About Me
MI NOMBRE ES TANYA .
MEU NOME É TANYA
My name is Tanya and have completed four and a half Caminos.
I loved volunteering in Alpriate, Portugal as a Hospitalera and went through the APOC Hospitalera Training.
I fell in love with Oia in 2015 and found my home here. Now, I would love to share it with fellow pilgrims.
Soul Searching
a Caminoista
4 time (almost 5) Camino Frances from Roncevalles in 2005 or was it 2006?
- Camino Portuguese from Lisbon in 2015.
- Via de la Plata from Seville to Caceres in 2017
- The Invierno in 2017.
- The Portuguese central way in 2018.
a Mother
I am the Mother of two sons Ryan and Cory and Grandma to four grandchildren.
a Fighter
I am a Cancer survivor, born in Madison Wisconsin and grew up in Iowa. I moved to Colorado for twenty plus years and lived off and on in Taos New Mexico while escaping the snow in the Rocky Mountains .
lots of fun
Check out my interview for the My Camino Podcast by Dan Mullins.
Meet Mia
Our Official Greeter
LaCala also has a couple of long term furry residents, a border collie named Mia and a stowaway cat from Portugal called Cissie.
Mia of course is waiting eagerly to welcome any weary peregrino, the cat on the other hand…
