Probe of deadly derailment in Spain focuses on train speed
By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come...
View ArticleSpain train crash: King Juan Carlos visits injured survivors
By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come...
View ArticlePilgrimage along Camino de Santiago brought beauty, healing to Georgetown woman
I read that there is a billboard somewhere along the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St James, that reads, "Why do I deal with the dry dust in my mouth, the mud on my aching feet, the lashing rain and...
View ArticleSpanish train wreck probe focuses on driver and speed
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain The grainy video lasts little more than 10 seconds, but long enough to show the blazing speed of a Spanish passenger train bound for Santiago de Compostela that bounced...
View ArticleCamino hikers find many “Ways” (Photos)
View slideshow: Camino de Santiago: Along the way The number of people walking, bicycling, or riding this trail has experienced many ebbs and flows during its 900+ years of existence. Presently it is...
View ArticleSpain investigators: Train driver was on phone
The driver was on the phone with a colleague and reading a document as his train barreled ahead at 95 mph (153 kph) — almost twice the speed limit. Suddenly, a notorious curve was upon him. He hit the...
View ArticleA pilgrimage to Camino de Santiago
WHAT is it like to walk 790 kilometers of the Camino de Santiago, a thousand-year-old pilgrimage route that stretches from the French Pyrenees to the shrine of the apostle St. James in Spain's...
View ArticleCamino De Santiago Pilgrims Warned After American Woman Goes Missing
One of the world’s oldest Christian pilgrimage routes has become the site of a desperate search for a missing American woman. Forty-one-year-old Denise Thiem of Arizona traveled to Spain to walk El...
View ArticleSacramento group finds a worthwhile journey in Spanish pilgrimage
Modern technology may have triggered the desire by a group of Sacramentans to trek across northern Spain, but inspiration has always come in many forms to pilgrims who have walked the Way of St. James....
View ArticleSpain: Probe of deadly derailment focuses on train speed
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain: By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the...
View ArticleReview: Walking the Camino a pilgrimage for 1,200 years still going on
There are a number of important things to say about this picturesque film about a religious pilgrimage with the apt title, “Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago” which this film goer viewed at the...
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Rescuers, forensics and police officers work at site of train accident near Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 25, 2013 / Getty SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain The father of the American woman killed in...
View ArticleSpain: Many motivations draw walkers to the Camino de Santiago de Compostela
Stepping quietly through the dimly lit 12th-century cathedral in the small Spanish town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, I looked up to the ornate mausoleum in the rear and caught sight of something...
View ArticleAlert for Camino de Santiago pilgrims after walker vanishes
Pilgrims are being warned to avoid walking alone along a 24km (15-mile) stretch of Spain’s Camino de Santiago after police started an investigation into an attempted abduction in the same area where an...
View ArticleProbe of deadly derailment focuses on train speed
By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come...
View ArticleA ‘great adventure’ in faith kicks off summer Theology on Tap series (Diocese...
(Source: Diocese of Allentown) June 09, 2015 at 9:32 AM By TAMI QUIGLEY Staff writer When someone hears "Great Adventure" - especially in the Lehigh Valley and in the summer - thoughts likely turn to...
View ArticleCharlotte psychologist tests himself with hundreds of miles of walking...
Bob Barret’s pilgrimage began and ended in mystery. He was 72. Heading toward the rocking chair, as he put it. In decent health, but growing increasingly aware of his physical limits, worried they were...
View ArticlePilgrims and Pintxos
Fishing boats in Vilagarcia de Arousa. Photo: Getty Images Kerry van der Jagt discovers the rich flavours, faith and history of the Galician coastline. The rain in Spain doesn't fall mainly on the...
View ArticleChristian faithful trace the arduous Pilgrim Path in Pamplona, Spain (Video)
Just say “Pamplona” and images tumble over themselves: Men and bulls running, stumbling, flailing on ancient cobblestones in this old Roman city in northeastern Spain. But there’s a much quieter,...
View ArticlePilgrim's progress
The Camino de Santiago de Compostela, or the Way of St James - an ancient pilgrim route supposedly traveled by the apostle to preach the gospel on the Iberian peninsula. //--> Sue Cocking Wednesday,...
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