[Gocamino] Starting, Walking, Stamps Etc

[Tim]

Hi All,
     I feel that it is necessary to add a little to the post below.  The 
usual starting point, if there is one, for the Camino Frances is not 
Roncevalles.  Roncevalles is not, and never has been, anything other 
than a stop over, a very important stopover but still just that.  It is 
a tiny hamlet with virtually no transport links other than minibuses and 
a once a day bus link to Pamplona.  In other words to start from 
Roncevalles you first have to get there and the majority of pilgrims 
both past and present get there on foot.
Tim Proctor

On 26/04/13 21:25, E. O. Pederson wrote:
> Kinsale, Ireland.  26 April
>
> You do not indicate how much time you plan to spend walking (it is a walk not a hike ala the AT or PCT) , but doing a part of the Camino is a common activity. Credencials are easy to obtain but necessary to stay in many of the various facilities in Spain. There are numerous "turgrinos" who simply use the Camino with its facilities for a walking holiday, usually selecting one or another scenic stretch for a week or fortnight.
>
> Some European pilgrims divide the walk over periods of two or more years, walking a week or more each year until final arrival in Santiago. Some Belgians, Dutch, Germans (and undoubtedly other nationals) start from home and walk 2000 or more kms over the course of several years, while others start at the usual starting point of the Camino Frances at Roncesvalles, many of them dividing their Spanish Camino walk into 3 years, the first from Roncesvalles to Burgos, the second  to Leon or Astorga and the final year from that point to Santiago. In other words, doing only a part of the Camino in any one year is not unusual.
>
> In order to receive the Compostela, however, one must walk the final 100kms into the city on the Camino Frances or one of several other routes like the Camino Ingles from Ferrol which allow at least that distance. Stamps, in principle two per day on that final stretch, must be shown to the Pilgrim Office to meet the requirement. Completing an equivalent distance elsewhere on the Camino and bussing the final part does not work, and unless one walks the final 100 kms to the cathedral in Galicia, one will not be awarded the Compostela. ( That ignores another class of turgrinos, those who ride tour busses most of the way, but walk just far enough to get two stamps each day from their starting point in Sarria, but as you sound to be a real walker, I doubt the option will be attractive. It is mostly older Spaniards along with some Japanese and Koreans who have been observed doing it.)
>
> If this is a duplicate, please forgive me as I am using an unfamiliar computer.
>
> E.. O. PEDERSON
> Fairfax, VA
>
>> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:58:25 -0400
>> From: jpcrim1974 at gmail.com
>> To: gocamino at oakapple.net
>> Subject: [Gocamino] Starting, Walking, Stamps Etc
>>
>> My wife and I are newlyweds (3 months), and while we were dating we
>> began walking. hiking, and biking. Next month we are going to do a short
>> section hike of the Appalachian Trail, and since we realized that the
>> route we drive to go visit her family in PA roughly parallels the AT, we
>> are also planning to do some day hikes en route to and from this summer.
>>
>> We are also planning to take a vacation next year. She's been to Europe
>> many times, and I never have. Tentatively we are talking about making
>> the Camino part of that.  We cannot plan our trip around the entire
>> Camino Frances. But instead of walking only the last 100km from Sarria
>> to Santiago, I was wondering about doing a hybrid thing like we are
>> doing on the AT. If we were to do some short day hikes on the earlier
>> sections and then take the bus or train to Sarria and walk to Santiago:
>> That would certainly get us the Compostella as we would have walked
>> 100km. My question is: would it be inappropriate to collect stamps in
>> our credentials for those earlier sections since they will be separated
>> from the last 100km by vehicle travel?
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