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You can also get it in the tourist office in Santiago. I got one on my lsst Camino because I had filled up my regular credenciales. I was trying to get a stamp in each of the places shown, but there was no place with a stamp in Ponte Maceira that was open when I walked through.
Reports go both ways. This was also posted yesterday, from the middle of the meseta on the Frances:
On the one hand, my advice would be not to be scared off the Frances. But it may be a bit late for that advice. I also tend to advise people not to hop on a bus and head somewhere else...
I will admit that in 2016, with my son, we arrived in Roncesvalles by bus and stayed there. We were coming from Pamplona and starting from Roncesvalles. I don't think they were turning people away that day in July, though. I also started from Roncesvalles in 1989, but didn't stay there, just...
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You have revealed the reason why it is destroyed.
A man with pictures of cheap charlatanry... tells so many stories that not even he believes them.
We know him in the area and it has been him.
He is capable of it, I know him very well, he was in the oasis, he...
They used to say "millions of people have walked the Camino over the centuries". Soon we'll be saying "millions of people have walked the Camino over the decade".
I can see where you are coming from but I want to offer another perspective.
I think gratitude is valuable. Gratitude to others who help us and also gratitude more generally for the little moments of happiness and relief in our lives. I think that remembering to feel grateful for these little...
True. But that was the route when the Codex was written, several centuries after the pilgrimage started, which was closer to the time of Charlemagne. The Codex may be the first Pilgrim Guide, but the pilgrimage had been around for quite some time before that. If the Valcarlos route was more...
I don't have social anxiety, but I am flying to Spain tomorrow with someone who does to start a Camino. I will be better able to report after that.
I see a number of people responding along the lines "if you want to be with people, you can; if you don't want to, you don't have to". I am well...
I think one of the challenges with all of the "there are too many pilgrims on the Camino" posts is that what constitutes "too many pilgrims" for one person may be "not enough pilgrims" for another. We all have different preferences. In general (and I know I'm an exception here) the perfect...
I think the "too many right answers" wasn't just that there is a lot of chaff with the grain (as it were) which is what your response is dealing with, but the fact that a broad question (like "what is the busiest time on the Camino") doesn't have a good answer. It is too broad. Should a good...
That's why I said "and for other important ir wealthy pilgrims". I don't think it was only royalty who wanted to be sure if a place to sleep at night and had the means to do so. Even in the 80s we were able to phone ahead to hotels or pensions, where many chose to sleep.
Not to dispute the long, illustrious history of the Camino providing for Pilgrims but I would be very surprised if, when Alfonso II set out from Oviedo on the "first Camino", he didn't have runners riding ahead making sure that he and his entourage would have places to sleep every night. The...
I think if the Camino today, were like that of 35 or so years ago, the demographics of pilgrims would be very different. We can bemoan the growing commerce, and addition of conveniences (like luggage transport). But there is no question that they make a Camino possible to many people who...
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