Deborah53
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances, (2006)
Le Puy-Cahors, (2008)
Camino North Coast May (2019)
Dear Pilgrms,
I have just returned from the Camino del Norte and enjoyed this route very much, hard though it is. I am writing today to alert other pilgrims about my experience at Capilla del Cantu just as one enters Asturias. A Google search brings up good pictures of this very little chapel directly on the Camino path.
I believe in one of my guidebooks I read that it was a place to take a moment and have the little tour by a man cares for the chapel. It said something to the effect that he gives a little tour and to consider giving a tip. I can no longer check as I lost my first guidebook along the way and the second one fell apart. I stopped at this little chapel and placed a tip in his basket full of coins. He reached for a votive candle and handed me a cigarette lighter to light it. I did so. After that, he reached for me, grabbed my body and began groping it and to try and kiss me. This man must be in the neighborhood of 80-90 years of age. I had to forcibly pull myself away, getting caught with my backpack on the doorway while saying "No!" I walked as quickly as I could away from him.
While I don't think this man was a match for me physically, it was disturbing and upsetting. He is perhaps luring women pilgrims walking alone into the little chapel in the hope for something more. I am posting this as an alert.
If anyone knows which book this is in, please let me know as I would like to contact the author and ask for the suggestion to be taken out of future publications.
May we all have safe and enjoyable journeys on the Camino.
I have just returned from the Camino del Norte and enjoyed this route very much, hard though it is. I am writing today to alert other pilgrims about my experience at Capilla del Cantu just as one enters Asturias. A Google search brings up good pictures of this very little chapel directly on the Camino path.
I believe in one of my guidebooks I read that it was a place to take a moment and have the little tour by a man cares for the chapel. It said something to the effect that he gives a little tour and to consider giving a tip. I can no longer check as I lost my first guidebook along the way and the second one fell apart. I stopped at this little chapel and placed a tip in his basket full of coins. He reached for a votive candle and handed me a cigarette lighter to light it. I did so. After that, he reached for me, grabbed my body and began groping it and to try and kiss me. This man must be in the neighborhood of 80-90 years of age. I had to forcibly pull myself away, getting caught with my backpack on the doorway while saying "No!" I walked as quickly as I could away from him.
While I don't think this man was a match for me physically, it was disturbing and upsetting. He is perhaps luring women pilgrims walking alone into the little chapel in the hope for something more. I am posting this as an alert.
If anyone knows which book this is in, please let me know as I would like to contact the author and ask for the suggestion to be taken out of future publications.
May we all have safe and enjoyable journeys on the Camino.