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Hi,
A post on a french forum from Manuela Tschirf :
"Hello, we are friends from Richard Krismer from Austria. He started to hike the way of St. James since 30.8.2015
He was in Lourdes on 10.9.2015 after 2 day´s he started to arrive to Saint Jean Pied de Port.
This was the last living thing...
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An ATD Fourth World member is seeking to find all the places in the world where there is a Joseph Wresinski paving stone reproduction embedded on the Trocadero Esplanade in Paris.
He thinks there is one of them in Santiago.
Could anybody tell me if it's true and, in that case, where to...
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I received an email from the Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Sevilla informing about some crossing problems on Via de Plata at Galisteo, in the Río Alagón area, after the village de Grimaldo because of discrepancies between private owners and the City council of Galisteo...
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The Federación Española de Asociaciones de Amigos del Camino de Santiago and the magazine Peregrino's readers have made some Top 10 lists about the "camino" :
http://www.caminosantiago.org/cpperegri ... omas10.asp
Do you agree with them ?
Théo
Hi,
To draw your St James route in France, you can use this web site (in French, English and Italian) :
http://www.openrunner.com/
... where you'll find a Google map with a specific tool to help you to draw your way on the map.
After having done this task, by clicking on "IGN MAP" you'll...
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My bank, in France, informed me about a possible forgery of my credit card because I was in Spain ...!
I found no more information about that on the French web and newspapers...
Yesterday, I did some searches on English web pages.
I found there is a possible scam in Spain.
Read these...
Hello,
The 39th edition of the Festival Interceltique de Lorient [Lorient Interceltic Festival] (in Brittany) will take place from 31 July to 9 August 2009.
Galicia will have the place of honour this year.
The Breton Association of the friends of St-James of Compostela [l'Association bretonne...
Sad news ...
According to a French forum (HERE), some days ago a Dutch pilgrim was found dead in the snow at "port de Cize" between St-Jean-Pied-de-Port and Roncevalles in a place after Orisson and Biakorri virgin. He did not stop at the 55 refuge.
Théo
To reach the « Tours route » the pilgrims can also start from some less traditional points.
The Mont-Saint-Michel and 4 other starting points in Brittany could fulfil the expectation of many pilgrims thanks to the beauty of their scenic ways and the richness of their heritage and their history...
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