Arriving in Santiago de Compostela with Sharon, Shirley and friends
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BBC
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On Clare’s last day of walking sections of the Camino, she arrives into Santiago de Compostela with a wonderful group of friends who have been following the Portuguese route, starting in Vigo.
The women became friends after meeting in their local gym, and discovered they were all working their way through challenging personal issues. They decided they wanted to do something for themselves to celebrate both fitness and friendship… and their Camino adventure began. The route they chose was from Vigo to Santiago which is entirely in Spain, but forms the last 104km/65 miles of the Camino Portugues Coastal.
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Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Karen Gregor
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| 0:44.1 | For the whole of this series of ramblings in celebration of our 25th anniversary, |
| 0:48.9 | we have been exploring the Camino de Santiago, and I've been joining walkers pilgrims on different routes the San |
| 0:57.1 | Abres route the French route the English route and today I'm on the very last section of |
| 1:04.4 | the Portuguese route which is very popular lots of pilgrims coming by and i'm retracing the steps of the of the commino if you like so going |
| 1:17.0 | backwards down to meet a group of women who have been walking from vigo so just on the spanish side of the border |
| 1:24.1 | and the path that they're going to be walking up towards us is covered in trees. |
| 1:33.2 | It's very cool. |
| 1:34.1 | It's another warm, sunny day, but the coolness here of the shade is a welcome thing. |
| 1:39.3 | And then they will go into the suburbs, really, of Santiago Santiago and then that final stretch towards the cathedral |
| 1:46.3 | where so many pilgrims from all of the different routes congregate there and there's huge emotion. |
| 1:53.3 | I can't wait to see that. |
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