
FREE UPDATES FOR
PURCHASERS OF THE
CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
ULTIMATE HANDBOOK
Latest updates: APRIL 2013
All chapters of The Camino de Santiago de Compostela Ultimate Handbook will be regularly updated on this website.
Purchasers of The Camino de Santiago Ultimate Handbook may contact us through the CONTACT page.
Members of the Handbook Support Team will visit the camino on a bi-monthly basis to verify the practical details,
and to obtain information out of first hand from persons who live / work on the camino.
Please note that the most recent updates are only available on request.
This prevents the other pilgrim guides to 'borrow' our knowledge, for free!
UPDATE SCHEDULE 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014
January 2009: Veteran pilgrim Jack de Groot will walk the French Road from Burgos to Santiago. [completed]
March 2009: Jack de Groot will walk the French Road from Pamplona to Burgos. [completed]
May 2009: Jack de Groot will walk the Road to Finisterra and Muxía. [completed]
June 2009: Veteran pilgrim Rebekah Scott will walk the "Ruta El Salvador" to from León to Oviedo. [completed]
June / July: Veteran Pilgrims Mark and Janice De Frayne will walk the Camino del Norte. [completed]
July / August 2009: Dietmar Völkel will verify the details on the German / French Roads from Trier to Le Puy. [completed]
August / September 2009: Jack de Groot will verify the details between Oviedo and Santiago on the Primitive Road. [completed]
December 2009: Andreas Schuehler will walk the Aragonese Road from Jaca to Puente la Reina. [completed]
January 2010: Jack de Groot will walk the French Road from Pamplona to Santiago and also the Ruta Sanabrés. [completed]
March 2010: Jack de Groot will walk the Friesean Route through northern Holland (Pieterpad) [completed]
April 2010: Andreas Schuehler will walk the Primitive Road from Oviedo to Melide via Sobrado de las Monjas [completed]
April 2010: Rebekah Scott will walk the Camino Francés from Roncesvalles to Santiago [Information via Contact Page]
May / June 2010: Jack de Groot will walk the Basque Road/Tunnel Route from Irún to Santo Domingo and to Burgos [ibid]
AND the Northern Road from Gijón to Santiago via Ribadeo [ibid]
May / June 2010: Veteran Pilgrims Inge and Eugene Carroll will walk the Vía de la Plata / Camino Mozárabe [completed]
Granada - Córdoba - Mérida AND Sevilla - Mérida - Zamora. Next: the Northern Portuguese Route via Braganza [completed]
the Southern Galician Route (Verín - Orense - SDC) AND the French Road Extention from Santiago to Muxía [completed]
July / August 2010: Dietmar Völkel will walk the German Road from Dortmund to Trier [completed]
September / October 2010: Jack de Groot will walk from León to SDC [completed]
Eugene Carroll will walk the Via Francigena from Lausanne to Lucca. [completed]
November 2010: Andreas Schuehler will walk from Pamplona to Burgos [completed]
January 2011: Jack de Groot and Inge & Eugene Carroll will walk the French Road from St Jean PP to Santiago [completed]
March 2011: Jack de Groot will walk the French Road (Burgos) and the Portuguese Rd from Tui to Santiago [completed]
May 2011: A full check-up of the Via de la Plata will be done by several members of the Support Team [completed]
June 2011: Back to the Ruta del Salvador and the Camino del norte (Inge and Eugene Carroll & Jack de Groot) [completed]
August 2011: Irún - Gijón the Northern Route and/or the Aragón Route [not possible: broken ankle]
October 2011: Oporto - Ponferrada - SDC [completed] (Jack de Groot)
October 2011: Eugene and Inge Carroll walk the Chinese Wall [completed]
December 2011: Veteran Fran Pérez Mirás will walk from Cebreiro to SDC. [completed]
January 2012: Burgos - Santiago (Inge and Eugene Carroll) [completed] SEE 'MY BLOG' PAGE
May/June 2012: Eugene and Inge Carroll will walk the Vía de la plata, Ruta Salvador and Primitivo/Norte .>> SDC [completed]
July/August 2012: Dietmar Voelkel will walk the Kolonnen Route (East German border) from Hof to Lübeck [completed]
September/October 2012: Andreas Schuehler will walk the Aragonese Road from Jaca to Puente la Reina. [completed]
November 2012 - July 2013: several members will verify the details of various roads. (See the various chapters for more information)
August 2013: Andreas Schuehler will walk the Silver Rd. [ ]
June / August 2013: The Ruta Salvador will be walked by ... [yet to be decided]
December 2013 - January 2014: Jack de Groot will verify the details on the French Road. [ ]
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