Also got a rather wonderful app for my phone on which you can plan your route, get links to the hostel websites, and see what facilities are where. It’s called Camino Pilgrim, it’s free and it looks pretty good to use in conjunction with the guide book.
January’s not been a good month for British icons. Lemmy, Bowie and Alan Rickman all dying in a 2 week period is a bit much really. I did, however, wonder what David Bowie would have thought about the plight of Syrian refugees being pushed to 2nd place on the BBC news by a long piece on his death. I suspect he would have thought it was a case of scrambled priorities, as I did.
While on the subject of news, I saw our illustrious Minister of Transport (can’t remember the non-entities name) announcing that the A591 in Cumbria wouldn’t be back in use until May after it fell into a river during the floods at Christmas. I can’t help thinking that the government don’t appreciate that getting about in the Lake District can be quite tricky even when all the roads are open what with mountains and lakes in the way and Heaven knows what the effects on tourism will be. We’re going up to the Lakes for a couple of days in late February, so we’ll be doing our bit for the local economy.
