[Gocamino] [Santiagobis] Thoughts on "cheap holidays"

[Robert Spenger]

Perhaps there is no real problem for those who are getting new  
credencials, but what about those of us who have partially filled out  
credencials who may want to continue after the new rules go into  
effect? For my own case, it is unlikely that I will be able to go  
back again — I was reaching my limit on the last one, but there must  
be many thousands of French pilgrims who do a week or two or three  
each year and have partially filled out pilgrim passports issued by  
la Société française des Amis de Saint Jacques de Compostelle. Are  
all those going to be invalid? That would certainly be a dirty shame.  
I am sure that many of those people are very proud of their  
collection of stamps and would be greatly offended to find that they  
have suddenly become worthless. On my recent trip I met many, many  
people with these credencials and others like the one issued by the  
Canadian group and I would venture that over half of them were doing  
their pilgrimages only a section at a time. For the most part they  
were people who were still working for a living and had to do the  
pilgrimage a bit at a time during their vacations.

Bob S.


On Jun 25, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Ana Young wrote:
Once we know that, I agree that being restricted to
just the Spanish Credencial should not be a problem --
as long as the burden of ascertaining whether we
qualify for one isn't just on us foreign pilgrims
alone.

Buen Camino!
Ana