Still wading through the “to do list” and get everything moving ahead towards the new edition. Time is one thing which we do not have lots off. Even less now that I have spent a morning rebuilding our office and clearing the clutter maybe I have turned into one of those clutter-nutters!
We are going to be adding more birds to the wild life section and dropping a few of the animals which someone is really never going to see even if they walked the camino every day of their lives. Gone are the Iberian Lynx, and the Otter and one or two others. To make the book more useful we really need to have things that people are going to see so we are going to add some of the more common birds. All I need to do now is do the drawings and hope they look better then our European tree frog which I am also going to redraw. If anyone has any suggestions of what they would like to see added let me know
It seems much easier to be back doing a book then a map. Not sure why that is. Maybe I am just over confident about the whole idea. Saw on the bbc site that they have found another early stone age find along the camino. How I would love to be involved with that dig.
Weather isn’t looking good for those setting off on the camino from St Jean. Snow and rain. hope it clears up the time Daphne is there in about 2 weeks. Brrrr.
Daphne del Camino came over for dinner last night and we managed to hammer out the final details of the research we need her to do for us. I think Beth and I both wish we where going with her but sadly it isn’t going to happen this edition.
She is going to check the Valcarlos route and some of the other detours and quite routes. The Valley of Silence is one that I am very keen to find out about and the high route via Dragonte. The more detours the better as far as we see it.
We have already started work on the third edition. Once more I have been battling km distances to Santiago. Also switching everything over to Indesign from Quark. reformatting is such a pain!
I was talking to our printer today about trying to reduce the weight of our book. It seems we have reached a critical size where it is almost impossible to use lighter paper. As it become difficult to go through the printing press at lighter then 40lb and also is more prone to tear.
So that means if we want to go lighter we have to cut out sections. Not sure if we really want to do this.
Ben and I had a meeting tonight to talk about goals and deadlines for the new edition of Walking the Camino de Santiago. We hammered out things we want to change, things we may have to make room for, and tried to be realistic about what we can and can’t do in the time we have. We haven’t quite got round to firming up deadlines, maybe because we’re missing the traditional meeting bottle of red wine.
I was going to call this post Unrealistic Goals & Moveable Deadlines, but I thought it would scare Daphne off too much.
Bethan
In 2008, Pili Pala is updating our book, Walking the Camino de Santiago. This will be the third edition of Walking the Camino de Santiago.
We really liked blogging our mapbook project, and got some valuable
feedback along the way. So we decided to go the blog route again for Walking the Camino de Santiago.
This time, we get to stay at home while someone else has all the fun in
Spain! Our friend and camino junkie, Daphne Hnatiuk, is going to be
updating the guide for us. Daphne’s walked the camino many times, and
has returned to be an hospitalera (pilgrim hostel volunteer) in different albergues (pilgrim hostels) along the route. So this blog will be a mix of
Daphne’s experiences along the camino, and our experiences of updating the information and getting the book ready for print.
As with the mapbook project, we’d love to get feedback from readers old and new. Anything you’d like to see in the book, anything you love from earlier editions, anything you can live without, please let us know by replying to posts.
On with the adventure……
Bethan