Compostella is only 10 km. from the sea - many pilgrims e.g. from England
would have gone there by boat, as English tour groups do now. Aline Hornaday
(maybe I should add that I was in Compostella in 1998)
At 12:07 PM 2/3/00 -0000, you wrote:
>Re: the badge and the beach. What puzzles me
>(and perhaps I should have said this in my first
>e-mail) is that Compostella is inland so the
>received wisdom about going to the beach to pick
>up shells doesn't seem to make sense. I haven't
>been to Compostella but a look at the map shows no
>water nearby. Curiouser and curioser as Hall's
>Dictionary gives this information - and I was
>(rightly) challenged when I passed it on at a
>talk.!!!
>ÿþ<
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