate Church of Roncesvalles which is right down the street! It was such a sweet experience, even if you are not a Christian or Catholic.
Zubiri, Txantxorena
$90 p/night
While I have no idea how to pronounce the name, this was one of my more luxurious stays on the Camino and one I would 100% book again! Breakfast was wonderful and she even picked up gluten-free and vegan options for me. There is no dinner service and less communal experience here, but after a few difficult days I was happy to have a really nice bed and great facilities.
Pamplona (no suggested stay)
As Pamplona is a LARGE city, you will find plenty of options, I highly recommend booking in near Plaza del Castillo so you can be within a 5 minute walk of the Camino store (in case you need to get different shoes or other items), popular restaurants, and the cathedral.
Puente la Reina, Alburgue Jakue
$48 p/night
This place was awesome! I would 100% recommend! When you first arrive, there is an outdoor bar with tables and a really nice vibe to just hang out and chat with fellow pilgrims. Dinner is served downstairs and there will be different allocated times at which you can eat. While I can’t say I was blown away by the food, I found this place to just be really cool. I believe there is one room with a private bathroom but the other private rooms shared a bathroom with those in the dorms.
Villatuerte, Casa Magica
$72 p/night
The name says it all! There is only ONE private room and is BIG! Enough for a couple plus one other person or just enjoy having the room to yourself. I will say, if you plan on sharing with a friend, the shower is in the bedroom itself, as is the toilet, and you will not have any privacy when bathing or using the restroom so keep this in mind. The dinner is fabulous and fully vegetarian. There are hammocks outside, a washing machine, and overall the couple is just very sweet!
Estella, Alda Estella Hostal
$82 p/night
I don’t have anything particularly special to say about this place. It was located near the town square so a great location if you do not want to walk too far when grabbing dinner. I booked a private room and ended up having four beds all to myself!
Logrono (no suggested stay)
As this is a larger city on the Camino, there will be plenty of options for you. I would suggest taking a look at where you are booking to ensure you are not right above a bar if you care to sleep at all. I am a heavy sleeper and I booked a place on the Camino route itself in the middle of the city and didn’t get much sleep at all.
Navarrete, Hostal Villa de Navarrette
$39 p/night
A family runs this Hostal (like most on the Camino Frances) and they all were very accommodating and kind. I loved the location which was only about a 1-2 minute walk from the cathedral and right next to all the restaurant in town. I had a balcony to myself so I could dry my clothes outside, and the son even carried my bag up to my room. Overall I would stay here again just because of the hospitality and location!
Najera, Hostal Hispano
$45 p/night
There was nothing too special about this place though the receptionist was very kind (and funny!) and it was very clean. It was also in a very quiet area of town, meaning I did have to walk about 5 minutes to get food. That seems rather trivial as I write this, but as this was the beginning of the Camino my feet were quite sore as my body got used to walking. With that said, I would still stay here again.
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Parador de Sto. Domingo Bernardo de Fresneda
$49 p/night
Camino Frances luxury at its finest! This historic hotel is housed in the former San Francisco Convent and if you are a sucker for decor and comfort, then you will love this place! I had an injury on the day I arrived and was happy to have such a comfortable place to relax. It’s within walking distance of all the restaurants and right on the Camino too. Compared to USA prices, I felt that they could charge far more for what you get!
Belorado, Hostel B.
$45 p/night
Upon entering, I was greeted with fresh sparking lemonade. They also had a small store downstairs where you could pick up a few provisional goods. They also offered breakfast (and possibly dinner though I am unsure) though Belorado had great food in general. The private room I booked had 4 beds. Basically some places will offer a private room but really it will be a small dorm room you get all to yourself. If you are traveling with a partner, you would need to sleep in separate beds. You will have your own bathroom though. I would 100% stay here again.
Villafranca-Montes de Oca, La Alpargateria
$26 p/night
The woman who owns and operates this place is a gem! She was a firecracker and also a gifted healer. The room itself was OK but you don’t need much on the Camino anyway. I had a queen bed and had to share a bathroom with several others. If you book ahead, see if she can book you in for a massage too! She is wonderfully talented and I felt so relaxed after my mini-session with her.
Burgos, Hotel Lar
$100 p/night
Burgos was my favorite big city on the Camino de Santiago and I really liked the location of this hotel. One of the few hotels I stayed at on The Way, it didn’t have a “Camino Vibe” to it though I liked taking a few days break to sight-see and explore the city. There are several podiatrists within walking distance, it’s surrounded by many cafes, and only about a 5-10 minute walk to the cathedral. I had a HUGE room with 2 beds and even had a bath too! I also had several windows where I could look out on the street and people watch or just take in the city.
Rabe de las Calzades, Hostal-Bar Restaurante "La Fuente"
$55 p/night
I could not rave more about this place! This town was not a main stage/stop on the Camino yet I am so happy I stayed here. The owners were very kind and made sure I had vegan and gluten-free food. There is a bar/restaurant downstairs and there is a separate menu for vegetarians. The room was small yet comfortable and the whole energy of the place felt very loving and cared for. I wish I could remember the name of it, but there is a small convent one street over where you can go watch the nuns sing. They didn’t speak any English yet their love was communicated so clearly. They gave me a necklace before I headed back to my hostal that evening. Overall, a great stay and a quieter stop on the Camino.
Hornillos del Camino, De Sol A Sol
While going from Rabe de las Calzades seemed like far too short of a day (I believe it was only about 7km), I still really enjoyed this stay and would book again if my itinerary and walking distances each day matched up. The owner’s sister married Emilio Estevez’s son so there is a direct connection to the movie The Way - keep this in mind if you are a fan! Besides that cool info, the owner was very sweet, the place was clean, and he made sure there were gluten-free options in the morning for me. You can watch the vlog with him in it here!
Castrojeriz, aCienLeguas
$42 p/night
Giant room and great shower! If you want a space where you can stretch and just relax, you will enjoy this place. There is a bar and restaurant on site, two outdoor areas, and laundry facilities as well. This was one of the nicer places I stayed in and would book again in a heartbeat.
Fromista, HotelSanMartin
$48 p/night
I liked the location of this place and was happy with the stay. There is a restaurant and bar downstairs and an area outside to have food and drinks as well. You are right off of the Camino like most places on this list. There was nothing particularly special about this place though I would book again.
Carrión de los Condes, Hotel Real Monasterio de San Zoilo
$94 p/night
This was another fabulous stay! Located in an old monastery, you hear chants being played over the speakers as you walk into the reception area. While not near any other facilities or restaurants, it has a restaurant on site and I would absolutely book this place again! The dinner was incredible and the breakfast buffet was too. I even had air conditioning here. Pure Heaven!
Ledigos, Alburgue LaMorena
$48 p/night
This place had a great vibe and facilities. There was a bar and food on site and they offered a variety of choices. They had an outdoor seating area to enjoy drinks and snacks with others as well as a backyard. I believe they also offered a group dinner at a set time but I was so tired when I was there I didn’t attend. I imagine it was good based on everything else they had there.
Leon, Hotel La Posada Regia
$72 p/night
Leon has a lot of places to choose from though this location was perfect! I was a few minutes walk from the cathedral, right off the Camino itself, and nearby great restaurants. The room was spacious and the front desk staff were friendly. I would stay here again.
Villadangos del Páramo, Hostal Alto Paramo
$64 p/night
While the owners were very sweet, I would not necessarily book here again just due to the location. It felt like staying at a truck stop - you are right off the freeway and there is nothing else around except the bar downstairs. BUT, from what I remember, I wanted to break up a couple longer days and this was one of the only options. It was clean and worked for my needs.
Hospital de Órbigo, Albergue de Peregrinos-San Miguel
$37 p/night
This was such a cool albergue! As you walk into this place, you can feel the love. There are paintings that line every single wall from pilgrims who have passed through. Pick up a paint brush anytime while there and leave your own masterpiece to be hung as well! The private room here was actually one of the dorm-rooms-turned-private accommodation. I had 4 beds to myself and a shared bathroom. There is a communal kitchen and outdoor space for everyone to use. The owners are sweet and have a great story about how they came to have this place so be sure to ask when there!
Astorga, Albergue Só Por Hoje , Albergue de Peregrinos no Camino de Santiago
$69 p/night
Astorga was a very cool city and while none of the sights made it into the vlog, I really enjoyed it here. You can check out this place in this video here. I would 100% book again!
Santa Catalina de Somoza, Via Avis
$74 p/night
My favorite place on the Camino! I had a complete break-down ( it was more like a break-open) while here and I think this place helped initiate the process. It was absolutely STUNNING and felt incredibly private and secure. When you open the gate, there is a private courtyard and each area has been thoughtfully decorated and maintained. It didn’t necessarily feel like a pilgrim place even though there were several other pilgrims here. I would go here on vacation if I was in the area. Great luxury at an affordable price! This place is also featured in one of the emotional vlogs I put out about the Camino here.
Foncebadon, El Trasgu de Foncebadón
$95 p/night
The owners of this place are hilarious and sweet. I loved chatting with them and the ease of which it was to just go downstairs and eat or pick up items in their in-house store. Everything was great and I would book this room again in a heartbeat. The private room I had was very tiny but worked well enough for me. They do laundry for $10 a basket which is a bit pricey, but worth it if you want to take some time to just chill before heading out to Cruz de Farro. Even though the room was small, I would stay here again because I really loved the owners.
tip: I stayed here for 2 nights. While I don’t think that was necessary I would suggest going up the cross in the afternoon rather than in the morning. This was suggested to me by the owner and I’m happy I did this as no one was there and I had time to reflect. You can watch the video about Cruz de Farro here.
Molinaseca, Hostal Casa San Nicolas
$51 p/night
This was a charming place only a block away from the river which runs through Molinaseca. The couple that owns this place has a wonderful story about their journey to the Camino, so be sure to strike up a conversation and ask! There is a communal kitchen, living room, and small courtyard. My bedroom was adorable and I would stay again and possibly add on an extra night here just so I could go swimming in the river the next day.
Villafranca del Bierzo, Micro-Hostal La Puerta del Perdón
$48 p/night
I am unsure why this is called a micro-hostel but I loved this place! I believe there are only a few rooms here and I had a private room with a twin bed and shower en suite. It was small but cute. The owner had a lovely downstairs area where he served food and he made a fresh breakfast. The White Chocolate Orange Cake he made from scratch and fresh avocado toast was enough for me to book again!
Vega de Valcarce, Las Rocas
$37 p/night
I wish I had filmed this stay because I loved it! Situated right on the river that runs through town, this place was centrally located with a great restaurant across the street which, if I remember correctly, was actually where I checked in. Right outside the door of my room, I could walk down a few steps and put my feet in the river. I actually ended up laying down in the river as it was so hot and what a joy that was! I had a private bathroom and would 100% stay here again as I loved listening to the river outside the window at night.
O Cebreiro, Albergueria Frade
$53 p/night
There are not a lot of options in O Cebreiro so book ahead for this area! There was not much to this place in terms of facilities but I had a nice large bed and great bathroom. Definitely a nicer stay though do no expect much interaction with fellow pilgrims. O Cebreiro is a cool town right on top of a mountain and one place I would recommend staying (and booking ahead!) instead of heading to the next as the climb up the hill to O Cebreiro is a bit of a workout.
Treacastela, Albergue Atrio
$38 p/night
I really liked this room! It was one of the more unique stays I booked. You’ll be within walking distance of everything you need and it’s right on the Camino.
Samos, Pensión Santa Rosa
$26 p/night
This location was right on the river, just a block from the old monastery and near all the restaurants (there are not many in town). I would not book my particular room again though the place in general was nice. I had a room upstairs which had a “window” (the only window in the room) that looked out onto the hallway next to the bathroom so I had no privacy and could hear people in the restroom. The other rooms downstairs looked much more suitable. There was a small communal kitchen but I would not say it was set up for cooking full meals. There was, however, a nice area outside to sit in the hammocks and listen to the river.
Sarria, Pensión-Albergue Puente Ribeira
$32 p/night
Sarria will have a lot of accommodation, however I stayed here. Nothing too special but the people at reception were friendly and my room was very clean. If you are starting from Sarria, I would say stay somewhere more community-oriented as this didn’t have a restaurant or community dinner.
Portomarin, Pension Perez
$37 p/night
Nothing to write home about, but it did have a balcony to dry clothes. I wouldn’t necessarily book here again though nothing was wrong with the stay either.
Palas de Rei, Pension Pardellas
$52 p/night
I really liked this place! There was a bar/restaurant downstairs which had amazing fried peppers. The only downside was that the only window in the room looked out towards another window across the hall.
Melide, A Lúa do Camiño
$58 p/night
If you are looking for a place with a pool, this is it! I loved that this place was quiet and had a great outdoor area. However there are no kitchen facilities or restaurant on-site so you will need to go out to eat. You’ll find those within a 5 minute walk.
Arzúa, Casa do cabo
$58 p/night
There is air conditioning here! I loved this place and would highly suggest booking it. Great location, only 1-2 blocks from the lavanderia, the facilities were beautiful, and I received a packed lunch. This place is fairly new and it will be one of the nicer stays—much less rustic than others on the Camino Frances.
Santiago
YOU MADE IT! With a wide selection to choose from, you will have no trouble finding something though I would book ahead if you want something budget friendly. When I was booking Santiago prices were very high and a few people I met had trouble finding budget accommodation. This might be a good time to splurge before leaving.
tip: You can not take your backpack in the cathedral (for pilgrim’s mass or any other service) so check in to your hotel first and see if they can hold your bag or check-in early. Pilgrim’s mass is VERY Crowded in the afternoon and they often turn people away. I would suggest waiting until the next morning as the morning mass is quiet and far less crowded. I loved being in the cathedral with only a handful of people and having that time to reflect and soak up the completion of the journey though if you want to experience with many other pilgrims start your day early!
common mistakes for first-time pilgrims
Most of these apply to staying in dorm rooms so they may not apply to you, but do take a look so you can offer advice to fellow pilgrims along the way.
Common Mistakes:
Using plastic bags in dorms. Do not keep all your personal items in plastic bags and rustle around in the morning if you are in a dorm. People will NOT be happy with you. Use compression bags and label them for ease in the morning or have everything laid out the night before or just leave the room and take out everything to a common area.
Playing music on the trail. This is more of a thing I found young people doing once you reach Sarria though I mention it in case you think it’s a worthy endeavor. This is a quick way to piss people off.
Using a headlamp in the dorms. This won’t matter if you have private rooms but if you are in dorms. If you must use a headlamp, use the red light as it’s less intrusive.
Not bringing ear plugs. If you are staying in a dorm, bring ear plugs. People snore loudly and I could even hear them from my private room sometimes!
Not wearing your shoes long enough before setting out on the trail. Be sure to break them in and try them on multiple surfaces for LONG periods of time, multiple days in a row.
Not drinking enough water. Make sure you pack more than you need each day as not all water spigots work. I found a 3L water bladder worked great for me.
Knowing the signs of heat stroke. Several people died on the Camino Frances from heat stroke while I was there. If you feel lightheaded at all, STOP and find shade or drench yourself in water. If you are not used to walking in 80-90 Fahrenheit weather then your body will take a few weeks to adjust. Start early in the morning during the summer and do not underestimate how hot the sun is especially if you are from a northern country such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc.
Not training. Some people will say “the camino will train you.” Maybe, yes. But this is not true or helpful for a lot of people who are in their more ‘mature years’. If you are not able to walk the mileage you plan on walking per day by the time you get to the Camino, multiple days in a row, this pilgrimage may be more than just difficult. I want to be honest about this as many people I met ended up not completing the journey because of lack of training prior to arriving or because of the next mistake on my list…
If you feel a blister or pain starting, check it immediately! I ended up shortening a few of my days so I could go to the pharmacy or podiatrist and rest. I don't regret this as I ended up finishing and those who tried ‘toughing it out’ didn’t make it to Santiago. Little things turn into BIG thing on the Camino so be smart and tend to any little feet issues ASAP.
what to pack
Here is what I wish I had brought but didn’t:
Headlamp: On some mornings I started quite early and walked in total darkness. While it was fun to walk by moonlight when it was closer to the full moon, it was a real game of trust when it was near new moon and I couldn’t see a thing.
Dress: I would have loved to just slip on a comfy dress and my hiking sandals when going out for a beverage instead of just another hiking outfit. Think about what you will wear daily and what you wear post-shower or out to dinner. No one really dresses up, we all look like pilgrims all the time. I personally wish I had brought a casual dress just because it sounded like a nice change mentally from wearing hiking clothes all day, every day for 2 months, but it was definitely not a necessity.
Electrolytes: This is harder to find than one might think. My body is highly sensitive to dyes, coloring, and other artificial ingredients so the one option they had on the Camino de Santiago was NOT going to cut it. I would bring electrolytes next time.
To get an overview of what exactly to pack, watch my Packing Vlog Below!
cost
Everyone’s price point on the Camino is different. I spent 2 months on the Camino so my expenses were quite high compared to pretty much everyone. That said, compared to anything in the USA and being able to spend 2 months traveling through Europe on the most remarkable journey of my life - it was WELL WORTH IT!
I would say having a $100 a day budget is good if you plan to eat out, have all private rooms, and have a little extra spending money for drinks, museums, donating to churches, etc. Honestly I think you could get by with $75 if you needed to and still stay in private rooms. When staying in dorms, a good average would be around $50 per day or so. Dorm rooms are usually around free to $15 p/night and a 3-course pilgrim meal is usually $12 - $15.
Some things to think about when budgeting your pilgrimage:
Will you want to cook at night or go out to eat? Average pilgrim meal is $12 - $15 though I usually spent this on non-pilgrim meals and just ordered whatever I wanted.
Do you want private rooms?
Do you have an emergency fund just in case something happens?
I cover my full costs on the vlog which you can watch below. This goes over everything in detail!
tip: Remember to purchase travel insurance and put this in your budget as well! Things do happen on the Camino and you want to ensure you don’t come home with a BIG bill.
safety
The Camino de Santiago, in general, I would personally say is VERY safe. I felt more safe walking alone on the Camino Frances than anywhere I have hiked before in the USA. I would rather walk in Spain alone on the camino than in New York City or Los Angeles or even on the PCT. The scariest things to me were the animals not fenced in!
As a woman, I understand this question and even a hesitation to walking, though I think when you show up those fears will soon dissipate.
The only issue(s) you might encounter could be your transport/journey to the start of the Camino Frances. Paris is notorious for people stealing items so be on alert if transferring there and never let your luggage out of your sight. I met a woman who had all her belonging stolen on the train from Paris and had to walk barefoot on the trail.
Be alert when traveling and keep the following suggestions in mind:
Make copies of your travel insurance, passport, and any relevant personal information (health documents, etc). Keep this in a different place than your real documents.
Don’t keep all your cash in one place and make sure to stash some in different areas. You can get cash out along the way so you only need a few days worth at a time or enough to get you to the next big city. Most places also take cards (but not all!).
Some people had their walking poles or shoes stolen on the trail but I believe these incidents were truly by accident. Label your poles and your shoes by tying a ribbon around them at night before going to bed. It is dark in the morning and sometimes people grab things that look like theirs (if you are in a private room this will not be a concern unless they ask you to leave these items by the door).
You can always keep a GPS tracker on you like a Garmin InReach or even have your phone tracking on if it makes you feel more comfortable. Just make sure you have a SIM card or know how much your cell phone provider is charging you in a different country for using data all day long.
The Camino is filled with other pilgrims, many on a spiritual journey, and I think there is a certain energy about it that lends itself to safety. I have heard horror stories of those on the Pacific Crest Trail or Appalachian Trail here in the USA but never a bad tale from the Camino (except the pole or shoe incidents).
what I would have done differently
I am not one to have regrets, but I do like to reflect on how I could improve after each journey or experience in life. With that said, here are the top things I would do differently.
I would have:
Scheduled shorter days in the beginning week of the walk. I found that my scheduling to Orisson, Roncesvalles, and Zubiri were all nicely timed, but after Pamplona I would have liked to keep my mileage at around 10 miles per day until the next week.
Not stayed in a city more than two days and instead focus on just shorter days. When I rested for too long it actually became harder on my body and was more difficult to get going again.
Brought a casual dress that was breathable for those super hot days in the afternoon, along with a headlamp and electrolytes.
Walked to Finisterre.
Worn sneakers from the beginning! Watch the tale of my first injury here.
helpful resources
These are the resources I used before leaving and found to be helpful or tips I picked up along the way!
General Facebook Group and Woman’s Facebook Group. There are quite a few FB groups about the Camino and I found these two to be the best. I will give a lil’ warning on the Camino de Santiago All Routes group - people can be VERY judgmental about people using luggage transport, hiring tour companies, or any other topic they deem “Not a real Camino.” HOWEVER, there is a lot of great advice too! Just be sure to take any negative comments with a grain of salt and remember that people who say those kinds of things are really just judging themselves. It has nothing to do with you or anyone else. That’s what helps me deal with reading through un-camino-like commentary. The Camino group for women, however, is very friendly!
Brierley Guide. Everyone suggests this guide and while I personally didn’t use it, I know a lot of people love it as it contains information about the history of places along the Camino Frances and other fun facts and stops to take along the route.
Michelin Guide. This is the guide I used daily though I picked it up in Pamplona and I'm finding it hard to source an English version online so for the purposes of you getting a visual, I linked to the German edition. I know for sure you can find it at the Camino Store in Pamplona. If you find one in English online please comment below and let me know!
Booking.com. I love using booking.com for treks as you can schedule everything out and see it all in one place. I also liked that I could book the entire trip with free cancellation and pay upon arrival or just a few weeks before heading out.
Download WhatsApp. If you are from the US most people in Europe, and other countries, use WhatsApp for communication instead of our regular texting app. You can communicate with hostels and taxi services or other people you meet via this app. Download and try it before heading out.
I trust that this blog helps you in some way as you plan your perfect pilgrimage! This was a life-changing experience for me personally and one I could say without a doubt calls you to it. If you hear the call, or the voice, follow it and trust that what you need will be found on the Camino de Santiago.
buen camino!
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BobM
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Dec 21, 2019
#1
When I walked the CF I met a man who was walking the CF for the third time. The first two times were with his wife. After she passed away here he was walking for the third time, but by himself.
He was not particularly talkative. Once I met him deep in thought sitting on a seat and I was about to join him. I checked myself in time and left him in peace instead of disturbing a moment that seemed important to him.
It made quite an impression on me. Since then I have discovered that quite a few people walk the same Camino multiple times and it has always intrigued me.
I would love to hear why others have chosen to walk multiple CFs.
Bob M
Bradypus
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Too many and too often!
Dec 21, 2019
#2
I have walked the Camino Frances three times. The first journey was driven mainly by curiosity for something totally beyond my own very limited experience: language, history, landscape and culture all way outside my small-town Scottish upbringing. With a dash of religious enthusiam on the side. I walked my second Camino 12 years later to try to recapture some of the joy which I encountered on that first journey. My first Camino had been a profound moving and transformative experience and at that particular point in my life I desperately needed some more of that. My third Camino Frances was walked with far fewer expectations or hopes but more as a way of observing for myself the changes in the Camino which had taken place over 25 years and to find if the reality of the day corresponded with the descriptions of the modern Camino which I had read here and in other places.
Jeff Crawley
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A "Tourigrino" trip once Covid has passed, so 2023
Dec 21, 2019
#3
Four times in the vain hope that one day I'll get it "right".
Back in 2001 I met a Belgian who was on his 17th . . . mind you he did write the annual guide for the Belgian confraternity.
C clearly
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Dec 21, 2019
#4
Why not? We all repeat things we enjoy or from which we gain value - whether it is visiting a museum, listening to a piece of music, going to church, walking in the park, staying in the same cottage every year, or traveling to a particular vacation spot. Or coming to the forum every day!
Bradypus
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Too many and too often!
Dec 21, 2019
#5
Towards the end of the 1100+km pilgrimage circuit on Shikoku there is a small pilgrimage museum. There is a photograph and caption in one of the glass cases. I would love to be able to ask Nakatsukasa-san a similar question.
naplesdon
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Multiple Caminos 2010 to 2019
Dec 21, 2019
#6
Nine summers and counting with multiple Caminos several years.
Last year starting in Le Puy until I reached Hontanas and learned my sister was in the ER. I was able to get back to her before she died.
I walk in the memory of my late daughter but for many more reasons as well. Why? Simply put because it is there!
mspath
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Frances, autumn/winter; 2004, 2005-2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Dec 21, 2019
#7
As for myself
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas/ the heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing."
Pascal, Les Pensées
Perhaps the first post of my last camino explained best why I walked the Camino Frances ten times; thus although my situation has changed while I was able to walk it served as my apologia.
Unfortunately now I am only able to walk long distances in my memory.
Check out what others have said in this earlier thread
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/why-do-it-again.51599/
Last edited: Dec 21, 2019
C clearly
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Dec 21, 2019
#8
Unfortunately now I am only able to walk long distances in my memory.
But fortunately, you created those memories to enjoy now! I remember you walking into the albergue in Uterga one morning, after what I think was your last stage on the camino. Best wishes!
SYates
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First: Camino Francés 1999
...
Last: Santiago - Muxia 2019
Now: http://egeria.house/
Dec 21, 2019
#9
Because of the memories, because of the friends I made along the way, because I know it and it feels like home ;-)
BC SY
Albertagirl
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Frances; Aragones; VdlP; Madrid-Invierno; Levante
Dec 21, 2019
#10
I have walked most of the Frances twice so far, beginning with the currently popular route from St Jean pied de Port, then the next time from Oloron Ste Marie through the Somport Pass and on through the Aragones to Puenta la Reina, then the rest of the Frances to Santiago. These routes were influenced largely by Gitlitz and Davidson's book, The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago. Then my desire for solitude led me to the VdlP and this year to the Madrid and Invierno. But this year I found myself more comfortable on the Sahagun to Ponferrada section of the Frances that links the Madrid and the Invierno than I expected: quite at home and enjoying interactions with other pilgrims and those familiar sites from previous pilgrimages. I think that I am likely to choose portions of the Frances to walk as my mobility decreases in my later years: maybe ending in Santiago but starting closer than on previous walks. The available facilities at closer distances makes this a practical choice.
Anniesantiago
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2006 to date: Over 21 Caminos. See signature line
Dec 21, 2019
#11
2021 will make 22 or 23 times on the CF, including once or twice on several other routes, full and/or partial, like the Aragones, the Madrid, the VDLP.
Sometimes I walk twice a year for 6-8 weeks each time.
I walk for my health.
According to my specialist, it chelates the chemicals that settle in my muscles, organs, and bones.
I usually feel 100% better at the end of each Camino.
FSP
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CF-2013
CP-2016
Fin-2016
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Dec 21, 2019
#12
I don't disparage those who do walk the Frances over and over but I am completely baffled by it. I think the Frances is the best first Camino anyone can take on. I have 5 compostellas under my boots, none the same. With so many other caminos to experience along with other treks in other parts of this great planet and so little time I just can't grasp walking the same one over, especially the Frances.
David Tallan
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1989, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2024...
Dec 22, 2019
#13
I have done the Camino Frances twice. I hope to walk it again. I also hope to walk other Caminos and other routes.
I did it the first time in 1989, from Roncesvalles to Santiago and the second time in 2016 from Roncesvalles to Finisterre with my son, who turned 16 in Carrion de los Condes. The second was a completely different journey than the first.
I could easily see doing it with my son again when I retire and he finishes university (although next time I think he would want to cross the Pyrenees; maybe we would start at Ostabat). Or maybe with my wife. Or maybe with another friend or relative. Or maybe starting earlier in France, in Le Puy or Vezelay or Paris, or Arles. Or maybe just starting in Roncesvalles again.
Why do people walk the CF again? I think for most people, because they like it. People often repeat things they enjoy, even when there are new things to discover. People will reread books, listen to songs more than once, watch movies more than once, visit cities more than once, etc. Even though one can never run out of new books to read, new music to listen to, new movies to watch (or old classic movies that one hasn't seen), new cities to visit. For the same reason as one revisits a well-loved book or song or movie or city one might revisit a well-loved Camino.
Or so it seems to me. Your mileage might vary.
BobM
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Dec 22, 2019
#14
Wonderful stories. I take my hat off to all of you.
Bob M
BobM
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Dec 22, 2019
#15
Towards the end of the 1100+km pilgrimage circuit on Shikoku there is a small pilgrimage museum. There is a photograph and caption in one of the glass cases. I would love to be able to ask Nakatsukasa-san a similar question.
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I read a good book on the 88 Temple Pilgrimage by Robert Sibley. Not a guide book, but Sibley's personal experiences and some insights into the Japanese people he walked with that enriched his own pilgrimage. There is a thead about it in this fourm.
Bob M
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#16
I would love to hear why others have chosen to walk multiple CFs.
Somewhere on the multiple caminos I passed the point where I needed others to understand me. That is one of my reasons...
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To Santiago and back. Le Puy to Aumont-Aubrac.
Dec 22, 2019
#17
Why walk the Camino Frances multiple times? Is it because it is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience?
nycwalking
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CF: 2001, 02, 04, 14. Ourense to Santiago 2019.
Dec 22, 2019
#18
Why walk the Camino Frances multiple times? Is it because it is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience?
Amen!
BROWNCOUNTYBOB
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Camino Frances: 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021
Dec 22, 2019
#19
My wife and I have walked CF three times and plan to walk it again in 2020. Our first in 2015 was to celebrate the transition into retirement. The second in 2017 we walked with my brother and his wife. The third in 2019 was different in many ways than the first two. We walked several alternative routes, stayed in different towns, and stayed in private rooms every night. We are walking CF again in 2020. By next fall, we will celebrate the birth of our first two grandchildren (one each by two of our children). We are modifying our hiking stages to stay in our favorite towns and favorite albergues. We will dine in our favorite bar / restaurants, buy trail snacks at the tiendas we know, have a glass of wine or cerveza during hiking breaks. For us its like spending time with an old friend for 35+ days in a row. And enduring a long walk in the pouring rain and hiking the steep climbs gives us stories to tell for years to come. Can't wait until we're on the CF again next fall. Bob
VictorE
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#21
When I walked the CF I met a man who was walking the CF for the third time. The first two times were with his wife. After she passed away here he was walking for the third time, but by himself.
He was not particularly talkative. Once I met him deep in thought sitting on a seat and I was about to join him. I checked myself in time and left him in peace instead of disturbing a moment that seemed important to him.
It made quite an impression on me. Since then I have discovered that quite a few people walk the same Camino multiple times and it has always intrigued me.
I would love to hear why others have chosen to walk multiple CFs.
Bob M
Hello Bob, I to have walked the Camino Francis three times 2017/2018/2019. Yes well. . I could go on for pages about this subject. So all I will say is I have written a book on this subject and it was for sale yesterday and now it is not (Long story) we will sort it out one day. However, all you need to know is the title and this will tell you how I see the Camino. the title is.
(God's Cocaine, the Addiction of the Camino)
jayree
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CdS 2012, CdN 2013, Shikoku 2015, CP 2016.
Dec 22, 2019
#22
I am reminded of two stories I heard when I walked the CF. On the train from Bayonne to SJPdP one pilgrim announced this would be his second time to walk the CF. A German quickly replied, "What's the matter? Didn't you get it the first time.?" Toward the end I heard one woman tell her husband, "This is absolutely the last time I'm walking this route. Every year for 13 years we always do the same thing. Next year I want to do something different."
C clearly
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Most years since 2012
Dec 22, 2019
#23
I don't disparage those who do walk the Frances over and over but I am completely baffled by it. ... I have 5 compostellas under my boots, none the same.
If you have never walked the same camino twice, it would be a new experience to do so. When you think about it, the joys of familiarity exist just as surely as the joys of discovery. Each of us weighs them and makes a decision, but the attraction for both does not baffle me.
Pelegrin
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Dec 22, 2019
#24
Four times in the vain hope that one day I'll get it "right".
Back in 2001 I met a Belgian who was on his 17th . . . mind you he did write the annual guide for the Belgian confraternity.
The first one was in 1985, if he didn't fail any year.
Then it is probable that the Belgian passed El Cebrero, Puertomarín......Mellid (Melide).....
Stivandrer
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I´ve got Camino plans until 2042,
- or till I fall flat on my face, whichever comes first !!
Dec 22, 2019
#25
As one pilgrim in this forum once put it; "..because I found my tribe. !!"
sdevine
Camino Frances 2019, and booked for 4/2023.
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4/26/2019 - 6/12/2019, planning April 2022 now
Dec 22, 2019
#26
i finished my 1st camino June 2019, and already planning my 2nd this coming June 2020.. i believe once the camino calls
you, you are tied to the way for the rest of your life, whether you walk or not.. best to walk .. buen camino fellow pelligrinos
Last edited: Dec 22, 2019
easygoing
Camino Sharon
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I have walked the Camino Francis 7 times, twice in 2017 and 2018. (2019)
Dec 22, 2019
#27
2021 will make 22 or 23 times on the CF, including once or twice on several other routes, full and/or partial, like the Aragones, the Madrid, the VDLP.
Sometimes I walk twice a year for 6-8 weeks each time.
I walk for my health.
According to my specialist, it chelates the chemicals that settle in my muscles, organs, and bones.
I usually feel 100% better at the end of each Camino.
Hi Annie, I walk twice a year too for many of the same reasons. At 74 people mistake me for 54 and I believe the meditation of walking, the people I meet and the routine of each day is very healing. And yes the gym could give me the same result but I'd rather walk in Spain and pick grapes off the vine.
I've walked the Camino Frances the most times (9) and I repeated this because I've made so many friends along the way and because I have bought family. But in response to the man that asked why walk so many times, I am reminded of a quote I read somewhere--- if you have to ask you won't understand .
Pia Valbak Schmidt
Pilgrim, DK, Caminos 2007,09,11,12,13,14.15,16,18
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2007,2009,2011,2012,2013,2014.2015,2016,2018. Hospitalera 2012,2013,2014,2016,2017
Dec 22, 2019
#28
When I walked the CF I met a man who was walking the CF for the third time. The first two times were with his wife. After she passed away here he was walking for the third time, but by himself.
He was not particularly talkative. Once I met him deep in thought sitting on a seat and I was about to join him. I checked myself in time and left him in peace instead of disturbing a moment that seemed important to him.
It made quite an impression on me. Since then I have discovered that quite a few people walk the same Camino multiple times and it has always intrigued me.
I would love to hear why others have chosen to walk multiple CFs.
Bob M
The next Camino, you are not the same person, the camino is not totally the same, weather will be different, again you will meet people from all over the world you never met before, new situations and experiences every day. For me, every Caminowalk is a new lifejourney
Bob from L.A. !
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CF 2012, 2014, 2016. CN 2018, 23 Via francigena 23
Dec 23, 2019
#29
Familiarity, (self imposed) comfort zones, trying to rekindle the feelings of the very first time, reconnecting with people you met along the way, the feeling of security being amongst many others, infrastructure and conveniences...
Interesting how many people have done the same roads multiple times.....
c0484
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2013
Dec 23, 2019
#30
When I walked the CF I met a man who was walking the CF for the third time. The first two times were with his wife. After she passed away here he was walking for the third time, but by himself.
He was not particularly talkative. Once I met him deep in thought sitting on a seat and I was about to join him. I checked myself in time and left him in peace instead of disturbing a moment that seemed important to him.
It made quite an impression on me. Since then I have discovered that quite a few people walk the same Camino multiple times and it has always intrigued me.
I would love to hear why others have chosen to walk multiple CFs.
Bob M
I told my wife if she were to pass away before me after over 50 years of marriage, to come for me on the Camino Frances. I told her I would keep walking until she came for me.
BobM
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Dec 23, 2019
#31
Well done for all your eloquent and inspiring testimonials - and for having the courage share some very personal and moving experiences.
Now I understand your motivations better. But despite your stories, I remain in the camp of "one and done". That's not a value judgment . There are no Manichean choices of good and evil in our personal choices here. The only thing that matters is to listen to other people and understand their preferences.
For me personally it is more important to experience novelty and new horizons in my walks and travel in general. That desire overrides the undoubted pleasure I would feel if I repeated a long walks. The desire to return to particular places has certainly occurred to me but so far the lure of new horizons has triumphed.
I speak only of walks and travel. I often listen to certain music many times. A few books I have read repeatedly for their musicality of language - and sometimes for fresh insights. A few classic movies I re-watch occasionally for similar reasons.
So, in those areas perhaps I share some of the motivations of repeat hikers and pilgrims. It matters only that we take pleasure in our choices without insisting that we alone have found the one true path.
Bob M
Jeff Crawley
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A "Tourigrino" trip once Covid has passed, so 2023
Dec 23, 2019
#32
The first one was in 1985, if he didn't fail any year.
Then it is probable that the Belgian passed El Cebrero, Puertomarín......Mellid (Melide).....
Possibly even earlier - his wife Alice died while cycling the Camino in '86 and he was injured. I think he missed out on a couple after that. Terrific guy though - knew all the best places to eat!
tpmchugh
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2018
Dec 23, 2019
#33
I have walked the Camino Frances three times. The first journey was driven mainly by curiosity for something totally beyond my own very limited experience: language, history, landscape and culture all way outside my small-town Scottish upbringing. With a dash of religious enthusiam on the side. I walked my second Camino 12 years later to try to recapture some of the joy which I encountered on that first journey. My first Camino had been a profound moving and transformative experience and at that particular point in my life I desperately needed some more of that. My third Camino Frances was walked with far fewer expectations or hopes but more as a way of observing for myself the changes in the Camino which had taken place over 25 years and to find if the reality of the day corresponded with the descriptions of the modern Camino which I had read here and in other places.
5 times on the camino although last time I did not finish. I just find the Frances beautiful and peaceful. Enough flat land to make it not too difficult and enough mountains sit on top of, look back and enjoy God's tapestry. And of course my fellow peregrinos
Pelegrin
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2019
Dec 23, 2019
#34
Possibly even earlier - his wife Alice died while cycling the Camino in '86 and he was injured. I think he missed out on a couple after that. Terrific guy though - knew all the best places to eat!
Then he also passed for sure Alto del Pollo.
David Tallan
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1989, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2024...
Dec 23, 2019
#35
Why spend more time with friends you already know when you can ditch them and make new friends?
ManyMiles2Go
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Camino Frances (2013)
Dec 23, 2019
#36
Why not? We all repeat things we enjoy . . . listening to a piece of music, . . .
Don't know what you are talking about, but I do recall a certain CD that I had to buy 3 of because I wore the first 2 out. . .
Dani7
Stop wishing, start doing.
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CF 2023 from Bayonne.
Camino Podiensis & CF 2026
Dec 23, 2019
#37
I may only get the chance to do the Camino Frances one time. Between getting time off, finances and health, my spring Camino may be a one off. To those who have had the opportunity to do it more than once, I am a bit envious but happy for each one of you that your life’s journey allowed you the chance to do so. So in answer to your question, why? I say...because pilgrims in this forum have been fortunate to have that choice. They are to be praised for using their time and resources for such a worthwhile activity, one that gives time for reflection (Spiritual or not), make new friends and be one with nature. I praise all of you...buen Camino
Tassie Kaz
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2024?
Dec 23, 2019
#38
I don't disparage those who do walk the Frances over and over but I am completely baffled by it. I think the Frances is the best first Camino anyone can take on. With so many other caminos to experience along with other treks in other parts of this great planet and so little time I just can't grasp walking the same one over, especially the Frances.
For me personally it is more important to experience novelty and new horizons in my walks and travel in general. That desire overrides the undoubted pleasure I would feel if I repeated a long walks. The desire to return to particular places has certainly occurred to me but so far the lure of new horizons has triumphed.
Each to their own as always of course but I sit on the 'Oncer' side of the fence...so much world, so little time...
And if a path happens to intersect with one already trodden?...a chance to reminisce (for better or worse ) then continue on; every step into the new & unknown.
For me, there is no greater joy.
Sempre avanti.
Last edited: Dec 23, 2019
NomadBoomer
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Frances ( 2017, 2018,Aug 2023) Vdlp (2018)
Dec 24, 2019
#39
I walked the CF in Sept 18, it was a profound interior journey for me. As soon as I finished I determined to walk an alternative quieter path. I walked half of the vdlp in April 2018. Different enjoyable peaceful walk with some lovely people but I didn't find it had the pilgrim magic I encountered on the CF. So I walked the CF again starting August 2018. Felt a totally different trip than the first time. The magic this time was more social, stayed in different places, including special spots I missed the first time. I will be walking the Norte this year with a friend I met last year. Maybe do the CF every 5 years or so while I can.
I feel those that feel that the CF is something very special will tend to want to walk it again. To those that it is just a long walk it makes sense to go and explore other ways.
domigee
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Next: camino de Invierno
Dec 24, 2019
#40
I have enjoyed reading all your posts (as ever!) but I refrained from answering as others had said much the same things I would have said.
There’s one other factor though (imo): the Camino francés is so much easier than others. If you’ve had a tough year, whether in work or with health, family or whatever.... the CF is soooo less demanding than say somewhere new or more mountainous and isolated or whatever. You don’t have to plan, you don’t have to carry extra food and water, you don’t need a GPS or a compass, you don’t need to carry a tent. You just walk and follow the arrows
I walked the CF for the third time after walking to Jerusalem and walking the VdlP. Oh it was so blissful. No language issues, I knew the way, it was so easy and therefore... pleasurable! It is what I needed at the time.
There are drawbacks of course. But then, you can’t have it all!
I walked it a fourth time - after the Via Francigena - and I must admit, there were times I was bored and it was lonely and... yes, I’d done it all before sort of feeling! Even in Summer, the weather was grey and drizzly and I get plenty of this in England! ‘What am I doing here?’
I nearly quitted but fate would have it another way....
I probably will walk it again but adding some variants... the Invierno or the Leon to Oviedo one... and the Primitivo. I have been (very) blessed with very quiet and solitary walks on the CF so far but I don’t fancy the crowded parts again.
Sometimes, we (I ! ) need something familar to gently ease us back to life. And walking a familar path does the trick.
Of course I fool myself thinking there is always another year, to walk new paths.... But hey!
efdoucette
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2011 Camino Frances
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Dec 24, 2019
#41
I walked my 1st Camino in 2011, it was the Frances. Since then I walk long distance trails every year, most years twice, and I have been back to the Frances for a 2 week section once. It is a magical route.
But I have walked long distance trails in Scotland, England, Switzerland (Jakobsweg), France (Le Puy), Portugal, Italy (Francigena), Vietnam and Peru. And I come from Canada.
I consider these all "Caminos". I fall into a contemplative zone that I first found on the Frances. I am sure some of you know this zone. As I explain to people who ask "Why do you keep walking?" I answer ... The Camino many layers but one reason is, it's a long life and many things happen in one's lifetime, I find it helpful to contemplate, it helps me grow. At 65 I am still growing and it's picking up speed.
Sam - AU
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Camino Frances - Apr/May 2018, Feb/Mar 2019 .... upcoming Nov/Dec 2019
Dec 25, 2019
#42
I’ve just finished my third way on the Camino Francés in less than 2 years.
Ultimately for me the camino keeps calling me back, although I am hoping this will be the last time for a little while.
I had so many people this time around almost judge me for doing the same route 3 times running. I think the CF is best equipped for infrastructure, particularly in the off season even though most is closed I feel it is still the most ‘open’ of all the routes this time of year.
I also chose to walk in completely different months each time, so it looks completely different, and there is something magical about seeing your favourite spots in all the seasons. The weather is different and I also try where possible to stay in different towns, meaning I get different sunrises and end of day struggle stretches on one camino may become blissful morning stretches on another. And the type of people every single time are completely different, which changes the whole camino.
trecile
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Various routes 2016 - 2024
Dec 25, 2019
#43
There's no way that you can experience every village, city and town on a single Camino Francés, and the first time can kind of be a blur, especially the first few days as you are adjusting to the routine, so on a second, third or fourth Camino on the same route you can deepen your experience and explore places in depth that you just walked through on previous Caminos.
As others have mentioned it can feel much different during different seasons. On my first two Caminos on the Frances is was mid to late summer, and much of the landscape was brown (but the sunflower fields were spectacular). This year I did SJPDP to León in May, because I was excited to see the Meseta when it was green. I was rewarded with endless blue skies, green seas of grains and red poppy fields.
There's a sense of both familiarity and discovery on repeat walks.
Next year I will repeat the Norte from Irun, then do something new by finishing my journey to Santiago on the Primitivo.
Last edited: Dec 26, 2019
RemysMimi
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Frances (2018)
Frances or Portuguese (2020)
Dec 26, 2019
#44
I have walked the Camino Frances three times. The first journey was driven mainly by curiosity for something totally beyond my own very limited experience: language, history, landscape and culture all way outside my small-town Scottish upbringing. With a dash of religious enthusiam on the side. I walked my second Camino 12 years later to try to recapture some of the joy which I encountered on that first journey. My first Camino had been a profound moving and transformative experience and at that particular point in my life I desperately needed some more of that. My third Camino Frances was walked with far fewer expectations or hopes but more as a way of observing for myself the changes in the Camino which had taken place over 25 years and to find if the reality of the day corresponded with the descriptions of the modern Camino which I had read here and in other places.
Bradypus, I echo your sentiments here. I couId have written this myself. I walked my first Frances for primarily the same reasons in 2018 and felt the same way afterward. I will be embarking on my second Frances in 2020 for very much the same reason as well, to try to recapture that feeling of euphoria (like a drug addict). God willing there just may be a third.
Bob from L.A. !
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Dec 26, 2019
#45
There's no way that you can experience every village, city and town on a single Camino Francés, and the first time can kind of be a blur, especially the first few days as you are adjusting to the routine,
Such a true statement.....
RJM
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Dec 27, 2019
#46
I have walked multiple Camino Frances for a few reasons I suppose. Probably the reason that most comes to mind when asked why, is that I fear the day I cannot walk it anymore.
OTH86
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#47
This isn't why I've walked the CF a few times, but have found a benefit of having done it over and over - I "walk" it if I can't sleep or to pass time on a plane or ...
Frequently, I start these "walks" further along the CF not always in SJPP - after Lorca or Logroño or Nájera, Rabé, Carrion, Astorga, Camponaraya, Ruitelán for some variety.
Wonderful ~ and sooo relaxing z z zzzz
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Dec 28, 2019
#48
I’m reminded of the old proverb “A man cannot step in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
sillydoll
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Dec 28, 2019
#49
In “Journey to Portugal” Jose Saramago who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, said:
'The journey is never over. Only travellers come to an end. The end of one journey is simply the start of another. You have to see what you missed the first time, see again what you already saw, see in springtime what you saw in summer, in daylight what you saw at night, see the sun shining where you saw the rain falling, see the crops growing, the fruit ripen, the stone which has moved, the shadow that was not there before. You have to go back to the footsteps already taken, to go over them again or add fresh ones alongside them. You have to start the journey anew. Always. The traveller sets out once more."
Amen
Heather Anne
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Dec 29, 2019
#50
I don't get it. With all the wonderful things to see and do in the world, why would you limit yourself to the same thing over and over, The world is big and beautiful. Experience the difference.
C clearly
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#51
I don't get it. With all the wonderful things to see and do in the world, why would you limit yourself to the same thing over and over, The world is big and beautiful. Experience the difference.
You asked "why?" Have you not read the thread? There are many reasons given, which make sense to me even if I wouldn't make the same choice. Understanding that difference (in people) is worth experiencing, too.
Fromista
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Dec 29, 2019
#52
Walking again, because no two Camino's are the same.. and because there are new things in life I need to leave behind in Cruz the Ferro, and more people to pray for.
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Dec 29, 2019
#53
I too am a two time Camino Frances pilgrim. I first cycled it, from Pamplona to Santiago in Sept/Oct 2015. I cycled because I was still getting over a foot injury that prevented me from walking more than 10 km per day and I did not have two months (60 days) to walk the 800 km.
I returned in May 2017 and walked from St Jean, more to see what I had missed in the St Jean to Pamplona section and secondly to see if the Camino at 5km per hour was anyway different to the camino at 20 km per hour. Upon arriving in Santiago I was totally convinced that walking was a significantly different experience, especially being able to stop; take in the vista; take a photo; stop and talk to a fellow pilgrim.
Also walking in Spring the Spanish country side was to much greener than it was in September it was difficult to understand that it was the same country. Buen Camino.
David Tallan
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Dec 29, 2019
#54
I don't get it. With all the wonderful things to see and do in the world, why would you limit yourself to the same thing over and over, The world is big and beautiful. Experience the difference.
With all of the wonderful people in the world to see and interact with, why would you spend time with the same people over and over again? There are billions of wonderful people in the world. Ditch your family and friends and experience the differences to be found in other people.
Joe Sharratt
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#55
Having done the CF once - finishing three months ago, I am now beginning to understand the marathon runner who says at the end « never again » and runs it again the next year.
Elsesy
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Dec 29, 2019
#56
From 2007 until today me and my husband has walked the Camino 10 times, and will do it again in May 2020. In 2009 we started in Le Puy, and the other years in St. Jean Pied de Port and Ronchesvalles. We are 71 and 73 years old. No walking is alike! New people every year - and some meetings with earlier pilegrimsfriends. We are addicted! We love to walk, we love the temperature (our home is in the north of Norway) and the Camino feels safe. And last but not least; We stay fit!
mvanert
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Dec 29, 2019
#57
Because I have been three times and have not walked the entire way at one go. I will this August with two friends who will be on their first camino.
Rover
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Dec 29, 2019
#58
When I walked the CF I met a man who was walking the CF for the third time. The first two times were with his wife. After she passed away here he was walking for the third time, but by himself.
He was not particularly talkative. Once I met him deep in thought sitting on a seat and I was about to join him. I checked myself in time and left him in peace instead of disturbing a moment that seemed important to him.
It made quite an impression on me. Since then I have discovered that quite a few people walk the same Camino multiple times and it has always intrigued me.
I would love to hear why others have chosen to walk multiple CFs.
Bob M
Sorry Bob, I cannot help you. I walked the CF once (solo) and that was enough for me. There are too many great hikes and adventures to experience. Check out the Alpe-Adria Trail. Richard
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#59
I walked the CF by myself in 2016 and after I got home I kept thinking "next time". I walked it again in 2019 with my daughter all the way to Fisterra. It was a different experience. In June 2020 we are walking the Portuguese starting from Coimbra on through Porto to Redondella on the inland route. We will then return to Porto by train and follow the coastal route back to Rodendella and then continue on to Santiago. This is all planned and ready to go. While I am waiting to start, I am looking at other Caminos for 2022. I will then be 79 so I don't want too many hills. Why do I do it? It gives me the impetus to get out and walk and cycle every day to keep fit and healthy. I also just love meeting different people from around the world. Once you have done one Camino you just have to do more. It gets into your blood. I understand people doing the CF multiple times as you meet different people and the journey is also different.
mai
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Jan 2, 2020
#60
Thanks for all your sharing.
I have finished CF twice, just wonder if to walk the third time. If not, I will visit the church at Puente La Reina again because Jesus did answer my prayers on my 2nd CF. I like to define each CF because they are related.
Episode 1: Preparation
I walked only 433km and like to try the whole way.
I took the most beautiful photo before Hontana in a snow day.
This photo would tell what would happen on my 2nd CF.
Episode 2: Encounter
I prayed in the church at Puente La Reina.
At the end of the camino, at the 0km signpost in Muxia, God gave me a clue to find answers.
With the help of the pilgrim I met at Granon, I found the answer.
The answer is Bible!!!
Episode 3: Worship
Like to walk the 3rd CF to thank and worship God.
Believe God is watching us on the CF.
"Father, I want to walk in your grace."
ps. I was not a christian nor a catholic before the CF.
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gamboa
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Jan 4, 2020
#61
When I walked the CF I met a man who was walking the CF for the third time. The first two times were with his wife. After she passed away here he was walking for the third time, but by himself.
He was not particularly talkative. Once I met him deep in thought sitting on a seat and I was about to join him. I checked myself in time and left him in peace instead of disturbing a moment that seemed important to him.
It made quite an impression on me. Since then I have discovered that quite a few people walk the same Camino multiple times and it has always intrigued me.
I would love to hear why others have chosen to walk multiple CFs.
Bob M
When we repeat the Camino, we are not trying to recreate precious memories - memories themselves will shift over time as our perspective changes. Nothing stays the same, impermanence is all. Our precious memories allow us to reflect, rethink, and remember where we have been and how far we have come.
Peregrinopaul
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Jan 4, 2020
#62
... and secondly to see if the Camino at 5km per hour was anyway different to the camino at 20 km per hour. Upon arriving in Santiago I was totally convinced that walking was a significantly different experience, especially being able to stop; take in the vista; take a photo; stop and talk to a fellow pilgrim.
Like you, Mike, for me it was a case of "do it on a bike", or not at all. I remember fondly my first camino, the VdlP, as a very leisurely affair. I just checked my credencial and it took me 25 days - that's an average of 40km per day at maybe only 8km per hour. I'd recommend that experience to anybody.
Robo
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#63
This isn't why I've walked the CF a few times, but have found a benefit of having done it over and over - I "walk" it if I can't sleep or to pass time on a plane or ...
Frequently, I start these "walks" further along the CF not always in SJPP - after Lorca or Logroño or Nájera, Rabé, Carrion, Astorga, Camponaraya, Ruitelán for some variety.
Wonderful ~ and sooo relaxing z z zzzz
I do the same!
My wife often asks me how can I possibly remember all the places I and We have stayed, or eaten at.
I may have only 'physically' walked 3 Caminos but I've walked it dozens of times in my mind!
Derrybiketours
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Jan 13, 2020
#65
In September 2018 I now know that the Camino called. It lasted 3 months and involved CF to FIn, CP from Porto and in Jan 2019 I followed my flow to Brazil. The Camino de fe or CP didn't come close to the joy I experienced on CF but had no intention of returning and then one day I missed the feeling of joy in my life so I returned for 2nd time to walk CF and found the joy on the Meseta closely followed by Pain in Ponferrada. Nursing an ankle injury I stayed a second night in a local Airbnb. On returning from Pilgrim meal I was assaulted with hammer, mugged and experienced concussion after spending 24 hours in hospital . The next day Santiago called and when I got there no one was home. Despite staying in Santiago for a week, missed last flights to Ireland so found myself travelling 12 hours on overnight bus to Madrid to fly home last December. I returned home to resistance and Brexit and realised I was leaving behind my freedom, flow and joy so had I not have walked the Camino CF more than once I wouldn't be moving to Madrid. The CF moves in mysterious ways
Jscarm
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Jan 14, 2020
#66
My wife and I will be walking the Camino for the second time this year. We only walked part of it in 2015 and we would love to do the whole thing this year. It was a wonderful experience then and I am sure it wont disappoint this time.
F
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#67
You do your camino only once. On the camino's that follow, unconciously, you are searching for what you had, never finding it back. Your emotions, feelings are never going to be the same. Many people redo the very first, having wonderfull experiences, and do other camino's with even prettier vieuws, but one has lost one's innocence, it never reaches that "high" you once achieved on your first.
easygoing
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Feb 23, 2020
#68
Well not experiencing a first Camino high may be true for some people's caminos. I reach a new high each camino. They keep getting better each time and this may be because I'm an experienced long-distance hiker My first one was lacking because I tried to hike it like the Pacific Crest trail. We walked too many miles and came back the next year to walk more slowly and had an even better time. Last spring I took my two granddaughters and enjoyed it even more seeing the joy in their eyes. I'm looking forward to my 11th Camino in the spring and who knows what surprises it will bring? I do know that I will have another best time of my life. I walked my 4th Camino all alone and ended up tearing a hamstring and limping the last 200 miles. If any Camino provided an emotional high it was that one because I learned that I am not measured by how fast I am or how I perform. This was something I had struggled with all my life and it was with great joy I learned this lesson.
But everyone is different so have a great Camino with no expectations.
Derrybiketours
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Feb 24, 2020
#69
never reaches that "high" you once achieved on your first.
The first is special but it gets better with experience. Plus the high or awakened state of consciousness lingers and lasts longer and gives a glimpse of a state of higher conscious that is proactive instead of reactive
Bradypus
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Feb 24, 2020
#70
The first is special but it gets better with experience.
Not for me. The first is still the most special. And the reason I keep coming back or trying other pilgrim routes in other countries. I think that the other journeys have been in large measure an attempt to recapture something of the outstanding spirit of that first Camino. Sometimes fairly successfully, occasionally less so. And the Camino Frances has changed so much over the years that after walking my third CF in 2016 I am fairly sure that I will not be back to walk it again. Looking in other places now.
Derrybiketours
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Feb 24, 2020
#71
recapture something of the outstanding spirit of that first Camino.
Maybe this says more about your expectations , why do you feel the need to recapture anything. I thought the same about my youth and then realised the value of my health, body and mind for where I am now. One of many lessons I've learned is too leave behind your expectations and go forward with hope and give out love.
C clearly
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Feb 24, 2020
#72
I really enjoyed my first camino, but I did not experience the other-worldly "high" that many people speak of. I realized right away that I would want to come back alone, for a longer walk.
Now I like to think that on each camino
I will have another best time of my life.
Actually, no, I don't expect the "best." I hope for a good experience. I don't need to identify "the best" and compare it against the first or the others. It would be as helpful as trying to identify the best year of my life! Can't be done!
Jamie Y. Mo
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Feb 24, 2020
#73
I met a British man who said he has walked FC about 17 times when I was walking Portuguese Camino in 2018. 17 Times, my lord. My initial thought was automatically Why? then after some time passed now I can understand a bit, I think. FC is certainly a beautiful way and I think it is the most popular one that most people choose to walk for the first time. I was no exception.
There could be many different factors such as different seasons with different version of oneself, different stages of life, or/and first impression of this whole pilgrimage thing that has become the most influential thing that has ever happen in one's life and one does want to keep reminding oneself of that moment and see how perspective of life has changed since then.. etc... There could be many reasons for a person. Who knows but only themselves or maybe they don't even know for sure. They just walk the same way over and over without any particular reason.
For some people, Camino is not about exploring different routes/trails (some people call that way) and be proud of how many different routes/trails they have walked and tell people about it over the dinner table.
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Bradypus
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Too many and too often!
Feb 24, 2020
#74
Maybe this says more about your expectations , why do you feel the need to recapture anything. I thought the same about my youth and then realised the value of my health, body and mind for where I am now. One of many lessons I've learned is too leave behind your expectations and go forward with hope and give out love.
If you have left behind your expectations so completely why return to the same route at all? Isn't returning to the same route a response to something positive that you wish to experience again? Isn't there some expectation behind a decision to revisit the same place?
I think that part of our difference in outlook may be down to timescale. Reading through your posts in this thread it seems that your Camino experiences have been over a relatively short period. My own first Camino was 30 years ago. There have been enormous changes over that time. Most obviously in the sheer numbers walking. Think back to your first Camino. Now imagine that each and every pilgrim you met is accompanied by seventy friends. Can you say with honesty that you would embrace the second imaginary experience with all the joy of your first Camino? I am a solitary person by nature and by preference. To be immersed in great crowds causes me unease and anxiety. One of the great joys of that first Camino was to walk day after day across Spain and to allow it to wash around me without the pressure of crowds and the near-constant clamour of voices. I also value my health, body and mind. And I know that deliberately exposing myself to situations which place mental and emotional stress upon me is harmful to them. So I choose my routes with that in mind. Is that so very wrong?
RennieArchibald
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Feb 24, 2020
#75
Seriously?...Who can tire of dry chorizo bocadillos or fried until it's boot leather pieces of cow?
Robo
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Feb 24, 2020
#76
When I walked the CF I met a man who was walking the CF for the third time. The first two times were with his wife. After she passed away here he was walking for the third time, but by himself.
He was not particularly talkative. Once I met him deep in thought sitting on a seat and I was about to join him. I checked myself in time and left him in peace instead of disturbing a moment that seemed important to him.
It made quite an impression on me. Since then I have discovered that quite a few people walk the same Camino multiple times and it has always intrigued me.
I would love to hear why others have chosen to walk multiple CFs.
Bob M
One of my favourite White wines is from Oyster Bay in New Zealand.
I really like it.
I have probably bought at least 20-30 bottles over the last couple of years.......
Sure there are others.........
But right now I still like this one.
3 x CF and counting........
Derrybiketours
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Feb 25, 2020
#77
@Bradypus Thank you for your considered response and continued questions. I respect your choice and my pov is not any more than a view, a way to look at things through a different set of eyes
And the Camino Frances has changed so much over the years that after walking my third CF in 2016 I am fairly sure that I will not be back to walk it again. Looking in other places now.
Haven't we all changed over the years and isn't change inevitable
If you have left behind your expectations so completely why return to the same route at all?
In hindsight it turned out I had unfinished business and although I had a choice when you submit to the so called 'call' something beckoned me back and it turned out that I had more lessons to learn plus it felt like returning to visit an old friend
Isn't returning to the same route a response to something positive that you wish to experience again?
The act of leaving behind expectations for me means that it doesn't matter where I go because I take both the yin-yang with me wherever I am
Isn't there some expectation behind a decision to revisit the same place?
Not necessarily if you leave expectation behind the place you find yourself can appear different through a new set of eyes
Think back to your first Camino. Now imagine that each and every pilgrim you met is accompanied by seventy friends. Can you say with honesty that you would embrace the second imaginary experience with all the joy of your first Camino?
I take the Camino how I find it, a people path of positive intention and any joy is carried inside and I try not too let the outside in uninvited
And I know that deliberately exposing myself to situations which place mental and emotional stress upon me is harmful to them. So I choose my routes with that in mind. Is that so very wrong?
Not at all and no one indicated that its wrong and we all have our issues with mental health and have our own way of managing this. Meditation and mindfulness can be one and talking to strangers another. Ive learned to quiet the mind and detatch myself when in a crowd, its easier when alone in nature. I've learned too have a conversation with myself when alone but its easier when there's a crowd. Where I am has no relevance and its a learned behaviour that requires practice.
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Richmond Gardner
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#78
Seriously?...Who can tire of dry chorizo bocadillos or fried until it's boot leather pieces of cow?
The Kolbist
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Feb 25, 2020
#79
simply put - because we love the camino. this might sound very cheesy but when asked why do I love my wife, I dont have a response. If I say it's her eyes or her nose or the way she walks then it's just a part of it. Even the answer - I love everything about her would not probably be enough. The answer is "I dont know why I love her". This is exactly how i feel about the Camino and why I love the camino. I dont know why I love the camino but one thing I know is I always wanna be with her.
Anniesantiago
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Feb 25, 2020
#80
Sometimes, we (I ! ) need something familar to gently ease us back to life. And walking a familar path does the trick.
I just revisited this thread to read the newer answers and saw yours and it really resonated with me this morning. I have been waffling, trying to decide if I will finish the VDLP this year or since I'm walking alone with Joe (not taking a group,) will go on the more familiar CF . I'm feeling pulled to the CF, exactly for the reason you state, it's familiar and the ease of it makes it feel like "coming home." I still haven't decided. I'm back in the California desert today after all my medical appointments up in Oregon - and will take a look at the weather statistics on both routes today. I'm also stuffing my backpack today, putting it on, and walking a few kilometers to see if it bothers the biopsy site (since there's no pack transport on the VDLP). I need to make a decision in the next few days, but the Frances is calling me, I think, like an old friend ...
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John Brierley, Author, "A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino de Santiago"
"I love the book. It follows a grand, fascinating tradition in children's literature of using fictional journeys to convey information. The best ones have plenty of drama along the way. And WALK has that! I cried at the end."
Linnea Hendrickson, Children's Librarian, Scholar, Pilgrim
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It’s been a month since I returned from the Camino. My feet and ankles weren’t in the prettiest of conditions when I finished walking, and I think I’ll have awkward tan lines forever, but it’s the kind of thing I’d do again in a heartbeat.
I don’t think I had any giant life revelations along the way, but it was liberating getting back to the basics. My day to day concerns consisted of walking, eating, showering, and getting enough sleep. All while meeting the most wonderful and lively individuals along the way.
I also relished the hours I walked alone. I needed time to myself to think, or to not think at all, and just re-energize after a difficult year. A draining year that has led D-Man and I to make the decision to move from Spain to the UK, in the hopes that job prospects will be better for him there.
But that’s something I might write more about later. I have tons of catching up to do and plenty more to share. For now, here are just a few of my favorite moments from El Camino de Santiago. I hope you’ll enjoy.
Pilgrim on The Way.
Manjarín.
El Acebo.
Rainy Day.
Molinaseca.
Las Médulas.
Yellow Tunnels.
O’Cebreiro!
Portomarín.
Arrival.
Catedral Santiago de Compostela.
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“This is no guidebook; this is the real story behind the majestic Camino de Santiago.”
Literary Titan Book Award – Silver Award Winner
Lost and listless on the island of Mallorca, Jamie Draper searches for his estranged wife, Pam, who has left him without any explanation or warning. Exploring her last known location, Jamie stumbles upon an urgent letter from his missing wife promising to explain her sudden departure and her current whereabouts. There’s just one catch. Her confessions are disclosed in a series of letters she’s left hidden along the ancient Camino trail across northern Spain. Now armed with a list of clues to track down the letters, Jamie retraces Pam’s footsteps, while being both entertained and challenged by the many colorful Camino characters he meets along the way. This includes the enchanting Brie, who harbors her own secrets that just might compromise Jamie’s intended reunion with his wife.
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I highly recommend the latest book by John Meyer, Shadows, Shells, and Spain.
Lost and listless on the island of Mallorca, Jamie Draper searches for his estranged wife, Pam, who has left him without any explanation or warning. Exploring her last known location, Jamie stumbles upon an urgent letter from his missing wife promising full disclosure as to her sudden departure and her current whereabouts. There’s just one catch: her mysterious adventure is disclosed in a series of letters she’s left hidden along the ancient Camino trail across northern Spain. Now armed with a list of clues to track the letters down, Jamie retraces Pam’s footsteps, while being both entertained and challenged by the many colorful Camino characters he meets along the way—including the enchanting Brie, who harbors her own secrets that just might compromise Jamie’s intended reunion with his wife.
Get your first 3 chapters free by signing up at John Meyer’s website: https://www.johnmeyerbooks.com/
Camino Book Reviews
The Camino Inglés: 6 Days (or less) to Santiago
By Susan Jagannath
When I walked the Camino Inglés last summer, one of the guidebooks I used was The Camino Inglés: 6 Days (or less) to Santiago, by Susan Jagannath. I enjoyed reading this guide on my Kindle App the night before each stage. I often referred to it again before heading out for the day, and to look up points of interest. View full review.
Sunrises to Santiago: Searching for Purpose on the Camino de Santiago
By Gabriel Schirm
A fresh new voice is on the Camino book scene, and it can now be heard via Audible, narrated by the author himself. Sunrises to Santiago is a journey of a young couple who walked the 500 miles of the Camino Frances in 30 days, an ambitious feat. Gabriel and his wife Amy lived in Spain for three years prior to their Camino and have a great appreciation for Spanish cuisine and lifestyle. View full review.
On The Primitive Way: Two Texan Brothers Journey to Santiago de Compostela
by Landon Roussel
Not only does Dr. Roussel show what the less-traveled Camino Primitivo route is like, but he also tells a personal story of his brother who had a lifelong struggle with addiction. After his brother had been released from prison, the two of them walked the Camino together. The narrative shifts between two timelines—the present experience on the Camino, and memories of his brother, some of which were painful. Dr. Roussel is a skilled storyteller, so he manages to pull it off without the reader getting lost in the two worlds. The transitions were easy to follow and it succeeded in being a real page-turner! View full review.
Spiritual and Walking Guide: León to Santiago by Stacey Wittig. Travel writer Stacey Wittig thought of everything with this guidebook for the last major section of the Camino Francés. It not only includes daily prayers to reflect on, but also details about where to sleep and daily walking distances. View full review.
Everyday Camino with Annie by Annie O’Neil. A pocket-size book that features 40 days of inspirational quotes and messages that one can read while on the Camino, or anywhere.
View full review.
Camino Chronicle by Susan Alcorn
The heart of Camino Chronicle is based on Susan’s travel journal, so it shows details of the daily life as a pilgrim. It is interspersed with side notes on history, legends and random tidbits about things like Spanish wine, olives and bull fighting. The book includes chapters on post-Camino reflection, preparation, and pilgrim statistics. View full review.
The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
Coehlo’s first book is significant because it was during his Camino pilgrimage that he decided to follow his dream and become a writer. Coelho weaves in symbolism and history about the Camino de Santiago throughout his adventure. View full review.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights is Bosch’s most complex and enigmatic creation. For Falkenburg the overall theme of The Garden of Earthly Delights is the fate of humanity, as in The Haywain (P02052), although Bosch visualizes this concept very differently and in a much more explicit manner in the centre panel of that triptych than in The Garden of Earthly Delights.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights is Bosch’s most complex and enigmatic creation. For Falkenburg the overall theme of The Garden of Earthly Delights is the fate of humanity, as in The Haywain (P02052), although Bosch visualizes this concept very differently and in a much more explicit manner in the centre panel of that triptych than in The Garden of Earthly Delights. In order to analyse the work’s meaning the content of each panel must be identified. On the outer faces of the triptych Bosch depicted in grisaille the Third Day of the Creation of the World, when the waters were separated from the earth and the earthly Paradise (Eden) created. At the top left we see God the Father as the Creator, according to two Latin inscriptions, one on each panel: For he spake, and it was done and For he commanded, and they were created (Psalms 33:9 and 148:5). On the inner face of the triptych, painted in brilliant colours which contrast with the grisaille, Bosch painted three scenes that share the single common denominator of the concept of sin, which starts in Paradise or Eden on the left panel, with Adam and Eve, and is punished in Hell in the right panel. The centre panel depicts a Paradise that deceives the senses, a false Paradise given over to the sin of lust. This deception is encouraged by the fact that the centre panel is shown as a continuation of Eden through the use of a single, continuous landscape with a high horizon line that allows for a broad, panoramic composition arranged as three superimposed planes, in the panels of the earthly Paradise, the Garden of Earthly Delights and Hell.
While sin is the connecting link between the three scenes, the iconography in the Paradise panel requires further analysis in order fully to appreciate its meaning. As will be noted below in the analysis of the technical documentation, when he initially embarked on the work Bosch included the Creation of Eve on the left panel, but in a second phase he replaced it with God presenting Eve to Adam. This very uncommon subject was associated with the institution of marriage, as Falkenburg and Vandenbroeck discuss (Bosch, 2016). For the latter, the centre panel represents the false paradise of love, known as Grail in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which implied a carnal interpretation of God’s mandate to Be fruitful and multiply, as instituted in marriage. The men and women that Bosch depicts in the Garden of Earthly Delights believe they are inhabiting a paradise for lovers, but this is false and their only fate is punishment in Hell. The extremely pessimistic message that the centre panel conveys is that of the fragility and ephemeral nature of happiness and delight in these sinful pleasures.
In the centre panel, from which the triptych derives its name, Bosch included a large number of naked human figures, with the exception of the pair at the lower right, who are usually identified as Adam and Eve after the Expulsion from Paradise. Men and women, both black and white, are generally seen in groups or pairs, maintaining amorous relations with a powerful erotic charge that refers to the panel’s pre-eminent theme, the sin of lust. The animals, both real and imaginary, are much larger than their proper scale. Among them, Bosch particularly emphasizes two different types of owl that evoke evil. Staring straight out, they direct their disturbing gazes at the viewer at the two lateral edges of the panel, slightly set back from the immediate foreground. Also present are plants and fruit, which are again much larger than their scale dimensions. The entire composition is dotted with pieces of red fruit that contrast with other large and small blue ones, these being the two principal colours in the scene. In contrast to the apparent confusion that prevails in the foreground, geometry imposes itself in the middle ground and background. In the former, Bosch depicted a pool full of naked women. Around it, in an anti-clockwise direction, rides a group of men on different mounts (some of them exotic or imaginary), who have been associated with different Cardinal Sins. In the background of the scene Bosch included five fantastical architectural constructions in the water, the central one similar to the fountain of the Four Rivers in the Paradise panel, although here broken to symbolize its fragility and the ephemeral nature of the delights being enjoyed by the men and women who fill this garden. And now the owl depicted inside the fountain in the Paradise panel is replaced here by human figures in sexually explicit poses.
The right panel depicts Hell and is Bosch’s most striking representation of this subject, on occasions referred to as the musical Hell owing to the significant presence of instruments used to torture sinners who have devoted their time to secular music. In his text in the present catalogue Larry Silver describes the punishments meted out to each sin. While lust prevails in the centre panel, in the scene of Hell all the Cardinal Sins are punished. A good example is the punishment of the avaricious, who are devoured and immediately expelled from the anus of a theriomorphic creature with a bird’s head (a variety of owl) seated on a type of child’s lavatory stool. Gluttons and the sin of gluttony are undoubtedly referred to in the tavern scene located inside the tree-man, in which semi-naked people seated at a table wait to be served toads and other unpleasant creatures by devils, while the envious are tortured by immersion in frozen water. Further punishments correspond to vices censured by society at the time, including board games, while particular social classes are also singled out, including the clergy, who were notably criticized at this period, as reflected in the pig wearing a nun’s veil embracing a naked man in the lower right corner.
Although the triptych in the Museo del Prado is not signed, its attribution to Bosch has never been doubted. Its dating, however, is the subject of considerable debate. The results of the dendrochronological analyses could allow it to be located within the early years of the artist’s activity, around 1480-85, as Vermet stated without any supporting evidence. However, the work’s stylistic proximity to the Adoration of the Magi Triptych in the Prado (P02048), which can be securely dated to 1494 following Duquenne’s identification in 2004 of the donors, Peeter Scheyfve and Agneese de Gramme from Antwerp, confirms that the present work must have been painted in the 1490s and not after 1505, as most authors preferred to believe prior to Duquenne’s discovery. It has recently been argued that it must have been painted in or after 1494 as the image of God the Father creating the world on the reverse of the triptych is inspired by a print by Michel Wolgemut of the same subject -including the same text from the Psalms as appears on the wings- which appeared in Hartman Schedelsche Weltchronik published in Nuremberg in 1493.
Research undertaken in 1967 by Gombrich and Steppe allowed The Garden of Earthly Delights to be associated with the Nassau family. An account by Antonio de Beatis, who accompanied Cardinal Luis de Aragon as his secretary on his trip to the Low Countries, states that on 30 July 1517 the triptych was in the Nassau palace of Coudenberg in Brussels, where De Beatis presumably saw it. Since in the late 1960s the painting was considered to be a late work by Bosch, executed after the death of Engelbert’s II of Nassau in 1504, it was therefore thought that the patron was Henry III of Nassau (1483-1538), Engelbert nephew and heir. In the present day and in the light of the information that locates the triptych in the 1490s, it can be confirmed that it was commissioned from Bosch by Engelbert, who must have intended it for the Coudenberg Palace.
Silva Maroto, Pilar, 'Jheronimus Bosch. The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych'. In: Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2016, p.330-346 n.46
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Büttner, Nils, Hyeronimus Bosch "El Bosco": visiones y pesadillas, Alianza,, Madrid, 2016, pp. 42,107-110,124-161 f.10, fg. 51-53.
Martínez de la Peña, Domingo., Iconografía del drago y su significado en el arte europeo de..., Domingo Martínez de la Peña,, 2016, pp. 73-79.
Falkenburg, Reindert, 'In conversation with the Garden of Earthly Delights', In: Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2016, pp. 135-155.
Bosch Research and Conservation Project, Jérôme Bosch. Peintre et dessinateur. Catalogue raisonné, Actes sud,, 2016, pp. 356-379 n.21.
Silva Maroto, Pilar, 'Jheronimus Bosch. The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych', In: Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2016, pp. 330-346 n.46.
Schwartz, Gary, Jheronimus Bosch: the road to heaven and hell, Overlook Duckworth,, 2016, pp. 104,194-205.
Polo Pujades, Magda, 'La musica instrumental y la música vocal en Hieronymus Bosch', Materia: revista d'art, 10-11, 2016, pp. 149-168.
Alcoy, Rosa, 'Lectures cabals i delirants o 'el Jardí de les Delícies' de Hieronymus Bosch', Materia: revista d'art, 10-11, 2016, pp. 91-147.
Bruyn, Eric de, 'Textos e imágenes: Las fuentes del arte del Bosco.' En:, El Bosco : la exposición del V Centenario, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2016, pp. 73-89 [73, 76 78, 81-83, 87-88, il.11.6 11.7,11.9].
Bruyn, Eric de, Texts and images. The sources for Bosch's art, In: Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2016, pp. 73-89.
Vanderbroeck, Paul, 'The axiology and ideology of Jheronimus Bosch', In: Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2016, pp. 91-113.
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Pursuant to decisions by various district courts regarding the 2024 Final Rule implementing Section 1557, entitled Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities, 89 Fed. Reg. 37,522 (May 6, 2024) (“2024 Final Rule”), provisions are stayed or enjoined as indicated below:
1. In Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services, No. 8:24-cv-1080-WFJ-TGW (M.D. Fla.), the court stayed 45 C.F.R. 92.101(a)(2)(iv), 92.206(b), 92.207(b)(3)-(5), and 42 C.F.R. 438.3(d)(4), in Florida. OCR also may not enforce the interpretation of discrimination “on the basis of sex” in 45 C.F.R. 92.101(a)(2)(iv), 92.206(b), or 92.207(b)(3)-(5) in Florida.
2. In Tennessee v. Becerra, No. 1:24cv161-LG-BWR (S.D. Miss.), the court stayed nationwide the following regulations to the extent they “extend discrimination on the basis of sex to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity”: 42 C.F.R. 438.3, 438.206, 440.262, 460.98, 460.112; 45 C.F.R. 92.5, 92.6, 92.7, 92.8, 92.9, 92.10, 92.101, 92.206-211, 92.301, 92.303, 92.304; and enjoined HHS from enforcing the 2024 Final Rule “to the extent that the final rule provides that ‘sex’ discrimination encompasses gender identity.”
3. In Texas v. Becerra, No. 6:24-cv-211-JDK (E.D. Tex.), the court stayed the 2024 Final Rule in its entirety in Texas and Montana.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (Section 1557), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics), in covered health programs or activities. 42 U.S.C. 18116.
Where can I find more information?
On Friday April 26, 2024, OCR issued a final rule under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) advancing protections against discrimination in health care.
Read the final rule
Read the Press Release
Section 1557 Fact Sheet (available in 17 languages)
Section 1557 Frequently Asked Questions
What should I do if I believe I have been discriminated against under Section 1557?
You can file a complaint with OCR if you have been subjected to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in a covered health program or activity.
We will promptly inform you as to whether we have jurisdiction to investigate your complaint. If we determine that we do not have jurisdiction over the entity named in your complaint, but we believe a different federal agency may have jurisdiction, we will forward the complaint to the appropriate agency.
If you are not sure about whether OCR has jurisdiction to investigate your complaint, file a complaint with our office and we will help answer your questions through the complaint intake process and our initial evaluation of the complaint. Learn how to file a complaint.
Please note that Section 1557 prohibits retaliation for filing a discrimination complaint. When investigating a complaint, OCR informs all recipients of the prohibition on retaliation. In addition, during the complaint process, OCR will seek the complainant's consent to reveal his/her identity or identifying information, if necessary, to investigate the complaint. Consent is voluntary, and it is not always needed to investigate a complaint. Failure to provide consent, however, may make it difficult to investigate some aspects of the complaint.
How does OCR resolve my complaint?
If OCR determines that it has jurisdiction, OCR will investigate the complaint or, in some cases, refer the complaint to an agency with joint jurisdiction. When OCR identifies a violation or compliance concern, it will work with the recipient to achieve compliance with the law. Depending on the scope of the changes required, complaints can be resolved through voluntary compliance letters or agreements requiring the recipient to develop policies, monitoring, notification, and training, which also resolve the specific incidents alleged in the complaint. If voluntary compliance cannot be achieved, OCR can issue a formal findings letter and refer the case to DOJ or begin administrative proceedings to revoke federal funds.
Previous 1557 Rulemaking
On July 25, 2022, HHS OCR issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to revise its 1557 regulations. The previous version of this rule limited its scope to cover less programs and services limiting nondiscrimination protections. This proposed rule importantly solidifies protections against discrimination on the basis of sex including sexual orientation and gender identity consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Bostock v. Clayton County. Strengthening these rules is a significant achievement for the Biden-Harris Administration and promotes gender and health equity for communities of color, women, LGBTQI+ individuals, people with disabilities, persons with limited English proficiency (LEP), and older people.
The Section 1557 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeks to address gaps identified in prior regulations in order to advance protections under this rule. It:
Reinstates the scope of Section 1557 to cover HHS’ health programs and activities.
Clarifies the application of Section 1557 nondiscrimination requirements to health insurance issuers that receive federal financial assistance.
Aligns regulatory requirements with Federal court opinions to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex including sexual orientation and gender identity.
Makes clear that discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination on the basis of pregnancy or related conditions, including “pregnancy termination.”
Ensures requirements to prevent and combat discrimination are operationalized by entities receiving federal funding by requiring civil rights policies and procedures.
Requires entities to give staff training on the provision of language assistance services for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP), and effective communication and reasonable modifications to policies and procedures for people with disabilities.
Requires covered entities to provide a notice of nondiscrimination along with a notice of the availability of language assistance services and auxiliary aids and services.
Explicitly prohibits discrimination in the use of clinical algorithms to support decision-making in covered health programs and activities.
Clarifies that nondiscrimination requirements applicable to health programs and activities include those services offered via telehealth, which must be accessible to LEP individuals and individuals with disabilities.
Interprets Medicare Part B as federal financial assistance.
Refines and strengthens the process for raising conscience and religious freedom objections.
While the Department is undertaking this rulemaking, both the statute and the current regulation are in effect. If you believe that you or another party has been discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability, visit the OCR complaint portal to file a complaint online.
HHS encourages all stakeholders, including patients and their families, health plans, health care providers, health care professional associations, consumer advocates, and government entities, to submit comments through regulations.gov.
Public comments on the NPRM were due 60 days after publication of the NPRM in the Federal Register. The Department also conducted Tribal consultation.
Read the Press Release (available in 17 languages)
Read the Fact Sheet (available in 17 languages)
On June 12, 2020, HHS OCR announced a final rule revising its Section 1557 regulations.
Update (December 21, 2022)
On May 25, 2021, the HHS Office for Civil Rights published a Notice regarding the application of Bostock v. Clayton County, GA, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020), to Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. This Notice is entitled “Notification of Interpretation and Enforcement of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.”
On October 14, 2022, in Neese v. Becerra, 2:21-CV-163-Z (N.D. Tex.), the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas certified a class of “all healthcare providers subject to 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.” On November 22, 2022, the court entered final judgment in the case. In its Judgment, the court set aside the Notice and stated that “Plaintiffs and members of the certified class need not comply with the interpretation of ‘sex’ discrimination” articulated in the Notice. The court also declared that, as applied to the certified class, the prohibition on “sex” discrimination in Section 1557 does not include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. OCR will continue to receive complaints and conduct investigations under its authorities prohibiting sex discrimination to the full extent not prohibited by court order.
Update (May 10, 2021)
On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII)’s prohibition on employment discrimination based on sex encompasses discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Bostock v. Clayton County, GA, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020). The Bostock majority concluded that the plain meaning of “because of sex” in Title VII necessarily included discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity. Id. at 1753-54.
Since Bostock, two federal circuits have concluded that the plain language of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972’s (Title IX) prohibition on sex discrimination must be read similarly. See Grimm v. Gloucester Cnty. Sch. Bd., 972 F.3d 586, 616 (4th Cir. 2020), as amended (Aug. 28, 2020), reh’g en banc denied, 976 F.3d 399 (4th Cir. 2020), petition for cert. filed, No. 20-1163 (Feb. 24, 2021); Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cnty., 968 F.3d 1286, 1305 (11th Cir. 2020), petition for reh’g en banc pending, No. 18-13592 (Aug. 28, 2020). In addition, on March 26, 2021, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice issued a memorandum to Federal Agency Civil Rights Directors and General Counsel concluding that the Supreme Court’s reasoning in Bostock applies to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. As made clear by the Affordable Care Act, Section 1557 prohibits discrimination “on the grounds prohibited under . . . Title IX.” 42 U.S.C. § 18116(a).
Consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock and Title IX, beginning May 10, 2021, OCR will interpret and enforce Section 1557’s prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex to include: (1) discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation; and (2) discrimination on the basis of gender identity. This interpretation will guide OCR in processing complaints and conducting investigations, but does not itself determine the outcome in any particular case or set of facts.
In enforcing Section 1557, as stated above, OCR will comply with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb et seq., and all other legal requirements. Additionally, OCR will comply with all applicable court orders that have been issued in litigation involving the Section 1557 regulations, including Franciscan Alliance, Inc. v. Azar, 414 F. Supp. 3d 928 (N.D. Tex. 2019); Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc. v. U.S. Dep’t of Health & Hum. Servs., 485 F. Supp. 3d 1 (D.D.C. 2020); Asapansa-Johnson Walker v. Azar, No. 20-CV-2834, 2020 WL 6363970 (E.D.N.Y. Oct. 29, 2020); and Religious Sisters of Mercy v. Azar, No. 3:16-CV-00386, 2021 WL 191009 (D.N.D. Jan. 19, 2021).
OCR applies the enforcement mechanisms provided for and available under Title IX when enforcing Section 1557’s prohibition on sex discrimination. 45 C.F.R. § 92.5(a). Title IX’s enforcement procedures can be found at 45 C.F.R. § 86.71 (adopting the procedures at 45 C.F.R. §§ 80.6 through 80.11 and 45 C.F.R. Part 81).
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Alleged anti-Spanish historiography
This article is about the black legend concerning Spain and its empire. For the black legend concerning the Spanish inquisition, see Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition.
"Leyenda Negra" redirects here. For the film, see La Leyenda Negra (film).
The Black Legend (Spanish: Leyenda negra) or the Spanish Black Legend (Spanish: Leyenda negra española) is a purported historiographical tendency which consists of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda. Its proponents argue that its roots date back to the 16th century, when Spain's European rivals were seeking, by political and psychological means, to demonize the Spanish Empire, its people, and its culture, minimize Spanish discoveries and achievements, and counter its influence and power in world affairs.[1][2][3]
According to the theory, Protestant propaganda published during the Hispano-Dutch War and the Anglo-Spanish War against the Catholic monarchs of the 16th century fostered an anti-Hispanic bias among subsequent historians. Along with a distorted view of the history of Spain and the history of Latin America, other parts of the world in the Portuguese Empire were also affected as a result of the Iberian Union and the Luso-Dutch Wars.[1] Although this 17th-century propaganda was based in real events from the Spanish colonization of the Americas, which involved atrocities, the theory of the Leyenda Negra suggests that it often employed lurid and exaggerated depictions of violence, and ignored similar behavior by other powers.[4]
Wars provoked by the religious schism and the formation of new states in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries also generated a propaganda war against the then Spanish Empire, bastion of the Catholic Church. As such, the assimilation of originally Dutch and English 16th-century propaganda into mainstream history is thought to have fostered an anti-Hispanic bias against the Catholic Monarchs among later historians, along with a distorted view of the history of Spain, Latin America, and other parts of the world.[1]
Although most scholars agree that while the term Black Legend might be useful to describe 17th and 18th century anti-Spanish propaganda, there is no consensus on whether the phenomenon persists in the present day. A number of authors have critiqued the use of the "black legend" idea in modern times to present an uncritical image of the Spanish Empire's colonial practices (the so called "white legend").
Historiography and definitions of the Spanish Black Legend
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The term "black legend" was first used by Arthur Lévy in reference to biographies of Napoleon, and he primarily used it in the context of two opposing legends, a "golden legend" and a "black legend": two extreme, simplistic, one-dimensional approaches to a character which portrayed him as a god or a demon. "Golden" and "black legends" had been used by Spanish historians and intellectuals with the same meaning in reference to aspects of Spanish history; Antonio Soler used both terms about the portrayal of Castilian and Aragonese monarchs.[citation needed] The use of the term leyenda negra to refer specifically to a biased, anti-Spanish depiction of history gained currency in the first two decades of the 20th century, and is most associated with Julián Juderías. Throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, scholars have offered divergent interpretations of the Black Legend and debated its usefulness as a historical concept.
Origins of the concept of a Spanish Black Legend
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At an 18 April 1899 Paris conference, Emilia Pardo Bazán used the term "Black Legend" for the first time to refer to a general view of modern Spanish history:
Abroad, our miseries are known and often exaggerated without balance; take as an example the book by M. Yves Guyot, which we can consider as the perfect model of a black legend, the opposite of a golden legend. The Spanish black legend is a strawman for those who seek convenient examples to support certain political theses ... The black legend replaces our contemporary history with a novel in the Ponson du Terrail style, with mines and countermines, which doesn't even deserve the honor of analysis.[5]
The conference had a great impact in Spain, particularly on Julián Juderías. Juderías, who worked at the Spanish Embassy in Russia, had noticed (and denounced) the spread of anti-Russian propaganda in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom and was interested in its possible long-term consequences. Juderías was the first historian to describe the "black legend" phenomenon, although he did not yet name it as such, in a book regarding the construction of an anti-Russian black legend. His work, initially concerned with the intentional deformation of Russia's image in Europe, led him to identify the same patterns of narration he detected in the construction of anti-Russian discourse in the dominant historical narrative regarding Spain. Juderías investigated the original sources supporting centuries old claims of Spanish atrocities and other misdeeds, tracing the origin or propagation of the majority to rival emerging powers. In his 1914 book, La leyenda negra y la verdad histórica (The Black Legend and Historical Truth), deconstructs aspects of Spain's image (including those in Foxe's Book of Martyrs). According to Juderías, this biased historiography was marked by acceptance of propagandistic and politically motivated historical sources and has consistently presented Spanish history in a negative light, purposefully ignoring Spanish achievements and advances. In La leyenda Negra, he defines the Spanish black legend as:
... the environment created by the fantastic stories about our homeland that have seen the light of publicity in all countries, the grotesque descriptions that have always been made of the character of Spaniards as individuals and collectively, the denial or at least the systematic ignorance of all that is favorable and beautiful in the various manifestations of culture and art, the accusations that in every era have been flung against Spain."[2]
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Later writers supported and developed Juderías's critique. In Tree of Hate (1971),[6] Historian Charles Gibson described it as "the accumulated tradition of propaganda and hispanophobia according to which the Spanish Empire is considered cruel, intolerant, degenerate, exploitative and sanctimonious above reality."[1]
Historian Philip Wayne Powell argued that the Black Legend was still active in modern history, and plays an active role in shaping Latin America–United States relations. His book provides examples of what he viewed as divergent treatment of Spain and other powers, and illustrates how this allows for a double narrative that taints Americans' view of Hispanic America as a whole:
Spaniards who came to the New World seeking opportunities beyond the prospects of their European environment, are contemptuously called cruel and greedy "goldseekers," or other opprobrious epithets virtually synonymous with "Devils"; but Englishmen who sought New World opportunities are more respectfully called "colonists," or "homebuilders," or "seekers after liberty." ... When Spaniards expelled or punished religious dissidents, this came to be known as "bigotry," "intolerance," "fanaticism," and a cause of their decline. When Englishmen, Dutchmen, or Frenchmen did the same thing, it is known as "unifying the nation," or safeguarding it against treason or foreign conspiracy.
— Tree of Hate (2008 edition), page 11
In his book Inquisition, Edward Peters wrote:
An image of Spain circulated through late sixteenth-century Europe, borne by means of political and religious propaganda that blackened the characters of Spaniards and their ruler to such an extent that Spain became the symbol of all forces of repression, brutality, religious and political intolerance, and intellectual and artistic backwardness for the next four centuries. Spaniards and Hispanophiles have termed this process and the image that resulted from it as "The Black Legend," la leyenda negra.
— Inquisition (1989 edition), p.131
In his 2002 book Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States, American historian Richard Kagan defined the Spanish black legend:
Compounding this perception of Spain as an inferior 'other' was the Black Legend, the centuries-old cluster of Protestant beliefs that the United States inherited from the British and, to a certain extent, from the Dutch. The Black Legend equated Spain with the Inquisition, religious bigotry, and the bloody persecution of Protestants and Jews. It also conjured up images of despotic monarchs who denied their subjects access to any semblance of economic and political freedom and who had consequently set Spain onto the road of economic weakness and political decline. Such a reading of Spanish history was overly simplistic but promoters of American exceptionalism found it useful to see Spain as an example of what would happen to a country whose fundamental values were antithetical to those of the United States."
According to Julián Marías, the creation of the Spanish black legend was not an exceptional phenomenon -similar disinformation and fabrication campaigns have affected most global powers of the past, such as Ottoman Turkey or Russia- but its persistence and integration into mainstream historiography is. For Marías the causes of its durability are:
Overlap of the Spanish Empire with the introduction of the printing press in England and Germany, which enabled the printing of hundreds of pamphlets daily
Religious factors and identification
Substitution of the Spanish intellectual class by another favorable to its former rival (France) after the War of the Spanish Succession, which established a French narrative in Spain
The unique characteristics of the early modern era's colonial wars and the need for new colonial powers to legitimize claims in now-independent Spanish colonies and the unique, new characteristics of the succeeding empire: the British Empire.[7]
Walter Mignolo and Margaret Greer view the Black Legend as a development of Spain's racialisation of Jewishness in the 15th century. The accusations of mixed blood and loose religiosity of the 15th century, first levelled at Jewish and Moorish conversos both inside Spain and abroad, developed into 16th century hispanophobic views of Spaniards as religious fanatics tainted by association with Judaism. The only stable element they see in this hispanophobia is an element of "otherness" marked by interaction with the Eastern and African worlds, of "complete others", cruelty and lack of moral character, in which the same narratives are re-imagined and reshaped.[8]
Antonio Espino López suggests that the prominence of the Black Legend in Spanish historiography has meant that the real atrocities and brutal violence of the Spanish conquest of the Americas have not received the attention they deserve within Spain.[9] He believes that some Hispanicists:
...make an effort to justify the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the best way possible, as they were very conscious of the excesses committed by the "Black Legend", a set of ideas that are characterised by their intellectual coarseness.[10]
According to historian Elvira Roca Barea, the formation of a black legend and its assimilation by a nation is a phenomenon observed in all multicultural empires (not just the Spanish Empire). For Roca Barea, a black legend about an empire is the cumulative result of the propaganda attacks launched by different groups: smaller rivals, allies within its political sphere and defeated rivals, and propaganda created by rival factions inside the imperial system; alongside self-criticism by the intellectual elite, and the needs of new powers consolidated during (or after) the empire's existence.[11]
In response to Roca Barea, José Luis Villacañas states that the "black legend" was primarily a factor related to the geopolitical situation of the 16th and 17th centuries. He argues that:
After 1648 [the Black Legend] was not particularly current in European intellectual circles. To the contrary, [Spain's] old enemies, England and Holland, became the greatest defenders of the Spanish Empire at the end of the 17th century, in order to avoid it falling into the hands of [the French]."[12]
The conceptual validity of a Spanish black legend is widely but not universally accepted by academics. Benjamin Keen expressed doubt about its usefulness as a historical concept,[13] while Ricardo García Cárcel and Lourdes Mateo Bretos denied its existence in their 1991 book, The Black Legend:
It is neither a legend, insofar as the negative opinions of Spain have genuine historical foundations, nor is it black, as the tone was never consistent nor uniform. Gray abounds, but the color of these opinions was always viewed in contrast [to what] we have called the white legend.[14]
Historical basis of 16th- and 17th-century anti-Spanish propaganda
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Despite having a vast empire stretching from Mexico to Peru across the Pacific to the Philippines and beyond, which required many Spaniards to travel overseas and deal with foreigners, eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote, "The Spaniard's bad side is that he does not learn from foreigners; that he does not travel in order to get acquainted with other nations; that he is centuries behind in the sciences. He resists any reform; he is proud of not having to work; he is of a romantic quality of spirit, as the bullfight shows; he is cruel, as the former auto-da-fé shows; and he displays in his taste an origin that is partly non-European."[15] Thus, semiotician Walter Mignolo argues that the Spanish black legend was closely tied to race in using Spain's Moorish history to portray Spaniards as racially tainted and its treatment of Africans and Native Americans during Spanish colonization to symbolize the country's moral character. That notwithstanding, there is general agreement that the wave of anti-Spanish propaganda of the 16th and 17th centuries was linked to undisputed events and phenomena which occurred at the apogee of Spanish power between 1492 and 1648.[1][16][3][12]
Conquest of the Americas
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During the three-century European colonization of the Americas, atrocities and crimes were committed by all European nations according to both contemporary opinion and modern moral standards. Spain's colonization involved massacres, murders, slavery, sexual slavery, torture, rape and other atrocities, especially in the early years, following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean.[12][3] However, Spain was the first in recorded history to pass laws for the protection of indigenous peoples. As early as 1512, the Laws of Burgos attempted to regulate the behavior of Europeans in the New World forbidding the ill-treatment of indigenous people and limiting the power of encomenderos—landowners who received royal grants to indigenous communities and their labor. In return, the laws established a regulated regime of work, provisioning, living quarters, hygiene, and care for the natives. The regulation prohibited the use of any form of punishment by the landowners and required that the huts and cabins of the Indians be built together with those of the Spanish. The laws also ordered that the natives be taught the Christian religion and outlawed bigamy.[1]
In July 1513, four more laws were added in what is known as Leyes Complementarias de Valladolid 1513, three related to Indian women and Indian children and another more related to Indian males. In 1542 the New Laws expanded, amended and corrected the previous body of laws in order to ensure their application. These New Laws represented an effort to prevent abuse and de facto enslavement of natives that was not enough to dissuade rebellions by the encomenderos, like that of Gonzalo Pizarro in Perú. However, this body of legislation represents one of the earliest examples of humanitarian laws of modern history.[17]
Although these laws were not always followed, they reflect the conscience of the 16th century Spanish monarchy about native rights and well-being, and its will to protect the inhabitants of Spain's territories. These laws came about in the early period of colonization, following abuses reported by Spaniards themselves traveling with Columbus. Spanish colonization methods included the forceful conversion of indigenous populations to Christianity. The "Orders to the Twelve" Franciscan friars in 1523, urged that the natives be converted using military force if necessary.[18] On par with this sentiment, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda argued that the Indian's inferiority justified using war to civilize and Christianize them. He encouraged enslavement and violence in order to end the barbarism of the natives. Bartolomé de las Casas, on the other hand, was strictly opposed to this viewpoint—claiming that the natives could be peacefully converted.[19]
Such reports of Spanish abuses led to an institutional debate in Spain about the colonization process and the rights and protection of indigenous peoples of the Americas. Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas published Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies), a 1542 account of the alleged atrocities committed by landowners and officials during the early period of colonization of New Spain (particularly on Hispaniola).[20] In his Short Account, de las Casas underscores the innocence of the indigenous peoples while comparing the Spanish conquistadors to "ravening wild beasts, wolves, tigers, or lions that had been starved for many days."[21] De las Casas, son of the merchant Pedro de las Casas (who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage), described Columbus's treatment of the natives in his History of the Indies.[22] His description of Spanish actions was used as a basis for attacks on Spain, including in Flanders during the Eighty Years' War. The accuracy of de las Casas's descriptions of Spanish colonization is still debated by some scholars due to supposed exaggerations. Although historian Lewis Hanke thought that de las Casas exaggerated atrocities in his accounts,[23] Benjamin Keen found them more or less accurate.[24] Charles Gibson's 1964 monograph The Aztecs under Spanish Rule (the first comprehensive study of sources about relations between Indians and Spaniards in New Spain[citation needed]), concludes that the demonization of Spain "builds upon the record of deliberate sadism. It flourishes in an atmosphere of indignation which removes the issue from the category of objective understanding. It is insufficient in its understanding of institutions of colonial history."[25] However this view has been broadly criticised by other scholars such as Keen, who view Gibson's focus on legal codes rather than the copious documentary evidence of Spanish atrocities and abuses as problematic.[3]
In 1550, Charles I tried to end this debate by halting forceful conquest. Philip II tried to follow in his footsteps with the Philippine Islands, but previous violent conquest had shaped colonial relations irreversibly. This was one of the lasting consequences that led to the dissemination of the Black legend by Spain's enemies.[19]
The treatment of indigenous peoples during Spanish colonization was used in propaganda works of rival European powers in order to foster animosity towards the Spanish Empire. De las Casas' work was first cited in English in the 1583 work The Spanish Colonie, or Brief Chronicle of the Actes and Gestes of the Spaniards in the West Indies, at a time when England was preparing to join the Dutch Revolt on the side of the anti-Spanish rebels.[26]
Historians have noted that the mistreatment and exploitation of indigenous peoples was committed by all European powers which colonized the Americas, and such acts were never exclusive to the Spanish Empire. The revaluation of the Black Legend on contemporary historiography has led to a reassessment of non-Spanish European colonial records in recent years as the historiographical evaluation of the Impact of Western European colonialism and colonisation continues to evolve. According to scholar William B. Maltby, "At least three generations of scholarship have produced a more balanced appreciation of Spanish conduct in both the Old World and the New, while the dismal records of other imperial powers have received a more objective appraisal."[26]
War with the Netherlands
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Spain's war with the United Provinces and, in particular, the victories and atrocities of the Castilian nobleman Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, contributed to anti-Spanish sentiment. Sent in August 1567 to counter political unrest in a part of Europe where printing presses encouraged a variety of opinions (especially against the Catholic Church), Alba seized control of the publishing industry; several printers were banished, and at least one was executed. Booksellers and printers were prosecuted and arrested for publishing banned books, many of which were part of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
After years of unrest in the Low Countries, the summer of 1567 saw renewed violence in which Dutch Calvinists defaced statues and decorations in Catholic monasteries and churches. The March 1567 Battle of Oosterweel was the first Spanish military response to the unrest, and the beginning of the Eighty Years' War. In 1568 Alba had prominent Dutch nobles executed in Brussels' central square, sparking anti-Spanish sentiment. In October 1572, after Orange forces captured the city of Mechelen, its lieutenant attempted to surrender when he heard that a larger Spanish army was approaching. Despite efforts to placate the troops, Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo (son of the governor of the Netherlands and commander of the duke's troops) allowed his men three days to pillage the city; Alba reported to King Philip II that "not a nail was left in the wall". A year later, magistrates were still attempting to retrieve church artifacts which Spanish soldiers had sold elsewhere.[27][28]
This sack of Mechelen was the first of a series of events known as the Spanish Fury;[29][30][31][32] several others occurred over the next several years.[33] In November and December 1572, with the duke's permission, Fadrique had residents of Zutphen and Naarden locked in churches and burnt to death.[28][34] In July 1573, after a six-month siege, the city of Haarlem surrendered. The garrison's men (except for the German soldiers) were drowned or had their throats cut by the duke's troops, and eminent citizens were executed.[28] More than 10,000 Haarlemers were killed on the ramparts, nearly 2,000 burned or tortured, and double that number drowned in the river.[35] After numerous complaints to the Spanish court, Philip II decided to change policy and relieve the Duke of Alba. Alba boasted that he had burned or executed 18,600 persons in the Netherlands,[36] in addition to the far greater number he massacred during the war, many of them women and children; 8,000 persons were burned or hanged in one year, and the total number of Alba's Flemish victims can not have fallen short of 50,000.[37]
The Dutch Revolt spread to the south in the mid-1570s after the Army of Flanders mutinied for lack of pay and went on the rampage in several cities, most notably Antwerp in 1576. Soldiers rampaged through the city, killing, looting, extorting money from residents and burning the homes of those who did not pay. Christophe Plantin's printing establishment was threatened with destruction three times, but was spared each time with payment of a ransom. Antwerp was economically devastated by the attack; 1,000 buildings were torched, and as many as 17,000 civilians were raped, tortured and murdered.[38][39] Parents were tortured in their children's presence, infants were slain in their mother's arms, wives were flogged to death before their husbands' eyes.[40] Maastricht was besieged, sacked and destroyed twice by the Tercios de Flandes (in 1576 and 1579), and the 1579 siege ended with a Spanish Fury which killed 10,000 men, women and children.[41]: 247 Spanish troops who breached the city walls first raped the women, then massacred the population, reputedly tearing people limb from limb.[42] The soldiers drowned hundreds of civilians by throwing them off the bridge over the river Maas in an episode similar to earlier events in Zutphen. Military terror defeated the Flemish movement, and restored Spanish rule in Belgium.[43]
The propaganda created by the Dutch Revolt during the struggle against the Spanish Crown can also be seen as part of the Black Legend. The depredations against the Indians that De las Casas had described were compared to the depredations of Alba and his successors in the Netherlands. The Brevissima relación was reprinted no less than 33 times between 1578 and 1648 in the Netherlands (more than in all other European countries combined).[44] The Articles and Resolutions of the Spanish Inquisition to Invade and Impede the Netherlands accused the Holy Office of a conspiracy to starve the Dutch population and exterminate its leading nobles, "as the Spanish had done in the Indies."[45] Marnix of Sint-Aldegonde, a prominent propagandist for the cause of the rebels, regularly used references to alleged intentions on the part of Spain to "colonize" the Netherlands, for instance in his 1578 address to the German Diet.
In recent years, Prof. dr. Maarten Larmuseau of KU Leuven has used genetic testing to examine a prevalent belief regarding the Spanish occupation[46]
War atrocities committed by the Spanish army in the Low Countries during the 16th century are so ingrained in the collective memory of Belgian and Dutch societies that they generally assume a signature of this history to be present in their genetic ancestry. Historians claim this assumption is a consequence of the so‐called "Black Legend" and negative propaganda portraying and remembering Spanish soldiers as extreme sexual aggressors.
— Prof. dr. Maarten Larmuseau, The black legend on the Spanish presence in the low countries: Verifying shared beliefs on genetic ancestry
The memory of the large scale rape of local women by Spanish soldiers lives on to such extent that it is popularly believed that their genetic imprint can be seen today, and that most men and women with dark hair in the area descend from children conceived during those rapes. The study found no greater Iberian genetic component in the areas occupied by the Spanish army than in surrounding areas of northern France, and concluded that the genetic impact of the Spanish occupation, if any, must have been too small to survive until the present era. However, the study makes it clear that the absence of a Spanish genetic imprint in modern populations was not incompatible with the occurrence of mass sexual violence. The frequent murder of Flemish rape victims by Spanish soldiers, the fact rape does not always lead to fertilisation, and the reduced survival possibilities of the illegitimate offspring of rape victims would all militate against significant Iberian genetic contribution to modern populations. Larmuseau considers the persistence of the belief in a Spanish genetic contribution in Flanders to be the fruit of the use of Black Legend tropes in the construction of Dutch and Flemish national identities in the 16th–19th century, giving prominence to the idea of the Spanish armies' cruelty in collective memory.
In an interview with a local newspaper, Larmuseau compared the persistence in popular memory of the actions of the Spanish with the lesser attention given to the Austrians, the French and the Germans who also occupied the Low Countries and participated in violence against their inhabitants.[47]
Origin of the early modern Black Legend
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Anti-Spanish sentiment appeared in many parts of Europe as the Spanish Empire grew. In the Habsburg realm, Spain was a dominant power in a union encompassing present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Burgundy and much of Italy. Iberian (principally Castilian) troops marched along the Spanish Road from Italy to Germany to fight on Dutch and German battlefields.[41]: 442
During the Eighty Years' War, propaganda depicted Spaniards as bloodthirsty barbarians. During the following centuries, anti-Spanish stereotypes circulated widely (especially in English-, Dutch- and German-speaking parts of Europe).[citation needed] The propaganda depicted exaggerated versions of the evils of Spanish colonial practices and the Spanish Inquisition.
William S. Maltby, regarding Spain in the Netherlands:
As part of an Elizabethan campaign against Spain and the Catholic Church ...Literally hundreds of anti-Spanish publications appeared in English, Dutch, French, and German in the sixteenth century. New editions, and new works restating old accusations, would appear in the Thirty Years War and in other occasions when it seemed useful to excite anti-Spanish sentiment. Given the pervasiveness of such material, it is not surprising that the authors of scholarly histories absorbed anti-hispanism and transmitted it to later generations.
— William S. Maltby, The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire
Italy
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Sverker Arnoldsson of the University of Gothenburg supports Juderías' hypothesis of a Spanish black legend in European historiography and identifies its origins in medieval Italy, unlike previous authors (who date it to the 16th century). In his book The Black Legend: A Study of its Origins, Arnoldsson cites studies by Benedetto Croce and Arturo Farinelli to assert that Italy was hostile to Spain during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries when the Crown of Aragon occupied most of Italy and texts produced and distributed there were later used as a base by Protestant nations.[full citation needed]
Liberal historians such as Benedetto Croce see in the Il Risorgimento process the conclusion of the unifying trend that began with the Italian Renaissance, which suffered a long interruption between the middle of the 16th century and the beginning of the 18th century that coincided with direct domination by the Hispanic Monarchy over half of Italy and indirectly over part of the other half. According to Croce "...both Spain and Italy were at that time peoples that were in decline" and "...as Spain had been nourished by the fight against the infidels and as Italy carried in its heart the Catholic Church, this international power, seeing itself threatened Through the Reformation, he found his weapons in one Hesperia and in the other the means of culture to constitute the reactionary alliance of southern Europe against northern Europe, to which the leadership of the modern world passed slowly and uninterruptedly and which represented progress. in all spheres of activity, against Spanish-Italian regression and decadence». Hence "...the impropriety of considering as the malefic influence of Spain on Italy what was actually an analogy in the historical process...",[48] since "...Italy drowsy in peace did not deserve another class of rulers since they were not of their genuine princes and the surviving patricians of their republics differ in character." These and other statements by Croce about the Italian aristocracy and their responsibility for the decline of Italy, published in 1917, when the country was in the middle of the world war, aroused reactions, accusations and even indignation on the part of historians, writers, intellectuals and politicians and "...the controversy..." writes a well-known contemporary Spanish historian "...it has not yet died out, but there are many historians who today accept, at least in part, Croce's arguments."[49]
The vision of some Italian historians continues to identify the Spanish domination of Italy with a period of decadence for the country, due, in part, to the action of the Inquisition (the traditional religious court, not to be confused with the Spanish institution, which operated with different criteria). Authors such as Campanella or Giordano Bruno suffered persecution for religious reasons, as had also happened at the end of the fifteenth century and in the Florence of Savonarola. The identification of the occupier with oppression was part of the widely spread anti-Spanish propaganda known as the black legend, whose artistic products include Manzoni's "The Betrothed" (set in 17th-century Milan) or Verdi's "Don Carlos". According to one interpretation of the Risorgimento, the historical period of Spanish misrule in Milan had been chosen by Manzoni with the intention of alluding to the same oppressive rule of Austrian rule over northern Italy. Other literary critics believe instead that what Manzoni wanted to describe was the Italian society of all times, with all its defects that have remained over time.[50]
Arnoldsson's theory on the origins of Spain's black legend has been criticized as conflating the process of black-legend generation with a negative view (or critique) of a foreign power. The following objections have been raised:[51]
The Italian origin of the earliest writings against Spain is an insufficient reason to identify Italy as the origin of the black legend; it is a normal reaction in any society dominated by a foreign power.
The phrase "black legend" suggests a tradition (non-existent in Italian writings) based on a reaction to the recent presence of Spanish troops (which quickly faded).[citation needed]
In 15th- and 16th-century Italy, critics and Italian intellectual admirers of Spain (particularly Ferdinand II of Aragon) coexisted.
Edward Peters states in his work "Inquisition":
In Italian anti-Spanish invective, the very Christian self-consciousness that had inspired much of the drive to purify the Spanish kingdoms, including the distinctive institution of the Spanish Inquisition, was regarded outside of Spain as a necessary cleansing, since all Spaniards were accused of having Moorish and Jewish ancestry. ... First condemned for the impurity of their Christian faith, the Spaniards then came under fire for excess of zeal in defending Catholicism. Influenced by the political and religious policies of Spain, a common kind of ethnic invective became an eloquent and vicious form of description by character assassination. Thus when Bartolomé de las Casas wrote his criticism of certain governmental policies in the New World, his limited, specific rhetorical purpose was ignored.
— Edward Peters, Inquisition
According to William S. Maltby, Italian writings lack a "conducting theme": a common narrative which would form the Spanish black legend in the Netherlands and England.[52] Roca Barea agrees; although she does not deny that Italian writings may have been used by German rivals, the original Italian writings "lack the viciousness and blind deformation of black-legend writings" and are merely reactions to occupation.[This quote needs a citation]
Germany
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Arnoldsson offered an alternative to the Italian-origin theory in its polar opposite: the German Renaissance.[53] German humanism, deeply nationalistic, wanted to create a German identity in opposition to that of the Roman invaders. Ulrich of Hutten and Martin Luther, the main authors of the movement, used "Roman" in the broader concept "Latin". The Latin world, which included Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy, was perceived as "foreign, immoral, chaotic and fake, in opposition to the moral, ordered and German."[54]
In addition to the identification of Spaniards with Jews, heretics, and "Africans", there was an increase in anti-Spanish propaganda by detractors of Emperor Charles V. The propaganda against Charles was nationalistic, identifying him with Spain and Rome although he was born in Flanders, spoke Dutch but little Spanish and no Italian at the time, and was often at odds with the pope.
To further the appeal of their cause, rulers opposed to Charles focused on identifying him with the pope (a view Charles had encouraged to force Spanish troops to accept involvement in his German wars, which they had resisted). The fact that troops and supporters of Charles included German and Protestant princes and soldiers was an extra reason to reject the Spanish elements attached to them. It was necessary to instill fear of Spanish rule, and a certain image had to be created. Among published points most often highlighted were the identification of Spaniards with Moors and Jews (due to the frequency of intermarriage), the number of conversos (Jews or Muslims who converted to Christianity) in their society, and the "natural cruelty of those two."[55]
England/ Britain
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England and later Britain played a role in the spread and use of the Spanish Black Legend during colonial times, but it is also agreed that, no matter how much the English might have added to it, the origin of the narrative was not in England and reached the British islands only after war and conflicting interest.[citation needed]
In A Comparison of the English and Spanish Nation (1589), Robert Ashley writes:
[We must] learne to despise those magnificent Don Diegos and Spanish Cavalieros, whos doughtiest deedes are bragges and boastinges, and themselves (for the most part) shadowes without substance. ... What humanitie, what faith, what courtesie, what modestie, and civilitie, may wee thinke to finde amongst this scumme of Barbarians? [My assertions can] be cleared by conference of their manner with ours, that is, of their vices with our vertues, of their vile viliacquerie, with our generositie. ... The comparing of our conditions with those of this mongrell generation. [The Spanish Nation is] unfaithful, ravenous, and insatiable above all other Nations. ... The nature and disposition of the Spaniards, in whom may be seene together incorporated, a craftie Fox, a ravenous Wolfe, and a raging Tygre. ... [The Spaniard is also] an uncleane and filthie swine, a theevish howlet, a proud peacocke ... a legion of divels ... [Columbus] would never have undertaken this voyage, if he had thought that the men whome hee brought thither ... should straightwaies be transformed into Lions, Panthers, Tigres, and other savage beastes ... O Turkes, O Scithians, O Tartarians, [rejoice, for Spain's much greater cruelty makes yours look so much less].[a] [Spain] is and ever hath bene the sinke, the puddle, and filthie heape of the most lothsome, infected, and slavish people that ever yet lived on earth. ... This wicked race of those half Wisigots. ... This demie Moore, demie Jew, yea demie Saracine. ... What? Shall those Marranos, yes, those impious Atheistes reigne over us kings and Princes? ... [Those Spaniards with] ... theyr insatiate avarice, theyre more than Tigrish cruelty, theyr filthy, monstruous and abominable luxurie ... theyr lustfull and inhumaine deflouring of their matrons, wives, daughters, theyr matchless and sodomiticall ravishings of young boys, which these demi-barbarian Spaniardes committed. ...
Spanish statesman Antonio Pérez del Hierro, who served as the secretary to Philip II of Spain before fleeing to France and then England after being arrested, wrote Pedacos de Historia o Relaciones, which was published in London by English printer Richard Field in 1594. The work, which was read widely in England, heavily denounced the Spanish monarchy and further contributed to pre-existing anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic sentiments among the English. A violently hispanophobic preacher and pamphleteer, Thomas Scott, would echo this sort of epithet a generation later, in the 1620s, when he urged England to go to war against "those wolvish Antichristians" instead of accepting the Spanish match.[57]
Sephardic Jews
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See also: Jewish pirates
According to Philip Wayne Powell, the criticism which was spread by the Jews who were expelled by Spain's Catholic monarchs was an important factor in the spread of anti-Spanish sentiment (particularly religious stereotypes). Powell places the beginning of the criticism of the Jewish populations against Spain in 1480, with the creation of the Spanish Inquisition, which was directed mainly against crypto-Jews and false converts. But it was from the expulsion of 1492 that this opinion became general. Despite the fact that they had previously been expelled from almost all European countries, in no other had they had such deep roots during the Middle Ages, coming to live what has been called a Golden Age, giving special relevance to this expulsion.[58] The persecution of Jews, crypto-Jews, Muslims and converts was viewed favorably in the rest of Europe and even applauded in the case of "a country so mixed with Jews and Moors" like Spain.[59]
Studies by Kaplan, Yerushalmi, Mechoulan and Jaime Contreras show that many expelled Jewish intellectuals collaborated in spreading the negative image of Spain. The largest Sephardic community was in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, with two synagogues. His activity, "little affected to the service of his Majesty", came to provoke the protest of the Spanish ambassadors before the archduke in Brussels. Especially hated was the Inquisition, considered the "fourth beast spoken of by the prophet Daniel", a denatured justification, an accumulation of evil, which had corrupted society. Criticism spread to Flanders and Venice, where Sephardim had also settled. Thus, the communities publicized the executions of the Inquisition, such as the one that occurred in 1655 in Córdoba.[60]
The Sephardim were grateful to their new homeland during the Eighty Years' War: just as Spain was a "land of idolatry" and slavery, like Egypt, whose rulers suffer the curse of Yahweh; The Netherlands, on the other hand, is the land of freedom, on which the God of Israel will bring down all the blessings, as Daniel Levi de Barrios or Menasseh Ben Israel (previously called Manoel Soeiro) wrote.[61] They also used their power within the publishing industry, both to support the Dutch in their struggle and to spread criticism of Spain.[58]
Islamophobia and antisemitism
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Outside Spain the Inquisition was regarded as a necessary cleansing which needed to be performed in Spain, since all Spaniards were accused of having Moorish and Jewish ancestry ... First condemned by the impurity of their beliefs, the Spanish then came under fire for their excess of zeal in defending Catholicism. Influenced by the political and religious policies of Spain, a common type of ethnic inventive became an eloquent form of description by character assassination. So, when Bartolomé de las Casas wrote his criticism of certain governmental policies in the New World, his limited, persuasive, specific purpose was ignored.
According to Elvira Roca Barea, the Spanish Black Legend is a variant of the antisemitic narratives which had already been circulated in medieval-era Northern, Central and Southern European nations since the 13th century, critical of the perceived tolerance of Jews and heretics in Spain.[11] In 1555, after the expulsion of the Spanish Jews, Pope Paul IV described Spaniards as "heretics, schismatics, accursed of God, the offspring of Jews and Moors, the very scum of the earth".[62] This climate would facilitate the transfer of antisemitic and anti-Muslim stereotypes to Spaniards.[63] This case has three main sources of proof, the texts of German Renascence Intellectuals, the existence of the black legend narrative in Europe prior to the conquest of America, and the similarity of the stereotypes to other stereotypes which were attributed to Judaism by anti-Semitic Europeans and the stereotypes which the Black Legend attributed to the Spanish.[64]
Martin Luther correlated "the Jew" (who was detested in Germany at the time) with "the Spanish", whose power was increasing in the region. According to Sverker Arnoldsson, Luther:
Identified Italy and Spain with the papacy, even though the Pontifical States and Spain were enemies at the time
Ignored the coexistence (including intermarriage) of Christians and Jews in Spain
Conflated Spain and Turkey out of fear of an invasion by either power.[65]
In 1566, Luther's conversations were published. Among many other similar affirmations, he is quoted as saying:
... Spaniern ..., die essen gern weiss Brot vnd küssen gern weisse Meidlein, vnd sind sie stiffelbraun vnd pechschwartz wie König Balthasar mit seinem Affen.
The Spanish eat white bread with pleasure and kiss white women with pleasure, but they are as dirt-brown and tar-black as King Balthasar and his monkeys".
—Johann Fischart, Geschichtklitterung (1575).
Ideo prophetatum est Hispanos velle subigere Germaniam aut per se aut per alios, scilicet Turcam ... Et ita Germania vexabitur et viribus ac bonis suis exhausta Hispanico regno subiugabitur. Eo tendit Sathan, quod Germaniam liberam perturbare tentat
Thus, it is prophesied that the Spaniards want to subjugate Germany, by itself or through others, such as the Turks. And so Germany will be humiliated and stripped of its men and property, will be submitted to the kingdom of Spain. Satan tries this because he tries to prevent a free Germany
—Luther[64]
Distribution
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Proponents such as Powell,[6] Mignolo[66] and Roca Barea[11] allege that the Spanish Black Legend prevails in most of Europe, especially Protestant nations and France, and the Americas. There is, however, no significant trace of it in the Muslim world or Turkey despite the almost seven centuries of sustained warfare in which Spain and the Islamic world were engaged. Historian Walter Mignolo has argued that the Black Legend was closely tied to ideologies of race, both in the way that it used the Moorish history of Spain to depict Spaniards as racially tainted, and in the way that the treatment of Africans and Native Americans during Spanish colonial projects came to symbolize their moral character.[67]
America
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The first Puritan settlers were deeply hostile to Spain, seeing themselves as the Protestant advance guard that would free the Indians from Spanish oppression and cruelty. Prominent among these Puritan authors was Cotton Mather, who translated the Bible into Spanish for distribution among the Indians of New Spain.[68] After its independence, the United States soon became a territorial rival of Spain in America, both on the border with New Spain, and in Florida, the Mississippi or in New Orleans, a port that the Americans wanted to export their products from. The enlightened and liberal ideas that had entered the United States in the eighteenth century, joined their sympathies for the new republics emerging to the south, increasing anti-Spanish sentiment.[69] This hostility reached its zenith during the Spanish-American War, when the propaganda machine of Hearst and Pulitzer, used by their newspaper empires, had an enormous influence on public opinion in their country. The hispanophobic speeches heard in Congress during the conflict were so insulting that they led to massive protests in Spain.[70]
The tensions in Hispanic America between the upper classes of creoles and peninsulares, that is, the Spaniards from the Iberian Peninsula, predate the independence of the Latin American countries. It was a confrontation for the right to control and exploit the riches of the American lands and peoples and that, in general, did not affect the lower classes. Around 1800, the ideas of the Enlightenment, with its anticlericalism, its skepticism to authorities, and its support by Masonic lodges, had been enthusiastically embraced among American intellectuals. According to Powell, these ideas were mixed with the black legend, that is, with the identification of Spain as a "horrible example" of obscurantism and backwardness, as an enemy of modernity.[71] Indeed, he claims that the American wars of independence were to some degree civil wars, with the rebels led by minorities of Creoles.
With this background, Powell argues that the rebels were able to use the black legend as a propaganda weapon against the metropolis. Countless manifestos and proclamations were published quoting and praising Las Casas, poems and hymns describing the depraved nature of the "Spaniards", letters and pamphlets designed to advance the patriotic cause.[72] One of the first was the Peruvian Juan Pablo Vizcardo y Guzmán in his Carta dirigida a los españoles americanos por uno de sus compatriotas, accusing the metropolis of the serious exploitation suffered, summarizing the situation as «ingratitude, injustice, servitude and desolation». Another example is one of the great heroes of American independence, Simón Bolívar, an admirer of Las Casas, whose texts he would use profusely, blamed the Spanish for all the sins committed in America (by Creoles and non-Creoles) in the last 200 years, making the Creoles the victims, the "colonized". He would also be one of the first to appeal for the theft of American wealth and claim its return.[73]
This anti-Spanish mentality was maintained during the 19th century and part of the 20th among the liberal elites, who considered "de-Hispanization" the solution to national problems.[74] The historian Powell affirms that as a consequence of denigrating Spanish culture, it has been possible to denigrate their own, of which the first is a part, both in their own eyes and in foreign eyes. In addition, the fact would have produced a certain lack of roots among the American peoples, by rejecting part of their own.[75]
Europe
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At the same time, on the beginning of the 19th century, a school of liberal historians appeared in Spain and France who began to speak of the Spanish decline, considering the Inquisition responsible for this economic and cultural decline and for all the ills that afflicted the country. Other European historians would take up the subject later, maintaining this position in some authors until today. The reasoning stated that the expulsion of the Jews and the persecution of the converts would have led to the impoverishment and decline of Spain, in addition to the destruction of the middle class.[76] In 1867 Joaquín Costa had also raised the issue of Spanish decline. Both he and Lucas Mallada wondered if the fact was due to the Spanish character. He was joined by French and Italian sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists, who spoke more of "degeneration" than decadence, and later other Spaniards such as Rafael Salillas or Ángel Pulido. Pompeu Gener blamed Spanish decadence on religious intolerance and Juan Valera on Spanish pride. These ideas passed into literature with the Generation of '98, in texts by Pío Baroja, Azorín and Antonio Machado: «[Castilla...] a piece of the planet crossed by the wandering shadow of Caín»; reaching in some extremes to masochism and the inferiority complex. Joseph Pérez relates this rejection of one part of his own history (the expulsion of the Jews, the Inquisition, the conquest of America) and the idealization of another (Al-Andalus) with similar movements in Portugal and France.[77]
Also, after the Unification of Italy, many Italian historians tended to narrate in a negative way the time when part of the Italian peninsula had formed a dynastic union with Spain. In particular, Gabriele Pepe denounced what in his eyes had been the plunder and corruption of southern Italy "under the Spanish".[78] This view only began to change in the last third of the 20th century, thanks to a series of congresses and authors such as Rosario Villari and Elena Fasano Guarini.[79] The works of Alessandro Manzoni[80][81][82][83] and Giuseppe Verdi[84] also propagated anti-Spanish propaganda on Italian literature.
East Asia
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The period of Spanish rule in the Philippines is often presented negatively in the present day.[citation needed] Although the Philippine Islands were occupied by both Spain and the United States and the Empire of Japan, only the Spaniards were considered as the oppressors who kept the society in feudal backwardness, along with the development of a servile mentality and the cause of the ignorance through religious fanaticism, while the Americans were portrayed as liberators of the nation in the process of building a national identity against the interference of other powers (the Spanish Catholics and the Islamic sultanates), who, with their defects, were able to bring Modernization in the Islands with its liberal policies.[citation needed] A lot of investigators mention that United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands has an important role in the construction of anti-Spanish propaganda on Philippines' education.[85] The anti-Spanish propaganda has endured in historiography to this day, since scholars used to copy from the same standard books that have distorted the images of the Philippines with such tropes of the black legend.[86] That being the case, it has been denounced that "official" historiography in the Philippines, from the nationalist and liberal school, has lacked objectivity by assuming long-repeated misconceptions regarding the early modern history of the Philippines.[86]
According to Phillip Powell, the leading historians of the United States in the 19th century, Francis Parkman, George Bancroft, William H. Prescott, and John Lothrop Motley, would also write History tinged with the black legend, texts that remain important in later American historiography.[87] An example of this is The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898, important source of Philippine history for non-Spanish speakers that has been criticized by modern historians, notably Glòria Cano, for deliberately distorting the original Spanish documents to portray the Captaincy General of the Philippines in a negative light.[88][89] In addition, after the United States Occupation of the Philippines, the Schurman Commission was carried out, with the purpose of preparing the conditions for the government of the Philippine islands, and in which the Philippine upper class of the Principalía and the Ilustrado intellectuals participated. Thus, Jacob Schurman built and shaped a discourse that emphasized a negative view of the Philippine Republic (while declaring that the Filipinos are not ready for independence) and outlined an obscurantist image of the Spanish regime, for which they appealed typical dichotomies between modernity vs. tradition, where the Spanish regime represented an apparent medieval and reactionary backwardness, while the US administration presented itself as liberal and progressive.[citation needed]
Thus, the Americans in the Philippines developed a narrative with they belittled Spain, following the traditional lines of the Black Legend, as a feudal, exploitative and oppressive power, while also praising the Hispanic legacy in the Filipino (on a more social than political level), especially their conversion of "savages" to Christianity, but at the cost of underestimating Filipino customs (many of Hispanic origin by Catholic tradition, which the Americans considered a mistake for the Spanish to seek to achieve cultural syncretism with the barbaric and pagan).[90] American works such as The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898, by Blair and Robertson, or The Americans in the Philippines, by James LeRoy, have been accused of having presented a caricatural image of Spanish history in the islands, as well as giving an erroneous image of the Catholic Church and its power as opposed to any possibility of social reforms in the Philippines.[91][92] The US administration invoked negative views of Spanish colonialism to legitimize its occupation of the islands during the next decades, as a benevolent, modern and democratic colonization against a tyrannical and backward malevolent colonizer who had not been able to develop a national identity to the Filipinos.[93]
Continuance of the Black Legend in the modern era
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Historians disagree on whether the Black Legend exists as a genuine factor in current discourse around Spain and its history. In recent years a group of historians including Alfredo Alvar, Ricardo García Cárcel and Lourdes Mateo Bretos have argued that the Black Legend does not currently exist beyond Spanish society's own perception of how the world views Spain's legacy.[94] According to Carmen Iglesias, the Black Legend consists of negative traits which the Spanish people see in themselves and is shaped by political propaganda.[95]
The view of the group around García Cárcel is echoed by Benjamin Keen, writing in 1969. He argues that the concept of the Black Legend cannot be considered valid, given that the negative depiction of Spanish behavior in the Americas was largely accurate. He further claims that whether a concerted campaign of anti-Spanish propaganda based on imperial rivalry ever existed is at least open to question.[96]
Henry Kamen argues that the Black Legend existed during the 16th century but has disappeared in contemporary perceptions of Spain. However, other authors, like Elvira Roca Barea, Tony Horowitz and Philip Wayne Powell, have argued that it still affects the manner in which Spain is perceived, and that it is brought up strategically during diplomatic conflicts of interest as well as in popular culture to draw attention away from the negative actions of other nations. Historian John Tate Lanning argued that the most detrimental impact of the Black Legend was to reduce the Spanish colonization of the Americas (and the resulting culture that emerged) to "three centuries of theocracy, obscurantism, and barbarism."[97] In 2006, Tony Horowitz argued in The New York Times that the Spanish Black Legend affected current U.S. immigration policy.[98]
The Venezuelan case has been studied by Gilberto Ramón Quintero Lugo in his book «La Leyenda Negra y su influjo en la historiografía venezolana de la Independencia» (April 2004).[99]
In her 2016 book exploring “empire-phobia” as a recurring sociopolitical phenomenon in human history, Elvira Roca Barea argues that the unique persistence of the Spanish Black Legend beyond the end of the Spanish Empire is tied to a continued anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic sentiment in traditionally Protestant European countries:
If we deprive Europe of its hispanophobia and anti-Catholicism, its modern history becomes incomprehensible.[100]
José Luis Villacañas, in his 2019 response to Roca Barea, labels her work as "populist national-Catholic propaganda" and accuses her of minimising Spanish atrocities in the Americas along with those of the Inquisition. He argues that, for all intents and purposes, the Black Legend has no meaning outside the context of 17th century propaganda, although he recognises that certain negative stereotypes of Spain may have persisted during the Franco regime.[12]
García Cárcel criticises Roca Barea's position as adding to a long tradition of Spanish society's insecurities about how other countries perceive it. On the other hand, he also criticizes Villacañas's discourse as being heavily ideological in the opposite direction and systematically indulging in presentism. García Cárcel calls for an analysis of Spain's history that renounces both “narcissism and masochism” in favor of nuanced awareness of its “lights and shadows”.[101]
Other proponents of the continuity theory include musicologist Judith Etzion[102] and Roberto Fernandez Retamar,[103] and Samuel Amago who, in his essay "Why Spaniards Make Good Bad Guys" analyzes the persistence of the legend in contemporary European cinema.[104]
Proposed present day examples
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The below are examples which authors have suggested represent modern examples of the Black Legend.
Economics
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Luis Español argues that direct references to constructs which date back to the Black Legend were published in the British and Canadian media during the Turbot War of 1994 between Spain and Canada.[105]
Elvira Roca Barea argues that referring to Spain as part of the PIGS or "GIPSI" group of countries is a recourse to anti-Catholic and hispanophobic stereotypes in order to protect the financial interests of Protestant countries.[11]
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Philip Wayne Powell, writing in 1971, considered the Black Legend to be the root of contemporary diplomatic problems between Latin American and the United States, making the case for this in his book The Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting Relations with the Hispanic World. The view of the Black Legend affecting the present-day United States' immigration policy has gained supporters in the current political climate.[106]
Powell stated that Spain's past ownership of about half of the United States' land was unknown by most Americans, affecting the way in which the Latin American population and cultures are treated, as well as the linguistic debate there.[107]
Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell stated that he sees a re-emergence of the Black Legend across Europe in the way the Catalonian issue has been covered, especially by English-speaking press.[108]
Education and popular culture
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In 1944, the American Council of Education released a report on anti-Hispanism in school textbooks, identifying a large number of basic errors, inexactitudes and biased portrayals. It concluded that "The abolition of the Black Legend and its effects in our interpretation of Latin American life is one of our main problems in the educational and intellectual aspect, as well as in the political sphere", and urged for textbooks' biases and errors to be fixed. However, according to Powell,[109] in 1971 all the core errors were still in the majority of school materials.
Roca Barea criticises the 2007 BBC documentary "Andes: The Dragon's Back" for stating that 200 Spaniards conquered 1.5 billion Incas, more than the entire population of the world at the time. She considers this to be modern Black Legend propaganda.[11] Edgar Straehle, in his extended response to her book, points out that the programme in fact states that the population of the Inca Empire was 15 million, linking to the original English version.[110] Roca Barea later replied to this argument by stating that, in the dubbed version broadcast on Spanish television, the figure of 1.5 billion was given.[111]
Roca Barea points to the following dialogue from a dubbed episode of the TV series Law & Order, broadcast in Spain in 2014, as an example of continued hispanophobia in the present day: "How many heterosexual men over-30 do you know that are still Catholics and aren't weirdos?" [11]
Race
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In Tree of Hate, Powell argued that the Black Legend contributed to racist depictions of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the media of the United States:
There is also the implacably tyrannical, hardhearted hacendado and the slinky, treacherous Mexican "greaser"; these gringo versions of Spanish depravity have had considerable popularity with Hollywood scenarists and the writers of horse operas. The following description is typical: "She sent for the Mexican at once, and the man came in a few moments, a venomous looking specimen of his race, slinking, yellow-eyed, with nicotine ingrained to his very soul."[112]
White Legend
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The label "White Legend" (Leyenda Blanca) is used to describe a historiographic approach which presents an uncritical or idealized image of Spanish colonial practices.[13] Some authors consider this to be the result of taking attempts to counter the bias of the Black Legend too far, whereas others consider it to have developed independently. Miguel Molina Martinez describes this legend as a characteristic of the Nationalist Spanish historiography which was propagated during the regime of Francisco Franco, a regime which associated itself with the imperial past and couched it in positive terms. Molina Martinez points to the classic text of Spanish Americanists during the Franco period, Rómulo Carbia's Historia de la leyenda negra hispanoamericana, as a work with a strong ideological motivation which frequently fell into arguments which could be qualified as part of the White Legend, while also giving more current examples of the trope.[113] Some, such as Benjamin Keen, have criticized the works of John Fiske and Lewis Hanke as going too far towards idealizing Spanish history.[16] While recognising the general merit of Hanke's work, Keen suggests that the United States' contemporary imperial ventures in the Caribbean and the Philippines had led him to idealise the Spanish Empire as an analogy for American colonialism. He further argues that the proponents of the White Legend focus on Spanish legal codes protecting the Indigenous population, while ignoring the copious documentary evidence that they were widely ignored.[3]
Luis Castellvi Laukamp accuses Elvira Roca Barea of "transforming the Black Legend into the White Legend" in her influential 2016 work, Imperofobia y Leyenda Negra, in which she claims that Spain confronted the other "not with racist theories but with [protective] laws". Castellvi Laukamp points out that not only did the Spanish Laws of the Indies include racism from the beginning, but slavery continued in Spanish colonies in the Americas until 1886. He further takes issue with claims that Spanish colonies' high level of mestizaje (biological and cultural mixing of the European and Indigenous population) demonstrates the absence of racism in the Spanish Empire. Castellvi Laukamp quotes from contemporary sources showing that Indigenous women were treated as spoils of war and subject to racialised sexual slavery and subordination and demonstrates the discriminatory racial stereotypes deployed against black and other non-white women in the colonial period.[114]
Dominican Historian Esteban Mira Caballos argues that the Black and White legends form part of a single unity, which he calls a "Great Lie".[115] He goes on to describe the way the Black Legend is instrumentalised to support the White Legend:
The consequence of the positioning of those who allude to the Black Legend in order to, in reality, defend the White Legend, has been to silence any criticism of the past: We were marvellous, and anything negative anyone has to say about us is fruit of the Black Legend. And without the possibility of criticism, the science of History loses all meaning.
— Esteban Mira Caballos, Mito, realidad y actualidad de la leyenda negra
The "White Legend" or the "Pink Legend" (Sp: Leyenda Rosa) may also refer to the propaganda which was circulated within Spain by Philip II and his descendants, propaganda which claimed that his actions in the Netherlands and America were religiously motivated, so his own patrimony would be preserved. This propaganda was intended to foster the image that Spain was ruled by a prudent and pious monarch, and control the unrest that was generated by his aggressive policies and his wars in the Netherlands.[116]
See also
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History portal
Anti-Catholicism
Antisemitic trope – Hoaxes or other false stories about Jews and Judaism
Atrocity propaganda – Spreading of deliberate fabrications or exaggerations about the crimes committed by an enemy
Australian history wars – Public debate in Australia over British colonialism ("black armband")
Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition
Colonial mentality – Internalized attitude of ethnic or very cultural inferiority
Cultural depictions of Philip II of Spain
Hispanophobia – Fear or hatred of Spanish people or culturePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Historical revisionism – Reinterpretation of a historical account
Islamophobia – Fear, hatred of, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general
Lost cause of the Confederacy – Negationist myth of the American Civil WarPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas
Stereotypes of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
Stereotypes of Jews – Generalized representations of Jewish people
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Jamie and Vanessa Quai are Canadian pilgrims from Ontario. The Camino surfaced on their very first date and they found themselves walking their pilgrimage that become a journey of life and love. An... – Listen to Jamie and Vanessa are 'people collectors' on the Camino by My Camino - the podcast instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed.
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Mick Pope wrote to me to say he was once a 23 stone drunk. He made a decision more than 20 years ago to change his mind....and change his life. He's been dry ever since.
Mick has just completed his tenth Camino - walking to celebrate the ability to do so after making the right decision to get sober.
This is a great episode about overcoming incredible odds to create a new future, one full of joy and light.....and pilgrimage.
Hella Bennett is another of my guests on my magical musical Camino back in May 2024 - and she loved to sing and dance. It was pure joy to get to know this spirited, wonderfully inspiring, gentle, creative person.
There are so many journeys to take....we don't always take the right path, but Hella has found walking her four Caminos has led her to forge a NEW path, a path of discovery and enlightenment.
You can find Hella on Instagram here and on Facebook here
Czarina Deldio decided to walk the Camino after surviving breast cancer....and her parents decided to accompany her to Spain. At the very last moment, just as Czarina and her mother were due to begin, something extraordinary occurred that would change all their lives forever.
This is an incredible episode, I hope you'll hear and experience the love a family can share and how the Camino is the perfect place to climb whatever Everest you feel you need to.
Dan's younger sister Amanda walked as part of the Magical Musical Camino in May '24. Amanda didn't feel like she 'got' the Camino, but maybe, just maybe by the end she'd learned to be a little kinder to herself and to worry less and to take the time to slow down.
A beautiful message for all of us this week. Slow down, life races by too fast.
Sarah Daley is an American pilgrim who runs yoga retreats on the Camino. Sarah was recently in Sydney and dropped by my house for a chat around the kitchen bench.
This is a great story of learning to let go, of overcoming hardship and letting the Camino guide you to a softer, gentler more meaningful life.
You can find Sarah and her friend Laura's Camino Yoga Retreats here
And if you're interested in helping Veterans find their Way on the Camino, here is a link to Heroes in Transition
Koda Whitney collected cans to raise the money for his Camino. A teacher by trade, he's taking his Camino learnings back to his classroom and community - and teaching adventure is good for the soul.
This is a wonderful episode about collecting memories and sharing love.
A wonderful message for uncertain times.
Australian pilgrim Michelle Pietroboni was ready to walk the Camino before the pandemic intervened. An accident while meditating meant it was a challenge physically, and the death of a beloved Aunt just prior to leaving meant it was also a challenge of the heart.
In this episode, Michelle tells us all about her journey of love and discovery ....and WHY she got SO angry in the square in Santiago....
Kenneth Strange featured in Episode 154 of My Camino - the Podcast. He's back! This time we're talking about his new book about his career as a law enforcement officer, in the footsteps of his father. A Cop's Son is a journey of intrigue and espionage.
The Camino is all about love and this journey of Kenneth's is all about the love of his father, a 38-year NYPD cop and the influence he had on his son.
You can find Kenneth's books here
Sorry I don't have anything new for you this week, it's been an incredibly busy week. I've finished tracking the new album and we now wait for the team behind the scenes to work their magic. If you'd like to add Somewhere Along the Way to your streaming service when it's relaunched as a single next week, go to https://www.danmullinsmusic.com/. We can work together to get it added to streaming service lists when it goes live July 5. Many thanks, Dan
Husband and wife pilgrims, Simon Van Wyk and Linda Smith walked to Caminos a decade apart. When I asked them to give me one word that describes their pilgrimage, Simon said 'community' and Linda said 'joy'. You can tell by their energy and focus they've brought those two sentiments home with them.
This is an episode about shaking off the rain and doing your best to make each and every day as meaningful as possible. Make your life a Camino.
Veronica Soebarto walked the Camino as an adventure of a lifetime, but soon discovered it was memories and moments from her past that meant the most to her. A rosary, a long marriage, memories of her late mother.
These prayers and realisations of love are miracles we may not have found had we not set out on the ancient and spiritual path of the Camino.
Veronica's life has changed forever.
Dan has retired his Camino guitar 'Stella', short for Compostella.
In this episode Dan returns from the Camino with a brief summary of what the Camino is like right now and then turns his attention to a tribute to his favourite guitar.
Ty and Marguerite Chalmers are about to head to the Camino after a life of adventure, music and family.
You'll love this discussion on why the Camino calls us, why we're lured to adventure and why music is the joy of life
Australian pilgrim Gabby Denvir is about to walk her second Camino, marking ten years since she and her husband walked their first Camino.
You'll love how Gabby explains the beauty of the simplicity of the Camino, the small treasures, like a cup and saucer and a cup of tea.
I love this episode for its gentle, simple message. Take the time to treasure the joys of life.
Harvey and Maya Jade Chiang are a father and daughter who walk the Camino creating lifelong memories.
It all began when Harvey and his wife Shannon invited Maya to join the on their first Camino to break out of the shackles of Covid. They keep returning to provide Maya with perspective to help her cope with the pressures teenagers face in modern times.
This is a wonderful discussion about the love a family shares and how the Camino provides ways to let our hearts sing.
Australian pilgrim Simon Keenan has just launched his new website www.wisdomoftheway.com
Simon's albergue, Terra le Luz is in Monton about halfway between Villafranca del Bierzo and O'Cebreiro.
In tnis episode, Simon joins Dan in Sydney to discuss the Camino, grounding, connection and why the Camino lures us back, time and again
Kenneth Larsson is a pilgrim walking with a mission. He wants to honour his friend Kenneth McNatty who died on the Via de la Plata.
This is a wonderful story of a Camino friendship, deep and meaningful and even more, important.
You will love what it means to be a 'Kenneth'!!
Elizabeth Eastland is an Australian artist and writer. Her new exhibition - A Thousand Prayers / (on the Camino Frances) - begins in Sydney May 16. You'll love this chat about art and the joy of working hard to create a body of work based on the prayers and inspirations on the Camino.
Opening Celebration with guest speaker Miguel Omo, discussion with fellow pilgrims Saturday 18 May, 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Elizabeth Eastland in conversation with Caroline Baum Thursday 23 May, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Walk to the exhibition: Freshwater Surf Lifesaving Club to Curl Curl Creative Space Friday 24 May, 9:00am – 10:00 am
Australian Caminos - Camino de Sydney (talk by founders). Saturday 25 May 1:00pm – 2:00pm
To learn more about public programs or book, visit: https://lizeastlandart.com/
Jose Martinez has walked the world's great pilgrimages. Learn all about the Jesus Walk; the Inca Trail; and a five million-pilgrim walk in Mexico.
Jose loves the Camino and the Camino has become his life.
Enjoy his documentary on the Mexican pilgrimage to San Juan de los Lagos here
Sarah Justine Packwood is a British pilgrim who lives in Canada. Sarah found inspiration on the Camino when words and music floated into her head and heart.
This is a wonderful story of finding inspiration and love in the most unlikely places - including a London bus.
You can find Sarah's music on YouTube and find her blog at sarahjustinepackwood.com
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When to go:
The Camino de Santiago is open 365 days a year with a majority of the pilgrims walking during the summer months. Obviously, their biggest concerns are the weather and available accommodations. So my recommendation is to walk in June or September. Spring is nice during the planting season but rain will be a concern (and the ground will be brown and barren). Fall is pleasant enough during the harvesting season, but again, rain will be a concern. Jamie and I found out that June was perfect. We were lucky and only received two short rain showers during the entire month! And everything was lush and green! The temperature was ideal at 6:30 am. At 9 am, it was warm enough to put on your hat to shield you from the sun. At 11 am, you stopped to apply your sunscreen. And then between 12 and 2 pm, you generally arrive at your destination several hours before the heat of the day.
→Tip:
Jamie and I also walked during the start of the FIFA World Cup football (soccer) tournament in 2014. That meant that every night in every town along the Camino, the TV screens in the pubs were tuned to the tournament. It’s an awful lot of fun to watch football with the Italians or the French or the English cheering on their national team in a small town in Spain.
What to bring:
Plenty of websites and guidebooks have already listed all the recommended items that you’ll need for your Camino. But remember that for maximum comfort, you should only carry 10% of your body weight. So think frugally. And yes, spend the extra money on those polyester T-shirts with the wicking material—and those walking shoes (which should be half a size too large for your feet to leave room for swelling)!
→The top 4 things you need that the other websites don’t stress enough:
1. Anti-chafing stick for your feet. The blister scare is real and could ruin your trip. Don’t ignore them. Too many pilgrims were painfully limping around because they didn’t take proper care of their feet. Coat them every morning with that anti-chafing stick and wear those wool socks with the wicking material layer. My brand was called Chafe Zone and I swear by it!
2. Nylon pants with zippers around your legs so you can convert them to shorts at night. I don’t recommend walking in shorts despite the desire of a tan. It will only make your sunscreen breaks last that much longer. Your legs require too much surface area to cover. Better to only worry about your face, neck, and arms for your sunburns. Keep your legs out of the equation.
3. Another book about the Camino beyond your guidebook. The guidebook is essential for giving you basic directions, mapping out your distances, and listing all the albergue accommodations. But I haven’t found one yet that really breaks down the true experience of walking the Camino. Too many of these guidebooks are written by religious scholars who frown upon the temptations of the city. But, let’s be honest, the Camino is less of a pious march across Spain… and more of a party. So bring along another Camino book to bide your time in between the tapas and the wine! (Obviously, I recommend that you bring along mine…)
4. An old-school journal. You will meet so many fellow travelers and experience so many lovely towns and cities, it will soon be too difficult to remember any of the details unless you write them down (especially when you look at your photos a few weeks later). And, remember, you’re never really alone on the Camino when you have your own journal. And now you have something else to occupy your time in between the tapas and the wine!
→And the top 2 things you think you need but you probably really don’t:
1. Trekking poles. This is just my opinion. On the contrary, many pilgrims will swear by them and say that they help ease the strain on their knees and hips. I can’t argue with that. My point is that I preferred to walk without those poles constantly attached to my hands. No trekking poles meant I could walk freely while sipping from my water bottle, or eating a sandwich, or taking a photo, or shooting a video. The pilgrims with trekking poles always had to throw their poles aside and come to a halt in order to do… just about anything. So think about it. And maybe carry less weight so you won’t create that extra strain on your joints…
2. A mobile phone. I know, I know, this sounds like absolute heresy! This is also just my opinion. And I didn’t have kids or sick family members that needed my attention. But, man, it was awesome to let go of the domestic madness back home and really embrace the true intention of the Camino i.e. to use this ample time to focus on my personal priorities and meet fellow pilgrims, whether I was on the trail or sitting in the town square—and not be distracted by the noise of the internet. I could find out how my baseball team was doing when I returned. I could catch up on those emails later. Again… think about it. Or, at least, only use your phone for emergencies…
A warning about the sleeping arrangements:
The guidebooks will recommend the albergues (the cheap dormitories built for pilgrims) and give you ample information on where to find them. Give them a shot. Embrace them if you must (especially if you’re on a tight budget). You will meet people there (but you will meet a lot more on the trail and in the town squares). But know this: you will also meet the snorers. And you only need one snorer to ruin your whole night’s sleep. Trust me! Out of the twenty/thirty/forty beds placed in that room, there will be one or two snorers every night. And they will wake you up. And they just might make you angry. I started out sleeping in albergues… but I eventually switched to budget hotels to ease my mind. Yes, I paid more but, boy, did I sleep! “But, John, I’ll just bring my earplugs.” Good luck with that. I wore earplugs every night in those albergues… and it wasn’t enough. Trust me, you’re going to hear some world champion snorers, my friend…
How long should you go?
(i.e. not everybody can afford to take 30 days off in a row…)
Of course, this depends on what route you take. But I’ll stick with the most popular route, the Camino de Frances which begins near the border between Spain and France and is comprised of 33 recommended stages. If you have 35 days to spare, by all means, walk the entire route! But I didn’t. My work commitments forced me to make some compromises and walk the route in 22 days. I will list my itinerary below, but here are some things to consider if you can’t complete the entire course.
1. There is no need to start in the recommended French town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. Yes, it’s a beautiful location but it doesn’t reflect the rest of the Camino trail. Without any real meaningful training, it forces you to walk up and down mountains in the Pyrenees! Many pilgrims will injure themselves on their first day. Twisted ankles, sore knees, etc. For the next 32 days, you will be walking over rolling hills and marching through vineyards and fields. Mountains are not part of the Camino. You know who doesn’t start their journey in France? The Spanish. They all begin at the stage 2 stop, Roncesvalles. “This is a Spanish Camino in my country. Why should I cross the border first?” Agreed. Resist the temptation; start somewhere else.
2. The guidebooks will encourage you to enjoy the beauty of the Meseta, the 240-kilometer stretch of trail through a barren plain that is flat, hot, with no shade, and no points of interest of any kind. It is dreadful. Most of the towns are dreadful. The flies are relentless. I talked to many pilgrims about their Meseta experience and I would estimate that only 10 percent of them found it rewarding. Everyone else was relieved to be rid of it and embraced the greenery that greeted them on the other side. March through the Meseta, if you must, but you have been warned.
3. Also remember that in order to receive your compostela (your certificate of proof that you walked the Camino), you are only required to walk 100 kilometers of the trail. That’s it! According to the Camino officials in Santiago de Compostela, you are a worthy enough pilgrim at that distance. So don’t listen to the pilgrim purists who insist that you need to walk every step from the French border to the Santiago Cathedral in order to fulfill your commitments to the Camino. The official Pilgrim’s Office doesn’t.
4. Also, don’t listen to the Spanish in terms of your Camino commitment. They live there. So many of them don’t walk the entire route all at the same time either. Some walk 100 kilometers one year and then return the following year to walk some more. They might spread out their journey over 2, 3, 4, 5 or more years. And they will likely tell you to do the same. I argued, “I can’t do this every year. It gets expensive with flights. It gets tedious in terms of training. It’s all too much. No, listen, this is my one trip to complete the Camino, so I will make some compromises.” The Spanish pilgrim might then shrug. “Come back next year, it’s not a big deal…”
My Camino Trip:
1st – Pamplona to Puente la Reina (training helped, feel great)
2nd – to Estella (pretty town which is misleading because many are not)
3rd – to Los Arcos (by now I have an established pilgrim crew!)
4th – to Logroño (my first hotel)
5th – to Nájera (my favorite town)
6th – to Santo Domingo de la Caizado (big letdown after Nájera)
7th – to Belorado (great dinner party in the square)
8th – to Agés (injured while entering this depressing village)
9th – to Burgos (limped into town, hotel, last meal with my first pilgrim crew)
10th – to León (by bus through Meseta, injured, hotel)
11th – León rest day on doctor’s orders
12th – to Astorga (by bus, end of Meseta, hotel, World Cup starts)
13th – to Ponferrada (by bus, hotel, almost healed)
14th – to Villafranca del Bierzo (walking again, hotel)
15th – to O Cebreiro (best Camino food, new pilgrim crew established)
16th – to Triacastela (my worst town)
17th – to Sarria (hotel, Camino got busier, allergies kick in)
18th – to Portomarin (hotel, hottest day)
19th – to Palas de Rei (hotel, finally purchase allergy medicine)
20th – to Arzúa (hotel, last big town before finish line)
(Tip: Because you want to arrive in Santiago in the late morning –
before the noon Pilgrim Mass, it’s important to end your walk the next day
in a place that’s not too far from your final destination.)
21st – to Lavacolla, now 10.4 km from Santiago (hotel, my only afternoon of rain)
(Tip: This is the only time I booked a hotel in advance.
You want a hotel near the Santiago Cathedral to drop off your backpack when you arrive so you can enjoy the city without it.)
22nd – to Santiago de Compostela (hotel, final drinks with my second pilgrim crew, absolute peace and joy!)
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Jamie Bacon is angry that his parents are making him walk 500 miles in Spain as part of their home-schooling plan. He’s especially disappointed that, unexpectedly, Dad can’t come along on the trip, so he’ll be with just Mom and his sister Lily.
But when Jamie meets a priest, Father Diego, on the plane and hears the backstory of the Camino de Santiago, he’s intrigued. And when he naively agrees to the request by two pilgrims to secretly carry a heavily taped envelope, unopened, all the way to Santiago de Compostela, Jamie is stuck with keeping his word. Multiple missteps plague Jamie on the Way of St. James (the English name for the pilgrimage). He injures Lily, causes a car accident, loses the envelope twice, and gets the family lost. Like most Camino pilgrims, Jamie discovers every day on the route holds adventure, revelation, elation, and exhaustion. He meets quirky and kind and scholarly pilgrims; he learns legends and history. He sees marvels of architecture and explores castles, churches, and a cave. And he’s heroic, too, when he rescues a child from a charging bull, saves a puppy, prevents vandalism, talks his mother out of a panic attack, and more.
There are surprises in WALK. I don’t want to spoil a reader’s enjoyment, so I won’t disclose much more here. But when Jamie is finally in the holy city of Santiago de Compostela, after the family performs traditional pilgrim rituals in the world-class cathedral, it’s time for him to deliver that troublesome envelope. Finding out what he’s inadvertently carried the whole way produces Jamie’s biggest surprise.
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The Camino Primitivo is our favourite Way of Saint James so far. If you’re planning to do a Camino de Santiago, we recommend this one.
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Eight strong men robed in red pulled the knotted rope in unison and the enormous silver incense burner swung through the air, trailing fragrant smoke in its wake. Hundreds of people raised cameras and cell phones to capture the moment and the botafumeiro swung on. We’d arrived. After two weeks of walking, we were once again in Santiago Cathedral, attending the pilgrim mass and watching the botafumeiro swing in a tradition almost as old as the Camino de Santiago itself.
To listen, hit play below or find episode 302 in iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud:
It has been said that the Camino de Santiago created the modern idea of Europe, as people travelling across the continent to visit the tomb of St James in the northwest corner of Spain created the links that join countries together today. It was certainly the number-one reason for human migration in the middle ages, and though it has since lost that status, thousands of people still make their way across Spain every year, walking or cycling towards the end goal of Santiago Cathedral.
We recently finished our fourth Camino, the Camino Primitivo. This route starts in Oviedo in the Spanish province of Asturias, and was the original way, first walked by King Alfonso in the ninth century. He was the one who ordered that a basilica be built to house the remains of St James, and so created the end point for the many Caminos de Santiago.
The Camino Primitivo was very popular in medieval times, as a stop at Oviedo’s San Salvador cathedral was considered essential by many pilgrims, and a popular saying said that “he who visits Santiago, but not San Salvador, visits the servant but not the Lord”. These days it isn’t as popular as the more well-known Camino Francés, and is regarded as the most difficult of all the routes because of its hilly terrain.
We particularly enjoyed the Camino Primitivo, and wholeheartedly recommend it. When you go, you’ll need to do a bit of preparation.
Before you go
Choose your route
When people talk about “the Camino” they usually mean the French way, which starts of the border with France and crosses Spain from east to west, passing through Pamplona, Burgos, and Leon. It’s a great route, with an excellent atmosphere and fantastic infrastructure, but it’s very popular and not recommended in summer. You could also consider the Northern way, which follows the northern coast of Spain, or the Via de La Plata from Seville. There’s also a Portuguese way, a way from Madrid, and many more options. When making your choice, think about how much time you have, what time of year you’ll be going, the weather in the places you’ll be passing through, and terrain.
Pack
Packing can be a challenge, but the most important thing to remember is to keep it light: less than 10% of your body weight. You’ll need two changes of clothes, wet-weather gear, a sleeping bag, good boots, a well-stocked first-aid kit and a lightly-stocked toiletries kit. Try not to take too much else! If you have back problems, you could consider a pack-carrying service which will deliver your pack to your accommodation each day, or stay at hotels and guesthouses rather than pilgrim hostels if you don’t want to carry a sleeping bag.
Get your guide and passport
The way is well-marked with arrows and scallop shells, but you’ll need some sort of guide to let you know how far away the next town is. There are plenty of books to choose from, and a lot of the information is available online — this time, we just used the free Eroski guide (in Spanish). We recommend you have a paper copy of the most important information (names of towns, topography, distances from place to place, facilities), just in case your electronics fail.
You’ll need a pilgrim passport to have access to pilgrim hostels and to get your certificate of completion; we bought ours at Oviedo Cathedral.
On the way
Sleep
Most pilgrims stay in pilgrim hostels called albergues, which are either run by the local government (municipal) or privately (privado). Municipal albergues can’t be booked in advance and tend to be cheaper than private ones, around €5-6. Private albergues are either donativo (you give what you want) or around €10-15 per night. As the route was quite busy and we were a group of seven by the end, we often found ourselves calling up private albergues to make reservations.
If you’re staying in an albergue, remember to pack earplugs and perhaps an eyemask, and to be considerate of other pilgrims, especially if you are an early riser. Try not to rustle too much late at night or in the early morning, and pack your bag in common areas rather than in the dorm room.
Look after yourself
You’ll probably have blisters, muscle ache, or some other problem with your body — when you do, sort it out as soon as possible. There are plenty of pharmacies along the way and other pilgrims will help you out if you ask, but don’t put off dealing with any issues, as they will probably get worse. Make sure your first-aid kit contains bandages, band-aids, blister plasters, and anti-inflammatory painkillers, and consider anti-inflammatory gel or liniment if you tend to get muscle ache.
Eat and drink
It’s important to stay hydrated, so take a large water bottle with you — and use it! Supermarkets and small grocery stores will furnish you with food if you want to cook for yourself (many albergues have kitchens) or eat at the many bars, restaurants, and cafés for convenience.
In Santiago
Paperwork
After you arrive in Santiago and take the obligatory photo in front of the cathedral, head to the Pilgrims’ Office for your Compostela, or certificate of completion. A new option has recently been introduced, which states the number of kilometres you have walked in addition to your name and the date. We didn’t get one as 320km seemed kind of short in comparison to the 2800km that a Belgian woman we met had done!
Mass
The pilgrim mass at noon is another important thing to do, but get there at least an hour early if you want a seat. Afterwards, head behind the main altar to give the statue of St James a hug, then go down into the crypt to view the silver casket that houses his remains.
Say goodbye
It’s a good idea to stay a couple of days in Santiago in order to relax a little and spend time with the people you met along the way. We often eat lunch at Casa Manolo, which has a large dining room and takes bookings for large groups of people, though the quality of food has declined over the past few years.
From Santiago, you can keep walking to Finisterre or Muxia or choose a faster form of transport to take you to other parts of Spain or Europe: there are good bus and train connections, and several airports are within reach if you plan to fly.
Considering a camino?
We love the Camino, and highly recommend it. It’s a cheap, meaningful way to see Spain in depth, and it’s a great opportunity to meet people and learn more about yourself. We asked a couple of people what advice they’d give to someone who was thinking about doing a camino, and I think our French friend Clothilde put it best: “don’t think too much, just do it.”
To listen, hit play above or check in iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud.
This episode of the Indie Travel Podcast is sponsored by Context Travel.
Context provides private guides and (very) small group tours for the intellectually curious traveler. PhD and MA-educated guides take you deep into your destination, and with a maximum group size of six, you can ask as many questions as you like!
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Artists Space is pleased to present Camino, the first New York solo exhibition of Los Angeles based performance and installation artist rafa esparza.
A painter, installation, and performance artist, esparza creates works that engage site-specificity and materiality in order to challenge dominant power structures. Camino is an immersive exhibit that comprises a material deconstruction of the Arroyo Seco section of the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles, the first freeway in the western United States. Architects championed the Arroyo Seco, completed in 1940, as an innovation in vehicular roadway systems and mobility. But the freeway is a living reminder of what the artist calls “the brute force of infrastructural planning that divided Los Angeles,” which primarily impacts gravely marginalized poor and working-class communities of color. The popularity of this urban-planning model was adapted by other cities across the country, resulting in an almost ritual-like approach to dividing communities.
In Camino (which in Spanish can mean either “road” or “I walk”), esparza transforms Artists Space with concrete rubble scattered about an adobe-paved road. Bringing together sculptures, painting, and earthen elements, Camino explores the continuum of urban renewal and redevelopment, and posits a possibility of material collapse. esparza populates the exhibition with portraits of barefoot people moving through space, foregrounding the history of working-class brown and Black communities’ severed relationship to land and simultaneously highlighting their customizations of mobile vehicles such as bikes, cars, and trucks. The aesthetics of these modifications—symbols of joy, celebration, comfort, and community—become a key element in the fabrication of esparza’s hybrid sculptures.
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Mexican TV series or program
Dos mujeres, un caminoGenreTelenovelaWritten by
Emilio Larrosa
Alejandro Pohlenz
Verónica Suárez
Directed by
José Ángel García
Salvador Garcini
Alfredo Gurrola
Antonio Acevedo
StarringMusic byDavid RojoOpening theme"Dos mujeres, un camino" performed by Laura LeónEnding theme"Dos mujeres, un camino" performed by Grupo BroncoCountry of originMexicoOriginal languageSpanishNo. of seasons1No. of episodes229ProductionExecutive producerEmilio LarrosaProducerJosé Ángel GarcíaCinematographyAntonio AcevedoEditors
Adrián Frutos
Juan Franco
Camera setupMulti-cameraProduction companyTelevisaOriginal releaseNetworkCanal de las EstrellasReleaseAugust 16, 1993 ( ) –
July 1, 1994 (1994-07-01)
Dos mujeres, un camino (English title: Two women, one path) is a Mexican neo-noir telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1993-1994.[1] This production was exhibited in 47 countries, including Indonesia, had high viewer ratings, and has been described as one of Televisa's most successful telenovelas.[2]
Erik Estrada, Laura León and Bibi Gaytán starred as protagonists, while Enrique Rocha, Claudio Báez, Luz María Jerez, Elizabeth Dupeyrón, Lorena Herrera, Eduardo Liceaga and Rodrigo Vidal starred as antagonists. Tejano singer Selena appeared in two episodes.
The series tells the story of Juan Daniel, known as Johnny, a U.S.-born Mexican truck driver and family man who falls in love with a woman he meets in his travels, and of the complications as a consequence of his new love. Dos Mujeres... used the then-new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a backdrop to the story; Johnny transported merchandise from Mexico to the United States.
Johnny had enemies in Tijuana, where he was blamed for the death of Bernardo Montegarza (Eduardo Liceaga), son of the Montegarza family. Johnny is still very much in love with his wife (Laura León) when he falls for a young waitress, Tanya (Bibi Gaytán), whose mother owns a restaurant that Johnny frequents.
Tanya does not know he is married, and Raymundo, a police officer in love with Tanya, is working with fellow officer Ángel to pursue the head of the family that blames Johnny for the young man's death. It is later discovered that Johnny did not cause Bernardo's death (his own sister Alejandra, who was secretly in love with Johnny, had sabotaged a truck thinking that Johnny would use it), and while he was struggling to decide whether he wants to stay with his wife or his girlfriend, Tanya dies taking a knife thrust intended for her rival – Johnny's wife – Ana Maria.
A side story involves Tanya's friend Graciela being pursued by Bernardo's younger brother Ricardo, and egged on by her mother, but preferring Ángel, who along with Raymundo are pursuing a drug trafficker known simply as Medusa, who turns out to be Bernardo, who was taken in by a drug cartel and changed his identity. Graciela becomes pregnant with Ricardo's child, but she begins to like Ángel more as a potential husband. It is also revealed that Tanya's real father was in fact Ismael Montegarza, patriarch of the Montegarza family and father of Bernardo, Alejandra and Ricardo; Ismael refuses to have anything to do with Bernardo after realizing what he had been doing, and decides to support Ricardo, the only son who was truly loyal to him.
Johnny and Ana Maria seem to reconcile after Tanya's death. The final scene shows the couple retiring for the evening; Johnny, however, in the middle of the night, has a nightmare about Tanya's death, and calls her name in his sleep. When he awakes in the morning, Ana Maria and the children are gone, but in a letter, she promises that he will see the children, but not her.
Erik Estrada as Juan Daniel "Johnny" Villegas
Laura León as Ana María Romero de Villegas
Bibi Gaytán as Tania García Pérez / Tania Montegarza Pérez
Enrique Rocha† as Don Ismael Montegarza
Luz María Jerez as Alejandra Montegarza Almonte
Elizabeth Dupeyrón as Amalia Núñez de Toruño
Claudio Báez† as Enrique Iliades
José Flores as Emiliano
Rodrigo Vidal as Ricardo "Richi" Montegarza Almonte
Itatí Cantoral as Graciela Toruño Nuñez / Graciela Torres Nuñez
Roberto Palazuelos as Raymundo Soto #1
Sergio Sendel as Raymundo Soto #2
Juan Carlos Casasola as Leobardo
María Clara Zurita as Elena Pérez de García
Mario Sauret as Agustín García Ordoñez
Jorge Salinas as Ángel Lascuraín
Francisco Huerdo as Guillermo "Memo" Villegas Romero
Carlos Miguel as Cristóbal Platas
Gabriela Platas as Paola Iliades
Members of Grupo Bronco as Themselves
Lorena Herrera as Lorena Arau Bermúdez
Year Award Category Nominee Result 1994 12th TVyNovelas Awards Best Telenovela of the Year Emilio Larrosa Nominated Best Antagonist Actor Enrique Rocha Best Leading Actor Won Best Young Lead Actress Itatí Cantoral Nominated Best Young Lead Actor Rodrigo Vidal Won
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Today’s gringo meaning can get a little complicated. You’ve probably heard this word at least once or twice, but what does it mean? If you get called a gringo, should you be offended?
There isn’t a simple yes or no answer. But with just a little bit of history and explanation, this word won’t seem so foreign anymore!
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History and Origin of the Term Gringo
Taking a look back at the origin of gringo makes it easier to understand this versatile word’s many meanings.
“Green Go Home”
There is a popular story that gringo meaning came from the Mexican-American War during 1846 to 1848. The story goes that the U.S. military wore green coats when they were marching through Mexican territory. In response, the Mexicans would say, “Green go home!” These words meshed together and the word gringo was born.
“Green Grows”
There is another folk story that also details gringo’s origins coming from the Mexican-American War. However, in this story, the American soldiers sang songs instead of wearing green. The song began with the words “green grow,” like the song “Green Grow the Lilacs.” According to this story, the Mexicans merged the beginning of the song together to form gringo.
While these two origin stories seem possible, they’re probably not the real origin of gringo. The word gringo was published in a Spanish dictionary in 1787, many years before the Mexican-American War.
Griego — A More Likely History
So then, where did the term gringo come from?
Most scholars agree that the word gringo probably originated from the Spanish word for “Greek”: griego.
Spaniards originally used the figurative expression, está hablando griego, (“he is speaking Greek”) when someone said something incomprehensible or who spoke Spanish with a heavy accent. Spaniards then simplified the phrase down to just this one word, griego, which later morphed into gringo.
Hence, gringo originally came from the word griego.
The Meaning of Gringo
Gringo may be only one word, but it has lots of meanings! There is a different gringo meaning for almost every country.
Gringo Grammar
Gringo meaning also changes depending on its ending.
Take a look below!
El gringo — A Man
La gringa — A Woman
Los gringos — A group of gringos (plural)
Is Gringo an Insult?
If you’re from the U.S., chances are you’ve been taught that gringo is an insult. You may have even heard gringo used online or on TV in a derogatory manner or to make fun of someone. However, this is mostly an exaggeration. More often than not, gringo is simply used to describe foreigners in a neutral way.
Foreigner
Foreigner is the most popular gringo meaning. It’s used whether you’re talking about a traveler, a person whose language is unintelligible, or a person of foreign birth. In essence, gringo denotes the idea of “otherness.”
Gringo isn’t just used for Americans! While it is often used to talk about U.S. citizens, Europeans get called this term as well. Even Hispanics are sometimes called gringo if they are from a different country or don’t speak Spanish.
Insult
The less common gringo meaning is an insult. For example, if you’re acting inappropriately or rudely in a Hispanic country you might get called gringo as a result.
Ultimately, however, this usage is less common. More likely than not, if someone calls you a gringo they’re not actually trying to insult you!
Gringo is the easiest way to say foreigner in Spanish. Imagine having to say extranjero (foreigner), or even worse, estadounidense (U.S. citizen) anytime you wanted to talk about a traveler! Gringo is much quicker and easier to say.
Gringo Meanings Around the World
You don’t have to live in Latin America to hear the word gringo. As hispanic populations continue to grow, their term gringo is spreading as well. But just as every country and community has its own culture, gringo meaning can vary by place.
Here is a list of countries showing just a few of the many gringo meanings.
Mexico
Mexico often uses gringo to describe something from the United States. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a person! For example, a Mexican might call McDonald’s a gringo restaurant. This means that gringo can be used as both a noun and an adjective!
Mexicans also use the term gabacho to describe foreigners. It can be used interchangeably with gringo.
Gringa has an additional meaning in Mexico. It is also the word for a flour tortilla filled with pork and cheese!
Spain
Ironically, the birth country of gringo doesn’t actually use this word very much! Gringo is more often heard among Latin American immigrants rather than native Spaniards. In Spain, guiri is a more popular term for foreigners.
Peru
In Peru, gringo meaning relates to fair-skinned people—even Peruvians! For example, one Peruvian might describe another light-skinned Peruvian as a gringo, even though they’re not a foreigner.
However, gringo is still used as a label for foreigners, and fair-skinned foreigners will hear it most often.
Some Peruvians will argue that “true” gringos are only people from the U.S., but others use the term more generally.
Argentina
Gringo is mostly used in Argentina’s rural regions. The non-Spanish Europeans who first established its agricultural colonies were Argentina’s first gringos. Today, European immigrants, especially Argentina’s large Italian population, are still sometimes called gringos.
Panama
In Panama, gringo is just another descriptor word like tall, short, small, etc. Often Panamanians will lump North Americans, Europeans, Australians and others together, referring to them all as gringos.
Ecuador
Ecuadorians describe non-Hispanics as gringos. Foreigners use the word too! Sometimes they use it to poke fun at each other or to replicate American slang like “hey, dude.” For example, they might say, “you’re going gringo today” in reference to someone wearing an American outfit complete with a backpack, baseball cap, and tennis shoes.
Costa Rica
In Costa Rica, gringo is widely used to describe any white foreigner but only as a description. It doesn’t usually have a negative or positive connotation.
Belize
While expats in Belize might use gringo to poke fun at themselves, locals only really use it for rude foreigners.
Brazil
When used in Brazil, gringo simply means foreigner and has no connection to any physical characteristics or specific countries.
Brazilians lump all foreigners together, even those from other Latin American countries! Unlike other countries, gringo has no connection to physical appearance in Brazil. This means that skin color makes no difference in how this word is used!
Instead, Brazilians refer to fair-skinned or blondes by their nationality.
Constantly Evolving
Cleary, the term gringo has no single definition! Through the years, this word adapted to fit the needs of different groups. It’s likely that gringo will continue to grow and change in the years to come. What do you think gringo will mean in the future?
Where Have You Heard Gringo Being Used?
Have you ever been called a gringo? Does learning its history change how you view the word? Share your thoughts about this versatile word in the comments!
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As someone who has walked several Camino routes (my first was in 2013), I was curious to hear from anyone who has walked ANY Camino, say pre-year 2000, and what the experience was like.
I walked my first Camino - the Camino Frances - in 1990. A very different experience from my most recent CF in 2016.
The most obvious difference is in numbers walking. There were about 5,000 Compostelas issued in 1990. Upwards of 350,000 this year already. So roughly 70 people walking now for every fellow pilgrim on that first walk. In comparison with today walking the Camino was a quite solitary pursuit. I walked from SJPDP in July and August and met about 30 other pilgrims over the 800km journey. Sometimes I walked for two or three days without meeting another pilgrim. So interactions were mostly with local people rather than fellow pilgrims. I spoke very little Spanish and at the time little English was spoken along the Camino. But people were very welcoming and generous towards the small number of pilgrims. On several occasions I was kindly invited to sit with families or groups of friends when they saw I was eating alone. On some occasions I found that a generous person had quietly paid for my meal or that a bar owner refused payment - a gift to the pilgrim. With few people walking I was often stopped in the street by local people who asked where I was from and usually shook my hand and wished me "Buen Camino".
Meals were eaten at normal Spanish hours - the menu peregrino did not yet exist. Less of a problem than today because the pilgrim refugios were mostly unstaffed and had no curfew. The main problem was that accommodation and food might be a long way apart. There were stages up to 30km between any services. The numbers of pilgrims were far too small to support private albergues or hostals and so pilgrim refugios were almost all run by church groups or local councils. Mainly donativo or refusing any payment at all. Mostly far simpler than today. Occasionally a bare room with a concrete floor where you could spread out your sleeping bag and mat. Of course there were no luggage transport services either so pilgrims usually carried heavier loads than today.
Finding the way was occasionally tricky but the standard Spanish guidebook by Elias Valiña had good sketch maps. Fr Valiña was the leading figure in the Camino revival and by the time I walked he and his colleagues had already mapped and signposted the whole Camino Frances. There were enough yellow arrows to follow.
If I compare my first Camino walk with my most recent Camino Frances in 2016 there is no doubt that I much preferred the solitude and the occasional interaction with local people on my first walk. I find the recent Camino Frances too big, too busy, too commercial and too self-referential. These days I choose my routes and seasons to recapture some of those things I most enjoyed 30 years ago. The Mozarabe. The VdlP. Routes in Norway and Japan.
I walked my first Camino - the Camino Frances - in 1990. A very different experience from my most recent CF in 2016.
The most obvious difference is in numbers walking. There were about 5,000 Compostelas issued in 1990. Upwards of 350,000 this year already. So roughly 70 people walking now for every fellow pilgrim on that first walk. In comparison with today walking the Camino was a quite solitary pursuit. I walked from SJPDP in July and August and met about 30 other pilgrims over the 800km journey. Sometimes I walked for two or three days without meeting another pilgrim. So interactions were mostly with local people rather than fellow pilgrims. I spoke very little Spanish and at the time little English was spoken along the Camino. But people were very welcoming and generous towards the small number of pilgrims. On several occasions I was kindly invited to sit with families or groups of friends when they saw I was eating alone. On some occasions I found that a generous person had quietly paid for my meal or that a bar owner refused payment - a gift to the pilgrim. With few people walking I was often stopped in the street by local people who asked where I was from and usually shook my hand and wished me "Buen Camino".
Meals were eaten at normal Spanish hours - the menu peregrino did not yet exist. Less of a problem than today because the pilgrim refugios were mostly unstaffed and had no curfew. The main problem was that accommodation and food might be a long way apart. There were stages up to 30km between any services. The numbers of pilgrims were far too small to support private albergues or hostals and so pilgrim refugios were almost all run by church groups or local councils. Mainly donativo or refusing any payment at all. Mostly far simpler than today. Occasionally a bare room with a concrete floor where you could spread out your sleeping bag and mat. Of course there were no luggage transport services either so pilgrims usually carried heavier loads than today.
Finding the way was occasionally tricky but the standard Spanish guidebook by Elias Valiña had good sketch maps. Fr Valiña was the leading figure in the Camino revival and by the time I walked he and his colleagues had already mapped and signposted the whole Camino Frances. There were enough yellow arrows to follow.
If I compare my first Camino walk with my most recent Camino Frances in 2016 there is no doubt that I much preferred the solitude and the occasional interaction with local people on my first walk. I find the recent Camino Frances too big, too busy, too commercial and too self-referential. These days I choose my routes and seasons to recapture some of those things I most enjoyed 30 years ago. The Mozarabe. The VdlP. Routes in Norway and Japan.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this lengthy and very informative reply. This was exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping for. Enjoy your future walks wherever they may take you.
It is funny... I didn't get a chance to walk at all pre-COVID. So - I can't compare/contrast as asked by the OP... but at the same time, I kind of feel like my first Camino experience is similar to what @Bradypus described. When was my first Camino? 2021. Spain opened to vaccinated visitors on June 7 and France opened to vaccinated visitors on June 9th. I left Arizona and then New York on June 6th and then arrived in Madrid on June 7th and made my way to Pamplona. On June 8th - I made my way to SJPDP via bus to Roncesvalles and then Taxi to SJPDP as the bus did NOT cross the French border yet (since COVID). I began my walk on June 9th - the day France was officially open to me. There were VERY few of us. Between SJPDP and probably Burgos - there were never more than about 30 of us per day walking the same stages - although some stretches had a lot of local day hikers. Between Burgos to Leon - we slowly started to pick up more Pilgrims along the way - with a bigger jump in numbers in Leon. Still - I doubt there were even 60 of us per day. Then it was very busy after Sarria - but by no means - busy compared pre-COVID or post-COVID years though.
Very few albergues were open, although there was a mix of private and public - depending on location. Many public albergues were still closed as well as most privates and religious albergues - but for the most part, there was at least 1 available in most STAGE towns (not necessarily so between stage towns) and for the most part, we were all able to find a bed in the town we wanted to stay in. But we did have to do more research to see what was open and where - AND make some reservations. Heck, even some public albergues were requiring reservations which as we all know - isn't the norm. Bars for the most part didn't open until later - if at all. There were some days that there was nowhere to purchase food along the way for many hours/kms. Even grocery store hours were very hard to figure out in the small villages. I truly had to plan ahead and learn to stop every time I did pass an open grocery store. There were very few locals out even. And masks were still required even outdoors - so in town - we all had to mask up and keep socially distant.
With all that in mind - the locals I did interact with were wonderful and it was often the non-English speaking ones that wanted to have conversations with me the most. Even after I told them - in spanish - that I spoke very little Spanish and I didn't understand them lol. When I walked into businesses - they were so excited to see a pilgrim and were hopeful that more were behind me. One day I couldn't find an albergue in the first two small towns I tried to stop in. I was cold, wet, and exhausted when I got to Ages and I stopped in a cute little bar to warm up and eat something. Afterwards - I was trying to access an albergue but no one was there - the Spanish speaking only men at the bar saw me and kept motioning me to stay there. One of them ran somewhere and got a young man to come and open the albergue for me. I got the royal treatment. Later - I asked the man who runs the bar if there is somewhere I could get a meal - he snuck me upstairs and had his wife make a special meal just for me. Then he told me to return at 7am and he would have breakfast for me. And I had these kinds of special experiences like this all along the Frances.
Anyhow - I wish I could have walked the Camino years ago, long before it was crowded - but I walked the Frances the PERFECT year for me! I had a LOT of solitude, which I desperately needed. I could walk completely alone for many hours at a time. A few days I didn't see anyone until I arrived in town for the day. I am kind of afraid to go back to the Frances because I know it will be so different. This year I did the Norte/Primitivo and LOVED the experience on the Primitivo. Just the right balance of lower pilgrim numbers but still having a total feel of "Camino Spirit".
I walked my first Camino - the Camino Frances - in 1990. A very different experience from my most recent CF in 2016.
The most obvious difference is in numbers walking. There were about 5,000 Compostelas issued in 1990. Upwards of 350,000 this year already. So roughly 70 people walking now for every fellow pilgrim on that first walk. In comparison with today walking the Camino was a quite solitary pursuit. I walked from SJPDP in July and August and met about 30 other pilgrims over the 800km journey. Sometimes I walked for two or three days without meeting another pilgrim. So interactions were mostly with local people rather than fellow pilgrims. I spoke very little Spanish and at the time little English was spoken along the Camino. But people were very welcoming and generous towards the small number of pilgrims. On several occasions I was kindly invited to sit with families or groups of friends when they saw I was eating alone. On some occasions I found that a generous person had quietly paid for my meal or that a bar owner refused payment - a gift to the pilgrim. With few people walking I was often stopped in the street by local people who asked where I was from and usually shook my hand and wished me "Buen Camino".
Meals were eaten at normal Spanish hours - the menu peregrino did not yet exist. Less of a problem than today because the pilgrim refugios were mostly unstaffed and had no curfew. The main problem was that accommodation and food might be a long way apart. There were stages up to 30km between any services. The numbers of pilgrims were far too small to support private albergues or hostals and so pilgrim refugios were almost all run by church groups or local councils. Mainly donativo or refusing any payment at all. Mostly far simpler than today. Occasionally a bare room with a concrete floor where you could spread out your sleeping bag and mat. Of course there were no luggage transport services either so pilgrims usually carried heavier loads than today.
Finding the way was occasionally tricky but the standard Spanish guidebook by Elias Valiña had good sketch maps. Fr Valiña was the leading figure in the Camino revival and by the time I walked he and his colleagues had already mapped and signposted the whole Camino Frances. There were enough yellow arrows to follow.
If I compare my first Camino walk with my most recent Camino Frances in 2016 there is no doubt that I much preferred the solitude and the occasional interaction with local people on my first walk. I find the recent Camino Frances too big, too busy, too commercial and too self-referential. These days I choose my routes and seasons to recapture some of those things I most enjoyed 30 years ago. The Mozarabe. The VdlP. Routes in Norway and Japan.
1999 was my first Camino and on the Frances. I only met 5 Americans between SJPP and Santiago. You could walk for many miles all by yourself. i walked it again three years ago and I was dumbfounded by the huge numbers of people, many not carrying packs, who were both noisy and complaining. There were some surprising route changes. Albergues were full of people—many with feelings of entitlement—from spreading gear all over to leaving bathrooms a mess for someone else to tidy up. i walked both times in September into October. I will probably not walk on the Frances again.
I walked my first Camino - the Camino Frances - in 1990. A very different experience from my most recent CF in 2016.
The most obvious difference is in numbers walking. There were about 5,000 Compostelas issued in 1990. Upwards of 350,000 this year already. So roughly 70 people walking now for every fellow pilgrim on that first walk. In comparison with today walking the Camino was a quite solitary pursuit. I walked from SJPDP in July and August and met about 30 other pilgrims over the 800km journey. Sometimes I walked for two or three days without meeting another pilgrim. So interactions were mostly with local people rather than fellow pilgrims. I spoke very little Spanish and at the time little English was spoken along the Camino. But people were very welcoming and generous towards the small number of pilgrims. On several occasions I was kindly invited to sit with families or groups of friends when they saw I was eating alone. On some occasions I found that a generous person had quietly paid for my meal or that a bar owner refused payment - a gift to the pilgrim. With few people walking I was often stopped in the street by local people who asked where I was from and usually shook my hand and wished me "Buen Camino".
Meals were eaten at normal Spanish hours - the menu peregrino did not yet exist. Less of a problem than today because the pilgrim refugios were mostly unstaffed and had no curfew. The main problem was that accommodation and food might be a long way apart. There were stages up to 30km between any services. The numbers of pilgrims were far too small to support private albergues or hostals and so pilgrim refugios were almost all run by church groups or local councils. Mainly donativo or refusing any payment at all. Mostly far simpler than today. Occasionally a bare room with a concrete floor where you could spread out your sleeping bag and mat. Of course there were no luggage transport services either so pilgrims usually carried heavier loads than today.
Finding the way was occasionally tricky but the standard Spanish guidebook by Elias Valiña had good sketch maps. Fr Valiña was the leading figure in the Camino revival and by the time I walked he and his colleagues had already mapped and signposted the whole Camino Frances. There were enough yellow arrows to follow.
If I compare my first Camino walk with my most recent Camino Frances in 2016 there is no doubt that I much preferred the solitude and the occasional interaction with local people on my first walk. I find the recent Camino Frances too big, too busy, too commercial and too self-referential. These days I choose my routes and seasons to recapture some of those things I most enjoyed 30 years ago. The Mozarabe. The VdlP. Routes in Norway and Japan.
Great story, I first walked from Leon to Santiago in 1998 and he hit a home run with the description of the “old days”. I have since gone back a dozen times including the Arogonnes way and Primitivo, both of which share some early traits . Getting lost was a daily experience , but the locals were always helpful. I knew little about the route and the first time I saw a sign for “perigrinos” I thought falcons instead of walkers. I had prior experience hiking in England & Scotland. But the weather there was terrible. My favorite joke was “ it only rained twice last week , once for four days and once for three days” well I enjoy the Camino and plan to hike again, Primitivo, in early summer .
Does anyone know if the brown pilgrims’ cape was part of the revival, or if it was something pilgrims used to wear as recently as the 1990s (or maybe a bit of both)?
I’ve always been curious because on my first Camino Frances in 2007, there was a bartender in Sarria who proudly showed me photos of his pilgrimage years before. They looked to be at least ten years old, so no later than 1997, in winter around O Cebreiro. He was wearing normal cold-weather clothes and carried a large (non hi-tech) pack and a regular wooden walking stick – and he wore a striking long brown cape. It made quite an impression against the mountains. The next time I saw the cape was in Santiago, where it appeared more like a modern interpretation for tourists of what a medieval pilgrim would wear.
But because this Spanish pilgrim had worn one in the 90s – with plain shoulders, not the shell and cross insignias – I’ve always wondered if it used to be a normal, non-exotic piece of gear, especially among Spaniards or Galicians. (This is a very minor question in a broad and fascinating discussion, I know!)
Santiago as a pilgrim on the Baroque façade of Santiago cathedral.
From: The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Give me my scallop shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,
My scrip of joy, immortal diet,
My bottle of salvation,
My gown of glory, hope’s true gage,
And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage.
I recently read an article by Luis Martínez García (of Valladolid university) mentioning that in mediaeval times, some hospedales would only admit pilgrims who carried the usual paraphernalia of gown, staff etc and that their staff was often notched to make sure they did not come back again (apparently there were a lot of false pilgrims, what Aymery Picaud terms 'Picaros' and other folk up to no good on the camino back then).
There are also numerous mentions of departing pilgrims having their gown, staff, gourd and satchel blessed before they set out rather in the way crusaders had their weapons blessed.
So in answer to your question, no, not a modern interpretation - what pilgrims actually wore.
Here's a bit of how the French part of my 1994 from Paris was like.
No other pilgrims, no yellow arrows nor any other waymarkers, no clear sense of where to go except more or less "thataway", occasionally getting blocked by a railway, motorway, or river, until you start to work out how to avoid them in advance.
And also much sleeping outdoors, though local priests and monks and so on did help, and there were many more of them 30 years ago, and sometimes in glorious locations with views over incredible vistas under the sparkling Milky Way.
Sometimes in a bed, sometimes in the woods, sometimes on the floor, in a barn, on the grass, in a panorama of extraordinary beauty, or on wet leaves in the freezing cold. On dust, on mud, on concrete, on any surface at all to lay your head, with a welcome or denied it, that was and is the Camino when you are outside of the infrastructures, and how it was prior to their existence.
And with that, the help and love of strangers, in small matters and profound, some food, some drink, some comfort wherein to lay your head, or eat a simple feast, and even just be encouraged along the way.
I cut across the country avoiding Léon in 1994 as they had not seen fit to open an Albergue for the pilgrims that year, and I walked through villages where washer women shared the waters of the village fount with horses come there to quench their thirst from the heat of the day.
A little old lady in the midst of France giving with honour the gift of a simple omelette and a glass of clear water, to this day the best meal I have had on any of these Camino Ways.
It was and is a baroque assemblage of provision and want.
As was mentioned above, my first Camino was in the spring of 1989 - not too far off from Bradypus. I was living in Madrid at the time and the first thing I did was go to the Spanish Tourism office to see what they had. I picked up a couple of brochures on the "Camino de Santiago" (which, at the time, was synonymous with the Camino Frances, or the Camino Frances+Camino Aragones. No one was talking about the Camino del Norte, or the Camino Primitivo, or the Camino Portugues, or other Caminos in anything I could find at the time. Also of interest, perhaps, is that one of the brochures I was given (printed in the 70s) showed the Camino going along the roads and everywhere there was a gas station along the way. Even in the late 80s, it was not uncommon to find people driving the Camino instead of walking it. I will admit that the Camino I did then had a fair share of hitchhiking, as well as walking, unlike my subsequent Caminos. And many of the rides I got were from people on pilgrimage from Italy or Germany or elsewhere, driving along the Camino route from town to town and village to village.
I started in Roncesvalles, because I was coming from Madrid and from Spanish people, that's where I heard that the Camino started. When I got there I knew nothing about credencials, or the Compostela, or anything like that. I was given a credencial in Roncesvalles (which was a cardboard rectangle folded in half, specific to the Roncesvalles start point, with a limited number of spaces for stamps, each labelled with the town the stamp was to come from). The credencial came from the Friends of the Camino group in Estella. I never used it, not asked for my Compostela on that pilgrimage. That wasn't why I was doing the pilgrimage. I think I'm going to take it on my next Camino Frances and see if I can fill in the stamps and what they will make of it in Santiago.
As others have said, there was a lot less infrastructure back then. I have vivid memories of arriving in O Cebreiro, cold and wet. This was before the albergue had been build and before it had turned into the tourist mecca it is today. There was one inn in the village and it was full. They let me lay my sleeping back down before the fireplace in the main room. I don't think I ever felt as much like a medieval pilgrim as I did that night. I later heard that sometimes they let pilgrims sleep in the thatched roof pallozas.
I recently went back and looked at some old photos from that pilgrimage and I was surprised to see how much infrastructure there actually was at the time. Others have mentioned that the yellow arrows were already in place. In fact, 1989 was the same year that the person who was responsible for those yellow arrows passed away. But that wasn't all the signage. I have photos of those huge signboards you may recall from Castilla y Leon showing the Camino through the province marked vertically. They were already there. And I have photos of an elaborate mosaic on the streets of Santo Domingo de la Calzada showing the Camino route.
Another big difference back then was how the Camino ended. Back then, you didn't enter the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela like you do today, from the side. You entered through the Portico of Glory and you put your hand on the central Tree of Jesse pillar, in the grooves made by countless hands before you.
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Walking the Camino de Santiago: Sarría to Portomarín - the first day of the final stage of the Camino Francés!
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eat. live. travel. write. | culinary adventures, near and far
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Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that this summer (2022) I finally finished walking the last 115km along the Camino de Santiago, from Sarría to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. This is the fifth leg of the Camino which I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to some of the questions people had asked me along the way that year). In theory, was supposed to complete a leg each summer until 2020. This is Day 36 (other posts from other stages linked at the end of this post).
FINALLY! Two years late (thanks C*vid), I’ve finished walking the Camino Francés! On July 1st 2022, I set out with Neil and three good friends/ family to walk the final 115km from Sarría to Santiago – a trip that would take 6 days for a total of 41 days walking over five stages/ summers (but seven actual years thanks to the pandemic interrupting travel for 2 years).
Truth be told, it was a miracle we all ended up in Sarría on the same day – two of our party were coming from Portugal via bus, two of us were flying in from Toronto via Madrid and I was flying in from Toulouse via Madrid. A missed connection in Madrid (Thanks, Air Canada and Toronto Pearson airport…) put two of us in the hotel in Sarría at 1am, not exactly optimal for a 22km first day walking.
Fortunately, breakfast was a hearty affair…
(not pictured – bacon a go-go for our late arrivals who needed food!)
And really, getting onto the “Camino rhythm” was easy…
Just… follow the waymarkers!
(and make sure you read up about any “Complémentario” options!)
Though this was a long day (22km), it was one of my favourite days on the whole Camino. Maybe it was the adrenaline of FINALLY being able to get back on track after 3 years or maybe it was the company but this was altogether a delightful day.
The sky was a bright blue and the countryside was lush and green. SO pretty!
Of course, around 6km, we stopped for some refreshments. Newbies on the Camino had soft drinks, others went straight for the ceverza con limón (like a shandy/ radler)…
A little more walking…
According to the guidebook, there is the “earthy smell of cow dung”. There is.
A little bit later it was time for more refreshments…
(no soft drinks this round and YES for jamón flavoured chips!)
And then…
Could it be…
100km to go!
But with still a fair few kilometres to go, we pushed on… No time for celebrating!
We all had enough snacks and drinks to last us until arriving in Portomarín and were determined to just push on without another stop. Despite temptations…
But then…
We rounded a corner and saw a smartly-dressed chef chatting in the street with another person, also smartly-dressed. We peeked in and saw THAT view (^^^). Hastily consulted guide book – there was NOTHING in there about any fancy restaurant/ beautiful garden, all that was mentioned was that Mercadoiro was “a delightful hamlet with an official population of one!” Ok, it mentions that there is an Albergue here but NOT that it’s a beautiful setting with a spectacular view. With a “gastro bar”. So, I mean, we had to stop…
Fuelling for 22km is very serious business.
On a serious note (really), travelling with 4 other people on this leg was delightful because it meant we were able to order loads of different dishes and share. Not possible on your own. If you are travelling this leg, do not, I repeat, do NOT follow the example of the pilgrim in the book who is walking right by this place.
It was rough leaving this beautiful place but we only had about 5km to go at this point so we pushed on…
There was some concern right at the end…
Err, really?
Yeah ok so this was pretty steep and I don’t think I would have wanted to do this in the rain…
And just when you’re through this…
A huge long bridge (don’t look down, vertigo sufferers!) and a vertical staircase to get into the town!
Take a look…
And… we were done. In more ways than one!
Time for a nap, a shower, and a wander. And food…
We went for the traditional “Pilgrim Menu” – a set price for 3 courses and wine/ beer/ water:
(^^^ that, my friends is Santiago Cake – an almond delight. Stay tuned as I try to recreate this!)
Toasting a successful day (on 4 hours’ sleep!)
With 25km on tap for the next day, we went to bed before the sun set (easy when it’s still light out at 10.30 pm!)
Verdict: An unexpectedly delightful leg of this stage. Full of surprises and delicious treats. We lucked out with the temperature – very mild, even in the later part of the afternoon – and the scenery was gorgeous. A great start to Stage 5!
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Disclosure: I researched Camino trips independently and chose the Camino Travel Center based on a number of features such as flexibility to accommodate a couple of “splits” in some of the longer days, price, and customer service. They were, in fact, the first company I came across in my very first Google search and the one I ended up booking with. From the initial inquiry to the actual trips, they have been a pleasure to deal with and we have been very impressed with the service provided (bag transportation) and the accommodation choices. I was not compensated to write about this trip in any way but I love sharing companies and products I believe in with my readers. I couldn’t recommend the Camino Travel Center more and, in fact, we are all thinking about walking a DIFFERENT Camino in 2023!
Read more about the Camino de Santiago
Click here to read all my posts about the Camino de Santiago!
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Weekend Watch #29 – The Camino de Santiago – A Pilgrim’s Journey
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It's the weekend once again and the sun is out in Dublin. I feel it's about time to post another Weekend Watch. This video has been on YouTube for a month or so now and is probably the most realistic videos I have watched regarding the Camino. The pilgrim, Jamie Nicoll, started his Camino in…
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It’s the weekend once again and the sun is out in Dublin. I feel it’s about time to post another Weekend Watch. This video has been on YouTube for a month or so now and is probably the most realistic videos I have watched regarding the Camino. The pilgrim, Jamie Nicoll, started his Camino in St Jean Pied de Port in April 2014 and from there, he has brief conversations with the people he meets. These brief conversations turn to friendships and you can see the friendships, as well as the aches and pains, grow as the video and his Camino goes on. It is a little bit long at 2 hours but if you have some time to spare, it is well worth the watch. Keep an eye out for a number of Irish peregrinos! 🙂
If you enjoyed this post let me know by hitting the ★Like button, and sharing the love on your socials!
… And if you want to hang out with me between posts then follow me on Instagram and on Facebook for daily and more personal updates!
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The legend of the Apostle Saint James – Life & Burial – ULTREYA TOURS BLOG
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Sanctus Iacobus, Yago, Iago, Tiago, Thiago (Portuguese), Santyago, Santiago, Xacobo, Xacobe (Galician), Jacob, James (English), Jacques (French), Jaime (Catalan), Giacobo, Giacomo (Italian), Xaume, Jacome, Jaume, Jacobo, Diego, ܝܘܚܢܢ ܫܠܝܚܐ Yohanan Shliha (Aramaic), יוחנן בן זבדי Yohanan Ben Zavdai (Hebrew), Ioannes (Latin)…
These are all very common names in Christian countries and even though they all sound very different and have distinct spellings, they all have the same meaning and origin. Those names refer to the Apostle Saint James, the Saint Patron of Spain and the Saint Patron of Pilgrims. The Saint that gave his name to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Santiago de Guayaquil in Ecuador, Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Chile, Santiago in the Philippines, Santiago del Estero in Argentina, Santiago de los Caballeros in Guatemala and in Dominican Republic.
Saint James was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and traditionally considered the first apostle to be martyred. To distinguish him from James, son of Alphaeus and James the Just, he is also called James the Greater or James the Great.
Saint James Origins
According to Christian stories, he was born around 5 BC in Galilee. His parents seem to have been people of means. Zebedee, his father, was a fisherman of the Sea of Galilee, who probably lived in or near Bethsaida, perhaps in Capharnaum; and had some boatmen or hired men. Salome, his mother, was one of the pious women who afterwards followed Christ and “ministered unto him of their substance”. His brother was John the Apostle who according to Christian tradition was the only Apostle not to die a martyr’s death and he is the author of several books of the New Testament. The Church Fathers consider his brother to be the same person as John the Evangelist, John of Patmos and the Beloved Disciple.
Both brothers were nicknamed “Boanerges” (“Sons of Thunder”) for their impulsive temperaments and were among the first disciples to join Jesus Christ.
The Synoptic Gospels states that James and John were in a boat mending their nets with their father when Jesus called them to follow him. James was one of the favoured three who had the privilege of witnessing the Transfiguration (metamorphosis), the raising to life of the daughter of Jairus and the agony in Gethsemani.
His Journey to Evangelise Hispania
According to the Acts of the Apostles, after the death of Christ, the Apostles dispersed to different regions to take the Good News to the people of God. James along with seven disciples travelled to the Spanish peninsula, and specifically the NorthWestern land known at that time as Gallaecia, to spread the new Christian message of love, hope and brotherhood. With his great devotion to Jesus and his deep, unshakeable faith and strong temperament, he started to sow the seeds of this new religion, that will then survive so many centuries of routs and storms.
We must note however that writings of the voyage of James to Spain date from the sixth and ninth century AD. Historians have never been able to rigorously prove the presence of Saint James in Spain, nor describe the exact journey that he would have followed and there has been a lot of discussion within the Church on the authenticity of this trip. Even the authenticity of the relics at Compostela has been discussed over the century but was asserted in the Bull of Pope Leo XIII, Omnipotens Deus, of 1 November 1884.
The legend of the Virgin del Pilar in Zaragoza
An ancient legend found in a manuscript of the thirteenth century tells us that on 2 January AD 40 James was at Caesaraugusta, the current Zaragoza, quite discouraged by his lack of success in Aragon. The Virgin Mary appeared to him in flesh and bone on a marble pillar, and he found the new courage and enthusiasm he needed to convert people again.
She ordered him to build the first Christian Church around that same pillar, on the banks of the Ebro. This chapel, enlarged in the course of history is now the great basilica of the “Virgen del Pilar” (Notre Dame of the Pillar) where the supposed pillar is still venerated.
Today Pilar, in honour of this miracle, is one of the most common names for women in Spain, especially in Aragon. The “Virgen del Pilar” is the Patroness of Spain, the Spanish Civil Guard and the Hispanic world.
His Martyrdom
Shortly after this episode, he decided to return to Jerusalem to see the living Virgin Mary once more, leaving his seven disciples the task of continuing his work. Back in Judea, he continued his mission to preach Jesus’ message until, one day, around the year 44, he was arrested during a sermon, tortured and killed by sword on order of Herod Agripa I, King of Judea. He became the first Christian martyr and the only one described in the New Testament.
The journey back to Galicia to find the perfect burial site
It is said, his disciples, Atanasio and Teodomiro among with 5 other disciples, managed to retrieve his body and they set sail with it, from Jaffa to Iria Flavia on the Galician coast, on board a vessel made of stone. Legends say the voyage was beset with problems but accompanied by a celestial music and angels that filled the sky.
They are said to have entered Galicia by the Ría de Arousa, up the River Ulla and moored their boat on a stone column (a “pedron”) in Iria Flavia, whose name later became that of the present day town of Padron, 20km south of Santiago.
They deposited the body on another stone and it miraculously forming a Holy Sarcophagus.
The Queen Lupa
At the time, Iria Flavia belonged to the Queen Lupa who lived in the Castro Lupario (between the council of Brión and Teo). The disciples therefore went to ask for her help in order to find the perfect place to burry the mortal remains of the Apostle.
But the queen accused them of arrogance and sent them to the court of King Duyos, an enemy of Christianity, who imprisoned the two men, before they were freed by divine intervention. Queen Lupa then set off her troops after them. But a strange event occurred in the waters of the River Tambre which made her immediately abandon the pursuit and change her hostile attitude. She converted to Christianity, ordered the demolition of all Celtic places and gave the disciples an oxen and an ox-cart to carry James’ body.
How the last resting place of Saint James was chosen
Continuing their journey, the two disciples reached the mountain of Ilicinio (Picosacro) where they came upon some ancient stone tablets that had once belonged to a druid altar which they decided to carry along. Another legend speaks a dragon being transformed into the mountain of Picosacro after their passage.
They were not sure of where the most suitable place to bury James’ sacred remains might be. So they decided to let the oxen roam free and to bury him where the oxen finally came to a halt.
This is how once set free, the oxen walked until it found a spring where it paused momentarily to drink. This fountain still exists in the Rua do Franco in Santiago and although it cannot be accessed anymore its waters are said to be capable of curing eye diseases.
A few meters further, underneath an enormous oak tree, marked with the ancient altar stones of the druids, in the wood of Libredon is where Saint James the Greater is said to remain.
The centuries rolled by, chaotic, scarred by invasions and seemingly never-ending series of bloody wars all over Europe. And little by little the tomb of Saint James was forgotten. It was not until the year 813 that the hermit Pelayo had a vision which led to the rediscovery of the sacred burial site and the birth of the Camino de Santiago…
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The St James Way, also known as the ‘Way of Saint James’, is one of the most ancient and popular pilgrimage routes in the world. Often referred to as the Camino de Santiago or ‘the Camino’, the St James Way takes pilgrims through many different routes across Spain, France and Portugal and culminates in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, in the north of Spain.
According to legend, it is here in the Cathedral of Santiago that the remains of St James (Santiago in Spanish) are said to be buried. You can discover how the remains of this saint made it to Santiago, along with more interesting facts about the ancient route, by reading the history of the Camino de Santiago.
Where does the St James Way begin?
If you want to walk a pilgrimage route, you will naturally wonder where you should start. When walking the St James Way, however, there is no definitive answer about where the Camino begins. This is because ancient pilgrims would begin their journey to Santiago right from their own homes. Today, there are many different routes for modern pilgrims to choose from, depending on their country preference, the length of their walk or whether or not they want to get a Compostela certificate at the end of the walk.
Over the years, some routes have become more popular than others, whether it’s due to the Camino community on these routes, the scenery on the coastal Caminos, the food on the Camino and more. Below you’ll find the top 5 routes along the St James Way that pilgrims love to walk today.
1. The Last 100km of The Camino Frances (The French Way)
The Camino Frances is by far the most popular Camino de Santiago route, and the final section of the French Way continues to delight pilgrims from all over the world. The last 100km from Sarria to Santiago is the perfect route for first-timers, those seeking a great sense of community and those hoping to enjoy some food and wine in the lively towns and cities.
The Camino Frances has been featured in many books and movies about the Camino, including the 2010 film ‘The Way’ starring Martin Sheen. The popularity of this particular route along the St James Way has led to a fantastic atmosphere with pilgrims arriving from all over the world.
The journey begins in Sarria and meanders through elegant medieval towns and the lush countryside. Finishing in Santiago de Compostela is the pinnacle of most Caminos, which is no different. If this is your first Camino, The French Way is for you! It’s also worth noting that any pilgrim hoping to get a Compostela certificate at the end of their journey on the St James Way must walk at least 100km of a route. This is another reason why this section of the Camino Frances is so beloved.
Discover the last 100km of the Camino Frances.
2. The Portuguese Coastal Way (The Camino Portugues)
The Camino Portugues, or Portuguese Coastal Camino, is a stunning alternative to the Camino Frances and has continued to grow in popularity every year. From Porto, the Camino Portugues follows the coast all the way to Santiago. This way is also a treat for the taste buds, as the culinary experience is ever-changing as you move from Portugal to Spain on your way to Santiago.
You can walk the last 100km from Vigo to Santiago, stamping your pilgrim passport along the way, or if you would like more of a challenge, you can start your Camino in Porto, the beautiful coastal city in the north of Portugal. The city is home to Port wine and wonderful history, culture and food.
Discover the Camino Portugues from Porto.
3. The Northern Way (Camino del Norte)
The Camino del Norte, or Northern Way, starts in the Basque Country, in the trendy seaside city of San Sebastian, a mecca for food lovers. Those who enjoy exploring fishing villages will savour the experience offered by the Camino del Norte. On this route, you will find many colourful seaside towns with amazing restaurants and beaches to die for.
The Northern route of the St James Way also passes through Bilbao, which is packed with things to see and do. The famous Guggenheim Museum is a real highlight, the architecture of the building is renowned, and the exhibitions inside are plentiful and varied.
Discover the Northern Way from San Sebastian to Bilbao.
4. The Via Francigena
The Via Francigena (Camino to Rome) is an alternative take on the traditional routes of the St James Way in that you finish in the Italian city of Rome rather than Santiago.
It takes approximately 20 days to complete the full Via Francigena from Lucca to Rome. However, it is possible to do it in sections. One of the most popular sections is the Via Francigena in Tuscany. Many pilgrims complete this section and walk from Lucca to Siena in a week.
On the Tuscan section of the Via Francigena, walkers enjoy the rolling hills and vineyards of the region. The Roman architecture dotted throughout the trail is very different from other Camino routes, and the medieval towers in Siena are a must-see. This historical, artistic, cultural and gastronomic tour is a welcome addition to the Camino.
Discover the Via Francigena in Tuscany.
5. Cycling The Camino Frances
Did you know that you can also cycle the St James Way? Traditionally, many pilgrims would have travelled on horseback, and although today some still do, cycling is a very popular way to get to Santiago. The greatest advantage of cycling is that you can cover twice the distance in the same amount of time.
You’ll need to cycle 200km of the Way of St James in order to get your Compostela, and the last 200km of the French Way is the most popular way to do this. The trip begins in Ponferrada and moves across Galicia’s countryside, forest trails and villages to the sacred city of Santiago de Compostela.
Discover the Camino Frances from Ponferrada to Santiago.
St James’ Day
One of the biggest celebrations along the St James Way is St James’ Day. During the last two weeks in July, Santiago de Compostela celebrates its biggest festival of the year: St James Festival or the Apostle Festival (Festas do Apóstolo). St James is the patron saint of Santiago de Compostela and Galicia, which means St James Day is also Galicia’s National Holiday.
Holy Year
A Jacobean Year or Ano Xacobeo is a Jubilee or Camino Holy Year. A year is considered a Jacobean or Holy Year when Saint James’ Day, 25th July, falls on a Sunday. If you are planning your Camino de Santiago in July and arriving in the city after the 15th of July, you should definitely stay in Santiago for a few days to enjoy this unique festival. Because of leap years, Holy Years follow a pattern of 6-5-6-11 years. 2021/2022 was the most recent Jacobean Year. 2027 will be the next Ano Xacobeo, followed by 2032, and so on.
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The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, and El Camino.
The nice thing about Vince Gilligan’s Albuquerque universe in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is how neat and orderly it all is. Gilligan and his Bad and Saul writers (including Saul showrunner Peter Gould) take an engineer’s approach to crafting their series. When characters are presented with problems, the show makes sure they go about solving them in as realistic and detailed a way as possible.
That appreciation for realism and detail carries over into Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul’s approach to time. There are very few “circa” dates” or “I don’t know, around Christmas, 2004?” dates on either show’s calendar. Breaking Bad established a starting date in its very first episode and then the writers take great care to make sure that everything that happens after (or before) sticks to a realistic timeline.
The end result of this attention to detail is a shockingly thorough and complete timeline for both shows (and for the Breaking Bad movie, El Camino). Let’s break down everything that happens in the Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad/El Camino universe. One note before we begin: the Breaking Bad Fandom Wiki is a marvelous resource for delving into the full chronology of each show. We’ve used that as a jumping off point to present you this narrative timeline of events.
In May of 2002, underpaid public defender Jimmy McGill tries to get hired as accused embezzler Craig Kettleman’s legal representation. Not only does the Kettleman family turn him down, but Jimmy finds himself thrust into the criminal underworld for the first time where he comes across Nacho Varga and Tuco Salamanca.
In June, Jimmy is able to prove that the Kettlemans did indeed embezzle that money and gets $30,000 in hush money for his trouble. This brings him into contact with Mike Ehrmantraut. Meanwhile, Chuck McGill begins to struggle more with his electromagnetic sensitivity disorder.
By late June, Jimmy is working more closely with his elderly clients on their estates. While pursuing that work, he discovers that elderly care facility, Sandpiper Crossing has been massively overcharging their guests. He reluctantly hands the case over to HHM and heads back to Cicero to pull more low-level cons with his old friend Marco. After Marco dies, Jimmy returns to Albuquerque and tells Mike that he plans to no longer hold himself back.
Better Call Saul Season 2
July 18, 2002 – September 26, 2002
After having one perfect day of low-level criminal shenanigans with Kim, Jimmy accepts a job with Davis & Main based on the strength of his Sandpiper work. Meanwhile Mike deals with the extremely annoying client Daniel, who rats to the police after his baseball cards are stolen (despite being involved in a vast criminal conspiracy himself). Mike is forced to enlist Jimmy’s legal help.
In August, Jimmy’s relationship with Davis & Main begins to sour after he runs an unprofessional commercial without their permission. Mike and Nacho enact a plan to get the volatile Tuco sent to prison for beating Mike up. Hector Salamanca enters the story to strong-arm Mike into altering his story and get Tuco’s prison time reduced. Jimmy gets himself fired from Davis & Main so that he can keep his signing bonus.
In September, Kim tries to get a job as big bank Mesa Verde’s outside legal counsel. HHM and Chuck swoop in at the last minute to take it out from under her. She and Jimmy (separately) set up shop in an old dentist’s office. Jimmy then sabotages Chuck’s paperwork for Mesa Verde, which loses the account for HHM.
Mike tries to kill Hector Salamanca via sniper rifle but is distracted by the sound of his car horn. Someone has left a branch against the steering wheel with the note “Don’t” attached.
Better Call Saul Season 3
September 26, 2002 – March 28, 2003
In September, Mike finds out that it is Los Pollos Hermanos owner (and renowned drug kingpin) Gus Fring who left the note. They come to an understanding that Mike can continue to try to get Hector imprisoned but cannot kill him. Gus tries to hire Mike full time but he says he’ll only consider it. Chuck has a recording of Jimmy confessing to sabotaging him. When Jimmy breaks into Chuck’s home to destroy it, Howard and Chuck catch him in the act.
The classic episode “Chicanery” picks up in February, 2003 where Chuck takes Jimmy to court over his treachery. Chuck is able to get Jimmy suspended by the bar association for a year but in the process it’s revealed that his electromagnetic sensitivity is all in his head.
In March of 2003, Nacho successfully sabotages Hector Salamanca by replacing his nitroglycerin pills with fakes. Hector then suffers a stroke. Chuck, despondent over what his life has become, commits suicide by kicking over a lantern in his paper-filled home.
Better Call Saul Season 4
March 29, 2003 – April 1, 2004
Jimmy attempts a Hummel figurine racket while Mike gets added to the Madrigal Electromotive payroll. Gus hires a doctor to keep Hector alive but only just barely. Gus also takes Nacho into his service as an unwilling double agent. Jimmy begins to sell burner phones to criminals. Kim joins up with Schweikart & Cokely to lessen her Mesa Verde obligations.
The timeline jumps forward 9 months in “Something Stupid” to January of 2004. Kim and Jimmy have drifted apart but get closer than ever when Jimmy needs Kim’s help getting Huell Babineaux out of some legal trouble. Lalo Salamanca arrives in Albuquerque to take over the operations of the Salamanca clan.
In late March and early April, Jimmy successfully gets his law license back and decides to begin practicing as Saul Goodman. Mike is forced to kill the genial German architect named Werner after he escapes from the compound he was building for Gus.
Better Call Saul Season 5
April 1, 2004 – May 13, 2004
Jimmy McGill fittingly begins his full time career as representation to street-level criminals on April 1, 2004. A week into said career he gets more than he bargained for when Nacho takes him to see Lalo Salamanca to serve as Krazy-8’s attorney. It’s in this role that Jimmy meets Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez for the first time on April 8.
Meanwhile, Mike is spiraling after having to kill Werner. In late April, Mike recovers from a vicious beating somewhere south of the border. Gus allows him to convalesce and get his life together and then Mike joins Gus’s operation full time. They begin work on trying to get Lalo Salamanca off the board.
By mid-May Lalo is in prison and Jimmy has successfully got him a $7 million bail. Jimmy has to head off into the desert to retrieve that $7 million and encounters a couple of issues to say the least. The season ends a few days later with Jimmy and Kim plotting to take down Howard and Lalo surviving an assassination attempt.
Better Call Saul Season 6
May 14, 2004 – February 11, 2005
Almost the entire back half of Better Call Saul‘s final season takes place in the post-Breaking Bad future. We will save that for a section further down this article and focus only on the main “Jimmy” timeline. Jimmy and Kim spend nearly a month developing their plan to take out Howard.
That plan comes to grim fruition on June 24, 2004, when they successfully ruin Howard’s reputation and then Howard is subsequently murdered by Lalo Salamanca. Mike guides Jimmy and Kim through the cover-up the next day and Kim ultimately decides to leave Jimmy shortly thereafter.
In the episode “Fun and Games,” Better Call Saul flashes forward roughly seven months to when Jimmy McGill is fully enmeshed in his Saul Goodman personality. He will spend around four years helping out the low level criminals of Albuquerque before his path crosses with Walter White.
Breaking Bad Era
Breaking Bad Season 1
September 7, 2008 – October 31, 2008
Breaking Bad’s pilot episode takes place over the span of three weeks and they are a busy three weeks. Chemistry teacher Walter White discovers he has lung cancer and decides to begin cooking meth to provide for his family once he’s gone. By September 28, Walt and Jesse have begun working on their second batch in an RV out in the desert. By late October, Walt and Jesse have come into contact with Tuco Salamanca.
Breaking Bad Season 2
October 31, 2008 – February 17, 2009
Breaking Bad season 2’s timeline jumps around a bit thanks to the flashforward of a plane crash that opens several episodes throughout the season. In early November, Walt and Jesse meet the terrifying Hector Salamanca and Hank Schrader dispatches Tuco. Jesse and Walt find some success in the meth game and begin a modest expansion. This necessitates the need to bring in criminal lawyer Saul Goodman in December. Jesse begins a relationship with his landlord Jane, which proves to be a destructive one as they both begin abusing drugs, leading to Jane’s death in January. By season’s end, Walt has come into contact with Gus Fring and Skyler White realizes that Walt is up to something nefarious.
Breaking Bad Season 3
February 18, 2009 – April 16, 2009
Walt tries to leave the meth game behind to repair his relationship with Skyler in early February. By the time March 11 rolls around, Gus has convinced Walter to enter into his services, mass-producing meth. Hank has a run-in with a still despondent Jesse in mid-March, and beats him up, sending Jesse to the hospital. When Jesse recovers in late March, he joins Walt at the superlab. Due to Jesse’s addiction issues and Walt’s consistent insubordinations up to and including killing a couple of drug dealers, Gus is at his wit’s end with the duo. On April 16, 2009, Walt and Jesse save their lives the only way they know how. They kill fellow meth expert Gale Boetticher to make themselves essential to Gus.
Breaking Bad Season 4
April 15, 2009 – July 14, 2009
April finds Walter and Jesse uneasily continuing their relationship with Gus, and knowing that he is itching for a reason to kill them. While Walt buys a snubnosed revolver, Sklyer begins the process of purchasing the car wash that Walt used to work out to launder their money.
In May, Mike begins to take Jesse with him on collections. Walt and Jesse begin a plan to poison Gus with ricin. Speaking of poison, Gus poisons Don Eladio in July and kills all his men. An ascendant Gus then uses the opportunity to relieve Walt of his services. Walt tries to have his family “disappear” but doesn’t have enough funds to do so. The only option left is to kill Gus. So that’s what Walt and Jesse do (in spectacular fashion) on July 14.
Breaking Bad Season 5A
July 15, 2009 – March 3, 2010
Breaking Bad’s final season opens with a flashforward a year in the future. We know it’s Walt’s 52nd birthday thanks to the bacon arranged on his plate (which is of course, Breaking Bad’s favorite time-keeping mechanism). Back in July of 2009, Walt and Jesse are finally in the empire business. They erase any trace of their association with Gus Fring and enlist Madrigal Electromotive’s Lydia Rodarte-Quayle to expand their reach.
Walt is given yet another out in September to sell off their meth enterprise to Declan. Instead, in early October, Walt kills Mike and then kills all of Mike’s men in prison. The midseason finale flashes forward at least three months and possibly more to show Walt’s business thriving. The only issue is that one fateful copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass reveals to Hank that Walter White is Heisenberg.
Breaking Bad Season 5B
March 3, 2010 – September 7, 2010
The second half of the final season begins in March with Walt’s cancer returning and Hank setting out to take his brother-in-law down. Thus begins a thrilling cat and mouse game that culminates with a trip to the To’hajiilee desert where Hank and Gomez are killed by Jack Welker. “Ozymandias,” one of the greatest episodes in TV history, follows.
The events of these eight episodes are confined mostly to just over a week in March 2010. The penultimate episode “Granite State” and the finale, “Felina,” eventually take things to September, 2010 to fullfill that initially promised time jump. Walt, of course, returns to ABQ to settle some scores, rescue Jesse, and die on his own terms.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
September 7, 2010 – September 13, 2010
The events of El Camino begin right after the Breaking Bad finale on September 7 and carry through the next five days. Jesse spends September 7 and 8 at Skinny Pete’s house. He then takes off for Todd’s apartment on September 9. There he encounters Neil Kandy and Casey and the trio split up the money they find there into three shares.
That same day Jesse enlists the help of the vacuum man to disappear but finds that he is short $1,800. On September 10, Jesse has his final confrontation with Neil Kandy. He is able to pay for his extraction and three days later begins a new life in Alaska.
Better Call Saul Flash-Forwards
September 2010 – December 10, 2010
Originally, fans thought that the flash forwards to Saul’s life as Gene Takovic in Omaha, Nebraska took place in 2015. This is due to the appearance of a visible 150th anniversary of Omaha sticker in the first season and the fact that it was filmed in 2015. Due to the precise scheduling information provided by Nebraska football in season 6, however, we now know that the Gene Takovic timeline picks up shortly after Saul leaves Albuquerque and lasts through December 10, 2010.
In season 1, Gene goes to work as a Cinnabon manager at the mall and comes home to watch old Saul Goodman commercials on a VHS. In season 2, Gene gets locked outside in the trash room of the mall but is afraid to contact anyone to help. In season 3, Gene tells a mall thief to call a lawyer rather than talk to the cops, then collapses from a seeming heart attack. In season 4, we discover that the heart attack was just stress. Gene then experiences more paranoia and stress when it seems as though his Social Security number won’t hold up at the hospital. It does, but he panics in a taxi cab on the way home because the driver, Jeff (played by Don Harvey and then Pat Healy) seems to recognize him. In season 5, Jeff arrives at the mall and confirms that he knows Gene is Saul Goodman. Gene calls the vacuum repairman, Ed, again prepared to start a new life once more. But he thinks better of it and hangs up.
Around October 16, Gene decides to rob the mall’s department store with the help of Jeff. Seemingly addicted to crime and chicanery once again, Gene, Jeff, and an accomplice start a scam to steal rich men’s valuable financial information. Jeff’s mom Marion (Carol Burnett) recognizes Gene as Saul Goodman on December 6 and Gene is captured and arrested that same day. His story comes to an end in prison four days later.
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Hey everyone I'd like to share with you a teaser trailer of one of my latest personal projects (Shortfilm) in which I'm co-directing with my good friend… | 22 comments on LinkedIn
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I've been working on many ideas for years, but thanks to advancements in AI for image, video, and sound, I have achieved incredible results in creating pitch videos. These tools have allowed me to fully express my intent as a filmmaker, bringing my visions to life with stunning visuals, immersive sound, and overall accelerating the development of my ideas faster than ever before. Think of this as Pitch Deck / Moodboard, it's the new era of pitching projects, no longer with literally screencaps from other movies. Here’s a pitch trailer for one of my current projects. Special thanks to Luma AI for their significant contribution in making this possible. Neo Filmmaking is already here. here's the Sinopsis for VAMPIRO: In a medieval kingdom ruled by vampire clans, each led by powerful matriarchs, humans are used as currency in a dark and twisted society. Íñigo de la Vega, a brave vampire hunter, searches for his kidnapped family. With the help of his brother, now turned into a powerful vampire, Íñigo must face the deadly Clan of the Nocturnals and uncover dark secrets. An epic battle for redemption and hope in a world shrouded in shadows. #lumadreammachine #aifilmmaking #aivideo #neofilmmaking
We are excited to announce that our sci-fi short film "El Camino" has reached 1 million views on DUST. Achieving this milestone on the world's most important online sci-fi channel, especially with a short in Spanish, is an incredible achievement. Thank you all for your support and for being a part of this amazing journey! Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gPkK3wye #scifi #shortfilm #watchdust #cinemexicano
The trailer for "La Piedra Roja La descarnada - The Red Stone The Fleshless" is finally online! We're excited to share a glimpse of the uniquely Mexican horror universe we've crafted. The Stone has been unleashed, and we can't wait for audiences to experience our fresh take on fantastical horror. Many talented individuals contributed to this project, and we're thrilled to showcase their work. Check out the trailer now! Starting the Festival run next! #horrorfilm #horror #indiefilm #cinemexicano #horrorfilmmaking #filmdirector #hechoenjalisco #filmtrailer
I'm thrilled to announce that "La Piedra Roja" ("The Red Stone") my Horror Short film is kicking off its festival run, and we're excited to share our official poster with you! We recently had the privilege of screening our film at the Guillermo del Toro Theater in Guadalajara, Mexico—the most modern theater in the country—where our Dolby Atmos sound system truly made an impact! Curious about the trailer? Stay tuned! We'll be releasing our teaser trailer in just two days. #FilmFestival #CinetecaFICG #MoviePremiere #Cinemexicano #hechoenjalisco #filmmaking #independentfilm
It's been a long time since I shared my Inclass demo I teach Universidad Panamericana, this is the first exercise we do in Advanced Environment creation, inspired by Aliens and all other Cosmic horror out there, I teach my students from scratch how to create the scene, and how to think creatively to solve complex scenes, and basic cinematography to make a few modular assets look like a movie set. No AI was involved in the creation of these images, made 100% in class. *some set dressing, smaller props from Sketchfab. *Right click / open image in new tab To see it in full res 😎
Thank you all for sharing your work and all that already applied for the Concept Art position. We are currently reviewing applications and lining up interviews! Remember we have more positions open in different disciplines for our studios in LA and Irvine, please share this with people that might be interested.
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Happy to inform that SWELECT has been awarded for the below catergories by Softdisk SD's No. 1 Company for having completed largest number of rooftop installations in the country till 31st March, 2021, both in number of installations and wattage SD's No. 1 Hybrid solar PV power solution provider of the year. SD's No. 1 Grid sharing solar PV power solution provider of the year. SD's No. 2 SPCU Manufacturer of the year. SD's No. 5 Solar PV panel manufacturer of the year.
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John D. Carmack II (born August 20, 1970) is a widely recognized figure in the video game industry. A talented programmer with an entrepreneurial spirit, Carmack co-founded id Software, a video game video game development company, in 1991. Carmack is noted for his aptness with 3D graphics and is recognized as a leading figure in the field.
He grew up in Kansas City and became interested in computers at an early age. He attended the University of Kansas for two semesters before dropping out to work as a freelance programmer. Softdisk in Shreveport, Louisiana hired Carmack uniting him with John Romero and other future members of id Software. At Softdisk, they produced the first of the Commander Keen series of games in 1990 before Carmack and the rest of the team left to create id.
Carmack's programming skills enabled the development of the seminal first person shooter games Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Quake, amongst others. Carmack's game engines have generally been able to take advantage of the developments in PC hardware quicker than other developers. He has invented several computer graphic algorithmic techniques, notably surface caching and Carmack's Reverse.
Recognized as a technical leader in the computer gaming world, Carmack's engines have been licensed and put to use in some of the most influential first person action shooter games in the genre's history such as Half-Life and Medal of Honor.
On March 22, 2001, Carmack was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed upon those who have made revolutionary and innovative achievements in the video and computer game industry.
Though Carmack is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics, he is also a rocketry enthusiast and the founder of Armadillo Aerospace.
Some of the recipients of Carmack's charitable contributions include promoters of open source software, opposers of software patents, aerospace research, and game enthusiasts. In 1997 he gave away one of his Ferraris as a prize in the Quake 1 "Red Annihilation" tournament.
He married Katherine Anna Kang around January 2000.
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On December 14, 1990, Scott Miller of Apogee Software uploaded the free first installment of his company’s latest episodic game. He knew as he did so that this release would be, if you’ll pardon the pun, a game changer for Apogee. To signal that this was truly a next-generation Apogee game, he doubled his standard paid-episode asking price from $7.50 to $15.
Rather than relying on the character graphics or blocky visual abstractions of Apogee’s previous games, Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars was an animated feast of bouncy color. Rather than looking like a typical boxed game of five to ten years earlier, it looked quite literally like nothing that had ever been seen on an MS-DOS-based computer before. In terms of presentation at least, it was nothing less than computer gaming’s answer to Super Mario Bros., the iconic franchise that had done so much to help Nintendo sell more than 30 million of their videogame consoles in the United States alone.
Yet even Miller, who has been so often and justly lauded for his vision in recognizing that many computer owners were craving something markedly different from what the big game publishers were offering them, could hardly have conceived of the full historical importance of this particular moment. For it introduced to the world a small group of scruffy misfits with bad attitudes and some serious technical chops, who were living and working together at the time in a rundown riverfront house in Shreveport, Louisiana. Within a few months, they would begin to call themselves id Software, and under that name they would remake the face of mainstream gaming during the 1990s.
I must admit that I find it a little strange to be writing about humble Shreveport for the second time in the course of two articles. It’s certainly not the first place one would look for a band of technological revolutionaries. The perpetually struggling city of 200,000 people has long been a microcosm of the problems dogging the whole of Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the nation. It’s a raggedly anonymous place of run-down strip malls and falling-down houses, with all of the crime and poverty of New Orleans but none of that city’s rich cultural stew to serve as compensation.
Life in Shreveport has always been defined by the Red River which flows through town. As its name would imply, the city was founded to serve as a port in the time before the nation’s rivers were superseded by its railroads and highways. When that time ended, Shreveport had to find other uses for its river: thanks to a quirk of Louisiana law that makes casinos legal on waterways but not on dry land, residents of northeastern Texas and southern Arkansas have long known it primarily as the most convenient place to go for legal gambling. The shabbily-dressed interstate gamblers who climb out of the casino-funded buses every day are anything but the high rollers of Vegas lore. They’re just ordinary working-class folks who really, really should find something more healthy to do with their time and money than sitting behind a one-armed bandit in a riverboat casino, dropping token after token into the slot and staring with glazed eyes at the wheels as they spin around and around. This image rather symbolizes the social and economic condition of Shreveport in general.
By 1989, Al Vekovius of Shreveport’s Softdisk Publications was starting to fear that the same image might stand in for the state of his business. After expanding so dramatically for much of the decade, Softdisk was now struggling just to hold onto its current base of subscribers, much less to grow their numbers. The original Softdisk and Loadstar, their two earliest disk magazines, catered to aged 8-bit computers that were now at the end of their run, while Big Blue Disk and Diskworld, for MS-DOS computers and the Apple Macintosh respectively, were failing to take up all of their slack. Everything seemed to be turning against Softdisk. In the summer of 1989, IBM, whose longstanding corporate nickname of “Big Blue” had been the source of the name Big Blue Disk, threatened a lawsuit if Softdisk continued to market a disk magazine under that name. Knowing better than to defy a company a thousand times their size, Softdisk felt compelled to rename Big Blue Disk to the less catchy On Disk Monthly.
While the loss of hard-won brand recognition always hurts, Softdisk’s real problems were much bigger and more potentially intractable than that of one corporate behemoth with an overgrown legal department. The fact was, the relationship which people had with the newer computers Softdisk was now catering to tended to be different from the one they had enjoyed with their friendly little Apple II or Commodore 64. Being a computer user in the era of Microsoft’s ascendancy was no longer a hobby for most of them, much less a lifestyle. People had less of a craving for the ramshackle but easily hackable utilities and coding samples which Softdisk’s magazines had traditionally published. People were no longer interested in rolling up their sleeves to work with software in order to make it work for them; they demanded more polished programs that Just Worked right off the disk. But this was a hard field for Softdisk to compete on. Programmers with really good software had little motivation to license their stuff to a disk magazine for a relative pittance when they could instead be talking to a boxed-software publisher or testing the exploding shareware market.
With high-quality submissions from outside drying up just as he needed them most, Vekovius hired more and more internal staff to create the software for On Disk. Yet even here he ran up against many of the same barriers. The programmers whom he could find locally or convince to move to a place like Shreveport at the salaries which Softdisk could afford to pay were generally not the first ones he might have chosen in an ideal world. For all that some of them would prove themselves to be unexpectedly brilliant, as we’ll see shortly, virtually every one of them had some flaw or collection thereof that prevented him from finding gainful employment elsewhere. And the demand that they churn out multiple programs every month in order to fill up the latest issue was, to say the least, rather inimical to the production of quality software. Vekovius was spinning his wheels in his little programming sweatshop with all the energy of those Shreveport riverboat gamblers, but it wasn’t at all clear that it was getting him any further than it was getting them.
Thus he was receptive on the day in early 1990 when one of his most productive if headstrong programmers, a strapping young metalhead named John Romero, suggested that Softdisk start a new MS-DOS disk magazine, dedicated solely to games — the one place where, what with Apogee’s success being still in its early stages, shareware had not yet clearly cut into Softdisk’s business model. After some back-and-forth, the two agreed to a bi-monthly publication known as Gamer’s Edge, featuring at least one — preferably two — original games in each issue. To make it happen, Romero would be allowed to gather together a few others who were willing to work a staggering number of hours cranking out games at an insane pace with no resources beyond themselves for very little money at all. Who could possibly refuse an offer like that?
The team that eventually coalesced around Romero included programmer Tom Hall, artist Adrian Carmack, and business manager and token adult-in-the-room Jay Wilbur. But their secret weapon, lured by Wilbur to Shreveport from Kansas City, Missouri, was a phenomenal young programmer named John Carmack. (In a proof that anyone who says things like “I don’t believe in coincidences” is full of it, John is actually unrelated to Adrian Carmack despite having the same not-hugely-common last name.) John Carmack would prove himself to be such a brilliant programmer that Romero and Hall, no slouches themselves in that department by most people’s standards, would learn to leave the heavy lifting to his genius, coding themselves only the less important parts of the games along with the utilities that they used to build them — and they would also design the games, for Carmack was in reality vastly more interested in the mathematical abstraction of code as an end unto itself than the games it enabled.
But all of these young men, whom I’ll call the id boys from here on out just because the name suited them so well even before they started id Software, will be more or less important to our story. So, we should briefly meet each of them.
Jay Wilbur was by far the most approachable, least intimidating member of the group. Having already reached the wise old age of 30, he brought with him a more varied set of life experiences that left him willing and able to talk to more varied sorts of people. Indeed, Wilbur’s schmoozing skills were rather legendary. While attending university in his home state of Rhode Island, he’d run the bar at his local TGI Friday’s, where his ability to mix drinks with acrobatic “flair” made him one of those selected to teach Tom Cruise the tricks of the trade for the movie Cocktail. But his love for the Apple II he’d purchased with an insurance settlement following a motorcycle accident finally overcame his love for the nightlife, and he accepted a job for a Rhode Island-based disk magazine called UpTime. When that company was bought out by Softdisk in 1988, he wound up in Shreveport, working as an editor there. The people skills he’d picked up tending bar would never desert him; certainly his new charges at Gamer’s Edge had sore need of them, for they were an abrasive collection of characters even by hacker standards.
These others loved heavy metal and action movies, and aimed a well-sharpened lance of contempt at anything outside their narrow range of cultural and technical interests. Their laser focus on their small collection of obsessions would prove one of their greatest strengths, if perhaps problematic for gaming writ large in the long run, in the way that it diminished the scope of what games could do and be.
Yet even this band of four, the ones who actually made the games for Gamer’s Edge under Wilbur’s benevolent stewardship, was not a monolith. Once one begins to look at them as individuals, the shades of difference quickly emerge.
Like Wilbur, the 25-year-old Wisconsinite Tom Hall was a middle-class kid with a university degree, but he had none of his friend and colleague’s casual bonhomie with the masses. He lived in a fantasy world drawn from the Star Wars movies, the first of which he’d seen in theaters 33 times, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novels, which he could all but recite from heart. At Softdisk, to which he’d come after deciding that he couldn’t stand the idea of a job in corporate data processing, he ran around talking in a cutsey made-up alien language: “Bleh! Bleh! Bleh!” He was the kind of guy you either found hilarious or were irritated out of your mind by.
The 21-year-old Adrian Carmack also lived in a world of fantasy, but his fantasies had a darker hue. Growing up right there in Shreveport, he had spent many hours at arcades, attracted not so much by the games themselves as by the lurid art on their cabinets. He worked for a time as an aide at a hospital, then went home to sketch gunshot wounds, severed limbs, and festering bedsores with meticulous accuracy. Instead of a cat or a dog, he chose a scorpion as a pet. He’d come to Softdisk on a university internship after telling his advisor he wanted to work in “fine art” someday.
Still, and with all due respect to these others, the id boys would come to be defined most of all by their two Johns. The 22-year-old John Romero was pure id, a kettle of addled energy that was perpetually spilling over, sending F-bombs spewing every which way; David Kushner, author of the seminal history Masters of Doom, memorably describes him as “a human exclamation point.” The not-quite-20-year-old John Carmack was as quiet and affectless as Romero was raucous, often disturbingly so; Sandy Petersen, a game designer who will come to work with him later in our story, remembers musing to himself after first meeting Carmack that “he doesn’t know anything about how humans think or feel.”
Yet for all their surface differences, the two Johns had much in common. Both were brought up in broken homes: Romero was physically abused by his stepfather while growing up in the Sacramento area, while Carmack suffered under the corporeal and psychological rigors of a strict private Catholic school in Kansas. Both rebelled by committing petty crimes among other things; Carmack was sentenced to a year in a boys’ detention center at age 14 after breaking into his school using a homemade bomb. (The case notes of the police officer who interviewed him echo the later impressions of Sandy Petersen: “Boy behaves like a walking brain… no empathy for other human beings.”)
Both found escape from their circumstances through digital means: first via videogames at the local arcades, then via the Apple II computers they acquired by hook or by crook. (Carmack’s first computer was a stolen one, bought off the proverbial back of a truck.) They soon taught themselves to program well enough to put professionals to shame.
Romero got his games published regularly by print magazines as type-in listings, then parlayed that into a job with the disk magazine UpTime, where he became friends with Jay Wilbur. After that, he got a job as a game porter for Origin Systems of Ultima fame. Meanwhile Wilbur moved on to Softdisk while Romero was at Origin. When Romero found himself bored by the life of a porter, he came to Shreveport as well to join his friend.
John Carmack, being more than two years younger than Romero and much more socially challenged, brought a shorter résumé with him to Shreveport when he became the only id boy to be hired specifically to work on Gamer’s Edge rather than being transferred there from another part of Softdisk. He had mostly sold his games for $1000 apiece to a little mom-and-pop company near his home called Nite Owl Productions, who had made them a sideline to their main business of supplying replacement batteries for Apple II motherboards. But he had also sold one or two games to Jay Wilbur at Softdisk. Finding these to be very impressive, the id boys asked Wilbur to deploy his considerable charm to recruit the new kid for Gamer’s Edge. After a concerted effort, he succeeded.
Gamer’s Edge was far more than just a new job or a workplace transfer for the young men involved. It was a calling; they spent virtually all day every day in one another’s company. Pooling all of their meager salaries, Wilbur rented them a rambling old four-bedroom house on the Red River, complete with a Jacuzzi and a swimming pool and a boat deck which he soon complemented with a battered motorboat. It was an Animal House lifestyle of barbecuing, water skiing, and beer drinking in between marathon hacking sessions, fueled by pizza and soda. Wilbur — in many ways the unsung hero of this story — acted as their doting den mother, keeping the lights on, the basement beer keg filled, the refrigerator stocked with soda and junk food, and the pizza deliveries coming at all hours of the day and night.
For the first issue of Gamer’s Edge, the two Johns agreed to each port one of their old Apple II games to MS-DOS. Romero chose a platformer called Dangerous Dave, while Carmack chose a top-down action-adventure called Catacomb. They raced one another to see who could finish first; it was after losing rather definitively that Romero realized he couldn’t hope to compete with Carmack as a pure programmer, and should probably leave the most complicated, math-intensive aspects of coding to his friend while he concentrated on all the other things that make a good game. For the second issue, the two Johns pooled their talents with that of the others to make a completely original shoot-em-up called Slordax: The Unknown Enemy. So far, so good.
And then came John Carmack’s first great technical miracle — the first of many that would be continually upending everything the id boys were working on in the best possible way. To fully explain this first miracle, a bit of background is necessary.
Although they were making games for MS-DOS, the id boys had little use for the high-concept themes of most other games that were being made for that platform in 1990; neither complicated simulations nor elaborate interactive movies did anything for them. They preferred games that were simple and visceral, fast-paced and above all action-packed. Tellingly, most of the games they preferred to play these days lived on the Nintendo Entertainment System rather than a personal computer.
Much of the difference between the two platforms’ design aesthetics was cultural, but there was also more to it than that. As I’ve often taken pains to point out in these articles, the nature of games on any given platform is always strongly guided by that platform’s technical strengths and weaknesses.
When first looking at the NES and an MS-DOS personal computer of 1990 vintage, one might assume that the latter so thoroughly outclasses the former as to make further comparison pointless. The NES was built around a version of the MOS 6502, an 8-bit CPU dating back to the 1970s, running at a clock speed of less than 2 MHz; a state-of-the-art PC had a 32-bit CPU running at 25 MHz or more. The NES had just 2 K of writable general-purpose memory; the PC might have 4 MB or more, plus a big hard drive. The NES could display up to 25 colors from a palette of 48, at a resolution of 256 X 240; a PC with a VGA graphics card could display up to 256 colors from a palette of over 262,000, at a resolution of 320 X 200. Surely the PC could effortlessly do anything the NES could do. Right?
Well, no, actually. The VGA graphics standard for PCs had been created by IBM in 1987 with an eye to presenting crisp general-purpose displays rather than games. In the hands of a talented team of pixel artists, it could present mouth-watering static illustrations, as adventure-game studios like Sierra, LucasArts, and Legend were proving. But it included absolutely no aids for fast animation, no form of graphical acceleration whatsoever. It just gave the programmer a big chunk of memory to work with, whose bytes represented the pixels on the screen. When she wanted to change said pixels, she had to sling all those bytes around by main force, using nothing but the brute power of the CPU. All animation on a PC was essentially page-flipping animation, requiring the CPU to redraw every pixel of every frame in memory, at the 20 or 30 frames per second that were necessary to create an impression of relatively fluid motion, and all while also finding cycles for all of the other aspects of the game.
The graphics system of the NES, on the other hand, had been designed for the sole purpose of presenting videogames — and in electrical engineering, specialization almost always breeds efficiency. Rather than storing the contents of the screen in memory as a linear array of pixels, it operated on the level of tiles, each of which was 8 X 8 or 8 X 16 pixels in size. After defining the look of each of a set of tiles, the programmer could mix and match them on the screen as she wished, at a fairly blazing speed thanks to the console’s custom display circuitry; this enabled the smooth scrolling of the Super Mario Bros. games among many others. She also had up to 64 sprites to work with; these were little 8 X 8 or 8 X 16 images that were overlaid on the tiled background by the display hardware, and could be moved about almost instantaneously, just by changing a couple of numbers in a couple of registers. They were, in other words, perfect for showing Super Mario bouncing around on a scrolling background, at almost no cost in CPU cycles. Freed from the heavy lifting of managing the display, the little 6502 could concentrate almost entirely on the game logic.
The conventional wisdom of 1990 held that the PC, despite all its advantages in raw horsepower, simply couldn’t do a game like Super Mario Bros. The problem rankled John Carmack and his friends particularly, given how much more in tune their design aesthetic was with the NES than with the current crop of computer games. And so Carmack turned the full force of his giant brain on the problem, and soon devised a solution.
As so often happens in programming, said solution turned out to be deceptively simple. It hinged on the fact that one could define a virtual screen in memory that was wider and/or taller than the physical screen. In this case, Carmack made his virtual screen just eight pixels wider than the physical screen. This meant that he could scroll the background with silky smoothness through eight “frames” by changing just two registers on the computer — the ones telling the display hardware where the top left corner of the screen started in the computer’s memory. And this in turn meant that he only had to draw the display anew from scratch every eighth frame, which was a manageable task. Once he had the scrolling background working, he added some highly optimized code to draw and erase in software alone bouncing sprites to represent his pseudo-Mario and enemies. And that was that. His technique didn’t even demand VGA graphics; it could present a dead ringer for the NES Super Mario Bros. 3 — the latest installment in the franchise — using the older MS-DOS graphics standard of EGA.
I should note at this point that the scrolling technique which John Carmack “invented” was by no means entirely new in the abstract; programmers on computers like the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga had in fact been using it for years. (I point readers to my article on the techniques used by the Commodore 64 sports games of Epyx and particularly to my book-length study of the Amiga for more detailed explanations of it than the one I’ve provided here.) A big part of the reason that no one had ever done it before on an MS-DOS computer was that no one had ever been hugely motivated to try, in light of the types of games that were generally accepted as “appropriate” for that platform; technological determinism is a potent force in game development, but it’s never the only force. And I should also note a certain irony that clings to all this. As we’ll see, John Carmack would soon toll the death knell for the era of bouncing sprites superimposed over scrolling 2D backgrounds. How odd that his first great eureka moment should have come in imitation of just that classic videogame style.
Carmack first showed his innovation to Tom Hall, the biggest Super Mario fan of all among the id boys, late in the afternoon of September 20, 1990. Hall recognized its significance immediately, and suggested that he and Carmack recreate some of the first level of Super Mario Bros. 3 right then and there as a proof of concept. They finally stumbled off to bed at 5:30 the following morning.
A few hours later, John Romero woke up to find a floppy disk sitting on his keyboard. He popped it into the drive, and his jaw hit the floor when he saw a Nintendo game playing there on his computer monitor. He went off to find Jay Wilbur and Adrian Carmack. They all agreed that this was big — way too big for the likes of Softdisk.
In one 72-hour marathon, the id boys recreated all of the first level of Super Mario Bros. 3, along with bits and pieces of those that followed. Then Wilbur typed up a letter to Nintendo of America and dropped it in the mail along with the disk; it said that the id boys were ready and willing to license their PC port of Super Mario Bros. 3 back to the Nintendo mother ship. This was a profoundly naïve thing to do; virtually anyone in the industry could have told them that Nintendo never let any of their intellectual property escape from the walled garden of their own console. And sure enough, the id boys would eventually receive a politely worded response saying no thank you. Given Nintendo’s infamous ruthlessness when it came to matters of intellectual property, they were probably lucky that a rejection letter was all they received, rather than a lawsuit.
At any rate, the id boys weren’t noted for their patience. Long before Nintendo’s response arrived, they would be on to the next thing: an original game using John Carmack’s scrolling technique.
For some time now, John Romero had been receiving fawning fan mail care of Softdisk, not a usual phenomenon at all. His gratification was lessened somewhat, however, by the fact that the letters all came from the same address near Dallas, Texas, all asked him to call the fan in question at the same phone number, and were all signed with suspiciously similar names: “Byron Muller,” “Scott Mulliere,” etc.
It was in fact our old friend Scott Miller. His attention had been captured by Romero’s games for On Disk and Gamer’s Edge; they would be perfect for Apogee, he thought. But how to get in touch? The only contact information he had was that of Softdisk’s main office. He could hardly write them a letter asking if he could poach one of their programmers. His solution was this barrage of seemingly innocent fan mail. Maybe, just maybe, Romero really would call him…
Romero didn’t call, but he did write back, and included his own phone number. Miller rang it up immediately. “Fuck those letters!” he said when Romero started to ask what kind of prank he thought he was pulling. “We can make a ton of money together selling your games as shareware.”
“Dude, those old games are garbage compared to the stuff we can make now,” said Romero, with John Carmack’s new scrolling technique firmly in mind. They struck a deal: Miller would send the id boys an advance of $2000, and they would send him a brand-new three-part game as soon as possible.
The Gamer’s Edge magazine, which just six months ago had seemed like the perfect job, now fell to the back burner in light of the riches Miller was promising them. Since they were making a Nintendo-like game in terms of action, it seemed logical to copy Nintendo’s bright and cheerful approach in the new game’s graphics and fiction as well. This was Tom Hall’s moment to shine; he already seemed to live every day in just such a primary-colored cartoon fantasy. Now, he created an outline for Commander Keen, blending Nintendo with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and old science-fiction serials — the last being perfect for an episodic game.
Billy Blaze, eight-year-old genius, working diligently in his backyard clubhouse, has created an interstellar spaceship from old soup cans, rubber cement, and plastic tubing. While his folks are out on the town and the babysitter is asleep, Billy sneaks out to his backyard workshop, dons his brother’s football helmet, and transforms into… Commander Keen, Defender of Justice! In his ship, the Bean with Bacon Megarocket, Keen dispenses justice with an iron hand!
In this episode, aliens from the planet Vorticon VI find out about the eight-year-old genius and plan his destruction. While Keen is out exploring the mountains of Mars, the Vorticons steal his ship and leave pieces around the galaxy! Can Keen recover all the pieces of his ship and repel the Vorticon invasion? Will he make it back before his parents get home? Stay tuned!
When Miller received the first Commander Keen trilogy in the post barely two months later, he was thrilled beyond his wildest dreams. He had known that the id boys were talented, but this… he had never imagined this. This wasn’t a throwback to the boxed games of yore, wasn’t even on a par with the boxed games of current times. It was something entirely different, something never seen on an MS-DOS computer at all before, as visually striking and technically innovative within its chosen sphere as any of the latest boxed games were within theirs. Just like that, shareware games had come of age.
All of Apogee’s games together had been earning about $7000 per month. Commander Keen alone made $20,000 in the first month of its availability. It caused such a stir online that the established industry took a casual notice for the first time of this new entity called Apogee with this odd new way of selling games. Computer Gaming World magazine even deigned to give Commander Keen a blurb in the new-releases section. It was “of true commercial quality,” they noted, only slightly condescendingly.
Despite their success in shareware and the big checks that started coming in the mail from Apogee as a result, the id boys continued to make games for Gamer’s Edge throughout 1991. Betwixt and between, they provided Miller with a second Commander Keen trilogy, which did every bit as well as the first. No one could ever accuse them of being lazy.
But making a metaphorical name for themselves outside of Softdisk meant that they needed a literal name for the world to know them by. When they had sent their Super Mario Bros. 3 clone to Nintendo, they had called themselves “Ideas from the Deep.” Deciding that was too long-winded, they became “ID” when they started releasing games with Apogee — short for “In Demand.” The only one of their number who cottoned onto the Freudian implications of the acronym was Jay Wilbur; none of the other id boys knew Sigmund Freud from Siegmund the Norse hero. But when Wilbur explained to them how Freud’s id was the seat of a person’s most basic, impulsive desires, they were delighted. By this happenstance, then, id Software got a name which a thousand branding experts could never have bettered. It encapsulated perfectly their mission to deconstruct computer gaming, to break it down into a raw essence of action and reaction. The only ingredient still missing from the eventual id Software formula was copious violence.
And that too was already in the offing: Tom Hall’s cheerful cartoon aesthetic had started to wear thin with John Romero and Adrian Carmack long before they sent the first Commander Keen games to Scott Miller. Playing around one day with some graphics for the latest Gamer’s Edge production, Adrian drew a zombie clawing out the eyes of the player’s avatar, sending blood and gore flying everywhere. Romero loved it: “Blood! In a game! How fucking awesome is that?”
Adrian’s reply was weirdly pensive. “Maybe one day,” he said in a dreamy voice, “we’ll be able to put in as much blood as we want.”
In September of 1991, the id boys’ lease on their riverside frat house expired, and they decided that it was time to leave the depressing environs of Shreveport, with its crime, its poverty, and its homeless population who clustered disturbingly around the Softdisk offices. Their contract stipulated that they still owed Gamer’s Edge a few more games, but Al Vekovius had long since given up on trying to control them. The id boys decamped for Madison, Wisconsin, at the suggestion of Tom Hall, who had attended university there. He promised them with all of his usual enthusiasm that it was the best place ever. Instead they found the Wisconsin winter to be miserable. Cooped up inside their individual apartments, missing keenly their big old communal house and their motorboat, they threw themselves more completely than ever into making games. Everyone, with the exception only of Tom Hall, was now heartily sick and tired of Commander Keen. It was time for something new.
Whilst working at Origin Systems in the late 1980s, John Romero had met Paul Neurath, who had since gone on to start his own studio known as Blue Sky Productions. During their occasional phone calls, Neurath kept dropping hints to his friend about the game his people were working on: an immersive first-person CRPG, rendered using texture-mapped 3D graphics. When Romero mentioned it to John Carmack, his reply was short, as so many of them tended to be: “Yeah, I can do that.”
Real-time 3D graphics in general were hardly a new development. Academic research in the field stretched back to well before the era of the microchip. Bruce Artwick had employed them in the original Radio Shack TRS-80 Flight Simulator in 1980, and Ian Bell and David Braben had used them in Elite in 1984; both games were among the best sellers of their decade. Indeed, the genre of vehicular simulations, one of the most popular of them all by the late 1980s, relied on 3D graphics almost exclusively. All of which is to say that you didn’t have to look very hard in your local software store to find a 3D game of some stripe.
And yet, according at least to the conventional wisdom, the limitations of 3D graphics made them unsuitable for the sort of visceral, ultra-fast-paced experience which the id boys preferred. All of the extra affordances built into gaming-oriented platforms like the NES to enable 2D sprite-based graphics were useless for 3D graphics. 3D required radical compromises in speed or appearance, or both: those early versions of Flight Simulator were so slow that it could take the program a full second or two to respond to your inputs, which made flying their virtual airplanes perversely more difficult than flying the real thing; Elite managed to be more responsive, but only by drawing its 3D world using wire-frame outlines instead of filled surfaces. The games-industry consensus was that 3D graphics had a lot of potential for many types of games beyond those they were currently being used for, but that computer hardware was probably five to ten years away from being able to realize most of it.
John Carmack wasn’t that patient. If he couldn’t make true 3D graphics run at an acceptable speed in the here and now, he believed that he could fake it in a fairly convincing way. He devised a technique of presenting a fundamentally 2D world from a first-person perspective. Said world was a weirdly circumscribed place to inhabit: all angles had to be right angles; all walls had to stretch uniformly from floor to ceiling; all floors and ceilings had to be colored in the same uniform gray. Only interior scenes were possible, and no stairways, no jumping, no height differences of any kind were allowed; in this egalitarian world, everything and everyone had to stay permanently on the same level. You weren’t even allowed to look up or down. But, limited though it was, it was like nothing anyone had ever seen.
“You know,” said John Romero one day when they were all sitting around discussing what to do with the new technology, “it’d be really fucking cool if we made a remake of Castle Wolfenstein and did it in 3D.” With those words, id’s next game was born, one that would make all the success of Commander Keen look like nothing.
Written by Silas Warner, one of the Apple II scene’s early superstar programmers, and published by the long-defunct Muse Software, Castle Wolfenstein was an established classic from 1981, a top-down action-adventure that cast you as a prisoner of the Nazis who must escape, preferably taking his captors’ secret war plans with him. It remains historically notable today for incorporating a significant stealth component; ammunition was scarce and your enemies tough, which often made avoidance a better strategy than confrontation.
But avoidance wasn’t the id boys’ style. Very early on, they jettisoned everything beyond the core theme of the original Castle Wolfenstein. Wolfenstein 3D was to be, as Romero put it, “a totally shocking game. There should be blood, lots of blood, blood like you never see in games. When the player gets really low in health, at like 10 percent, he could run over the bloody guts of a dead Nazi soldier and suck those up for extra energy. It’s like human giblets. You can eat up their gibs!” In other words, Tom Hall’s aesthetic vision was out; John Romero and Adrian Carmack’s was in. “Hey, you know what we should have in here? Pissing! We should make it so you can fucking stop and piss on the Nazi after you mow him down! That would be fucking awesome!”
In early 1992, the id boys came face to face with the gaming establishment for the first time thanks to Wolfenstein 3D. They sent an early demo of the game to Sierra, and that company’s founder and CEO Ken Williams invited them to fly out to California and have a chat. Sierra was one of the three biggest computer-game publishers in the world, and was at the forefront of the interactive-movie trend which the id boys loathed. King’s Quest VI, the upcoming new installment in Sierra’s flagship series, would be so weighted down with multimedia that most reviewers, hopelessly dazzled, could spare only a few sentences for the rather rote little adventure game underneath it all. Williams himself was widely recognized as one of the foremost visionaries of the new era, proclaiming that by the end of the decade much or most of the Hollywood machine would have embraced interactivity. A meeting between two more disparate visions of gaming than his and that of the id boys can scarcely be imagined.
And yet the meeting was a cordial one on the whole. Williams had been quick to recognize when he saw Wolfenstein 3D that id had some remarkable technology, while the id boys remembered the older Apple II games of Sierra fondly. Williams took them on a tour of the offices where many of those games had come from, and then, after lunch, offered to buy id Software for $2.5 million in Sierra stock. The boys discussed it for a bit, then asked for an additional $100,000 in cash. Williams refused; he was willing to move stock around to pay for the Wolfenstein 3D technology, but he wasn’t willing to put his cash on the table. So, the negotiation ended. Instead Williams bought Bright Star Technologies, a specialist in educational software, for $1 million in cash later that year — for educational software, he believed, would soon be bigger than games. Time would prove him to be as wrong about that as he was about the future of Hollywood.
Not long after the Sierra meeting, the id boys left frigid Wisconsin in favor of Dallas, Texas, home of Scott Miller, who had been telling them about the warm weather, huge lakes, splendid barbecue, and nonexistent state income tax of the place for more than eighteen months now. One Kevin Cloud, who had held the oft-thankless role of being the id boys’ liaison with Softdisk but also happened to be a talented artist, joined them in Dallas as a sixth member of their little collective, thereby to relieve some of the burden on Adrian Carmack.
After making the move, they broke the news to Softdisk that they wouldn’t be doing Gamer’s Edge anymore. Al Vekovius was disappointed but not devastated. Oddly given how popular Commander Keen had become, the gaming disk magazine had never really taken off; it still only had about 3000 subscribers.
And so Softdisk Publications of Shreveport, Louisiana, that unlikely tech success story in that most unlikely of locales, finally exits our story permanently at this point. Nothing if not a survivor, Vekovius would keep the company alive through the 1990s and beyond by transitioning into the next big thing in computing: he turned it into an Internet service provider. He was bought out circa 2005 by a larger regional provider.
If the id boys were worried about how Scott Miller would react to the ultra-violence of Wolfenstein 3D, they needn’t have been. Apogee had already been moving in this direction with considerable success; their only game to rival Commander Keen in sales during 1991 had been Duke Nukum by Todd Replogle, whose titular protagonist was a cigar-chomping Arnold Schwarzenegger facsimile with a machine gun almost as big around as his biceps. When Miller saw Wolfenstein 3D for the first time, he loved the violence as much as he did John Carmack’s pseudo-3D graphics engine. He knew what his customers craved, and he knew that they would swoon over this. He convinced the id boys to make enough levels to release a free episode followed by five paid ones rather than the usual two. On May 5, 1992 — the very same day on which the boys had handed the final version to Miller — the free installment appeared on Software Creations, Apogee’s new online service.
As it happened, Paul Neurath’s Blue Sky Productions had released their own immersive first-person 3D game, which had spent roughly five times as long in production as Wolfenstein 3D, just two months before. It was called Ultima Underworld, and was published as a boxed product by Origin Systems. It boasted a far more complete implementation of a 3D world than did id’s creation. You could look up, down, and all around; could jump and climb ledges; could sneak around corners and hide in shadows; could swim in rivers or fly through the air by means of a levitation spell. But Ultima Underworld was cerebral, old school — dull, as the id boys and many of their fan base saw it. Combat was only a part of its challenge. You also had to spend your time piecing together clues, collecting spells, solving puzzles, annotating maps, leveling up and assigning statistics and skills to your character. Even the combat happened at a speed most kindly described as “stately” if you didn’t have a cutting-edge computer.
Wolfenstein 3D, by contrast, ran like greased lightning on just about any computer, thanks to John Carmack’s willingness to excise any element from his graphics engine that he couldn’t render quickly. After all, the id boys really only wanted to watch the blood spurt as they mowed down Nazis; “just run over everything and destroy” was their stated design philosophy. And many others, it seemed, agreed with their point of view.
For, while Ultima Underworld became a substantial hit, Wolfenstein 3D became a phenomenon. It made $200,000 in the first month, then kept selling at that pace for the next eighteen months. It was, as Scott Miller would later put it, a “paradigm shift” in shareware games. Whatever that elusive “it” was that so many gamers found to be missing in the big boxed offerings — immediacy? simplicity? violence? id in the Freudian sense? all of the above? — Wolfenstein 3D had it in spades.
The shareware barbarians were truly at the gates now; they could no longer be ignored by the complacent organs of the establishment. This time out, id got a feature review in Computer Gaming World to go along with the full-page color advertisements which Apogee was now able to pay for. “I can’t remember a game making such effective use of perspective and sound and thereby evoking such intense physiological responses from its player,” the review concluded. “I recommend gamers take a look at this one, if only for a cheap peek at part of interactive entertainment’s potential for a sensory-immersed ‘virtual’ future.”
Yet, as that “if only” qualifier intimates, the same magazine was clearly bothered by all of the gleefully gory violence of the game. An editorial by editor-in-chief Johnny Wilson, the former pastor who had built Computer Gaming World into the most thoughtful and mature journal in the industry, drove the point home: “What are we saying when we depict lifelike carnage in a game where the design is geared for you to kill nearly everyone you encounter?”
If Wilson thought id’s first 3D shooter was disturbing, he hadn’t seen anything yet. Their next game would up the ante on the violence and gore even as their first competitors jumped into the act, starting a contest to see who could be most extreme. Everyone working in games or playing them would soon have to reckon with the changes — distributional, technical, and cultural — which a burgeoning new genre, born on the streets instead of in the halls of power, was wreaking.
(Sources: the books Masters of Doom by David Kushner, Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D by Fabien Sanglard, Principles of Three-Dimensional Computer Animation by Michael O’Rourke, Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer by Steven Weyhrich, and I Am Error by Nathan Altice; PC Magazine of September 12 1989; InfoWorld of June 12 1989; Retro Gamer 75; Game Developer premiere issue and issues of June 1994 and February/March 1995; Computer Gaming World of August 1991, January 1992, August 1992, and September 1992; The Computist 88; inCider of November 1989. Online sources include “Apogee: Where Wolfenstein Got Its Start” by Chris Plante at Polygon, “Rocket Jump: Quake and the Golden Era of First-Person Shooters” by David L. Craddock at Shack News, Samuel Stoddard’s Apogee FAQ, Benj Edwards’s interview with Scott Miller for Game Developer, Jeremy Peels’s interview with John Romero for PC Games N, Lode Vandevenne’s explanation of the Wolfenstein 3D rendering engine, and Jay Wilbur’s old Usenet posts, which can now be accessed via Google Groups.
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Feminine hygiene options have been moving beyond just pads and tampons – and the menstrual disc is the latest alternative to join newer innovations like the menstrual cup and period pants. These two methods, together with the sponge and the practice of free bleeding, have rightly opened up the options available to women and people who menstruate.
Although some of these options have been on the market for more than a decade, we've definitely seen the conversation around menstruation get louder, bolder and less embarrassed (as it should be), with social media helping women to access more resources and platforms to discuss the options open to them. But along with finding something that's comfortable to us and our lifestyle, many of us are conscious about the impact our cycle can have on the planet, and are therefore we're seeking out solutions that are sustainable, too.
What is the menstrual disc?
It shares its function (collecting period blood) and material (medical-grade silicone) with the menstrual cup but differs slightly in shape. It is more elongated, with a much shorter base than the cup. However it's usually equipped with a double rim that's more rigid and designed to prevent leakage. And some models come with a ribbed bottom to make removal a little easier.
How to use the menstrual disc?
As with the cup, learning to insert the menstrual disc is a process and, as such, requires some learning time. Inserting it is divided into the following steps:
Squeeze the central part with your index finger and thumb until it has a figure eight shape.
Insert it with the top side up and the cupped end closest to the hole.
Push it gently with one finger behind your pelvic bone.
To make sure it is well positioned and will not leak, you can run your finger along the top of it.
To remove it, simply insert your finger, hook it under the rim and pull it out by gently.
What is the difference between the menstrual cup and the menstrual disc?
The menstrual disc is generally more comfortable to wear when having penetrative sex since the shape is shallower
It can offer a better alternative for women who have a shorter cervix (and do not feel comfortable with the cup) or a weakened pelvic floor.
Where and how to insert them also differs. While the menstrual cup sits very close to the vaginal entrance and creates a vacuum, the disc sits below the cervix. And that means that they also have a different removal process.
Many people find the menstrual disc messier as it's more difficult to keep it level and stop the blood from spilling out, so make sure you're over the toilet when you remove it. Plus it doesn't have a stem, like the menstrual cup, to grab onto when removing, which can make it trickier.
The lifespan of each product is a little different, too. It depends on the manufacturer, but in general, a cup can be used for up to 10 years but, while a menstrual disc can be used for 2 years. Even so, both work out cheaper and better for the planet than single-use products.
Variety: there are currently many brands and designs of menstrual cups available on the market, but there are less options when it comes to menstrual discs.
However, they also share certain characteristics:
Both need to be sterilised before and after each use.
Both can be kept in for between 8 and 12 hours, depending on the amount of flow of each person and the model of the disc or cup.
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The best menstrual discs to buy now:
1. Lumma
One of the most affordable models is the Lumma disc. Aesthetically it stands out for its multicolour tie-dye design, but its the ease of use that makes it one of the most popular models of discs, especially among new users since it has a silicone string incorporated in its design to make insertion and removal easier.
It is available in 3 sizes: S, M and L (depending on the height of the cervix).
It can be worn for up to 12 hours.
It is very comfortable.
It has an affordable price, similar to menstrual cups.
Save when you shop with these Amazon promo codes.
The Ziggy Cup from Swedish brand Intimina is one of the pioneers. It is characterised by its hexagonal textured surface, designed for easy removal, and a petal shape, to do the same with the placement.
Available in two sizes: A and B.
Up to 8 hours of protection.
It has a double rim, which prevents leakage.
Recommended for light to medium flow.
Can be used for 2 years.
Its price can be a little higher.
Intimina Ziggy Cup 2
Save when you shop with these Amazon promo codes.
3. Softdisc
Although less environmentally friendly than reusable ones, it is also possible to find single-use menstrual discs. Softdiscs are the best-rated on platforms like Amazon, where they have more than 17,000 reviews and an average score of 4.4 out of 5.
They can be worn for up to 12 hours.
They are disposable.
They have a smaller capacity.
Save when you shop with these Amazon promo codes.
This feature originally appeared on GLAMOUR Spain.
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VENICE, CA, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Red Dot Awards, an internationally recognized competition in search of outstanding design achievements and product innovations, recently named The Flex Co. the winner of three awards. For over 60 years, the "Red Dot" award for product design has been highly sought out by companies due to its prestige and credible endorsement. It is the global seal of quality for good design.
The Red Dot Jury consists of an independent panel of 48 experts from 23 countries who assess each product and use their expertise to identify the year's best and most innovative products. Products selected offer functionality, beautiful aesthetics, innovation, and exemplify outstanding design as their universal factor.
"In this year of the competition, I have been particularly struck by the exceptional creativity shown by the award-winning products," said Professor Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of Red Dot."It is really impressive and praiseworthy that there are still designs out there that can surprise us with their form and functionality. This makes it clear that design cannot be restricted or brought to a standstill by unfavorable circumstances. On the contrary: more and more new ideas and creations emerge, and futuristic techniques are developed. The fact that the quality of these products equals their level of innovation makes them well-deserved winners in the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2022."
The Flex Co. created a new category of sustainable menstrual care products that can be worn comfortably for up to 12 hours and produces less waste than traditional tampons and pads. The award-winning Flex products are made of hypoallergenic, body-safe, 100% medical-grade materials and do not disrupt vaginal PH. Manufactured in Canada, Flex products are made without BPA, phthalates, or natural rubber latex.
Flex Plant+ Disc, awarded in the Personal Care, Wellness and Beauty category, is the first and only plant-based disposable menstrual disc on the market. It is also the only plant-based medical device that can be safely worn inside the body for up to 12 hours.
Flex Reusable Disc, awarded in both the Innovative Products and Personal Care, Wellness and Beauty categories, is the only zero-waste disc engineered to be as easy to insert and remove as the best-selling Flex Disc. As an alternative to tampons, Flex Reusable Disc is the world's first 100% reusable menstrual disc made from a dual silicone construction that provides all-day comfort and 12-hour leak protection, with a patented beginner-friendly notch that makes insertion easy.
"We are thrilled to be given these prestigious awards. It is an honor of a lifetime to have the Red Dot Jury recognize Flex for setting new standards in our category," says Lauren Schulte Wang, Founder and CEO of The Flex Co. "Being presented with this award validates our commitment to R&D and creating truly innovative, sustainable, life-changing products for our Uterati community."
Roughly 20,000 design professionals, companies, and organizations globally take part in hopes of receiving a distinction and being named one of the best in the world. Past winners include Apple, Braun, Google, LG Electronics, and Sony. Flex products will be showcased in the Red Dot Design Museum on the Zollverein UNESCO world heritage site in Essen, Germany from June 2022 to May 2023.
For more information or to access high-res images, visit theFlex Newsroom.
About The Flex Co.
The Flex Co. is the top-selling sustainable period care brand known for creating highly differentiated, innovative products. Their patented product portfolio, including Flex Disc™, Flex Cup™, Flex Reusable Disc™, Flex Plant+ Disc™, Softdisc®, and Softcup®, is sold in nearly 30,000 retailers in the United States. Based in Venice, California, The Flex Co. is FDA-registered and is the sole designer of its products, which are manufactured in the United States and Canada. Learn more at Flexfits.com, and join our #uterati customer community onInstagram,TikTok, andFacebook.
About the Red Dot Design Award
The Red Dot Design Award is one of the biggest design competitions in the world. In three disciplines, participants submit products, communication projects and brands as well as prototypes and concepts. The distinction "Red Dot" is an internationally recognized seal of excellent design.
SOURCE The Flex Co.
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This is a picture from 1997 after a hardcore Quake1 deathmatch session with my friend Noel Stephens at Ion Storm (the 30th floor, a year before we moved up to the 55th floor). The rule that I created (back at id Software with my friend Shawn Green) was that if you got beaten in a deathmatch your opponent could go absolutely nuts and degrade you and you had to just sit back and take it. So after our insane deathmatching session in which Noel beat me down, I went freaknuts and grabbed my keyboard and started screaming and chopping at the legs of my computer table - and hacked at the leg until it folded up and the table fell down. Then Noel ran over and started yelling at me calling me all kinds of names and I had to just suck it down. I subsequently did this to the table my computers were on and the entire table and computers, monitors, etc. all slid crashing to the floor. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of that mess. :)
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Noida-headquartered UPS manufacturer Best Power Equipments India Pvt. Ltd (BPE) has won the Indian UPS Manufacturer 2020 awards at the 28th Soft Disk (SD) awards.
The award has been provided by the Soft Disk after conducting in-depth surveys of the power electronics industry and then felicitates them. In the survey, BPE's entire range of Online UPS Systems earned 91 per cent satisfaction levels with A++ ratings, found the best in SD Users' Satisfaction Survey, 2019.
The company also won the category of SD’s No. 2, Indian Power Electronic Company of the year award.
Commenting on winning the award, Amitansu Satpathy, Managing Director, Best Power Equipments India Pvt. Ltd (BPE) said that, “we have always strived to provide energy saving applications at very affordable costs. Thanks to our customers who have shown continuous faith in our brand. We’ll keep working to reach the satisfaction level of each and every customer in the coming years.”
He further added that “this year due to COVID-19, the industry has seen a drop in the volumes. I would like to say that we, as a company, saw an increase in online UPS sales growth of 20 per cent. We witnessed an increasing demand for 10kVA to 120kVA UPSs.”
In India, BPE's UPS has a strong presence amongst OEMs with 11 branches and 350+ employees across the country with a network of more than 300 channel partners. The company is selling large numbers of UPS in India every month.
The company, established in 2000, has strategically expanded, by providing power solutions for IT, Industrial & Critical equipment, telecom, data centres not only in India across the world through manufacturing products at its Noida facility. The product range includes Line Interactive UPS, Single Phase Online UPS, Three Phase Online UPS, Rack Mount/ Modular UPS and Solar Inverter and IDU.
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AU - Koeze, D.J.
PY - 2022
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N2 - This thesis considers the mechanical properties of amorphous solids such as foams, emulsions, and granular media. Each of these systems consists of “particles” (bubbles, droplets, grains) in a dense, disordered structure. As a system is compressed, it eventually forms enough contacts between particles that it can support a load, including shearing stresses. We say that it has jammed. A major theoretical challenge is to describe material properties in the vicinity of this non-equilibrium phase transition. Jamming has been widely studied in the context of a specific model, namely non- Brownian packings of soft frictionless disks or spheres. The particles repel when they overlap, and otherwise do not interact. They come in two distinct sizes to prevent crystallization; by convention the concentration and diameter ratio of the species are fixed to specific values. Little is known about the nature of the jammed solids that result when these restrictions are lifted. This is a significant knowledge gap, because bubbles, droplets, and grains routinely experience some degree of attraction to their neighbors (e.g. due to depletion interactions or capillary bridges), and their size distribution can vary considerably. Hence the goal of this thesis is to determine how the soft sphere model jams (i) when the degree of attraction between particles is varied, and (ii) when the size and number ratio of particles in a repulsive bidisperse packing is varied. Attraction.—First, we study how soft particles with an attractive shell become rigid. By analyzing the percolation of rigid clusters of particles, we present evidence for two distinct jamming scenarios. Strongly attractive systems undergo a continuous transition in which rigid clusters grow and ultimately diverge in size at a critical packing fraction. Purely repulsive and weakly attractive systems jam via a first order transition, with no growing cluster size. We further show that the weakly attractive scenario is a finite size effect, so that for any nonzero attraction strength, a sufficiently large system will fall in the strongly attractive universality class. We therefore expect attractive jamming to be generic in the laboratory and in nature. Second, we probe the elasticity of the strongly attractive solid. By treating the jamming point as a critical point, we exploit critical scaling analysis to determine the shear modulus, bulk modulus, and coordination of marginal solids close to the sticky jamming point. We find that each observable differs not just quantitatively but also qualitatively from the purely repulsive case. Size and number ratio.—We systematically map out the jamming transition of 2D bidisperse mixtures of disks in the hard particle limit. The critical volume fraction and multiple structural and mechanical properties all show a rich variation with mixture composition and particle size ratio, and can therefore be tuned by choosing certain mixtures. We identify two local minima in the critical volume fraction, both of which have low structural order; one minimum is close to the widely studied 50:50 mixture of particles with a ratio of radii of 1:1.4. We also identify a region at low size ratios characterized by increased structural order, with a corresponding enhancement in the stiffness.
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In the genre of magazines-on-disk-or-tape, we’ve so far experienced CLOAD (for TRS-80) and CURSOR (for Commodore PET). We could also reasonably count the Softside Adventure of the Month even though that counts more as a single-game subscription service, and we could stretch to include Micro-Fantasy Magazine although no copies of that has ever surfaced and it may have been vaporware.
Softdisk, which started on Apple II in September 1981, is similar but different.
THE BABY ON OUR ELECTRONIC COVER IS SYMBOL OF…
1. THE POTENTIAL OF 1982
2. SOFTDISK IS AN INFANT.
3. THE INFORMATION AGE IS JUST A BABY.
At least in the era we’re talking about, it was almost a “community magazine”. While this is another publication on disk, to get any issues past an initial disk, subscribers would send back their disks to receive a new one. Rather like CLOAD and CURSOR, there were user-written programs:
YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONTRIBUTE PROGRAMS. THEY DON’T HAVE TO BE MAJOR CREATIONS EITHER. WE AWARD COUPONS GOOD FOR FREE ISSUES OF SOFTDISK IF WE USE YOUR CONTRIBUTED PROGRAM.
Rather unlike the other two, there was “magazine-like” content on the disk itself, and some of it was collated directly from those returned disks. Issue 1 had a survey about piracy…
and there were “classifieds”.
A good analogy might be to the various “exchanges” that were popping up in local places. Call-A.P.P.L.E., started in 1978, has the acronym deconstruct to “Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange”. Their publication was not by any means a “magazine on disk” but they still served as an informal community distribution outlet, and plenty of other local groups with no associated magazine at all existed (like Rhode Island in the late 70s and Sydney’s in the late 80s). The difference is that Softdisk was entirely “virtual” — as much as having disks traded back and forth by mail is virtual — not associated with a physical group at its origin locale of Louisiana.
The whole enterprise was the brainchild of Jim Mangham, who wanted to place ads for what he was calling The Harbinger Magazette in the Apple II magazine Softalk (one that was free for Apple users and funded entirely by advertising). Al Tommervik (who ran Softalk) liked the idea enough to agree to be a partner, leading to the magazine being renamed Softdisk to be considered a parallel publication. This ended up being trouble when Softalk went under in 1984 but not Softdisk; Mangham bought back the shares in order to re-separate, although this connection helped jump-start the original subscription numbers.
The subscription service eventually extended to C64 (Loadstar) and PC (Big Blue Disk). The Softdisk family are the most important of the early diskmags, in not just longevity (chugging until the late 90s), but also becoming the launching point for both Apogee and id Software.
Issues 0 (September 1981) through 2 (November 1981) have nothing resembling a game. Issue 3 has a handful, including Keno and a Simon clone, and it also includes Planet of the Robots, essentially Softdisk’s first original game.
In other words, even for someone not interested in adventure games this is an important moment in gaming history.
Dan Tobias describes himself as a “charter member” of the publication and worked off and on for Softdisk, including even in the 2000s when it tried to pivot to being an internet service provider as opposed to a software distributor. This is, as noted earlier, back when no money was involved, but his involvement led to his getting a job in 1984 for the launch of Loadstar, which ended up including a “reprint” of his game Planet of the Robots.
The premise involves a “time warp” having transported you into the future where humans have been wiped out, but the robots that remain aren’t aware this has happened. You start outside a mall which includes a restaurant and clothing store and other things which robots clearly have no need of.
The “humans are all dead, but the robots keep going on” premise makes the game tragic and comedic at the same time. I admit I was originally still expected something styled after Forbidden City with lots of robot combat, especially since the first item I found was a ray gun, but there’s only two moments where there is a “berserk robot” you have to shoot. Otherwise all robots have a force field and can’t be hurt.
Ignoring the mall for the moment, I found a “city hall” with two guards requiring ID, a working subway, a library with a book explaining how to log on to future-Internet and check census data, a “university” which asked about a room number I wanted to see, and a plain destroyed by a bomb blast.
The plain was a small maze that intentionally foils the ability to drop objects (they fall into cracks in the ground) so you just have to wander, but fortunately it is easy to find the only intact structure, a phone booth that has over $100 in cash. The cash can then be toted back to the mall for some shopping.
Some items, like a comic (THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERROBOT) are entirely fluff. The only useful thing to buy is the tie, which lets you get into the restaurant (otherwise a robot stops you). Once in the restaurant, rather like a similar scene in Time Zone, the idea is to order something too expensive and get into trouble. The catch here (or at least thing that makes the puzzle easier) is that everything is too expensive.
This whole sequence land you in jail, but the bars are incredibly fragile and you can just bend your way out, and the guard robots don’t seem to care (I assume the bad maintenance is due to the humans being dead, so this is another moment of tragicomedy). Breaking out of jail lands you near an ID card which you can then use to sneak upstairs in city hall and get some login information and a room number of the university. You can then go over back to the mall and the computer with an Apple X and take it for a test run, getting a door code in the process.
The room number and door code be carted back to the university in order to find a time machine, which can then be used to warp back safely to the 20th century (you actually get to choose exactly when, so if you hate the 80s you can go straight to the 90s, say).
This game was clearly intended as minimal but still managed to eke out some fascinating interaction in the process. The premise of an aging robot civilization was interesting enough in itself to allow the bar-bending puzzle to be simultaneously a moment of puzzle-solving and a moment of tragic world-building at the same time.
Mr. Tobias returned the next month with another text adventure, so we’re not done with him yet.
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File this under, 'You learn something new every day about Shreveport-Bossier!'
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https://townsquare.media/site/181/files/2014/03/favicon.ico
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96.5 KVKI
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File this under, 'You learn something new every day about Shreveport-Bossier!' I was flabbergasted when a friend of mine, who didn't even grow up here, told me today that Lance Armstrong had competed in the River Cities Triathlon. I had to fact-check him immediately. Mind blown! Yes, Lance Armstrong actually swam in Cypress Lake and then biked and ran the roads of Benton, LA back in 1988.
Granted, in 1988 I was still a student at Haughton High and had no idea who Armstrong was at the time, but that's still a pretty big deal! I found confirmation in a Shreveport Times article from 2018 citing Armstrong's River Cities Triathlon record in the men's competition with an overall time of 1:07:11. For a fluffy girl like me, it's insane to think that anyone could swim a half-mile, then bicycle for 18.2 miles, followed by a 3.1 mile run.
Armstrong is best known for winning the Tour de France an incredible seven times before being stripped of his titles due to a doping scandal. Prior to that, Armstrong served as an inspiration to many after beating metastatic testicular cancer and establishing the Livestrong Foundation to aid others in their fight against cancer. It's interesting to note that Armstrong was born just down the road in Richardson, TX and was named after Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Lance Rentzel. Armstrong also dated famous musician Sheryl Crow but is now married to Anna Hansen, whom he met while doing charity work. [Source: Wikipedia]
See? You really do learn something new every day ;)
Read More: Sports Stars from Shreveport
Interesting Facts About Shreveport-Bossier
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https://710keel.com/horace-hoss-logan-a-shreveport-legend/
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Horace “Hoss” Logan: A Shreveport Legend
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Growing up in Monroe, LA Horace Logan Jr. couldn't have had any idea the influence he would have on popular music.
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en
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https://townsquare.media/site/180/files/2015/04/favicon.ico
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News Radio 710 KEEL
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Being born a native Louisianan in Mer Rouge, and raised in nearby Monroe, Horace Logan Jr. couldn't have had any idea the influence he would have on popular music.
Not long after landing in Shreveport, Logan got a job at KWKH (now 1130AM The Tiger) at 16 years old after winning a contest. Even at 16, Horace Logan had a deep and booming voice. After announcing for several years, Logan took over as Program Director at KWKH in 1947. The following year, in 1948 Logan started booking acts for a live music program that would become the famous Louisiana Hayride.
Logan booked talent to play the legendary show, broadcasted live from Shreveport Municipal Auditorium. The Louisiana Hayride began picking up steam, and "Hoss" became something of a star-maker. Logan launched several careers including, Hank Williams, Faron Young, Slim Whitman, Johnny Cash, and of course, Elvis Presley.
One of "Hoss" Logan's claims to fame, (among MANY others) is coining the phrase "Elvis has left the building". After The King's debut on the Louisiana Hayride, the audience was so wild and frenzied that Logan tried to calm the crowd by announcing, "Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building...".
Horace Logan also, greatly helped the career of Hank Williams as well. Hank was a regular on the Hayride when he would tour through Louisiana. Hank later became a regular on the infamous Grand Ole Opry out of Nashville, but was fired after a series of issues stemming from Hank's addiction. Logan welcomed Williams back to the Hayride with open arms after that, and featured the tortured artist until his untimely death.
The amazing Louisiana Hayride unfortunately only lasted two years after Logan's departure from KWKH in 1958. Logan stayed active in entertainment throughout his life, and even ran The Big D Jamboree in Dallas for several years. Logan died of pancreatic cancer in his home in Seadrift, Tex., on San Antonio Bay. He was 86 years old.
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American video game developer
This article is about the video game developer. For the geodata software editor, see iD (software).
id Software LLC ( ) is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack.
id Software made important technological developments in video game technologies for the PC (running MS-DOS and Windows), including work done for the Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake franchises at the time. id's work was particularly important in 3D computer graphics technology and in game engines that are used throughout the video game industry. The company was involved in the creation of the first-person shooter (FPS) genre: Wolfenstein 3D is often considered to be the first true FPS; Doom is a game that popularized the genre and PC gaming in general; and Quake was id's first true 3D FPS.
On June 24, 2009, ZeniMax Media acquired the company. In 2015, they opened a second studio in Frankfurt, Germany.[2]
History
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Formation
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The founders of id Software – John Carmack, John Romero, and Tom Hall – met in the offices of Softdisk developing multiple games for Softdisk's monthly publishing, including Dangerous Dave. Along with another Softdisk employee, Lane Roathe, they had formed a small group they called Ideas from the Deep (IFD), a name that Romero and Roathe had come up with.[3] In September 1990, Carmack developed an efficient way to rapidly side-scroll graphics on the PC. Upon making this breakthrough, Carmack and Hall stayed up late into the night making a replica of the first level of the popular 1988 NES game Super Mario Bros. 3, inserting stock graphics of Romero's Dangerous Dave character in lieu of Mario. When Romero saw the demo, entitled Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement, he realized that Carmack's breakthrough could have potential. The IFD team moonlighted over a week and over two weekends to create a larger demo of their PC version of Super Mario Bros. 3. They sent their work to Nintendo. According to Romero, Nintendo had told them that the demo was impressive, but "they didn't want their intellectual property on anything but their own hardware, so they told us Good Job and You Can't Do This".[4] While the pair had not readily shared the demo though acknowledged its existence in the years since, a working copy of the demo was discovered in July 2021 and preserved at the Museum of Play.[5]
Around the same time in 1990, Scott Miller of Apogee Software learned of the group and their exceptional talent, having played one of Romero's Softdisk games, Dangerous Dave, and contacted Romero under the guise of multiple fan letters that Romero came to realize all originated from the same address.[6][7] When he confronted Miller, Miller explained that the deception was necessary since Softdisk screened letters it received. Although disappointed by not actually having received mail from multiple fans, Romero and other Softdisk developers began proposing ideas to Miller. One of these was Commander Keen, a side-scrolling game that incorporated the previous work they had done on the Super Mario Bros. 3 demonstration.[8] The first Commander Keen game, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, was released through Apogee in December 1990, which became a very successful shareware game. After their first royalty check, Romero, Carmack, and Adrian Carmack (no relation) decided to start their own company.[9] After hiring Hall, the group finished the Commander Keen series, then hired Jay Wilbur and Kevin Cloud and began working on Wolfenstein 3D.[10] id Software was officially founded by Romero, John and Adrian Carmack and Hall on February 1, 1991. The name "id" came out of their previous IFD; Roathe had left the group, and they opted to drop the "F" to leave "id". They initially used "id" as an initialism for "In Demand", but by the time of the fourth Commander Keen game, they opted to let "id" stand out "as a cool word", according to Romero.[3]
The shareware distribution method was initially employed by id Software through Apogee Software to sell their products, such as the Commander Keen, Wolfenstein and Doom games.[9] They would release the first part of their trilogy as shareware, then sell the other two installments by mail order. Only later (about the time of the release of Doom II) did id Software release their games via more traditional shrink-wrapped boxes in stores (through other game publishers).
After Wolfenstein 3D's great success, id began working on Doom. After Hall left the company, Sandy Petersen and Dave Taylor were hired before the release of Doom in December 1993.[10]
The end of the classic lineup
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Quake was released on June 22, 1996 and was considered a difficult game to develop due to creative differences. Animosity grew within the company and it caused a conflict between Carmack and Romero, which led the latter to leave id after the game's release. Soon after, other staff left the company as well such as Michael Abrash, Shawn Green, Jay Wilbur, Petersen and Mike Wilson.[11] Petersen claimed in July 2021 that the lack of a team leader was the cause of it all. In fact, he volunteered to take lead as he had five years of experience as project manager in MicroProse but he was turned down by Carmack.[12]
ZeniMax Media and Microsoft
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On June 24, 2009, it was announced that id Software had been acquired by ZeniMax Media (owner of Bethesda Softworks). The deal would eventually affect publishing deals id Software had before the acquisition, namely Rage, which was being published through Electronic Arts.[13] ZeniMax received in July a $105 million investment from StrongMail Systems for the id acquisition, it's unknown if that was the exact price of the deal.[14][15] id Software moved from the "cube-shaped" Mesquite office to a location in Richardson, Texas during the spring of 2011.[16]
On June 26, 2013, id Software president Todd Hollenshead quit after 17 years of service.[17]
On November 22, 2013, it was announced id Software co-founder and Technical Director John Carmack had fully resigned from the company to work full-time at Oculus VR which he joined as CTO in August 2013.[18][19] He was the last of the original founders to leave the company.
Tim Willits left the company in 2019.[20] ZeniMax Media was acquired by Microsoft for US$7.5 billion in March 2021 and became part of Xbox Game Studios.[21][22]
Company name
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The company writes its name with a lowercase id, which is pronounced as in "did" or "kid", and, according to the book Masters of Doom, the group identified itself as "Ideas from the Deep" in the early days of Softdisk but that, in the end, the name 'id' came from the phrase "in demand".[23] Disliking "in demand" as "lame", someone suggested a connection with Sigmund Freud's psychological concept of id, which the others accepted.[10] Evidence of the reference can be found as early as Wolfenstein 3D with the statement "that's id, as in the id, ego, and superego in the psyche" appearing in the game's documentation. Prior to an update to the website, id's History page made a direct reference to Freud.[24]
Key employees
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Kevin Cloud – Artist (1992–2006), Executive producer (2007–present)
Donna Jackson – Office manager / "id mom" (1994–present)[25][26]
Marty Stratton – Director of Business Development (1997–2006), Executive Producer[27] (2006–present) Studio Director (2019–present)
Hugo Martin – Creative Director[28] (2013–present)
Former key employees
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Arranged in chronological order:
Tom Hall – Co-founder, game designer, level designer, writer, creative director (1991–1993). After a dispute with John Carmack over the designs of Doom, Hall was forced to resign from id Software in August 1993. He joined 3D Realms soon afterwards.
Bobby Prince – Music composer (1991–1994). A freelance musician who went on to pursue other projects after Doom II.
Dave Taylor – Programmer (1993–1996). Taylor left id Software and co-founded Crack dot Com.
John Romero – Co-founder, game designer, programmer (1991–1996). Romero resigned on August 6, 1996.[29] He established Ion Storm along with Hall on November 15, 1996.
Michael Abrash – Programmer (1995–1996). Returned to Microsoft after the release of Quake, but eventually worked with Carmack again at Reality Labs.
Shawn Green – Software support (1991–1996). Left id Software to join Romero at Ion Storm.
Jay Wilbur – Business manager (1991–1997). Left id Software after Romero's departure and joined Epic Games in 1997.
Sandy Petersen – Level designer (1993–1997). Left id Software for Ensemble Studios in 1997.
Mike Wilson – PR and marketing (1994–1997). Left id Software to become CEO of Ion Storm with Romero. Left a year later to found Gathering of Developers and later Devolver Digital.
American McGee – Level designer (1993–1998). McGee was fired after the release of Quake II. He joined Electronic Arts and created American McGee's Alice.
Adrian Carmack – Co-founder, artist (1991–2005). Carmack was forced out of id Software after the release of Doom 3 because he would not sell his stock at a low price to the other owners.[30] Adrian sued id Software and the lawsuit was settled during the Zenimax acquisition in 2009.[31]
Todd Hollenshead – President (1996–2013) Left id Software on good terms to work at Nerve Software.
John Carmack – Co-founder, technical director (1991–2013). He joined Oculus VR on August 7, 2013, as a side project, but unable to handle two companies at the same time, Carmack resigned from id Software on November 22, 2013, to pursue Oculus full-time, making him the last founding member to leave the company.
Tim Willits – Level designer (1995–2001), creative director (2002–2011), studio director (2012–2019)[32] He is now the chief creative officer at Saber Interactive.[33]
Robert Duffy – Chief Technology Officer (1998–2024). Robert left id Software in January 2024.
Timeline
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Game development
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Technology
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Starting with their first shareware game series, Commander Keen, id Software has licensed the core source code for the game, or what is more commonly known as the engine. Brainstormed by John Romero, id Software held a weekend session titled "The id Summer Seminar" in the summer of 1991 with prospective buyers including Scott Miller, George Broussard, Ken Rogoway, Jim Norwood and Todd Replogle. One of the nights, id Software put together an impromptu game known as "Wac-Man" to demonstrate not only the technical prowess of the Keen engine, but also how it worked internally.
id Software has developed their own game engine for each of their titles when moving to the next technological milestone, including Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, ShadowCaster,[34] Doom, Quake, Quake II, and Quake III, as well as the technology used in making Doom 3. After being used first for id Software's in-house game, the engines are licensed out to other developers. According to Eurogamer.net, "id Software has been synonymous with PC game engines since the concept of a detached game engine was first popularized". During the mid to late 1990s, "the launch of each successive round of technology it's been expected to occupy a headlining position", with the Quake III engine being most widely adopted of their engines. However id Tech 4 had far fewer licensees than the Unreal Engine from Epic Games, due to the long development time that went into Doom 3 which id Software had to release before licensing out that engine to others.
Despite his enthusiasm for open source code, Carmack revealed in 2011 that he had no interest in licensing the technology to the mass market. Beginning with Wolfenstein 3D, he felt bothered when third-party companies started "pestering" him to license the id tech engine, adding that he wanted to focus on new technology instead of providing support to existing ones. He felt very strongly that this was not why he signed up to be a game programmer for; to be "holding the hands" of other game developers. Carmack commended Epic Games for pursuing the licensing to the market beginning with Unreal Engine 3. Even though the said company has gained more success with its game engine than id Software over the years, Carmack had no regrets by his decision and continued to focus on open source until his departure from the company in 2013.[35]
In conjunction with his self-professed affinity for sharing source code, John Carmack has open-sourced most of the major id Software engines under the GNU General Public License. Historically, the source code for each engine has been released once the code base is 5 years old. Consequently, many home grown projects have sprung up porting the code to different platforms, cleaning up the source code, or providing major modifications to the core engine. Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake engine ports are ubiquitous to nearly all platforms capable of running games, such as hand-held PCs, iPods, the PSP, the Nintendo DS and more. Impressive core modifications include GZDoom,[36][37] which adds to the Doom engine modern hardware accelerared renderers and a scripting system called ZScript, and was also utilized in the creation of ECWolf for Wolfenstein 3D[38][39] and Raze for the Build engine.[40] Meanwhile DarkPlaces adds stencil shadow volumes into the original Quake engine along with a more efficient network protocol.[41][42] Other projects include Yamagi Quake II,[43] ioquake3,[44][45] and dhewm3,[46] which maintain the goal of cleaning up the source code, adding features and fixing bugs. Even earlier id Software code, namely for Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3D, was released in June 2014 by Flat Rock Software.[47]
The GPL release of the Quake III engine's source code was moved from the end of 2004 to August 2005 as the engine was still being licensed to commercial customers who would otherwise be concerned over the sudden loss in value of their recent investment.
On August 4, 2011, John Carmack revealed during his QuakeCon 2011 keynote that they will be releasing the source code of the Doom 3 engine (id Tech 4) during the year.[48]
id Software publicly stated they would not support the Wii console (possibly due to technical limitations),[49] although they have since indicated that they may release titles on that platform (although it would be limited to their games released during the 1990s).[50] They continued this policy with the Wii U but for Nintendo Switch, they collaborated with Panic Button starting with 2016's Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
Since id Software revealed their engine id Tech 5, they call their engines "id Tech", followed by a version number.[51] Older engines have retroactively been renamed to fit this scheme, with the Doom engine as id Tech 1.
IMF Music File Format
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IMF ("id music file" or "id's music format") is an audio file format created by id Software for the AdLib sound card for use in their video games.[52] The format is similar to MIDI, in that it defines musical notes, and does not support sampled digital audio for sound effects. IMF files store the actual bytes sent to the AdLib's OPL2 chip, which uses FM synthesis to produce audio output. The format is based on the AdLib command syntax, with a few modifications. Due to the limited features and relatively low sound quality, modern games no longer use IMF music.
A large number of songs in id Software's early games (such as Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D) were composed by Bobby Prince in IMF format. Other game developers like Apogee Software also used this format in their games (such as Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Duke Nukem II, and Monster Bash).
Linux gaming
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id Software was an early pioneer in the Linux gaming market,[53] and id Software's Linux games have been some of the most popular of the platform. Many id Software games won the Readers' and Editors' Choice awards of Linux Journal.[54][55][56][57] Some id Software titles ported to Linux are Doom (the first id Software game to be ported), Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Doom 3, Quake 4, and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Since id Software and some of its licensees released the source code for some of their previous games, several games which were not ported (such as Catacomb 3D, Catacomb Abyss, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, Blake Stone: Planet Strike, Super 3D Noah's Ark, Rise of the Triad, Doom 64, Strife, Heretic, Hexen, Hexen II, Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force Holomatch, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy) can run on Linux and other operating systems natively through the use of source ports. Quake Live also launched with Linux support, although this, alongside OS X support, was later removed when changed to a standalone title.[58]
The tradition of porting to Linux was first started by Dave D. Taylor, with Zoid Kirsch doing some later porting.[59] Since Quake III Arena, Linux porting had been handled by Timothee Besset. The majority of all id Tech 4 games, including those made by other developers, have a Linux client available, the only current exceptions being Wolfenstein and Brink. Similarly, almost all of the games utilizing the Quake II engine have Linux ports, the only exceptions being those created by Ion Storm (Daikatana later received a community port). Despite fears by the Linux gaming community that id Tech 5 would not be ported to that platform,[60] Timothee Besset in his blog stated "I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done".[61] Besset explained that id Software's primary justification for releasing Linux builds was better code quality, along with a technical interest in the platform. However, on January 26, 2012, Besset announced that he had left id.[62]
John Carmack has expressed his stance with regard to Linux builds in the past.[63] In December 2000 Todd Hollenshead expressed support for Linux: "All said, we will continue to be a leading supporter of the Linux platform because we believe it is a technically sound OS and is the OS of choice for many server ops."[64] However, on April 25, 2012, Carmack revealed that "there are no plans for a native Linux client" of id's most recent game, Rage.[65] In February 2013, Carmack argued for improving emulation as the "proper technical direction for gaming on Linux", though this was also due to ZeniMax's refusal to support "unofficial binaries", given all prior ports (except for Quake III Arena, via Loki Software, and earlier versions of Quake Live) having only ever been unofficial.[66] Carmack didn't mention official games Quake: The Offering and Quake II: Colossus ported by id Software to Linux and published by Macmillan Computer Publishing USA.[67]
Despite no longer releasing native binaries, id was an early adopter of Stadia, a cloud gaming service powered by Debian Linux servers, and the cross-platform Vulkan API.[68][69] A Linux version of Doom from 2016 was tested internally,[70] while it and its sequel Doom Eternal can be run using Wine and Proton.[71][72]
Games
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Commander Keen
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Main article: Commander Keen
Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, a platform game in the style of those for the Nintendo Entertainment System, was one of the first MS-DOS games with smooth horizontal-scrolling. Published by Apogee Software, the title and follow-ups brought id Software success as a shareware developer. It is the series of id Software that designer Tom Hall is most affiliated with.[citation needed] The first Commander Keen trilogy was released on December 14, 1990.
Wolfenstein
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Main article: Wolfenstein (series)
The company's breakout product was released on May 5, 1992: Wolfenstein 3D, a first-person shooter (FPS) with smooth 3D graphics that were unprecedented in computer games, and with violent gameplay that many gamers found engaging. After essentially founding an entire genre with this game, id Software created Doom, Doom II: Hell on Earth, Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Quake 4, and Doom 3. Each of these first-person shooters featured progressively higher levels of graphical technology. Wolfenstein 3D spawned a prequel and a sequel: the prequel called Spear of Destiny, and the second, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, using the id Tech 3 engine. A third Wolfenstein sequel, simply titled Wolfenstein, was released by Raven Software, using the id Tech 4 engine. Another sequel, named Wolfenstein: The New Order; was developed by MachineGames using the id Tech 5 engine and released in 2014, with it getting a prequel by the name of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood a year later; followed by a direct sequel titled Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in 2017.
Doom
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Main article: Doom (franchise)
Eighteen months after their release of Wolfenstein 3D, on December 10, 1993, id Software released Doom which would again set new standards for graphic quality and graphic violence in computer gaming. Doom featured a sci-fi/horror setting with graphic quality that had never been seen on personal computers or even video game consoles. Doom became a cultural phenomenon and its violent theme would eventually launch a new wave of criticism decrying the dangers of violence in video games. Doom was ported to numerous platforms, inspired many knock-offs, and was eventually followed by the technically similar Doom II: Hell on Earth. id Software made its mark in video game history with the shareware release of Doom, and eventually revisited the theme of this game in 2004 with their release of Doom 3. John Carmack said in an interview at QuakeCon 2007 that there would be a Doom 4. It began development on May 7, 2008.[73] Doom 2016, the fourth installation of the Doom series, was released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on May 13, 2016, and was later released on Nintendo Switch on November 10, 2017. In June 2018, the sequel to the 2016 Doom, Doom Eternal was officially announced at E3 2018 with a teaser trailer, followed by a gameplay reveal at QuakeCon in August 2018.[74][75]
Quake
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Main article: Quake (series)
On June 22, 1996, the release of Quake marked the third milestone in id Software history. Quake combined a cutting edge fully 3D engine, the Quake engine, with a distinctive art style to create critically acclaimed graphics for its time. Audio was not neglected either, having recruited Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor to facilitate unique sound effects and ambient music for the game. (A small homage was paid to Nine Inch Nails in the form of the band's logo appearing on the ammunition boxes for the nailgun weapon.) It also included the work of Michael Abrash. Furthermore, Quake's main innovation, the capability to play a deathmatch (competitive gameplay between living opponents instead of against computer-controlled characters) over the Internet (especially through the add-on QuakeWorld), seared the title into the minds of gamers as another smash hit.
In 2008, id Software was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for the pioneering work Quake represented in user modifiable games.[76] id Software is the only game development company ever honored twice by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, having been given an Emmy Award in 2007 for creation of the 3D technology that underlies modern shooter video games.[77]
The Quake series continued with Quake II in 1997. Activision purchased a 49% stake in id Software, making it a second party which took publishing duties until 2009. However, the game is not a storyline sequel, and instead focuses on an assault on an alien planet, Stroggos, in retaliation for Strogg attacks on Earth. Most of the subsequent entries in the Quake franchise follow this storyline. Quake III Arena (1999), the next title in the series, has minimal plot, but centers around the "Arena Eternal", a gladiatorial setting created by an alien race known as the Vadrigar and populated by combatants plucked from various points in time and space. Among these combatants are some characters either drawn from or based on those in Doom ("Doomguy"), Quake (Ranger, Wrack), and Quake II (Bitterman, Tank Jr., Grunt, Stripe). Quake IV (2005) picks up where Quake II left off – finishing the war between the humans and Strogg. The spin-off Enemy Territory: Quake Wars acts as a prequel to Quake II, when the Strogg first invade Earth. Quake IV and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars were made by outside developers and not id.
There have also been other spin-offs such as Quake Mobile[broken anchor] in 2005 and Quake Live, an internet browser based modification of Quake III. A game called Quake Arena DS was planned and canceled for the Nintendo DS. John Carmack stated, at QuakeCon 2007, that the id Tech 5 engine would be used for a new Quake game.
Rage
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Main article: Rage (video game)
Todd Hollenshead announced in May 2007 that id Software had begun working on an all new series that would be using a new engine. Hollenshead also mentioned that the title would be completely developed in-house, marking the first game since 2004's Doom 3 to be done so.[78] At 2007's WWDC, John Carmack showed the new engine called id Tech 5.[79] Later that year, at QuakeCon 2007, the title of the new game was revealed as Rage.[80]
On July 14, 2008, id Software announced at the 2008 E3 event that they would be publishing Rage through Electronic Arts, and not id's longtime publisher Activision.[81] However, since then ZeniMax has also announced that they are publishing Rage through Bethesda Softworks.[82]
On August 12, 2010, during Quakecon 2010, id Software announced Rage US ship date of September 13, 2011, and a European ship date of September 15, 2011.[83] During the keynote, id Software also demonstrated a Rage spin-off title running on the iPhone.[84] This technology demo later became Rage HD. The game was ultimately released in October 2011.[85]
On May 14, 2018, Bethesda Softworks announced Rage 2, a co-development between id Software and Avalanche Studios.
Other games
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During its early days, id Software produced much more varied games; these include the early 3D first-person shooter experiments that led to Wolfenstein 3D and Doom – Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3D. There was also the Rescue Rover series, which had two games – Rescue Rover and Rescue Rover 2. Also there was John Romero's Dangerous Dave series, which included such notables as the tech demo (In Copyright Infringement) which led to the Commander Keen engine, and the decently popular Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion. In the Haunted Mansion was powered by the same engine as the earlier id Software game Shadow Knights, which was one of the several games written by id Software to fulfill their contractual obligation to produce games for Softdisk, where the id Software founders had been employed. id Software has also overseen several games using its technology that were not made in one of their IPs such as ShadowCaster, (early-id Tech 1), Heretic, Hexen: Beyond Heretic (id Tech 1), Hexen II (Quake engine), and Orcs and Elves (Doom RPG engine).
Other media
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id Software has also published novels based on the Doom series Doom novels. After a brief hiatus from publishing, id resumed and re-launched the novel series in 2008 with Matthew J. Costello's (a story consultant for Doom 3 and now Rage) new Doom 3 novels: Worlds on Fire and Maelstrom.
id Software became involved in film development when they oversaw the film adaption of their Doom franchise in 2005. In August 2007, Todd Hollenshead stated at QuakeCon 2007 that a Return to Castle Wolfenstein movie is in development which re-teams the Silent Hill writer/producer team, Roger Avary as writer and director and Samuel Hadida as producer. A new Doom film, titled Doom: Annihilation, was released in 2019, although id itself stressed its lack of involvement.[86]
Controversy
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id Software was the target of controversy over two of their most popular games, Doom and the earlier Wolfenstein 3D. More recently in 2022, id Software found themselves mired in a controversy concerning libel against Doom Eternal's composer.
Doom
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Doom was notorious for its high levels of gore[87] and occultism along with satanic imagery, which generated controversy from a broad range of groups. Yahoo! Games listed it as one of the top ten most controversial games of all time.[88]
The game again sparked controversy throughout a period of school shootings in the United States when it was found that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who committed the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, were avid players of the game. While planning for the massacre, Harris said that the killing would be "like playing Doom", and "it'll be like the LA riots, the Oklahoma bombing, World War II, Vietnam, Duke Nukem and Doom all mixed together", and that his shotgun was "straight out of the game".[89] A rumor spread afterwards that Harris had designed a Doom level that looked like the high school, populated with representations of Harris's classmates and teachers, and that Harris practiced for his role in the shootings by playing the level over and over. Although Harris did design Doom levels, none of them were based on Columbine High School.[90]
While Doom and other violent video games have been blamed for nationally covered school shootings, 2008 research featured by Greater Good Science Center[91] shows that the two are not closely related. Harvard Medical School researchers Cheryl Olson and Lawrence Kutner found that violent video games did not correlate to school shootings. The United States Secret Service and United States Department of Education analyzed 37 incidents of school violence and sought to develop a profile of school shooters; they discovered that the most common traits among shooters were that they were male and had histories of depression and attempted suicide. While many of the killers—like the vast majority of young teenage boys—did play video games, this study did not find a relationship between gameplay and school shootings. In fact, only one-eighth of the shooters showed any special interest in violent video games, far less than the number of shooters who seemed attracted to books and movies with violent content.[92]
Wolfenstein 3D
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As for Wolfenstein 3D, due to its use of Nazi symbols such as the swastika and the anthem of the Nazi Party, Horst-Wessel-Lied, as theme music, the PC version of the game was withdrawn from circulation in Germany in 1994, following a verdict by the Amtsgericht München on January 25, 1994. Despite the fact that Nazis are portrayed as the enemy in Wolfenstein, the use of those symbols is a federal offense in Germany unless certain circumstances apply. Similarly, the Atari Jaguar version was confiscated following a verdict by the Amtsgericht Berlin Tiergarten on December 7, 1994. The Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle lifted the outright ban in 2018 in favor of analysing depictions on a case-by-case basis, and the international version of the game was removed from the list of banned titles in 2019.[93][94]
Due to concerns from Nintendo of America, the Super NES version was modified to not include any swastikas or Nazi references; furthermore, blood was replaced with sweat to make the game seem less violent, and the attack dogs in the game were replaced by giant mutant rats. Employees of id Software are quoted in The Official DOOM Player Guide about the reaction to Wolfenstein, claiming it to be ironic that it was morally acceptable to shoot people and rats, but not dogs. Two new weapons were added as well. The Super NES version was not as successful as the PC version.[citation needed] [95]
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In May 2020, after the Doom Eternal Original Soundtrack was released,[96] there was a serious backlash to the Doom Eternal OST and accusations of low quality work that did not match composer Mick Gordon's usual standards. On April 19, Gordon confirmed on Twitter that it was not his work, and Marty Stratton subsequently posted on May 20 a 2,500-word open letter[98] on Reddit blaming Gordon for everything that went wrong with the process of creating music for the soundtrack.[98] Following this, public outcry against Gordon reached a level where he received explicit death threats and graphic messages of intent to harm him and his family. Gordon's message accounts, servers, and phones were allegedly inundated with abuse to extreme levels, seriously impacting his mental health.[99]
On November 9, 2022, Mick published a 14,000-word article on Medium[100] explaining his side of the story as a defensive rebuttal of the nine outlined accusations in Stratton's post (described as "an extensive series of lies"), substantiated with various forms of evidence including photographs of emails, receipts, and file metadata to verify his claims.[101][99][102] It included claims that Gordon had yet to receive over half of his payment for his work and awards from the soundtrack's nominations at The Game Awards 2020 Stratton had reportedly claimed to deliver on Gordon's behalf; that his name had been listed on the OST's pre-order for weeks before Bethesda had contracted him to work on it just 48 hours before the game's release; Mossholder had been composing an alternate version of the OST as early as August 2019, and in response to request from Gordon's lawyers for Stratton's Reddit post to be removed, Gordon was offered six figures in exchange for a lifetime gag order, but never the possibility of Stratton's defamatory post being removed.[100]
On November 16, 2022, Bethesda released a statement backing Marty Stratton, Chad Mossholder, and everyone in the id software team. Their statement further claimed that they had evidence to rebut Gordon's claims, without releasing mentioned evidence, and expressed concern that his statement enticed harassment and violence towards the team.[103]
People
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In 2003, the book Masters of Doom chronicled the development of id Software, concentrating on the personalities and interaction of John Carmack and John Romero. Below are the key people involved with id's success.
John Carmack
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Main article: John Carmack
Carmack's skill at 3D programming is widely recognized in the software industry and from its inception, he was id's lead programmer. On August 7, 2013, he joined Oculus VR, a company developing virtual reality headsets, and left id Software on November 22, 2013.[19]
John Romero
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Main article: John Romero
John Romero saw the horizontal scrolling demo Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement and immediately had the idea to form id Software on September 20, 1990.[104] Romero pioneered the game engine licensing business with his "id Summer Seminar" in 1991 where the Keen4 engine was licensed to Apogee for Biomenace.[105] John also worked closely with the DOOM community and was the face of id to its fans. One success of this engagement was the fan-made game Final DOOM, published in 1996.[106] John also created the control scheme for the FPS, and the abstract level design style of DOOM that influenced many 3D games that came after it.[107] John added par times to Wolfenstein 3D, and then DOOM, which started the phenomenon of Speedrunning.[108] Romero wrote almost all the tools that enabled id Software and many others to develop games with id Software's technology.[109] Romero was forced to resign in 1996 after the release of Quake, then later formed the company Ion Storm. There, he became infamous through the development of Daikatana, which was received negatively from reviewers and gamers alike upon release. Afterward, Romero co-founded The Guildhall in Dallas, Texas,[110] served as chairman of the CPL eSports league,[111] created an MMORPG publisher and developer named Gazillion Entertainment,[111] created a hit Facebook game named Ravenwood Fair that garnered 25 million monthly players in 2011,[112] and started Romero Games in Galway, Ireland in 2015.[113]
Both Tom Hall and John Romero have reputations as designers and idea men who have helped shape some of the key PC gaming titles of the 1990s.
Tom Hall
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Main article: Tom Hall
Tom Hall was forced to resign by id Software during the early days of Doom development, but not before he had some impact; for example, he was responsible for the inclusion of teleporters in the game. He was let go before the shareware release of Doom and then went to work for Apogee, developing Rise of the Triad with the "Developers of Incredible Power". When he finished work on that game, he found he was not compatible with the Prey development team at Apogee, and therefore left to join his ex-id Software compatriot John Romero at Ion Storm. Hall has frequently commented that if he could obtain the rights to Commander Keen, he would immediately develop another Keen title.
Sandy Petersen
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Main article: Sandy Petersen
Sandy Petersen was a level designer for 19 of the 27 levels in the original Doom title as well as 17 of the 32 levels of Doom II. As a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, his influence is apparent in the Lovecraftian feel of the monsters for Quake, and he created Inferno, the third "episode" of the first Doom. He was forced to resign from id Software during the production of Quake II and most of his work was scrapped before the title was released.
American McGee
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Main article: American McGee
American McGee was a level designer for Doom II, The Ultimate Doom, Quake, and Quake II. He was asked to resign after the release of Quake II, and he then moved to Electronic Arts where he gained industry notoriety with the development of his own game American McGee's Alice. After leaving Electronic Arts, he became an independent entrepreneur and game developer. McGee headed the independent game development studio Spicy Horse in Shanghai, China from 2007 to 2016.
References
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Bibliography
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Kushner, David (2003). Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50524-5.
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