[Gocamino] Misleading information

[Caroline Mathieson]

In fact the information is so misleading that I am wondering now if this is some sort of pre xmas joke and that someone somewhere is laughing there socks off at our gullability?

Caroline.

> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:37:57 +0200
> From: sillydoll at gmail.com
> To: saintjames at yahoogroups.com; gocamino at oakapple.net
> Subject: [Gocamino] Misleading information
> 
> I am sorry this got a bit off the subject.  (How did we end up with Don
> Quixote?)
> The post that set me off on misleading information (including the awarding
> of scallop shells in Santiago) was the one by Grant about the new book "A
> Traveler's Highway to Heaven" which he compared favourably to "The
> Pilgrimage Road to Santiago - The Complete Cultural Handbook by David
> Gitlitz & Linda Kay Davidson".
> Now, I happen to be rather passionate about Linda's book and consider it to
> be *THE* definitive book on the camino and I was quite excited about a new,
> equally well researched and written book.  Then I read the few pages on the
> link Grant added - the introduction and the excerpt on a chapter on
> Roncesvalles - and I must admit I got all huffy about the incorrect
> information in the book.
> I have walked St Jean to Roncesvalles and know that it is 3km from Ibaneta
> to Roncesvalles, not 1km as he claims.
> I felt quite strongly him about telling pilgrims that before setting off in
> their hired cars along the camino they should drive up to Roncesvalles to
> get a pilgrim passport (Sacrilege!!)
> And that they could attend the morning pilgrim mass for a blessing (what
> morning pilgrim mass?)
> That they should have their 'passport' stamped at monuments etc and add up
> the mileage walked around towns (horror!!) so that they could satisfy the
> 'churchmen' in Santiago that they had walked the required 100kms!!  (OMG!!)
> 
> And then, if that wasn't enough, they could expect to be given a scallop
> shell badge for their efforts!  AAArgggh!!
> This author has broken nearly all the 'pilgrim' rules in the book.  He needs
> to do a lot more research (he could start by looking at Grant's website
> which would have given him all the necessary information) before anybody
> actually buys his book.
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> Sil
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