How to train for the Camino de Santiago — fitness plans, footwear advice and preparation guides.
Two pieces of paper define the official Camino experience: the Camino de Santiago pilgrim passport – known as the Credencial del Peregrino – which you carry with you and collect stamps along the route, and the Compostela, the certificate of completion you receive in Santiago. Here’s everything you need to know. What Is the Camino…
The most common training mistake people make before the Camino de Santiago is overcomplicating it. You don’t need a gym programme, a personal trainer, or a six-month plan. What you need is simple: to walk more, to do it in the shoes and pack you’ll be using on the trail, and to build up gradually…
Walking the Camino de Santiago as a solo woman is one of the most common questions I get – and the most common fear is some version of: is it safe? The direct answer is yes. The Camino is one of the safest long-distance walking routes in the world, and solo women walk every major…
Most people who walk the Camino de Santiago solo have the same quiet fear before they leave: will I be lonely? The honest answer is that you almost certainly won’t be – not because the Camino forces socialising on you, but because the trail creates community so naturally and organically that isolation is unlikely to…