travelling back home

[Kerrie Littlejohn]

I took Iberia back from Santiago to Madrid. I had heard of the discount, but
was not one hundred percent positive. The discount I am talking about is
when you have your compostela you can go to a little travel agency next to
the pilgrim's office and buy a ticket with Iberia and you get a discount. I
have heard that it is a 50% discount, but cannot confirm that. I went ahead
and bought my ticket before I left at www.iberia.es and was able to get
ticket for a little under 30 euros, which was amazingly cheap, cheaper than
a bus or a train. Many people I met along the way got tickets through Iberia
when they got to Santiago and it didn't seem to me to be too cheap, at least
not as good of a deal as I had gotten. I asked people what they paid and
what the price was before the discount, but no one had asked about the
pre-discount price so there was not way to find out how much the discount
was. Buen Camino, Kerrie

>From: Sofia <guava555aHOTMAIL.COM>
>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
>Subject: travelling back home
>Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:06:12 +0200
>
>Hello,
>
>My camino is getting closer, and I'm starting to get a little bit nervous
>but also very excited! I've bought new shoes and started to wear them for
>long walks, I've started to plan my packing in detail, and I'm just about
>to book my tickets. And that's where I could use a little help... (I know
>that it's very late, but due to things out of my control I wasn't able to
>decide on when to go until yesterday. And my schedule is rather flexible so
>there shouldn't be a problem.)
>
>I'm flying to Biarritz with Ryan Air, and that seems perfect since I would
>like to start at SJPdP. The thing I'm wondering about is how to get back
>home after my arrival in Santiago. There seem to be two options: either go
>to back to Biarritz (by bus?) or go to Barcelona (Iberia?) to catch a Ryan
>Air flight from there. What would be my best choice, in your opinion? Or
>would you suggest something else?
>
>Also, I would like to thank you all for all the information I've recieved
>through this maillist in the past six months! During this time I've been
>saving emails that I found useful for my planning (or just interesting in
>one way or another) and lately I've been putting all the information
>together in a word-document that has been so much help! I'm planning to
>print parts of it and bring it on my journey, together with the CSJ guides.
>Thank you! I hope I'll be able to return this favour to others once I get
>back home.
>
>Take care!
>
>Sofia
>(less than three weeks to departure...!)

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