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Hi everyone,
I've only recently joined this group and have to say that I'm benefitting greatly from everyone's advice. We're leaving in 1 week for our trek up the Portuguese route. Here's my question...I've heard that there are long lines to get the Compostela. Since we're likely to be...
I just finished my first Camino. Sarria➡️Santiago. 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 This forum was the absolute best. Thank you Ivar, moderators and members.
I plan to be in Santiago for a couple of days. I have my certificate of completion and distance. I “think” I read somewhere of a small convent/church in Santiago...
My husband and I are walking the Camino Ingles - in England. We started in Reading, and will end in Southampton. At that point we will travel to Spain and walk from Ferrol to Santiago.
The stamps we are getting in England are large - we're averaging 3 to a page. The booklet is quickly...
Wildfires permitting, we leave Lisbon on August 9 and our intention is to walk to Fatima, then across to Tomar, thus rejoining the Camino and walking on through Porto and taking the coastal and perhaps Espiritual routes to Santiago.
My question is this... in Fatima is there a certificate of...
Hi. If I stop at a private Hostel or Hotel along the Camino Frances route will I still be able to get a stamp in my Pilgrims passport or do I have to seek out an appropriate Pilgrims Albergue. Thanks.
Hello all apologize if I am posting this in the wrong place.
I am 7 days from finishing the Camino Frances having started in SJDPP on the 29 of May.
My credential was not stamped by the issuing organisation. Does this matter?
Appreciate it is a bit late to ask but hopefully it is not an...
I will be arriving in Santiago on August 11th. I went on the Oficina del Peregrino Website earlier today and got a QR Code, which I saved. Was this too far in advance, and will I need to secure the QR code again as my arrival date is almost two months away? Much thanx for the help - Steve
Our first credenciales are full! And we’re now close enough that we’ll need two sellos per day starting tomorrow.
We have two extra we brought from home.
The answer to these questions are probably obvious but I haven’t found them anywhere.
What should we do about the information in the front...
Seems the way my stages mapped out I will be spending the night in A Balsa and the following one in Villei
For the sake of an argument let's say that I will get my only cello del Dia on eve of June 15 when I arrive to albergue
On June 16 I start walking and reasonably guaranteed 1 cello for...
I will be starting my Camino from Sarria in less than 45 days. My first Camino ever and a huge step for me to do solo. I‘m looking forward to meeting new friends on this journey. This forum has been a huge inspiration for me to just do it.
I know I can get my first passport stamp (sello) from...
Is there any requirement that the first stamp of the day in the last 100k is from the same place as the last stamp of the previous day to confirm I picked up where I left off? Hello, everybody, from Villaviciosa. Starting the Primitivo tomorrow, Sunday, 22 May.
I'm in Santiago. We arrived in the rain sometime before 15hr. We took a few photos but decided to head right to the Pilgrim's Office.
We had all pre-registered online as advised here. We showed our QR code (given when we registered)... we were immediately given a number for the queue... we...
Yesterday we got Compostelas. I don’t usually get one anymore, but we were walking for sick friends and wanted them to have them.
Before I relate my experience, I want to communicate that I deeply appreciate the efforts all of the volunteers make on behalf of the pilgrims. Thank you very...
I have often read that modern credencials descend from letters that medieval pilgrims sometimes carried that basically said they were a pilgrim and asked for safe passage. Does anyone know of any documentation of this? Have any survived?
You don't have to have studied to realize that it can get very busy in the upcoming months at the Pilgrim Office. Over the past few weeks I have helped many people to fill in the digital form to obtain the QR code that they need to obtain the ticket. My advice is simple , fill in the form the...
Update for getting a Compostela , on busy days it goes like this : if you have the QR code you will not get a ticket after you enter but you have to walk straight through the garden and down the stairs then left and then you get your ticket.( maybe it will stay like this ) it keeps the...
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