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JohnnieWalker said:I'd make aplea that we don't get into any controversy about the authorship of this particular graffiti
sillydoll said:http://www.leithjb.net/blog/2008/06/23/curious-markings-on-a-pilgrim-route/
Interestingly, a number of the pilgrims were more inclined to be forgiving towards this vandal than I am!
Alaskan Woman said:Regardless, I hope someone will scrub it off with or without his aid.
"In medieval times the Compostela tourist industry pitched its wares in Lavacolla. Documents tell us that just like today's merchants, 12thc Composteleans posted advertisements, in a variety of languages, touting the virtues and prices of their inns, restaurants and taverns. Advance men from the hospices accosted weary,excited pilgrims with tales of how the scarcity of lodgings in the city required them to make decisions about, and payment for, lodgings on the spot."
sillydoll said:Have things changed?
... 12thc Composteleans posted advertisements, in a variety of languages, touting the virtues and prices of their inns, restaurants and taverns.
Well,I dont think adding more bins would help. i have seen pilgrims both spanish and non spanish throw stuff around the bins and less into it. Maybe a bit of education would help as well.falcon269 said:There are trash barrels along the trail from about Arzua to Monte do Gozo. I could not tell if it made a difference in the litter. Pilgrims may have been so used to tossing rubbish aside by Arzua that they did not pay attention to the barrels.
HOWEVER, if there were trash bins regularly along the way, I think most pilgrims would use them. Alert pilgrims use the private trash cans at homes and businesses, which probably aggravates that constituency. I became convinced that all those 2 liter water bottles were from bicyclists, since I never saw a walker buy a bottle that large!The cyclists need to accept the responsibility for taking their empty bottles to the next disposal site instead of tossing them to the side as they whiz along.
If 115,000 pilgrims are averaging 25 days on the pilgrimage, and each spends 30 Euro a day, then nearly 9 million Euro are being contributed to the local economy by pilgrims. I suspect the actual contribution is much larger considering the day trippers, airline and train fares, souvenirs, etc. Conventional economic models would predict that the final effect is 2.5 to 4 times the original amount spent as the income works its way through the system. The local governments should be able to find a way to install a trash barrel each 5 km on that kind of revenue. If they added plastic bag dispensers as the U.S. Park Service has done, pilgrims could take one and fill it with discarded trash (when the mood and energy allowed them to), knowing that there would soon be a barrel waiting for the filled bag.
Voila! A cleaner Camino.
Anniesantiago said:I can only comment that I have seen LOTS of ANCIENT graffiti in Pompei, Rome, and other ancient sites. Bare space calls to people with something to say. Unfortunately, they don't think about how their "art" ruins the ambiance for others.
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