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99 or 100, you will accomplish it and have a wonderful experience so is it really necessary for a credential?Sorry if this question has been asked before - We are planning to walk from just before Vigo. I confirmed with the Pilgrim Office that it would be 100 kms but on Google maps it works out to be 99kms. Anyway to get around this, accomadation is booked etc....Advise please!
Agree completely, Antonius!Reading these kind of questions I feel a little irritation, it is so far from my own feeling towards walking a camino. The fact that so many people seem to be so fixed on getting a credential "the easy way" has consequences for all walkers, the last 100 km to Santiago are too crowded and commercialised to my liking
I agree with you totally with all the physical and spiritual benefits of the Camino that is why the document of the success is secondary for me. |this year I didn't receive one and God willing my next Camino in 2019 I still will not get one. The Camino for me is a journey of hope and enjoyment of the beautiful terrain of Spain.Reading these kind of questions I feel a little irritation, it is so far from my own feeling towards walking a camino. For me it's the experience of walking, meeting other people, enjoying the landscape, culture and so on. Getting a credential for me is not more than a "collateral advantage". Planning a Camino just to get to the minimal required number of kilometers is strange to me. The ideas: to each his own or everybody walks his own camino of course are as valid as always. The fact that so many people seem to be so fixed on getting a credential "the easy way" has consequences for all walkers, the last 100 km to Santiago are too crowded and commercialised to my liking
I waked this route in June - it was never crowded but a little busier after Redondela - walking from Baiona, which is a lovely place would put you in to the 100+category!Reading these kind of questions I feel a little irritation, it is so far from my own feeling towards walking a camino. For me it's the experience of walking, meeting other people, enjoying the landscape, culture and so on. Getting a credential for me is not more than a "collateral advantage". Planning a Camino just to get to the minimal required number of kilometers is strange to me. The ideas: to each his own or everybody walks his own camino of course are as valid as always. The fact that so many people seem to be so fixed on getting a credential "the easy way" has consequences for all walkers, the last 100 km to Santiago are too crowded and commercialised to my liking
Which is exactly what I did this year. I walked the Norte and stopped in the convention of Sobrado de Monxes. From there I took a taxi/bus to SantiagoAgree completely, Antonius!
It has now reached the stage where I always plan to AVOID the last 100 kms: which is really very sad.
Reading these kind of questions I feel a little irritation, it is so far from my own feeling towards walking a camino. For me it's the experience of walking, meeting other people, enjoying the landscape, culture and so on. Getting a credential for me is not more than a "collateral advantage". Planning a Camino just to get to the minimal required number of kilometers is strange to me. The ideas: to each his own or everybody walks his own camino of course are as valid as always. The fact that so many people seem to be so fixed on getting a credential "the easy way" has consequences for all walkers, the last 100 km to Santiago are too crowded and commercialised to my liking
Yes, my Portuguese camino app says it is 96.7km from Vigo. I assume that is from the Cathedral, and it would be very easy to add a few kilometres by catching a suburban bus or taxi southwards towards Ramallosa, which is really a suburb of Vigo. Make sure you do get a stamp from your starting place - and that it is on an official camino route. Vigo and Ramallosa are on the coastal camino.
The central route is to the east of Vigo, and bypasses it, although it goes very close to Vigo airport. The first town after Vigo airport is Redondela, which is only 83km from Santiago. On the central route, O Porrino is 99km from SDC, according to my app.
Yes - every bar, almost every shop of any kind, has a stamp.Thanks for your reply
We intend walking the Coastal route - is there many places from Oia to Vigo to get the stamps?
Hi,Thank you - I think we will start just before Vigo in Samil (will catch a bus as you suggested) and hope that we can find a shop with a valid stamp.
What do you think of that idea?
Hl Camgal, don't worry. If you walk from Vigo to Santiago you will get your credential. My wife got her credential last year. Just make sure you get at least 2 stamps per day, starting in Vigo.Sorry if this question has been asked before - We are planning to walk from just before Vigo. I confirmed with the Pilgrim Office that it would be 100 kms but on Google maps it works out to be 99kms. Anyway to get around this, accomadation is booked etc....Advise please!
Hl Camgal, don't worry. If you walk from Vigo to Santiago you will get your credential. My wife got her credential last year. Just make sure you get at least 2 stamps per day, starting in Vigo.
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