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The sport newspaper Marca reports today that the coach of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazario, is doing the Camino de Invierno, after he vowed to do it if his club gained the promotion to first division. Ronaldo is well known by football fans, an awesome and very feared striker, former player of...
The archaeologists who carry out the inspection and possible rescue prior to the expansion of the A-12 motorway, between Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Villamayor have found a huge Visigothic necropolis, from VI or VII century, near Grañón (first thought was that they have discovered a mass...
The Cathedral is announcing new "virtual tours" on Portico de la Gloria, with notes on iconography, unknown aspects and restoration. It is in Spanish; I tried but did not find an English version. Maybe it is just the predetermined option of my browser.
I really enjoyed it; hope you do, too...
...After spending many hours on the issue, I have managed to get a provisional list of "confirmed places" (meaning, some posts or blogs mention that *real people* were there recently, or the places have a current and active webpage); but I have still many stages unsolved. So, I would thank info...
The newspaper "El Pais" interviewed today the guardia civiles tasked with catching (and fining) people who don't respect the quarantine or try to cheat it with different pretexts. A case caught my eye: it has the subtitle of "The last peregrino on the Camino".
This is a translation on the fly...
The Guardia Civil is implementing places to stamp credenciales in their quarters. They are available in Belorado, Castrojeriz and Burgos; I hope the programme will be extended. Look for the plaque of two watchful guardias, the emblem of the corps, the vieira and the phrase "Seguridad y...
The good people of ACIR Compostelle, Toulouse, have sent their last newsletter (you can subscribe). Amongst other things, three new albergues/gîtes d' étapes, one in the Turonensis, in Poitiers, close to the beautiful old church of Saint-Hilaire le Grand (webpage here), and the others in less...
You can’t usually meet lots of Mexican (or Mexican based) pilgrims in the Camino, but probably you have noticed that there are always some. I remember a day in the Pequeño Potala in Ruitelan, where casually there were four or us, we met some Texan fellows who liked “rancheras” and the night...
A brand new GR (marked as 861) has been officialy opened with a walk last July 1st. It goes by 170 km, mostly along the Garonne river; hence the name. It connects Toulouse (in the Arles way) to Saint Bertrand de Comminges (in the Piedmont way). And actually, brave souls can also walk to/from...
Felipe submitted a new resource:
Jean-Christophe Rufin, Immortelle Randonnée. A pilgrim's review - Review, books about the pilgrimage to Compostelle
Read more about this resource...
Last year, after much hesitation, I finished my pilgrimage with the Sarria-SdeC stages. I had somewhat avoided them in my previous walks, for no particular reasons. Just kind of a feeling...
Well, at the end it was, uhm, just ok.
So I have decided to give them another try, this time in December...
A question....what do you do when somebody asks you for the right direction in the Camino? That happens sometimes to me...I guess that people suppose that wisdom comes with age, although as you know, this is not necessarily true. :p
I always study thoroughly maps and guides, even browse Google...
Spanish newspapers report that two British pilgrims got lost in the SJPP-Roncesvalles stage and were rescued yesterday.
They reportedly survived five days drinking water from streams and cattle abreuvoirs. Finally, they decided to ask for help (a phone call?), and rescue teams from Burguete...
If you have walked recently the Camino frances, you will probably have noticed that the Xunta (the Galicia government) replaced the old "mojones" or markers (dated from 1986) with brand new ones. This caused a polemic in Spain (with even a petition in change.org), because many people...
The Newsletter of the good friends of ACIR Compostella, Toulouse, informs about three new albergues or gîtes:
- Toulouse, gîte L'Etape, Marie et Vincent welcome walkers in 8 rue Lionel Terray (5 minutes from métro Barrière de Paris, ligne B). lesdavid.toulouse@gmail.com
- Agnès et Olivier...
The "Adelantado", a Segovia's newspaper, and a group of volunteers are promoting the Camino de San Frutos. This Saint was a 8th century hermit (also known as "the fowler" :) ) , who is the local saint patron. This started as a program for the reintegration of inmates (which, if you want to know...
A cold wave arrived in Spain, the first in the latest three years, and will remain up to Sunday, or even Tuesday. The note (sorry, in Spanish) and a video here . The official report here.
Basically (for us), extreme weather has been registered in some places of Camino, as Carrión de los...
...about 5 kg., which is my more or less standard weekend carry (it includes picnic stuff...)
This is my completely un-scientific report about that...
* The right position was not on the forehead, but on the hairline (well, where it used to be...)
* My back was immediately relieved, because the...
The president of the Diputación de León has inaugurated last 9/9 a 'Monument to pilgrims', described as a "monolith sculpture", in the stage of Carbajal de la Legua - Cabanillas, not far from León. See an image here. The artist is Carlos Cuenllas. It is as...well, I honestly can't describe it...
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