Letter of Introduction - a word of warning

[Steve Bean]

The passport issued by the Confraternity of St James has no stops pre-printed, just
pages of blank squares -

Steve

"Robert E. Spenger" wrote:

> The passport that I received from the Friends of the Camino early this year was
> already marked with the stops of the currently most popular route, i.e. from
> Saint Jean Pied de Port. This is fine for probably 95% of the pilgrims for now
> and the foreseeable future. But those who plan to start from the interior of
> France or to take an alternative route should be aware of this. I mentioned this
> in an e-mail to Christopher but have not yet received a reply. Perhaps those who
> plan to use alternative routes could request a passport that just has blank
> spaces for the sellos. I had considered scanning the passport and erasing the
> names in order to make it useful for my own trip, but I managed to get hold of an
> outdated (19__) passport put out by the Spanish organization and this turned out
> to be acceptable.
>
> Steve Bean wrote:
>
> > A passport is available from our
> > Friends of the Camino or thru the Confraternity of St James in London (A
> > treasure trove of information, literature, etc) -
> >