[Gocamino] Fwd: Bay Area Pilgrim Walk with Alison Raju

[Robert Spenger]

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From: "Lin Galea" <lin at lingalea.com>
Date: February 29, 2008 11:43:47 AM PST
To: "'Robert Spenger'" <rspenger at earthlink.net>
Subject: Bay Area Pilgrim Walk with Alison Raju
Reply-To: <lin at lingalea.com>

Bay Area Pilgrim Walk
With Alison Raju
Sunday, March 16th
9:30 – 6:00 (approx)
Ferry Building, San Francisco


Hola Bay Area Pilgrims:

Join us in sharing our beautiful Bay Area with Alison Raju, author of  
several guides to the Camino de Santiago and one of the Vice Chairman  
of the Confraternity of St. James.  Alison will be visiting California  
for the Gathering in Santa Barbara.  For those of you who can’t make  
it to the Gathering, here is your chance to visit with Alison in person.

  Meet at the statue of Ghandi on the bay side of the Ferry Bldg.   
Coffee and pastries are available at Peets, Frog Hollow, and Acme  
Bread Company.  At 9:30 sharp we will depart along the Embarcadero, up  
and over Coit Tower, through North Beach, Russian Hill and the Marina  
District to the Presidio.  We'll stop at the Lucas Campus for coffee  
and a break.  From there we will cross through the Presidio over the  
Golden Gate Bridge to the Marin side of the Golden Gate National  
Recreation Area, down into Sausalito for a ferry ride back to San  
Francisco.

This is an all day, 11 – 12 mile walk, and a great way to see the City.
Dress in layers, wear good walking shoes, bring a bag lunch and water.

The Ferry Bldg is easily accessible by public transportation:
Bart (Embarcadero Station) (www.bart.gov/) fewer trains on Sunday,  
check schedule!
CalTrain (exit at the SF end of the line, then  N Judah to Embarcadero  
Station or 15-20 minute walk around the embarcadero to the Ferry  
Bldg). (www.caltrain.com)
Ferries from Vallejo (www.baylinkferry.com/), Larkspur Landing &  
(goldengateferry.org/schedules/) & Alameda (www.transitinfo.org/)

Parking is metered all along the Embarcadero.  A block or two in, the  
meters are free on Sunday. To get the free spots, get there early!   
There are several lots within two blocks of the Ferry Bldg.

Questions and RSVP:  contact Lin Galea (415-441-5951) or lin at lingalea.com


Alison Raju  is a former teacher of French, German and Spanish in a  
Community College-type institution in Nottingham (England).  She made  
her first pilgrimage to Santiago in 1990, starting from Le Puy-en- 
Velay in France.  Since then she has written several guide books to  
different pilgrim routes, three of which have run into further  
editions.  These include The Way of St James: Pyrenees – Santiago –  
Finisterre; The Way of St. James: Le Puy to the Pyrenees; The Way of  
St. James, Via de la Plata: Seville/Granada to Santiago and a medieval  
pilgrim route in Norway:  Pilgrim Road to Nidaros. St. Olav’s Way:  
Oslo to Trondheim.  All of these are published by Cicerone Press.   
Alison is one of the Vice-Chairmen of the Confraternity of St. James  
and has worked many times as hospitalera in different pilgrim refugios  
in Spain.