km stones - where are the last 12km?

GunnarW

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2011+ > Spain, Belgium, France

• Oct 16, 2011

• #1

Just before O Cebreiro, crossing the Galicia border, every 500m there is km stone starting from 151,5km. Sometimes it s every km, sometimes there is a gap.
The last 12km, in fact the most important ones, seems to be missing. The last I noticed was before the airport track, I think it was 12,6km.
What happened with the 24 last km stones?

 

newfydog

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Pamplona-Santiago, Le Puy- Santiago, Prague- LePuy, Menton- Toulouse, Menton- Rome, Canterbury- Lausanne, Chemin Stevenson, Voie de Vezelay

• Oct 16, 2011

• #2

They went home as souvenirs. We have a blue and yellow chonch on our house too, but we had the decency to buy it, not chip it from a post.

 

dutchpilgrim

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2002, 2005, 2008, 2012

• Oct 16, 2011

• #3

newfydog said:

They went home as souvenirs.

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Unlikely.
These concrete poles weigh far too much to take them home.
And think of the process of digging them out and hauling them in a back-pack big enough without being seen...

Ultreya,
Carli Di Bortolo

 

methodist.pilgrim.98

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Francés (2004.SJPP-SdC-Finisterre)(1998-2012 completed in sections). Norte (2006.122km) Inglés (2009)

• Oct 19, 2011

• #4

Well they weren't there in 1998 so I guess we need to start knocking on the doors of some of our very veteran posters to ask for them back.

Uhhmm, sil, can I ask, how many are there in you're back garden? :lol:

If you do the Camino Inglés you will find that there are some km posts on that route within the city boundaries.

Personally I was glad to see the back of them.

 

sulu

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a few since 2010

• Oct 19, 2011

• #5

What happened with the 24 last km stones?

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I suspect a fair number are under the runway. I'm sure it's that runway that makes the last '12' kms a lot more than 12, it felt more anyway.
Sue