not strictly speaking anything to do with Santiago, but forum members may be interested in participating in the 1300-year celebrations at Le Mont Saint Michel, where the church was founded in 708 and consecrated in 709. 2008 is also the tenth anniversary of the Association "Les Chemins du Mont-Saint-Michel" who've now waymarked some 2000km of pilgrim routes to the shrine. As a celebration of this, walkers will be converging on the Mont from Brittany, Le Mans, Tours, Paris, Chartres, Rouen, Winchester (and probably other places as well), for special events on Michaelmas, September 29. Each route will have its own blog.
The culmination of the walks will be firstly events organised jointly by the Association and various Amis de St Jacques at the village of Saint-James September 27, and secondly the walk, or rather wade, across the sands from Genets September 28.
Two new guidebooks are being published to coincide with this: a revamp of the GR22 from Paris to be published next year, and one for the new route through Anjou, the Chemin des Plantagenets, from Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
Further details on the Association website or from a somewhat more detailed pdf file at the Union Jacquaire de France
The culmination of the walks will be firstly events organised jointly by the Association and various Amis de St Jacques at the village of Saint-James September 27, and secondly the walk, or rather wade, across the sands from Genets September 28.
Two new guidebooks are being published to coincide with this: a revamp of the GR22 from Paris to be published next year, and one for the new route through Anjou, the Chemin des Plantagenets, from Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
Further details on the Association website or from a somewhat more detailed pdf file at the Union Jacquaire de France