I was in Bayonne a couple of days ago, and noticed that the train line to St Jean is currently blocked by landslip caused by heavy rainfall 'until further notice'. Substitute bus with revised times
http://www.ter-sncf.com/Regions/aquitaine/Fr/Etat_du_trafic/Default.aspx
Pilgrims Way North Wales: across N Wales, Holywell-Bardsey, inaugural walk next month:
http://www.pilgrims-way-north-wales.org/
Two Saints Way, connecting Lichfield and Chester:
http://twosaintsway.org.uk/
The indefatigable Denise Pericard-Mea has recently posted an article on a subject I don't think I've ever heard mention of before, tho apparently Don Elias was aware of it. This is a relic of St James in Belorado, namely a snake that he is supposed to have killed to help a pilgrim. Not publicly...
The Landes Amis have recently revamped their website, and this now includes 2 new links between the Tours route and the coast/Littorale, the historical one from Lesperon (roughly!), and another in the south from Dax. Useful for anyone wanting to come down from Tours and cross to the Costa/Norte
not related to pilgrimage, but today is the European Broadcasting Union's Day of Christmas music. Music from 7 European countries, including Spain. Broadcast for example on BBC Radio 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules and I would imagine will be available on the iplayer for a...
Sil has just pointed out to me that the website of the Associação dos Amigos do Caminho de Santiago do Norte de Portugal in Porto/Maio http://www.caminhoportugues.org/ has disappeared. Does anyone have any contact/info for this group, and/or know if they still exist?
The Portuguese mapping agency has recently set up a new public server which I can access for my maps.
http://maps.peterrobins.co.uk/p.html for the topo maps on their own
http://maps.peterrobins.co.uk/p/overview/portugues.html for maps overlaid with Camino Portugues route
These are the rasterised...
Vueling have added flights from Edinburgh to both Corunna and Vigo on their website http://www.vueling.com/ though it looks like you can't actually book any dates at present.
Perhaps this is planned for next year?
http://www.nortecastilla.es/v/20100316/ ... 00316.html
and the article's found its way onto Mundicamino today as well
http://www.mundicamino.com/noticias.cfm
http://www.caminodesantiagohoteles.com/
a special promotion for this year, whether you are using the Camino de Madrid or simply passing through Madrid on the way to somewhere else. You make a reservation online, print out the coupon, and then present this at the hotel together with your pilgrim...
Could someone who's been on this route recently tell me what the status with marking is? Most of the guides I've seen, e.g. Mundicamino http://www.mundicamino.com/ruta.cfm?p=T ... stro%20Dozón&xne=12&quees=Trazado%20/%20Perfil , show a route via the monastery at Oseira, but the new Xacobeo site...
In the rectoral, tho as it's only a discussion point at the moment, I wouldn't hold your breath
http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/santiago/2 ... 289599.htm
The article also mentions that work has still not started on the albergue in Sigueiro, so the community is planning on again allowing pilgrims...
http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/not ... kid=504402
listing places of interest and facilities en route. Also claims the 35km route is now 'practically fully' waymarked
according to La Voz http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/lemos/2010 ... 241554.htm copies of a guide to this route in English are being distributed at Fitur, the tourism trade fair currently taking place in Madrid. I assume this is the English version of the document I referred to in a previous post...
I've set up a little tutorial on how to fetch maps from Web Mapping Servers, with an example for the Spanish and Catalan servers
http://maps.peterrobins.co.uk/wmshowto.html
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