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Hmmmm, that is just the problem…… the two stamps I got yesterday are almost unreadable.
Thank you Jeff for your advice. I will report back here tomorrow. I keep my fingers crossed!!Sorry to hear your document got damaged but I saw some unbelievably torn, tattered and abused credentials when I worked in the Pilgrim Office - 800km can really take it out on a piece of card!
The clerks get a feeling for who is and who isn't a genuine pilgrim plus they know it rains in Galicia!
I'd be surprised if the clerk refuses you a Compostela if you have pages and pages going back to SJPP and, if they do, ask for an opinion from a senior member of the team. I always did.
Well done on completing your Camino!
Excellent news! Heartfelt congratulations . . . . . so when is the next Camino?I have got my Compostela! No problem! The proces is also very easy. I arrived at 11 and it took about 1 hour.
Greetings from a very happy peregrina!!
Excellent news! Heartfelt congratulations . . . . . so when is the next Camino?
The same thing happened to me when I started in Le Puy. After my credential dried I put it in a small plastic bag to protect it and headed on. They didn’t even look at that in Santiago. They looked at the date I started in Le Puy and casually flipped the pages to Santiago and that was it. They gave me the regular compostela plus a larger one with more detail about how far I walked. I realized before leaving home that all the stamps might not fit in one credential so I added about 3pages worth of card stock paper to the foldout and when one side was full I turned it over to the other. I’m sure when they unfolded it in Santiago they could see the few wet stamps but it didn’t matter. They gave me my Compostellas. Just keep it dry from now on.I started the Camino Frances in St Jean Pied de Port. Tomorrow I will arrive in Santiago. This is what happened today during the very, very heavy rain: my credential got wet and some stamps are now almost unreadable!! Will I be able to get the Compostela? I heard they are very strict about the stamps.
Just FYI - that second certificate is a distance certificate. The Compostela itself is free, the distance certificate is 3€.They gave me the regular compostela plus a larger one with more detail about how far I walked.
I walked from Lisbon to Santiago- got the short straw with some young buck at the stamp office and apparently I didn’t get enough stamps on the last 100km bit. I mean seriously? The book was full. What an appalling situation. Refused to give me the certificate ( which wasn’t the point of the whole walk anyway). This time I’m not even bothered tbh. Disneyland comes to mind.If your stamps from Sarria to SdC are legible you'll not have a problem
Congratulations! Well done, you! And thank god you had no trouble getting your Compostela!I have got my Compostela! No problem! The proces is also very easy. I arrived at 11 and it took about 1 hour.
Greetings from a very happy peregrina!!
I did the same thing but somehow on the very last day something wrong.Congrats...and I kept my credencial in a Ziploc bag the entire time.
Whenever we inform people of the rule for 2 stamps/day on the last 100 km, we have people popping out of the woodwork to say they got their compostelas without 2 stamps per day (as if that negated the rule). So thank you for confirming that the rule is sometines applied strictly.apparently I didn’t get enough stamps on the last 100km bit. I mean seriously?
It’s insane. What a jobsworth he was. So you fail if you have 9? 8? Even if you have have 37 stamps to the last 100km but then have 8 youre told no? What a time to be alive.Whenever we inform people of the rule for 2 stamps/day on the last 100 km, we have people popping out of the woodwork to say they got their compostelas without 2 stamps per day (as if that negated the rule). So thank you for confirming that the rule is sometines applied strictly.
I didn't want a certificate. For me, the stamps in my journal were more valuable. (To each his own.) But having seen the line of pilgrims waiting, I'm surprised it only took an hour. Wow!I have got my Compostela! No problem! The proces is also very easy. I arrived at 11 and it took about 1 hour.
Greetings from a very happy peregrina!!
Just off the Ingles. No money changed hands for the distance certificate. Last time, before automation, I had to pay the three euro if I wanted it. The little mailing tube still costs a couple of euro, but for some reason the distance certificate didn’t, don’t know why.Just FYI - that second certificate is a distance certificate. The Compostela itself is free, the distance certificate is 3€.
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