Le Puy - SDC Credencial

[Jim_Hyde]

I am planning to walk from Le Puy to SDC in April - June 2018, taking around 62 - 67 days. I understand the credencial only has room for 56 stamps do I need to get 2 credencial to fit all the stamps or will they all fit on a single document.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

I am planning to walk from Le Puy to SDC in April - June 2018, taking around 62 - 67 days. I understand the credencial only has room for 56 stamps do I need to get 2 credencial to fit all the stamps or will they all fit on a single document.

You can get two, or just add a blank sheet of paper. Either will work with the Pilgrim Office. Remember two sellos a day after Sarria.

 

[AJGuillaume]

I am planning to walk from Le Puy to SDC in April - June 2018, taking around 62 - 67 days. I understand the credencial only has room for 56 stamps do I need to get 2 credencial to fit all the stamps or will they all fit on a single document.

We're walking from Lake Geneva to Santiago de Compostella, from 10 June to 30 October.
We have already bought 2 credenciales each, but we'll have to buy more on our way, as we reckon we'll need 4 each.
So a technical question:
The first credential gets stamped in the large box on the first page of stamps at your departure point. Do we need to get subsequent credenciales stamped in that large box, or can we use this box for normal stamps?
Buen Camino
Andrew

 

[Kanga]

@AJGuillaume I was told at the church in Pontferrada, where I bought a new credential, that I should start each credential as if it was new, and fill in the first page with a new "starting point" stamp. But I did not like that, because as far as I was concerned there was only one starting point, the first. So I preferred to glue that page to the back of my old credential making it one long continuous book. And it was fine when I presented it in the Pilgrims Office. Your last stamp - i.e. from the Pilgrims Office of the Cathedral in Santiago, also goes on the first page under "Cumplió la peregrinación" . Don't let anyone put a stamp there as it means you have finished your pilgrimage.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

You can pick one up later in the trek when yours is getting full.

 

[scruffy1]

The nuns will sell you a credencial in the cathedral shop, if Le Puy then do climb up to the Chapelle St. Michel d'Aiguilhe, as well as the Statue de Notre Dame de France-a bit like climbing into a ship's hold but do it, while the Cloisters of the Cathedrale du Puy-en-Velay are not Vézelay but are a pleasant reminder.

 

[AlwynWellington]

I'm with @Kanga on this.

I started at Le Puy in April 2016 and my first credencial showed this.

I suffered an injury and retired hurt at Estella / Lizarra.

As my first credencial was almost full, and had some sello as I tried to continue after Estella, i decided to get a second credencial and returned to Estella in October 2017.

The hospitalera there filled in the first page showing Estella as the start point.

At Santiago it was all irrelevant.

For the Compostellana the focus was only on:
"Did I walk all the way from Sarria?"

For the certificate of distance requested five days later using the same two credencials no questions were asked.

So, while I agree with @Kanga , we can rationalise the second credencial as starting the day of the first stamp.

Kia kaha (take care, be strong, get going)

 

[SYates]

I am planning to walk from Le Puy to SDC in April - June 2018, taking around 62 - 67 days. I understand the credencial only has room for 56 stamps do I need to get 2 credencial to fit all the stamps or will they all fit on a single document.

When you first credencial is (nearly) full, just get a new one - lots of places have them ;-) Bon Chemin, SY

 

[Magnara]

I am planning to walk from Le Puy to SDC in April - June 2018, taking around 62 - 67 days. I understand the credencial only has room for 56 stamps do I need to get 2 credencial to fit all the stamps or will they all fit on a single document.

We met a woman who was walking from her home in Germany to Santiago de Compostela, at the rate of 2 weeks a year in her annual holidays. When we met her in southern France she had a credencial that was about 2 metres long by then, quite a sight when she unfolded it, with someone at each end holding it- she was expecting to walk into the cathedral on 27 August this year.

 

[David Tallan]

My son and I filled two credencials each from Roncesvalles to Finisterre. When it was obvious that one wouldn't be enough I got us each another one in Leon. It was stamped in Leon above our personal info but we didn't start using it until Pereje where they stamped first stamp in the regular space. In Santiago they put a completion stamp in both.