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  1. Kathar1na

    Feast Day Mass

    Last year, they had the following schedule for 25 July 2023: 10:30 - Misa solemne and Ofrenda Nacional 13:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00 and 19:30 - Pilgrim Mass
  2. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    I did not intend to say anything else about the bare knees in the snowy scenes on the Lepoeder pass, but for what it is worth: I was not thinking in nationalities but rather in geographies and regions with a mild moderate maritime climate where it rains a lot and where it does not get very hot...
  3. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    Just saw it on the Bomberos' Twitter account: To the 3 from last Friday we can now add 4 from today. They worded it like this (transl.): This Thursday afternoon we attended to four pilgrims at #Lepoeder who could not continue the journey due to difficult weather conditions.
  4. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    I wanted to add something but I did not have time earlier. I find the cartoon very funny but I'd like to say again that I don't want to imply that people are stupid but rather that they are uninformed and don't properly assess the implications for themselves. They are on their first day, in a...
  5. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    Gary Larson from the Far Side ... never fails to make me laugh. 🤣
  6. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    Family insider joke about how small kids are dressed in March and April and difference between two or three countries. Nothing to take too seriously.
  7. Kathar1na

    LIVE from the Camino SJPdP “Completo” tonight!

    @Monasp, yes, you are right and please accept my apologies. I had meant to write that the graph is taken from a pdf file and with the mention: "Responsable statistiques : Monique Aspirot". I had already started my spreadsheet app and was about to type the numbers from @trecile's table in post...
  8. Kathar1na

    LIVE from the Camino SJPdP “Completo” tonight!

    Above is the graph for the number of pilgrims by year as counted in Santiago, especially from 1996 to 2023 and showing the peak in numbers in the Holy Years 1999, 2004 and 2010. Below is the corresponding graph for the number of pilgrims by year as counted in SJPP. No peaks during Holy Years...
  9. Kathar1na

    LIVE from the Camino SJPdP “Completo” tonight!

    The Holy Years had very little effect on pilgrim numbers in Navarra, i.e. Roncesvalles in Spain and SJPP in France. Numbers of travellers are continuously on the increase to many popular destinations - and that includes the "slow travel" trend. Due to lots of leisure time that can be used for...
  10. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    When one watches the behaviours on the Lepoeder pass seen in the EFE video, one understands better why there are these "rescue" operations. This is not a dangerous mountains situation as it is commonly understood. Nobody would dream of speaking about closing such a trail to the right and left in...
  11. Kathar1na

    LIVE from the Camino SJPdP “Completo” tonight!

    Sure, Semana Santa and the Easter weekend, both variable. But did you volunteer work, walk or work AND walk at the end of April every year since 2018 between SJPP and Pamplona, and especially in the Roncesvalles albergue 😊? These high numbers and the discrepancy between supply and demand for...
  12. Kathar1na

    LIVE from the Camino SJPdP “Completo” tonight!

    Late April / beginning of May is known as one of the busiest times of the pilgrimage season in SJPP, Roncesvalles and Pamplona, and demand for beds (both private and municipal etc) can outstrip supply. This will now continue, especially on this weekend and during the coming week (1st of May...
  13. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    The point that I’ve been trying to make, perhaps not very successfully, is that none of this - very strong wind or wind gusts, very cold temperatures, a lot of rain, a bit of snow, very low clouds and fog - come out of the blue on the passes of the Route Napoleon. At the very least on the...
  14. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    I knew that extreme temperature drops (or rises) can happen when I wrote my post. I was writing in the context of "weather in the mountains is unpredictable". I am happy to be corrected but from a quick look on the net, Spearfish, South Dakota, USA does not look like what I understand by "in...
  15. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    BTW, this current "cold snap" is coming to an end now. It is nothing unusual for April in this part of the world, and its effects were not only felt and seen on the Route Napoleon but in large parts of France, Germany, Switzerland and the Benelux countries. It is due to air from the Arctic...
  16. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    I agree with much of your post but weather in the mountains is not unpredictable. It can change quickly which is something different but even then within limits. The temperature will not rise from 1 ºC to 25 ºC within minutes, not even within an hour. The low temperatures in recent days had...
  17. Kathar1na

    E-bike charging on the camino - Contributing to cost

    Hi @Xali1970, I share your assessment and also your frustration. Unfortunately, this is part of forum group dynamics and it will probably never change. We expect replies based on relevant facts and reasoning based on facts, as you wrote, but we also get opinions based on wind, fantasy, "it makes...
  18. Kathar1na

    Three rescues on the Route Napoleon yesterday

    Some rare video footage, about 5 minutes, in an article of today on ABC.es: Pilgrims who are not only walking past Ibañeta (Valcarlos route) in fog and snow but also pilgrims who are walking from the Lepoeder pass (Napoleon route) in fog and snow down to Roncesvalles. From the way they walk one...
  19. Kathar1na

    Cinque Terra - one way walking only

    You must have missed the thread. It is true for a section of the Mozarabe if I remember correctly. The thread can be easily found by anyone who is interested. And you may have missed that I wrote "some albergues". It is only a handful. I understand the OP's post as an example of "massification"...
  20. Kathar1na

    Cinque Terra - one way walking only

    I think that Cinque Terre is one of these places where tourism has become unsustainable because of the very high numbers of visitors. I see headlines like "Increasingly unsustainable tourism in the Cinque Terre where, by 2023, 4 million tourists were concentrated on an area of just 1 square...

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