Today Janey and I have spent a while chatting and booking flights for the Camino which we will be starting in just 20 days. And for my subsequent trip to the UK.
Janey will fly to Barcelona and spend the night with us at Casa TulStig on the 28th June. The next day (29/06/2014) we will catch an early train (unless some kind person out there has a car and is willing to drop us??) to Barcelona Sants to catch a slightly later (but still early) train to Logroño, where we will spend the afternoon preparing for our first steps back on the Camino Frances the following day.
I then tried to book the trains, but came up with a couple of problems in understanding how the RENFE site works. I shall this evening discuss this with my dear friend, Irene, and tomorrow get on and book the train tickets too.
All this aside our credentials arrived today in the mail from Santiago. They are different to ones we've had before - more compact:
There is still plenty of space for sellos (stamps) but they'll fit in our small bags much easier, for easy access. In previous years I also got them free from a site called 'Peterborough Pilgrims', but following a change in policy by the the powers that be in Santiago this site is no longer able to distribute them for free. Instead they have to be ordered direct for a small fee. IS this another sign of the commercialisation of the camino I worry?
Greetings from the Pilgrims' Office in Santiago. The Cathedral of Santiago continues to be very happy to provide the Peterborough Pilgrims (indeed any established church based group) with the Official Pilgrim Credencial.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the correction, Johnnie. Unfortunately that wasn't what I understood when I tried to order one from the Peterborough Pilgrims. Crossed wires perhaps.
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