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How do I get a stamp from my home town? We fly into Barcelona. Where would we get one there?You can also get a starting stamp from your home town, and stopovers along the way, such as Madrid. A good way to remind yourself of the whole pilgrimage.
Thank you for this information. I didn't want to fill in any info until i checked. Gracias.Speaking on behalf of all of us who labor in the Pilgrims Office at Santiago, at the end of your Camino, we do sincerely appreciate it when the blanks in the front of your credencial are all filled in appropriately. Providing your name,"home town," starting date and place, how you traveled (foot, bike, horse), and signing the front page, all help move the process along.
Personally, I obtain my credentials from American Pilgrims on Camino (APOC) - http://www.americanpilgrims.org
Each year, this document comes to me partially filled out using a laser printer. My name, hometown and country are already completed. I finish the inside front page and away I go.
Your national pilgrims organization may also make credentials available to you. Or, you can order them from Ivar here in his store. The credentials he provides are the same credentials sold in the Pilgrim Office.
Also, should you lose your credential and it gets forwarded to the Pilgrim Office by whoever finds it, we can more easily return it to you when you arrive if you have filled in the front page. The process is simple. An arriving pilgrim comes to us stating that they lost their credencial at (place) on (date). We will ask the person to show us an identity document, then we rummage through the box(es) of turned-in credentials to try to find yours. If you are lucky and a good samaritan forwarded your credential to us, you are reconnected to your document...smiles all around... Of course, if you neglected to write your name in the Credencial, who is to say that is yours?
As an aside, if this happens (you lose your credential), try to obtain another credential along the way and pick up where the other document left off, obtaining sellos each day. If the first document gets to Santiago, we may be able to stitch together a complete record of your progress on Camino. Alternatively, get a piece of paper to collect your daily 'sellos' on to establish your "line of march."
All evidence is good evidence. But showing up empty-handed and with only a good story alone can result in disappointment.
When you do get to the Pilgrim Office, if you have all the appropriate blanks filled in ahead of time, it saves having to take the time at the Pilgrim Office counter to ask you to do it and delay processing for the others in the queue. Yes, it does not take long to ask this of one pilgrim, but if you take that extra minute or so and extrapolate out to a large percentage of folks in the queue, it clearly adds up to extra waiting times.
Queue management was my mien when I was working. It remains a skill I brought to the Pilgrim Office in 2014, 2015, and will again this summer.
I hope this helps.
HiYou can also get a starting stamp from your home town, and stopovers along the way, such as Madrid. A good way to remind yourself of the whole pilgrimage.
I have not read anywhere that "stamps" are a tradition in Australia, but you could ask your post office. Also, it is not really a tradition in France except for the pilgrimage route, but city hall, bars, and hotels often have stamps. The stamps are a great souvenir, but their principal purposes are admission to public albergues and verifying that the Pilgrim has walked the last 100km (or biked the last 200km).Can I get a stamp from my local post office the day I leave home, then one in Paris?
Thank you!And you have to decide what kind of stamp you want. A pretty one, designed to be a souvenir or a generic one, all text, no drawings, like what you use to stamp a receipt or use on the back of a chque when you deposit it. Actually, the fact that the munis in Galicia are all the same may be an incentive to stay in privates just to make your credencial more interesting.
We, my wife or myself can get our first sello around the corner in the St. James Hospital.How do I get a stamp from my home town? We fly into Barcelona. Where would we get one there?
Good day everyone!!
I will be arriving in Madrid on 9 Sept without pilgrim passport, I know i can get one in madrid off to sol street, do you think i can get one also in toledo? since i have a half day free time visiting toledo... How about at the Madrid Airport? is there any place i can get it.
My friend will pick me up in Madrid and we will go straight to Camping Monterroso Avenida de la playa Monterroso, Lujo to park the mobile house. We will do the lite walk - 100 km from Sarria, I need some advice in case i cannot manage to get my pilgrim passport in Madrid or Toledo does any one knows an exact place address where we can get in Lujo.
Since we will sleerp in the mobile house to do the camino (5 days) our problem is stamping in our pilgrim passport, when we start early morning in Sarria or other villages i know the hostel/albergue can put the stamp but how about we didnt sleep with their place, do they will stamp our passport?? is cafe or restaurant are open 7 am ?? can they stamp our passport with out buying anything?
Thank you very much in advance......
Thank you very much @ FelipeYou can get your credencial (it is not called "passport" in Spain) in the cathedrals. Try Toledo (the place is quite obvious...). I doubt very much about getting the credencial at the airport, but I don't really know. You can ask in the tourism bureau.
Another possibility is Sarria itself. There are many albergues along the very touristy Calle Maior. They are open very early, and they will sell you a credencial (they are businesses, mostly), or inform you where it is sold. There, you will get your first stamp.
Note that Lugo (not Lujo, it is not a minor thing bcs the pronunciation in Spanish is very different) is a province and its capital. As I see it, you are going to the village of Monterroso (which happens to be in the province of Lugo). It is near the Camino, but at 50 km from Sarria. Confirming the address could be convenient.
You can stamp the credencial in churches (better), post offices, tourism bureaus, cafes and restaurants. And yes, the latter expect you to buy a coffee or a beer before you ask for a "sello".
Buen camino!
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