Supplies at SJPP

[Kerrie Littlejohn]

Another option, which I take advantage of as well as I am sure many others
is to photo copy the pages you want from a guidebook and then throw away the
pages that you don't need any more. You may not be able to photocopy the
entire copy of a large cultural and arts guide, but as far as the guide from
the CSJ is concerned it is very managable. Buen camino.


>From: Bruce McLean <b_mcleanaTELUSPLANET.NET>
>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
>Subject: Re: Supplies at SJPP
>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:44:45 -0600
>
>Mary Bolster wrote:
>
> >
> > <<
> > Take the book apart and send sections to the Correo at apropriate
>places.
> > Reduces the weight you carry to one chapter.
> >  >>
> >
> > How is that done? Do you send, for example, to the Correo in Leon C/O
>your
> > name and a potential date?
>
>Send your parcel to
>
>         Family Name (In CAPS & UNDERLINED),   First Name, Second Name (or
>Initial)
>         Lista de Correos
>         Name of Town Province and Postal Code
>
>                 Towns:
>                     PAMPLONA Navarra
>31080
>                     LOGROÑO La Rioja
>26080
>
>BURGO                                                               09080
>
>LÉON                                                                  24080
>                     ASTORGA
>Lèon                                                  24700
>                     PONFERRADA
>Lèon                                             24400
>                     SARRIA
>Lugo                                                       27600
>                     SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA A Coruña        15780
>
>All this information is in the Confraternity guide. Even with your "severe"
>weight restrictions you should carry this as it is the "best" guide
>available
>for accommodation meals etc. in Inglès.
>
>I am a "pack rat" I pick up every brochure, books and postcard I see; I
>made
>it a habit to empty this out of my pack at frequent intervals and posted
>the
>accumulation on to Santiago.  Mailing boxes can be purchased  at the
>Correo.
>
>With regard to your "weight limitation"; I do not recall the examiners at
>the
>Pilgrim Office in Santiago asking any questions about "how much weight" was
>in
>my pack before they issued me a Compostela.  You do not get additional
>"brownie points" for how light your pack is.  The point is carry what
>experience has taught you can carry comfortably and what you will need for
>a
>"relatively" comfortable trip.
>
>I think the Correo was invented so that you can redefine what you need and
>get
>rid of what you don't. ;-)
>
>By the way I used the book you mentioned, it was invaluable! My complete
>copy
>will be with me this fall, unfortunately it will be dead weight from
>LE-PUY-EN-VELAY to the Somport.
>
>Buen Camino

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