Being courteous or obnoxious

[Ana Young]

It actually happens more than my boss there led me to
believe when I started. According to what she said,
the ideal thing is not to give it unless a person is a
Fisterra pilgrim (walk or bike in), but ... well, I
guess sometimes they don`t want to argue the point as
so many people want it. That`s what happened with the
Frenchwoman.

Buen Camino,
Ana

--- Eyskens <jeyskensaAUSTIN.RR.COM> wrote:
> Back in '01 I drove to Fisterra with some friends
> from the Camino and
> two of them went to the Refuge and got the
> Fisterrana without any
> problems.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage
> [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Ana Young
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 6:50 PM
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: Being courteous or obnoxious
>
>
> --- Eyskens <jeyskensaAUSTIN.RR.COM> wrote:
>
> > I never observed any such behavior when I walked
> in
> > '01, and during my
> > 'Hospitalero' stint last year the only instance
> was
> > a group of
> > Norwegians who sent a young girl 'scout' on ahead
> to
> > reserve places at
> > the Refugio
>
> That`s a well-known fact of life on the modern
> Camino.
> None of the albergues I knew took reservations, but
> I
> guess there could be some hospitaleros who might not
> want to keep arguing the point so pilgrims keep
> trying
> it. I can well understand ...
>
> In Fisterra last year the big thing appeared to be
> pilgrims who bussed in from Santiago and then asked
> for the Fisterrana. Most were more than courteous
> when
> we explained that only walkers and cyclists could
> earn
> it. But there were those few (I could count on one
> hand) who demanded it because they had been pilgrims
> to Santiago and had gotten the Compostela.
>
> One Frenchwoman argued so strongly that she demanded
> to see the head hospitalera, insisting to her that
> she
> had walked all the way to Santiago, had earned the
> Compostela and now, having bussed in to Finisterre
> because she hadn`t had time to walk there, she was
> absolutely entitled to the Fisterrana and was not
> leaving without it!
>
> Although the pilgrimage to Fisterra is considered to
> be an extension of the one to Santiago (the same
> Camino), the two certificates are unrelated.
>
> Buen Camino!
> Ana
>
>
>
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