Vegetarian Pilgrim - Camino de Santiago

I am just looking through the Thorn tree for information on Camino de Santiago walk and saw your request and am wishing to ask you personally about airline tickets and how you get the Credencial to spend nights in the refugios. Are you able to write to me under your request. I am needing as much info on it as possible. I would like to do this walk. I am looking after a terminally ill person and haven't had time to start researching. Any info I would gratefully be pleased for. Cheers. My email: sri_pinkpanther_devi@hotmail.com Thanks in advance of your kind reply. Irene

To answer you both you should ask these questions on Forums about the Camino. There are folks on those forums that can maybe answer your questions in depth. Here is a web page that gives a lot of links all in one.
good luck
Camino Links

Look at the other vegetarian thread on this Spain forum.

I agree it's really hard to get away from meat in Spain, but most restaurants and bars have a salad of some sort on their menu, usually listed as an entree. Ensalata mixta (sp?) is, as it says, a mixed salad with tuna on top; or try russian salad; bean salad - both dried and fresh varieties; and pasta. Local shops will have plenty of fruit, vegetables, nuts, yoghurt and more.

#1 Where will you begin walking? Credencials can be picked up from most refugios or churches along the Camino, so generally there's no need to get one beforehand.

Thank you for the very useful Camino Links suggestion, R.S. There is a lot of good information available on-line that I've run across, but until now I missed this site. As for Bandylegs –difficult to summarize everything in a few sentences. There are hundreds of books, web-sites, articles to consult. Firstly, you should decide where you want to walk from. I will begin at St. Jean Pied de Port on the French side of the border with Spain in the Pyrenees. You can fly to Paris, take a train to Bayonne and then another train from there to SJPP. Others choose to approach this town via Madrid. You can, of course walk any distance you wish from wherever you wish. I've met people walking thousands of kilometers from their hometowns all over Europe, or else you can walk the last 100 km to help you fulfill the minimum requirement for the Pilgrim designation. Others still - myself included, do portions of the Camino on any number of separate trips. As pointed out, you can pick up your Credencial en route, or else before you leave, you can order one from one of the international Camino organizations. I am familiar with the British, Confraternity of Saint James and the Canadian Company of Pilgrims. I'm sure there are many others. As for the Russian Salad – I think I'll have a nice bottle of Rioja instead! Buon Camino, as they say.
Cheers.

If you're comfortable with fish, and seafood in general, you won't go hungry in Spain. Tuna, both fresh and in cans, is widely available in markets, shops, restaurants and bars. Hake and prawns are also very popular.