You might not know this, but Galicia have several hot springs. Around these hot springs there are usually one or more Spas, or as they are know in Spain, Balnearios.
The video clip above was recorded at Gran Hotel Hesperia, on the La Toja island just south of Santiago de Compostela.
This might be interesting for some sore pilgrim feet maybe?
El Correo Gallego reports today that Travelodge are considering building hotels along the camino francés. They had some initial meetings with the Xunta in Galicia recently.
Travelodge is a low-cost hotel that, if they actually do this, would offer pilgrims a room for about €35,- / night.
I wonder if some of the spirit of the camino will be gone if pilgrims sleep in Travelodge’s instead of the local albergue?
Easter is around the corner and the local government has presented a new website that is focused on presenting the easter program. As you may know, in Spain easter is know for their easter easter processions (see photo).
In Santiago de Compostela this year there will be 14 of these processions. Have a look here for the program. Each procession walks a different route, click on one to see the route and to get some more historical information on each route. It seems like English is not available.
For more information on the easter celebrations in Santiago de Compostela, have a look here:
http://www.semanasantasantiago.com
To get an idea of what a procession is like, have a look at this video:
Galicia, and Spain, are well know for their fiestas (or festas as they say in Galicia). The big season is summer, when there are one of these fiestas every weekend. They usually have a theme, and I saw in the paper today that the 33rd Cheese fiesta will be held this upcoming weekend, kicking off the 2008 fiesta-season.
This is all happening in Arzúa, they are celebrating the 33rd annual cheese this upcoming weekend starting march 2nd 2008. For the full program, have a look at the official program at the Arzúa county website.
La Voz de Galicia reports today that ClickAir are considering a new connection between Vigo and one of the airports in London. Earlier this week, Ryanair also announced a new route from Santiago to Reus (Barcelona). Read the rest of this entry »
El Correo Gallego has story today about how both Aerlingus and Ryanair will re-open the routes from Santiago de Compstela that they closed down earlier this year.
El Correo Gallego had a good looking graphic that shows some pilgrim statistics from 2006 and 2007 a few days ago.
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