Summer 2025: Cultural Exchange
The Summer 2025 issue of La Concha, a magazine published by American Pilgrims on the Camino with news, pilgrim stories, poetry, and more on the theme of “Cultural Exchange.”
Read MoreLetter from the Chair – Summer 2025
Summer 2025 letter from American Pilgrims on the Camino Board Chair Joe Curro, a special In Memoriam section, plus a summary of the April 2025 meeting of the American Pilgrims Board of Directors.
Read MoreA Pilgrim Walk From My Own Front Door
Inspired by European pilgrims who walk out their front doors and on to Santiago de Compostela, a woman is joined by fellow pilgrims to walk together from her home in Bellingham, WA, to the pilgrim gathering in Vancouver, BC.
Read MoreThe Great Cultural Leveler
A man finds the Camino to be a great cultural leveler, helping us to see our fellow humans as more similar than different, a place where others are no longer strangers and the places they come from, once unfamiliar and maybe intimidating, no longer strange.
Read MoreWalking Away Stereotypes: My Camino of Listening
When a pilgrim walking the Camino Francés encounters a couple of fellow Americans oriented differently on the political spectrum than herself, she discovers that as they walk, talk, and listen to each other, they bridge divides and deepen their connections.
Read MoreUniversal Pilgrim
In these song lyrics set to the tune of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “Universal Soldier,” Evan Massaro highlights how pilgrims, regardless of who they are or where they come from, are united by a common call.
Read MoreThe Miracle of Grañón
An hospitalero reflects on the miraculous way a random group of individuals, each a guest for just one night at Hospital de peregrinos San Juan Bautista in Grañón, Spain, works together to prepare a communal meal to be shared that evening. In doing so, they are taking part in the medieval tradition of pilgrim hospitality, just as the albergue’s founder had envisioned.
Read MoreBook Review: You Are Here
A review of You Are Here, a novel by David Nicholls. This is a lighthearted romantic comedy about two people each nursing the wounds of separation and divorce, who “meet cute” on the UK’s Coast to Coast Walk. While not a story about the road to Santiago de Compostela, it carries many themes that Camino pilgrims will find familiar and entertaining.
Read MoreThe Flamenco Peregrinas
After being dazzled by a flamenco performance in Madrid at the end of her Camino, a woman learns of a flamenco performance coming to her hometown of St. Louis. She reaches out to her local American Pilgrims chapter to see who might join her, forming a group of Flamenco-loving peregrina friends.
Read MoreDancing with Authenticity
On a night stroll through Granada, Spain, a pilgrim is drawn into a small-venue tablao to behold flamenco dancers whose moves authentically capture the soul of the city.
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