Arrow appreciation

It is one of my few regrets about my first Camino that I chose to walk just a few months too late to meet the famous Don Elías Valiña Sampedro - parish priest in O Cebreiro, scholar, author of the definitive guide book for the Camino Frances, and the man who came up with the notion of marking the Camino paths with yellow arrows. Such a beautifully simple idea! On that first Camino I carried a copy of his guide which belonged to my mother-in-law and had been signed by Don Elias a few years earlier. All of us who have walked since owe him and all those who have continued and extended his work since a great debt.
http://caminotravelcenter.com/who-was-elias-valina-follow-the-yellow-arrow/

For those pilgrins who may be unfamiliar with the work of Don Elías Valiña Sampedro
see these earlier forum threads and links.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/galicia-and-the-camino-owe-much-to-elias-valiña.47731/

and

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...valina-sampedros-camino-frances-thesis.47908/