With 2024 expected to be the busiest year yet for the Camino de Santiago, travellers should seek out the relatively untrodden 620km Camino from Lisbon. From the hilltop church of Lamas do Vouga, I ...

Pilgrims can choose an optional route when walking the Camino de Santiago Portugués Central. It's called the Variante Espiritual (Spiritual Variant in English) route. I walked it in August 2024, and ...

The news spread like a California wildfire—and it was heard worldwide. There was a run on First Republic Bank, a 37-year San Francisco financial bedrock where I had worked for 13 years. My friend from ...

Why, I ask myself more than once, am I devoutly following bright yellow arrows and shells — walking alone, hiking poles in hand, too-heavy survival pack on my back — into unknown woodlands, farmlands ...

The rain lifts and we walk into a glimmer of afternoon sunlight as we leave Anha for Viana do Castelo, about six kilometres away. Our pilgrim's lunch and accompanying wine are a distant memory. This ...

First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. My wife, Tracy, and I are winding our way along the Portuguese Camino.

This epic, seven-day, 278-kilometre cycle from Porto to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, is unforgettable.Follow The Camino It is not an auspicious start to our Portuguese Camino cycle. A ...

Almost exactly a year ago, my mom and I set off on a landmark adventure in both our lives: Tackling 240km of the Camino Portugues. We shouldered our backpacks and laced up our boots in the Portuguese ...

Kevin Kennywalks the second most popular Camino from Portugal THERE ARE nine Camino routes to Santiago from all over Europe. And while the Camino Frances or French Way, stretching across the north of ...

Almost exactly a year ago, my mom and I set off on a landmark adventure in both our lives: Tackling 240km of the Camino Portugues. We shouldered our backpacks and laced up our boots in the Portuguese ...