Spanish for the Camino
Do you need Spanish for the Camino de Santiago in Spain?
Spanish for the Camino helps future pilgrims learn practical Spanish for their journey on the Camino de Santiago.
Whether you want to ask for directions, order food, or connect with locals, in the blog you’ll find easy-to-follow tips, essential vocabulary, and cultural insights to help you walk with confidence.
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Spanish for the Camino: the blog
Santiago in the Canaries
Santiago in the Canary Islands? Yes, really! There are over 140 places named after Santiago all over the world. A few of them are located on the Canary Islands, so this week on the podcast I welcom back Marina Rodríguez, who you might remember from episode 25, when...
From Santiago… to Santiago
The final destination of the Camino de Santiago is, of course, Santiago de Compostela, the historic city in Galicia, where the remains of the apostle Saint James were supposedly discovered in the 9th century. But did you know that Santiago de Compostela is far from...
¿Cómo vas a hacer el Camino?
How will you do the Camino - updated May 2025 How will you do the Camino? Once you decide you want to go on the Camino, you need to start making other decisions. The first one: ¿Cómo vas a hacer el Camino? (How are you going to do the Camino?) Before we go on, let...
The Camino starts when you think about it
This week on the Spanish for the Camino podcast, I had the pleasure of welcoming Cris Pacino, a Brazilian teacher who has lived in Spain for 20 years. She’s a seasoned pilgrim and Spanish language teacher, especially for Portuguese speakers, helping them to fulfill...
No pilgrims!
Do locals along the Camino welcome pilgrims? Mostly, yes. But that could change if things continue the way they're going. The Spanish for the Camino podcast is back after the summer break. My plan was to start this new season with something light. I was going to tell...
La Mochila de la Luz
In 2020, a group of pilgrims had an idea to bring a bit of light into the darkness that the pandemic brought on. Over a hundred thousand people died of covid in Spain alone. We spent months locked up in our homes, only allowed to go out to buy groceries or go to the...
Asturias and the Camino with Diego
Spanish teacher Diego Villanueva, from Fluent Spanish Express walked the Camino and he joined me in the podcast to talk about his experience and Asturias, the region he’s from. Diego embarked on the Camino Primitivo, the oldest route to Santiago, starting from his...
Camino in Gran Canaria
Spanish teacher Marina Rodríguez, from La Lengua de Babel, is from the Canary Islands and specialises in the Spanish spoken there. She joined me in the podcast to tell us all about the Camino in Gran Canaria. This blog post is an English version of the conversation we...
Pamplona with Jose Mari Ardanaz
This week I was joined on the podcast by Jose Mari Ardanaz, from El Camino People. Jose Mari walked his first Camino in 2017. One of the things that most caught his attention about the Camino was the people who walked it and their stories. That's why he first created...