I’ve put together an audio guide with everything you need to know about planning a trip to hike the Camino de Santiago.

The audio guide is an interview with my wife April. She answers some of the basic questions most people have about the Camino de Santiago and shares her experience walking the Camino Primitivo in June 2005.

You can listen to the interview as a whole or by topic.

Complete Audio Guide:
El Camino de Santiago, A Podcast
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By Topic:
What is the Camino de Santiago?
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What are the different routes I can take?
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How long does it take to hike the Camino de Santiago?
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What is a typical day like on the Camino de Santiago?
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Who should I travel with on the Camino de Santiago?
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What kind of people do you meet on the Camino de Santiago?
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What is the credential and why is it important?
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What equipment do I need to do the Camino de Santiago?
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What is the hiking like on the Camino de Santiago?
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What is there to see on the Camino de Santiago?
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How do you know where to go on the Camino de Santiago?
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Do you need to speak Spanish to do the Camino de Santiago?
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What are the hostels (albergues in Spanish) like on the Camino de Santiago?
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How much does it cost to do the Camino de Santiago?
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What have you learned from hiking the Camino de Santiago?
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Would you hike the Camino de Santiago again?
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Read my review of Margaret Malewski’s GenXpat online at the American Citizens Abroad website.Here’s the link. You’ll have to scroll down to GenXpat under the list of reviewed books and click on the title.www.aca.ch/cadacabo.htm

One place I take friends who visit me in Madrid is a flamenco bar called El Mesón de la Guitarra. The bar is a dimly-lit cave carved out of the wall of Madrid’s most well-known square, Plaza Mayor. On any given night one or two men with guitars will strum their chords while older men crowded around wooden tables bellow their flamenco with fierce vibrato.

I brought my friends for the music initially, but one evening a man at a table next to us who was eating a plate of peppers ordered a plate of the same for my friends and I. Now I bring my friends for the music and the peppers.

Read my full recipe online at Other Spain Magazine. Here’s the link:

spain.othercountries.com/otherspain/pages/recipes/pimientos.asp