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Vandalism

Rushie

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From the tire tracks that pillar was exactly in the way of some poor Campesino trying to turn an eight-gang plough with minimum effort. Not so much vandalism as a consequence of mutual misunderstanding… Why put a mojone right where someone is going to need to maneuver a large and expensive bit of agricultural kit?
 
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Vandalism? Maybe. Accident? Could be that too.

This doesn't bother me as much as all the graffiti that is EVERYWHERE on the Frances.

But this would also be a moment when my GPS comes in handy - to make sure I follow the way the arrow in the direction it was intended to point me!
 
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
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Not so much a marker-post as a post with a marker on it.

Looks like it indicates the covered-culvert field entrance such that the tractor doesn’t end up in the ditch.
It's a marker post on the Camino on the opposite of the road the official post with the Camino sign has been knocked down also
 

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