Allison Welch

October 6, 2025

We did it!

We’re back where we started, in Porto Portugal.  It was a 3 hour bus ride to get back to where we started walking 2 weeks ago!

I am sooo excited to share with you what happened, what’s happening, and what will happen as I continue my Camino in Virginia.  There won’t be yellow arrows anymore.  But there will still be good friends to help guide me, just like they did here. 

I hope you will continue to walk with me.  My Portugal to Santiago, Spain Camino followed the traditional arc of story telling, with a particularly stressful event for me at end of The Way.  Stay tuned…

I’m hoping to write a chapter a week, as long as God keeps leading me…I will follow.  

Here are a couple of pics from the official office where you receive your Compostela.  We have been officially recorded as peregrinos (pilgrims).  I couldn’t be more filled with joy.  The private hotel room and shower might have something to do with it… ;-)

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