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Was this common back then? I honestly never saw anything like this in 20112-14. Maybe an effort was made to subsequently clean the markers. Or maybe I missed it.
I agree. When people ask what to take on the camino, I always say a wide sharpie pen to write all over everything serms to be an essential cuz this is what I see everywhere.This is probably an old chestnut but why do people (I won’t call them pilgrims) insist on putting stupid graffiti messages on the way markers on the Camino Frances. Having joined the Frances yesterday at Arzua from the ‘unspoilt’ Del Norte I was dismayed at all the graffiti and litter along this way! I walked the Frances twice a few years back and it has disimproved so much! Who gives these so called pilgrims the right to spray paint stupid messages on way markers. I may be old fashioned but I believe if you cannot walk in the spirit of and with respect for the Camino then don’t walk at all! Anyway that’s my Camino rant for 2018!
I kinda like it... (But I don't add to it).
The Spanish are 44% of the pilgrims. About 60% of the pilgrims walk the Camino Frances. About 30% start in Sarria. I imagine that motivations are myriad, but about 44% walk for "religious" reasons, motivated by the religious nature of the compostela. I personally would not speculate on whether any of them increase their speed in the five days of the last 100km from Sarria; in thousands of miles of walking, I have passed only three pilgrims who were not taking a rest, so I am pretty sure that I am the slowest pilgrim out there! I would speculate that almost no one dawdles, and I have seen pilgrims driven to cover distance early in the 780km, and I have seen pilgrims hobbling slowly on blisters in the last 100km. Both seemed more heaven bent than hell bent!I thought there was a different 'kind' of pilgrim walking that route too who seemed to be hell bent on getting in the last 100kms as quickly as possible!
Pure genius!Call this number
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Being caught napping is one of the things team tortoise excelled at !!There was evidently no need for Team Tortoise to add their tag to the waymarker photographed by @falcon269. The original tortugas beat you to it by a decade. You must have been caught napping!
I actually agree that some graffiti in cities is extremely artistic - the Berlin Wall would be a typical example! But stupid scrawls like ‘Dylan loves Lisa 2018’ gets up my nose and is pure defacement! And there is so much of this type of stuff on the waymarkers - we all love people but do we need to scribble it in permanent ink - I don’t think so!
I'm not condoning it, but I would guess that a fair amount of the graffiti on the Camino is done by Spaniards, since nearly half the Pilgrims are Spanish.found it so disrespectful to the Spaniards. I
Had to think about this , but it's my opinion that this picture with a political statement doesn't belong here. Forum rule 2 .Sometimes graffiti makes a very important political statement:
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Sometimes graffiti makes a very important political statement:
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Oh darn ....I need someone to explain to me the political statement.Had to think about this , but it's my opinion that this picture with a political statement doesn't belong here. Forum rule 2 .
'Mas futvol por fabor 'is not a political statement , it's a joke.Means More football please but with misspelling. Correct is 'Mas futbol por favor.' So what the writer needs is more culture.Oh darn ....I need someone to explain to me the political statement.
Or more Galician???So what the writer needs is more culture.
Or more Galician???
'Mas futvol por fabor 'is not a political statement , it's a joke.Means More football please but with misspelling. Correct is 'Mas futbol por favor.' So what the writer needs is more culture.
'Mas futvol por fabor 'is not a political statement , it's a joke.Means More football please but with misspelling. Correct is 'Mas futbol por favor.' So what the writer needs is more culture.
Aesthetics count though!Humans are predictable enough in aggregate that Galicia should have known the plaques and kilometer insets would be targeted by souvenir hunters. The distance etched into the granite worked quite well in the old mojones! That is victim blaming, I know, but tax dollars should be spent with a little bit of common sense.
I doubt that aesthetics were the deciding factor. I am betting cost. A brass plaque is much less expensive than carving in granite and can be changed easily in the future as distances change. If you think the tile or the distance marker are highly aesthetic, may I suggest a visit to the Prado!!Aesthetics count though!
I completely agree with you a lot is done by the Spanish but I feel that regardless how much they have done we should not add to it.I'm not condoning it, but I would guess that a fair amount of the graffiti on the Camino is done by Spaniards, since nearly half the Pilgrims are Spanish.
This is probably an old chestnut but why do people (I won’t call them pilgrims) insist on putting stupid graffiti messages on the way markers on the Camino Frances. Having joined the Frances yesterday at Arzua from the ‘unspoilt’ Del Norte I was dismayed at all the graffiti and litter along this way! I walked the Frances twice a few years back and it has disimproved so much! Who gives these so called pilgrims the right to spray paint stupid messages on way markers. I may be old fashioned but I believe if you cannot walk in the spirit of and with respect for the Camino then don’t walk at all! Anyway that’s my Camino rant for 2018!
With respect, it must be a very recent phenomenon rather than a tradition, since I also saw no graffiti when I walked the CF only a few years ago. Nor much litter either. The explosion in numbers on the CF has included younger folk who I expect are in the main responsible for the graffiti. However, many western societies seem to have had considerable success with the elimination of casual littering, (although graffiti does seem an intractable problem). I wonder whether a public education campaign could render similar successful results on the CF.
Specifically it was 2012-14. And I honestly did not see any. However, I have since been thoroughly repudiated by keener-eyed pilgrims than myself. Or maybe it was a matter of timing, in that some cleaning had been done." a few years ago" ? I walked in 2014 & 2015 and was disgusted by all of the graffiti both on markers and on roads, walls, tunnels, statues, crosses, etc... I walked the Portuguese route this past Sept and saw no graffiti at all until entering Spain. Not sure what the solution is, but I find it self centered, disrespectful, and heartbreaking.
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