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Just noticed it's looking super hot in central Europe and NE Spain this week, with 40degC forecast for Pamplona. This is unusual for June and pilgrims might not be expecting conditions that make walking potentially dangerous.
Saint Augustine's Camino goes from Rochester Cathedral to the shrine of St Augustine in Ramsgate, via Canterbury, a total of 67miles (108 Km) spread over seven days using the suggested stages. Although recently developed, the walk visits places rich in pilgrim history, current centres of...
Having a clear out and I've just come across an early guidebook- Guia del Peregrino (Everest 1985).
Its not doing a lot on my bookshelf and I'm wondering if there's a Camino library in the UK/Europe that might like it as a donation?
With big maps and colour photos it actually weighed too...
As the heatwave continues across Europe, with temperatures forecast over 40degC for some parts of the Camino Frances, here's Laurie Lee heaping up the crushed ice in one of my favourite passages. I hope it helps us all to keep cool:
"By now it was noon, with almost everyone under cover, in the...
Heatwave predicted in Spain and Portugal.
http://www.euronews.com/2018/08/01/temperatures-in-spain-and-portugal-could-exceed-48-degrees-breaking-all-time-europe-record
I was reminded of my first Camino (in the mid 1980's) last week while walking from Rochester to Canterbury along the old Watling Street route. This would have been the most likely direct way from London and was the basis for the fictional journey of Chaucer's pilgrims.
Trouble is, the route...
I think I'll need be needing GPS for my next pilgrim adventure along a largely unmarked route. On previous travels Maps.me has worked great on an android phone. Now I need reading glasses I'm finding it a bit of a performance getting everything out and on to check where to go and would like to...
He has walked many of the major US trails and well beyond, on an inner and outer quest that's pared life down to essentials. For anyone who has fantasised about their Camino carrying on for ever.....
The man who went on a hike – and never stopped walking...
Even after hearing about this footpath it was still a surprise to see a sign with the familiar Camino scallop shell design and 'Pilgrim route to Santiago' in a Cornish seaside village. St Michael's Way is the only UK footpath to be designated a European Cultural Route in recognition of its...
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