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Current Weather for the Caminos to Santiago:
http://www.elcaminosantiago.com/Weather-Camino-Santiago.htm
AEMET believes there will be snow flurries until Wednesday, the precip then turning to rain Thursday through Saturday.
Buen Camino,
A phrase from my early youth was, "Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite". I never knew what bed bugs were. We didn't have those critters in any beds I ever slept in. Well, they have them on the Camino. Here is an article from the Diario Navarra.
Diario Navarra, September 02...
The following article can be found at this locale : http://www.iberianature.com/material/ib ... hange.html
Climate change in Spain
An immense 800-page report has just been published on the effects of climate change in Spain . The study looks at two possible scenarios for increases in CO2 by...
A Saint's Call Lures Southlanders to a Yearly Homecoming
Los Angeles Times, July 31, 2005
By Jennifer Delson, Times Staff Writer
SAHUAYO, Mexico As he has year after year, Luis Prado set aside $5,000 from his job as a beverage captain at a Newport Beach hotel so he, his wife and their two...
Travel early and travel light today.
It's up to 37 C on the Meseta.
Pamplona at 36
Puente la Reina at 36
Logroño at 37
Santo Domingo at 35
Burgos at 36
Carrion de los Condes at 36
León at 35
Ponferrada at 37
Santiago has a 'moderate' 31 degrees.
Get seven day weather, graphic forecasts...
Pioneering hotelier retraces his steps
By Dale Fuchs
July 2, 2005
MADRID
He prefers a summer home to a luxury hotel when vacationing with his six children, but no matter where he plants his weary feet at night, Antonio Catalán, founder of two Spanish hotel chains, certainly likes to...
Prof makes canine friend during contest
By Terry Gauthier Muessig
Staff Writer
Most people would presume a 200-mile pilgrimage from Leon to Santiago, Spain, and the Asbury Park Press pet photo contest's winner would have nothing in common. That is, unless you knew Carl Calendar, an English...
Pilgrims Find a Road Less Travelled:
Volunteers Open the Refugio de Peregrinos de Miraz on Spains Camino del Norte
The Confraternity of Saint James, a London-based organisation of potential and returned pilgrims serving the English-speaking world, is helping pilgrims on their way to Santiago...
June 26, 2005
On a Holy Road, Punk'd Pilgrims and a Man Who Barked at Dogs
By JACK HITT
WHEN the sculptor Michael Anderson turned 50 this year, he persuaded his wife, Celia, to mark the occasion by walking the historic pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostelo, Spain.
Starting 208 miles...
Along 550-mile Camino de Santiago, volunteers maintain a hostel for those who make the journey
A refuge for pilgrims
Sunday, July 25, 2004
By Rebekah Scott, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
RABANAL DEL CAMINO, Spain -- I met him in April, deep in the mountains of northern Spain.
Through our long...
TIME Europe
Steps Toward Heaven
July 5, 2004 | Vol. 164 No. 1
Lydia Itoi walked in the path of pilgrims who sought forgiveness along the 780-km trail called El Camino de Santiago. Unlike them, she knew where to eat
"Welcome, pilgrim," says the ragged knight in the dirty white cape, thrusting...
From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
At the end of the way in Santiago de Compostela
By Thomas Swick
Sun-Sentinel
Published March 20, 2005
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain -- The pharmacies in Santiago de Compostela are rich in foot-care products. This is not because the city produces bad shoes...
Here are two short radio program articles from NPR: National Public Radio in the US.
* NPR Radio Pilgrims Trace Pilgrimage of Saint James
http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode= ... diaPref=WM
* NPR Radio Anti-Muslim Sentiments Resurface in Spain
http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode= ...
Greetings fellow Peregrinos.
I have been diligently working on the Weather pages, and there are now > 40 !
We are sourcing live weather info from Spain, France, Germany, US and UK.
http://www.elcaminosantiago.com/Weather-Camino-Frances-1.htm...
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