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Yes indeed.View media item 5650Nuff said!
Nice. I also bought Javier's album. He was playing when I was on the roof tour. It was literally wonderful.I bought a CD off the Jazzman that plays his guitar in one of the squares surrounding the Cathedral at SdC. Every time I hear his music I am transported back to that square, sat in the sunshine, enjoying a cold beer and the ambiance of that special place.
I also sat on a wall on the way into the cathedral square with a lady from Vermont that I had walked with from Sarria, I bought a CD from a guitarist there called Javier Pardo. We watched the world go by and waited for someone we knew to walk by. It was absolutely superb.
As we walked into SdC we met up with a couple from Denmark who kindly guided us to the pilgrims office and as we walked with them we met up with another chap from Leicester that I kept bumping into along the way. It is a wonderful experience walking into a strange city full of people that you know.
Like I said, the music brings all these pleasant memories back and gives me the urge to go again next year.
I'm not sure what you mean...I think there were several explanations on how their favorite memento has held through the years and why. Are you wanting people to limit themselves only to a compostella, credential, or distance certificate--which may not be significant nearly as much? Then I would guess most would say credential...as others stated above, it holds the memories in the stamps. the distance certificate is relatively new, and that would hold for me the least...it is more a 'bragging rights' piece of paper to me...it speaks of what was accomplished, without the "how" recorded in a series of stamps.A diversity of responses to my thread. I was hoping to get a little more opinion on how people value one 'intrinsic' souvenir against another, or whether one comes to mean more or less with the passage of time.
The thread title has already been changed to clarify the curiosity which led to its creation. I'm not trying to survey people. It's nice to hear responses beyond the scope of the thread title, but at the same time I wonder how many of the early respondents noted the (previous) thread title without reading the primary posting.I'm not sure what you mean...I think there were several explanations on how their favorite memento has held through the years and why. Are you wanting people to limit themselves only to a compostella, credential, or distance certificate--which may not be significant nearly as much? Then I would guess most would say credential...as others stated above, it holds the memories in the stamps. the distance certificate is relatively new, and that would hold for me the least...it is more a 'bragging rights' piece of paper to me...it speaks of what was accomplished, without the "how" recorded in a series of stamps.
if you want to limit to those three, perhaps put up a survey with only those three choices.
I value them equally and miss them all a lot, as y backpack which contained them all, got lost on my way back home when switching from one plane to another. Travel insurance paid for most of the stuff in the backpack, but money cannot buy everything. I'll have to do another Camino to have another Compostela, I think. But that will be another one.Greetings,
Which item do you value most highly, now that you are home again: the Compostela, the distance certificate, or the credencial? All are mementos of your adventure.
Maybe the answer is different for each camino you have followed, assuming there's more than one.
This question occurred to me whilst pondering another thread on the subject of the distance certificate. I do have one, for my second camino, but I doubt it's accuracy. It makes an estimate at the distance from one place to another, but the angels and devils are in the detail.
Buen camino,
Philip
My small scallop shell necklace I bought at Albergue Camino del Perdon at Uterga.Greetings,
Which item do you value most highly, now that you are home again: the Compostela, the distance certificate, or the credencial? All are mementos of your adventure.
Maybe the answer is different for each camino you have followed, assuming there's more than one.
This question occurred to me whilst pondering another thread on the subject of the distance certificate. I do have one, for my second camino, but I doubt it's accuracy. It makes an estimate at the distance from one place to another, but the angels and devils are in the detail.
Buen camino,
Philip
better yet if it would spray them with skunk scent.I was thinking that it would be an interesting idea to make up a 100 or so 100.000 markers and go attach them and leave a camera set up. As each person steals it replace it with another and start a website with the pictures of the thieves in action.
Many thanks. I think you may be the first person to answer my question, not that the other responses weren't entertaining. Buen Camino.Now, as to which of the three I value the most, the compostela, the credencial or the certificate of distance? I have all three, but I would have to say the compostela I received at the end of my pilgrimage is the one I value the most. Mine is waiting to be framed with my scallop shell. The compostela is the religious and historical document; the motives for my pilgrimage were both religious and historical. The certificate of distance is a fun souvenir as is my credencial and they will both be kept with other mementos of my trip. I have a distance reminder in the form of a small tile magnet that is displayed on a magnetic blackboard in my home that I found in a souvenir shop in SdC, no need for me to frame the paper one.
Couldn't have been said any better!My " compostela" is the impressions , feelings , lessons , memories firmly imbedded in my heart ..... Safe there .... Will go with me to grave ..... I don't need the paper
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