Neitz
Westmarch
- Time of past OR future Camino
- CF from SJPdP June 2023
There have been many photos posted recently of a long queue of people waiting to get into the Pilgrim Office run by Les Amis Du Chemin De Saint Jacques in Saint Jean Pied de Port.
I read that at this office they will provide a credencial, place the first stamp in it, and provide tips and information.
I already have a credencial and have been researching "tips and information" for a long time (here in this forum and in numerous other sources).
I am arriving in SJPdP in the afternoon, and I have to get moving up the hill to get to Orisson where I have a reservation that evening. I am the type that would like the sweet Amis du Chemin stamp, but if the queue is an hour long I trust that I could get my first stamp at any one of a number of gites or shops in town and it will be as "official" as anything else as far as the pilgrim's office in Santiago is concerned.
I mean people can start anywhere outside the 100km radius and just need any stamp from that starting place, right?
Am I correct, or am I missing something?
I read that at this office they will provide a credencial, place the first stamp in it, and provide tips and information.
I already have a credencial and have been researching "tips and information" for a long time (here in this forum and in numerous other sources).
I am arriving in SJPdP in the afternoon, and I have to get moving up the hill to get to Orisson where I have a reservation that evening. I am the type that would like the sweet Amis du Chemin stamp, but if the queue is an hour long I trust that I could get my first stamp at any one of a number of gites or shops in town and it will be as "official" as anything else as far as the pilgrim's office in Santiago is concerned.
I mean people can start anywhere outside the 100km radius and just need any stamp from that starting place, right?
Am I correct, or am I missing something?
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