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- 1999 Burgos-SDC, 2003 Leon-SDC, 2007-2012 Le Puy-SDC, 2014 Burgos-Covarrubias, Camino Ingles 3 times
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Only if you carry it in your backpack . . . .How about a motorbike? Would that count?
Ooh, I like the idea of a virtual Camino - do you think we can get Google to send somebody with a pack camera to film it?I have just got back from cycling the Sanabres route and in an albergue one night i was talking ( i exaggerate ) with a Spanish cyclist on an electric bike ( cost him 2500 Euros ) and he told me he averaged 130/140 klms per day WOW .
4 sellos from Salamanca in his credentials should give the game away in Santiago i would hope .
I hired my bike from a company that also now hire electric bikes and it clearly states that a Compostella will not be awarded if the pilgrimage is made on one of these bikes .......and rightly so .
From electric bike to a moped is not a great leap ......then we have the leap from moped to motorbike ....motorbike to helicopter ......helicopter to lets do a virtual camino and print or photocopy a compostella .
OOOOh i can be ridiculous cant i ?
Regards.....John
Actually, a good part of the Camino paved roads are in Google Maps. Obviously, it does not (still) cover paths. For example, you can click your way from SJPP up to Cruz de Thibault (km 15), and then from Lepoeder pass to Roncesvalles (by Ibañeta).Ooh, I like the idea of a virtual Camino - do you think we can get Google to send somebody with a pack camera to film it?
I have mixed feelings about the Compostella. Bottom line it's a participation trophy which I hate when they hand them out to kids that play sports. You come in last & get a trophy? Not a great teaching method in my opinion.Why is the big point of it all to get the Compostella? Do people enjoy - or get anything out of - the process of getting there?
I have mixed feelings about the Compostella.
I was out on a hike in the local woods yesterday and crossed the local Crab and Winkle cycletrack (a nicely graded gravel track from Canterbury to Whitstable - see what they did there?).
There was a family group out for a walk that ranged from small children with dogs up to Granny in an electric wheelchair and I wondered, if you're confined to a motorised wheelchair and complete the Camino, even just the last 100km, does that mean no recognition?
From the Pilgrim Office website: "They are required to have travelled at least the last 100 kilometres on foot or horseback or the last 200 by bicycle, which is demonstrated by the “Credencial del Peregrino” duly stamped along the route travelled. Therefore other forms of travel to access the Compostela are excluded, except in the case of the disabled".Because electric wheelchairs are not essential for a wheelchair pilgrim to complete their Camino, I would guess that electric wheelchairs would not qualify.
Point takenFrom the Pilgrim Office website: "They are required to have travelled at least the last 100 kilometres on foot or horseback or the last 200 by bicycle, which is demonstrated by the “Credencial del Peregrino” duly stamped along the route travelled. Therefore other forms of travel to access the Compostela are excluded, except in the case of the disabled".
This tells me that electric wheelchair should be allowed.
So many threads end up with how rules need to keep in mind the disabled, not keeping in mind that the standard rules already do not apply to them.
There's a part of me that wonders what the Camino would look like if the Church just handed out Compostellas--no questions asked--in SJPP and Sarria. That way the cheaters and frauds could get out of the way and leave the trail to those who are walking for a purpose.
If the electrical bike is not charged by "external" means, ie-not plugging it in, but is charged by pedal power and gravity, all the energy is only coming from either the person or gravity. This is the same for those who walk or cycle just a more efficient use of energy.
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