We are so excited to have retired from our jobs in California after 27 years. We are in the process of getting our residency visas and work permits from Spain. It can take up to 90 days to get approved. As soon as we get our approval we will set the date to travel back to Galicia and to re- open Casa Banderas. It can be anywhere from early to mid April to mid to late May. We have been doing a lot of work on the property over the 2025 years Building new doors for the courtyard

My wife, Dominique, and I are American pilgrims that own an Albergue on the Camino Frances. As I write this, I am sitting in our...

Ok, so if you have been following the journey that my wife and I have been on trying to travel from Northern California to SFO to LAX to...

When we attempted to board the Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid our US passports were flagged and my wife and I were put aside to a...

So we took off from SFO to LAX. Our flight was delayed several times in SFO. So we had very little time in LAX. That was American...

Ok so we have started our journey back to Galicia!! The normal 4 to 4.5 hour drive from our home in Redding California to the San...

So my wife and I have been working on our work visa and residency for almost a year. We bought a fixer upper Albergue on the Camino de...

So the story begins with my 82 year old dad deciding that he is going to walk the Camino de Santiago--Frances in May of 2018. By...