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My thought was that the advantage of the credencial was that all pilgrims carry them and there is a central authority (the cathedral) that exerts some control over them already. Even if different groups issue them, they do so according to rules set by the cathedral. Getting all pilgrims to...
I'm sure I know less than Gronze about their current status. When I walked last year, Ray and Rosa had the most information in a regularly updated table, which looked much like the one that was shared in this forum not too long ago .
On my Camino de Madrid, I stayed in Los Huertos to break up...
I think I backtracked, as recommended. I just missed a yellow arrow pointing to a very small trail off the dirt road I was walking on and continued on that dirt road through the forest for a few km.
I had one of those unintended detours for several km until I wondered about the long distance between yellow arrows and checked my app, only to find myself way off trail, with the only way to get back on trail being to backtrack. That was just after Bendueños.
Each Camino has been different for me.
My first Camino was very much about connecting with medieval culture and identifying with the medieval pilgrims who had walked (or rode) the route before me.
My second was very much about spending quality time with my son, walking the route from beginning...
I'm a bit confused (certainly not unusual for me). Which nuns? Staying where? I know you can get the San Salvador credencial from the Benedictine albergue in Leon at the start of the San Salvador, but didn't know that there was a convent albergue in Oviedo at the end that gave out the Salvadorana.
It is pretty clear from a lot of anecdotal evidence that many of the volunteers and staff at the Pilgrim Office do not check for compliance with the "two stamps a day for the last 100 km" rule. It is also pretty clear from anecdotal evidence that at least a few do. We haven't conducted a...
When you go to the cathedral, where people buy tickets to enter, that is where you request the Salvadorana. The Salvadorana is free. And so is the cathedral for pilgrims who walked the San Salvador. :) (Other pigrims get a reduced rate, but not free.)
I have thought about being a scofflaw many times, ignoring the regulations of the TSA. But then I realized the retribution that the TSA could take. I didn't want to risk such from the TSA, so I considered a cheap IKEA bag for checking poles. Would that solve the TSA problem? I wasn't sure. I...
Of course, all this has got me thinking of which solo Camino I will do in November, after my hospitalero stint in Salamanca. I had been thinking that might be the perfect time to walk the Camino Mozarabe from Almería to Merida. But it is starting to be a bit more tempting to just walk from...
We are in Santiago now, enjoying staying with a fellow forum member for a few days. It was lovely to see @peregrina2000, if only for a few minutes. We will probably take a day trip to Finisterre and spend a couple of days in A Coruña. Then back to Astorga for the chocolate museum and on to...
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