[Gocamino] credential in Portugal

[Javier Martin]

Now there's any albergues opened, after Porto: San Pedro de Rates, Barcelos,
¿may be Ponte de Lima?, Valenca.

A good place to obtain the stamp - carimbo, in portuguese - is in the
Bombeiros Station, is where I had to go in Barceliños, just before arriving
Barcelos.

Buen Camino,

Javier Martin,
Madrid, Spain.


On 6/27/07, Robert Spenger <rspenger at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I doubt very much that you would find any in Lisbon.  I had the
> official Spanish version before I started in Lisbon in 2001, so I
> didn't have to try to find one. I managed to get it stamped at the
> cathedral in Lisbon, but it wasn't easy — it was easter Sunday and
> the new Cardinal of Lisbon was giving his first Easter sermon as a
> Cardinal. The place was packed with the television equipment and
> personnel.
>
> There were no albergues for Santiago pilgrims at that time, so I was
> getting stamps from anyone I could find that had a rubber stamp. In
> one coastal village, the owner of the pensão where I stayed did not
> have one, so she send me back to the bartender who had sent me to the
> pensão in the first place and he told me that the one place in town
> that might have one was a beauty parlor up the street. (Note: the one
> hotel in the town was closed down for renovations.) Since he had some
> command of English and my Portuguese was minimal, he took me up there
> to explain what I needed. In another town in that same area, no one
> seemed to have a regular inked stamp, but the church had a massive
> device that embossed a symbol into the credential.
>
> Nowadays, there may be some available at Porto. The local Santiago
> organization there was quite enthusiastic at that time and have
> apparently been active since then, so they may have credentials
> available by now. I believe that you would have to contact them ahead
> of time via their website. I think that this is the URL:
>
> http://www.caminhoportuguesdesantiago.com/PT/
>
> For a recent report, check out:
>
> http://72.14.253.104/search?
> q=cache:Zs4gTTPrM2QJ:www.americanpilgrims.com/pdf_files/
> camino_portugues.pdf+caminho+santiago+porto&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us
>
> The most likely place to get a regular credential would be at Tui,
> just over the border (the Rio Minho/Minõ) in Spain. There is a
> refugio there (but it wasn't open in May of 2001) and if credentials
> aren't available there, the cathedral might have them. Since Tui is
> over the requisite 100km from SdeC, there should be no problem about
> getting it honored.
>
> Bob S.
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Charles O'Brien wrote:
>
> Clearly I haven't been paying proper attention to this discussion or I'd
> already have the answer to this question. I'm walking from Porto
> (perhaps
> Lisbon, not sure yet) on October 4 and I assumed that I could pick up
> credentials somewhere in Portugal. (Had thought of getting
> credentials from
> the American society as I did in 1998, but they were designed for a
> fitter
> and more athletic pilgrim; I walked so slowly that the hospitaleros/as,
> police clerks, bartenders, etc., were hard pressed to find room for
> their *
> sellos.* I remember the clerk in the Dean's office smiling and
> shaking his
> head. . . but I digress.) To the point: will whatever "passport" I
> obtain in
> Portugal be honored in Galicia and at the Cathedral (assuming I can
> crawl
> that far)?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chuck
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