A curiosity

[Crawley, Jeffrey]

As with most 'Airport Fiction' it passes the time rather than enlightens the mind.

With regards to Spanish water I only ever buy one bottle of water and then refill from the wayside fuentes to no ill effect whatever. There were a pate of bad stomach problems west of Astorga last July but we put that down to poor hygene at a snack bar. I fell foul of a chorizo bocadillo in the Bar Sevilla in Astorga myself.

Interestingly the London newspapers have the shock scoop that some bottled waters may be up to two years old . . . not to mention the 7 years or so it took to filter through a French mountain side.

Come to think of it, apart from a tiny amount of water reaching earth via cold meteors and an equally small amount that left with space probes and never returned, the water that is here has always been here.  Now THERE's a connection with the past, you could be drinking the same water drunk by a pilgrim 400 years ago! 

Perhaps better not to dwell on it though :o)

Jeffrey

'the more I know, the more I realise there is to know'


-----Original Message-----
From: Rebekah Scott [mailto:rebritesaYAHOO.COM]
Sent: 09 July 2003 13:52
To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
Subject: Re: A curiosity


Ah..fiction! I think Mr. Ludlum learned his "Spanish Pilgrim" stuff from watching the Holy Week crowds in Seville.  

I rather liked the NYT piece, considering how tightly edited it was. What I found surprising was how often the writer and her friends were "poisoned" by drinking the local water! How absurd. How Dominico Laffi!  

Oh well. Having written about the Camino for newspapers since the early 90's, I can also say that no matter how deeply I've researched and carefully I've written, someone  will find fault with it. 

Rebekah


Rebekah Scott, journalista
'The more I learn, the less I know.'


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