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Where do i get the stamps from, on my credencial?

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Your albergue or hotel/ pension?
Any café or restaurant?
Maybe even a pharmacy or a random shop will have one.
 
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Town halls along the way in village and towns often have the very best ‘sellos’ and they are generally pleased and proud to oblige……don’t be reluctant to enter and ask!
 
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Literally ANY place that transacts business with the public must have a rubber stamp identifying their business name and address. This is to generate manual receipts if the automated payment system fails.

If you cannot obtain a Camino-styled stamp / sello as described above, just go into any business, and ask to borrow their business rubber stamp (el sello para el negocio). Apply the stamp and then date it as you would another stamp obtained from a albergue, hostal, cafe, etc.

I have done this at a couple of gas stations over the years. It works.

But, I have found that if you get in the regular habit of obtaining a stamp at at least one place you stop for a break during the walking day, and again when you check into your lodings in the afternoon, you should be set - even for the last 100 km where you are required to have 2 stamps per day.

In fact, if you are walking a long distance, your credencial likely does not have enough space for two stamps per day for more than a month. So, either carry another credencial, blank pages fastened into your credencial , or focus on one daily stamp until you hit the 100 km mark (Sarria, Tui, Ferrol, Ourense, etc.). Then focus on getting two per day.

Hope this helps.

Tom
 
If you cannot obtain a Camino-styled stamp / sello as described above, just go into any business, and ask to borrow their business rubber stamp (el sello para el negocio).
@Gretelquintero1 is actually on the Portuguese Camino (I just moved this thread to the correct sub-forum) so she should ask for a carimbo or selo.
 
How much space (or how many pages) would you reserve for the last 100km?
 
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How much space (or how many pages) would you reserve for the last 100km?
I wouldn't reserve any, at least not by restricting the stamps that I collect at the places I eat and sleep and otherwise visit. Get another credencial somewhere along the way, and use that. I used three credentials walking from Lisbon.

edit: I think that if I start collecting stamps whenever I stop from the very outset of my camino, I am unlikely to forget to collect the minimum of two per day in the last 100 km.
 
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Hello,

I am in Alrpiate now and would like to know where to obtain the stamps?
Pop into a church, light a candle, say a prayer of gratitude for yourself andall yor fellow pilgrims and ask anyone working there, otherwise same procedure sans candle in the bar of your choice!
 
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