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Rosina Lila wrote:<br>
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family="SERIF" ptsize="10" size="2">Hello you all,<br>
>From the end of April throughout the rest of this Xacobean Holy
Year all 52 (fifty two) of the albergues supported by the Culture
Council of the Xunta will be equipped with computers and (free)
Internet facilities available to pilgrims.<br>
Furthermore, there will be an additional 17 (seventeen) computer and
Internet centers for use by pilgrims in public buildings throughout
the four Galician provinces. <br>
The multiple daily pilgrim Masses, celebrated with the exultation of
the Botafumeiro, have proven to be extremely well attended. <br>
Today, Saturday, ten thousand faithful attended the pilgrim Masses at
the Santiago Cathedral.. Also, today the Pilgrims' Office awarded more
than 400 Compostelas to pilgrims.<br>
Unfortunately, the Pilgrims' Office is still bereft of computer
facilities and, relevant information needs to be compiled by hand;
consequently exacting and verified figures are not yet in place..<br>
As soon as the situation is remedied and the statistics for March are
available I will post them here.<br>
Warm regards,<br>
Rosina. </font></font></blockquote>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big>Hi Rosina </big></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big>That's great news
about the internet as we hope to send back information to our church
on there web site . My son and myself leave after mass today to fly to
Bilbao with eastjet and then tomorrow go by train to<br>
Shaugrin<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span> to
start our walk on 27th we hope to do the 240? miles in two weeks and
spend a few day at the end in Santiago before<br>
getting the train back to Bilbao which takes a day .<br>
we have booked our Plane/hotel first night /train all on the internet
and after reading all the information you and others have given re
looked at our packing list( after finding out my brivery weighed 11/2lb
)we joined CSJ and that has been great for lots of information and
there Camino guide I will also be taking the John Brierley book which
has some great daily walking maps in .</big></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big>God Bless<br>
Doug Lowe<br>
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