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People have traveled to Santiago de Compostela for hundreds of years. Some walking, some on horseback and some on bikes. Today I saw, what looked like an “Off Road” segway that looks like it was used to “walk” the Camino de Santiago. I saw it parked in the reception at a pension in Santiago de [...]
UPDATED: The day after this news appeared in El Correo Gallego, the same paper reported that all this was a misunderstanding. There will be no new route between santiago and Brussels. El Correo Gallego reports today that Ryanair is planning to open a new route from Santiago de Compostela to Brussels in June. There will [...]
If you are flying into or out of Terminal 4 in Madrid these days, you are in for delays. Ever since Christmas Iberia pilots have had a “hidden” strike/slow-down. ElPais has the last of many articles on this today since it seems like the air traffic controllers are also now helping out with slowing things [...]
El Correo Gallego reports today that between 140 and 160 seats were sold of the 189 available seats on the first Ryanair flights between Santiago de Compostela and Madrid. This means that about 80% of the seats were sold, a pretty good number. As of yesterday, Ryanair flies to and from Madrid twice daily. According [...]
As Ryanair is about to open their two new daily routes from Santiago de Compostela to Madrid, Iberia and now also Spanair have announced that they will lower prices. All this according to today’s El Correo Gallego. Iberia is said to lower prices on a Santiago – Madrid flight from about 140 euro to as [...]
Photo from La Voz de Galicia La Voz de Galicia has an interesting article today that tells of a bear that was killed on the highway between Ponferrada and O Cebreiro. This is pilgrim territory, so I thought I would create a post on this here. Bears are not common in this area, and this [...]
Ryanair has announced several new routes in Spain today, one of them a new route between Santiago de Compostela and Madrid. This is fantastic news, since Iberia will again get some competition on travelers between Santiago and the capital. About a week ago, El Correo Gallego had an article about how it was cheaper to [...]
Many women are now planning to walk the camino, and some are worried with the fact that they will be traveling alone. So is it safe to walk alone? We have a good thread in the forum that deals with this in our “Camino Crime” section.
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 [...]
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 [...]