Jane Erasmus
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.... Why settle for a slice of bread when the whole loaf is right there.
If your primary interest and motivation is simply to safely arrive in Santiago then the Brierley book or the app will be more than enough. If however you wish to go walkabout, detour off route after monasteries and churches, vineyards, interesting sights, other towns they won't help much. You will be passing by a thousand years and more of history, architecture, art, and beauty, much of it not appearing in most guidebooks, you will enter churches and cathedrals which will overwhelm you with their size, complexity, and beauty. It is possible to take it in Disneyworld style, all pretty lights and nice music or you can take along a serious guide which will see you through properly. "Santiago, the Complete Cultural Handbook" composed by David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson, a husband and wife team who have walked and guided others along the Camino many times. The book is very large for a handbook but I have slugged it along three times, it is available from Amazon in Kindle format and I would most certainly and wholeheartedly recommend the work for reading before, along, and after the Camino. Why settle for a slice of bread when the whole loaf is right there.
Jane,Thank you for the suggestion Scruffy1,
I will try and find the book in Cape Town, SA. If I can't do you think I might get in at the airport book shop in Paris when I fly in?? I am after the whole loaf
Jane,
I doubt that you will find Santiago, the Complete Cultural Handbook in the airport shop but you can buy either the digital or paper-back version on-line from Amazon.
MM
Thank you Margaret and Scruffy1, my concern is the postal system in South Africa leave much to be desiredMore often than not things are nicked, or just don't arrive or take ages to actually arrive. I will be leaving Cape Town on 31 August. Just as an example - I ordered a shell and badge which Ivor put into the post to me on 12 July and have still not received it..... What I will try is going to my local book shop and seeing if they can make a plan for me.
Thanks for the information all the same
Hi Kanga,Jane, do you have a smartphone? If you have just download one of the electronic guides, like the WisePilgrim app. Get someone to help if you are not tech savvy. That way you don't have to worry about the post. And, as was said above, you can download the Kindle version of The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago, which we all agree is a marvellous resource.
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