Archive for July, 2008

How to travel to your camino starting point

Many questions that we get in the forum are related to “I am flying in from X and need to get to my camino starting point Y” and then the conversation goes on how to best travel within Spain. Early on we created a section in the forum, just for those kinds of questions and [...]

31 July 2008 at 19:26 - Comments

Vueling and Clickair to merge

The Wall Street Journal reports today that the two low cost airlines, Vueling and Clickair has decided to merge. They will still fly under the Vueling brand. Clickair was a spin off from Iberia only a few years ago, but the raising fuel prices seems to have made this merger neccesary. For pilgrim traveling in [...]

8 July 2008 at 19:50 - Comments

Bed Bug alert

This was reported on July 7th 2008 by Gareth Thomas: This information is current and to alert pilgrims further back down the Camino Frances to a bed bug situation in Hontanas. There are three pilgrims here at Boadilla this evening who have all come from the Hontanas Municipal hostal with multiple bed bug bites, and [...]

7 July 2008 at 21:08 - Comments

What sleeping bag is best?

Many pilgrims ask in the forum about “What sleeping bag should I take on my pilgrimage?”. Some bring one from home and some buy one once they arrive in Spain.

7 July 2008 at 20:56 - Comments

San Fermin 2008

The running of the bulls in Pamplona, or San Fermin, is coming up in a few days. So if you are on the camino frances, in the Pamplona area you might want to stop by and participate in the celebrations (running in front of the bulls would be optional).

4 July 2008 at 15:48 - Comments

Pilgrim tattoo anyone?

You know you are a pilgrim fanatic when you decide to get a pilgrim tattoo. From Flickr We have had a conversation on this in  the forum, and this is a more popular topic than I had realized. I have seen a few tattoo parlors in Santiago, but not thought much of it.

3 July 2008 at 18:26 - Comments
Peter Saetternissen
I'm glad that you like my tattoo. And thanks for inspiring more people to get one. If you have a Camino ...
4 July 08 at 17:51

The Independent: 48 hours in Santiago de Compostela

The Independent visited Santaigo de Compostela not too long ago, and produced an article with some ideas on what to do in Santiago de Compostela if you have 48 hours to spear. The article is rather short and basic, but might give you some ideas if you only have 48 hours in Santiago.

2 July 2008 at 15:49 - Comments