Don't Believe Everything Cast Into Stone

[jsalt]

I was walking the Camino Inglés recently, and took these photos. Has anybody else noticed the mistake on the middle one?

Taken on 13 Feb 2020 at 13:52


Taken on 13 Feb 2020 at 14:37


Taken on 13 Feb 2020 at 14:40


Jill

 

[george.g]

Yes, I thought the rule was “the rays point the way“ except when they don’t.
Could it be whoever erected the monoliths only had right hand tiles. (joke)
Regards
George

 

[RJM]

I did not notice any mistakes, but am quite ecstatic none of them are covered with moronic graffiti or have had distance plates stolen from them.

 

[Anniesantiago]

I was assuming it was the 88,000 km

 

[Betterisgood]

I did not notice any mistakes, but am quite ecstatic none of them are covered with moronic graffiti or have had distance plates stolen from them.

An easy 41k!!

 

[NorthernLight]

One must read your photo’s time stamp to get it. You were time shifted back and forward nicely, or you ran really fast.

 

[OzAnnie]

Easy pezy Jill.
You walk 70klm per hour quite often.

Somebody tipped the wrong marker off the truck at that point.

 

[koilife]

It was psychology majors messing with pilgrim OCD.

 

[Former member 49149]

The distances, with their precision after the decimal point, reminded me of some of the markings on the Portuguese camino. I mean, how encouraging is it to read that you have only so many minutes and seconds to go till your next marker? I don't remember distances on other markers. At this moment, only those two. Back to your 'mistake': @NorthernLight has the answer to the problem I did not see till reading her reply!

 

[jsalt]

All three photos were taken beween Leiro and Bruma. I took the first one (Km 49,995) because I thought it was so ridiculous – for the sake of 0.005 of a kilometre they couldn’t make it a round Km 50,000.

Then I did a double take at the second one (Km 88,863) because I thought I was now going mad. I could have sworn I had only 2 days to go to Santiago, now I had 4.

So at the next junction, when I saw the third one (Km 47,299), I took a photo of that one too out of sheer relief.

If anyone is walking the Camino Inglés in the near future I would love them to check it out as well, before the powers that be spot the mistake!

As for the direction of the shell – that was never consistent the whole way. And because they weren’t consistent, one can’t be 100% sure which direction to go if there is no arrow. There is one such in the centre of Betanzos, before you cross the big market place; it is pointing downwards – or is it upwards? I wasn’t ready to go downwards yet, so decided it must be upwards, and not left or right, and I went straight on.

 

[Betterisgood]

The mistake has been there at least 2 years, from when we stayed walking the inglés to train for 'away' caminos.....interesting.
MaryEllen

 

[Kanga]

Fun, but should be fixed because it is misleading. These markers are sometimes used in emergencies. It was very frustrating to find missing kilometres on the nearest waymarker when a walker fell and was injured and a companion was trying to arrange an ambulance. But no information is better than the wrong information.

 

[notion900]

Dont worry the plates will be stolen soon...

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

Yes, I thought the rule was “the rays point the way“ except when they don’t. Could it be whoever erected the monoliths only had right hand tiles. (joke)
Regards George

No - don't accept/expect that "rule". The direction of the 'rays' can point either way. In some parts of the camino they point the right way, but not always, so don't follow them - follow the yellow arrows!
Buen camino!

 

[Viggo]

I was walking the Camino Inglés recently, and took these photos. Has anybody else noticed the mistake on the middle one?

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Jill

Is it true that rays are in the opposite direction in Galicia? is "Galicia" in the bottom picture covered?

 

[JabbaPapa]

The "rays" pointing the direction has only ever been a rough convention, and something that has never been instituted systematically ; not anywhere.

 

[Vacajoe]

I thought the error was that it didn’t say, “Melted Rubber Humans” on it like every stone in the last 300K of the CF in 2018....