The deposit on the house has been paid and we have the key: here it is!

Have a look at more photos of the Pilgrim House. The vision is described here: Pilgrim Refugio

The Pilgrim Refuge

We found out that the house we were offered last year has not been sold yet, with the result that the price has been reduced drastically and is now within reach of our purchasing ability. Although it is in a bad condition and needs a lot of work, it does have electricity, water connection and can be connected to the sewage disposal system. Heres what the entrance looks like, see photos. the Pilgrims walk right past this blue door! The house is the red one at the back.

We live in a small village called Tabara which is on the Camino de Santiago's southern route (Camino Sanabres). We teach english to all the schoolchildren here, and live in a house right on the Camino where Pilgrims are walking past. We often invite Pilgrims for a meal and sometimes help with translating for those who dont speak Spanish. Please feel welcome to drop in for a cup of tea!

We are all Pilgrims on this earth.

All of us walk through this life trying to understand what it's about and searching for something that is unchangeable.

Sometimes we break free from the things that bind us, and wander uninhibited across our planet, journeying inwardly within our souls, and outwardly in our bodies searching for the Eternity which we have known in our hearts. We all realize intuitively that this body in which we live is but a tent, soon to wear out and be discarded. The possessions that we cling to also fail to satisfy. (continue reading about pilgrims here)

A little about us.

We are a christian pilgrim family living in Tabara, Spain, on the Camino de Santiago.

Twenty five years ago we moved out of our home in Cape Town into a caravan and began to follow the Lord Jesus wherever he would take us. We went out on short excursions at first, scurrying back on occasions to the safety of my parents home! On our first mission into the unknown we were towed out and dropped in a campsite hundreds of miles away. Eventually we ended up in Spain, India and Zambia....and lots of other places. You can read a brief description of our mission journeys on about us.

God's Grace

God's Grace consists in this: When you have done everything in your power to improve yourself, and you have tried with all your being to live up to the standards you have set yourself, or those which have been set up for you by the religion you practice, and you have failed to change even one little bit, and you turn in desperation to the promise of God in Jesus Christ, that he will forgive you first of all, and second of all will help you by raising up a new life in you, and by a miracle of rebirth you discover that you have changed, and that there is a new nature in you, that is Grace.

On Pilgrimages

"Change of place does not effect any drawing nearer unto God, but wherever you may be, God will come to you, if the chambers of your soul be found of such a sort that He can dwell in you and walk in you. But if you keep thine inner man full of wicked thoughts, even if you were on Golgotha, even if you were on the Mount of Olives even if you stood on the memorial-rock of the Resurrection, you will be as far away from receiving Christ into yourself, as one who has not even begun to confess Him. Therefore, my beloved friend, counsel the brethren to be absent from the body to go to our Lord, rather than to be absent from Cappadocia to go to Palestine." St.Gregory of Nyssa

Read the entire letter here: On Pilgrimages