Why have you written on the Camino-stone ?

[Hanne]

On my recent camino to Finesterre and Muxía, I noticed a lot of writing on the Camino-stone; Names and mantras etc., but why ??
If it's just because it was fun in the moment, a better option would be to take a selfie of you and the stone and make a update online.
I don't think other pilgrims care, that you have been there, and it does not look good with all the grafitti on the camino-stones, so please don't do it in the future !

 

[Anniesantiago]

I don't know why people have the need to deface things with their scribbling but it's gone since history began. I saw graffiti on walks in Pompeii dating back to its heyday.

It is ugly, selfish, and rude in my opinion. I wish people would stop.

A couple of years ago some idiot spray painted right to life messages all over the stones and walls.

 

[CaminoDebrita]

On my recent camino to Finesterre and Muxía, I noticed a lot of writing on the Camino-stone; Names and mantras etc., but why ??
If it's just because it was fun in the moment, a better option would be to take a selfie of you and the stone and make a update online.
I don't think other pilgrims care, that you have been there, and it does not look good with all the grafitti on the camino-stones, so please don't do it in the future !

I am seeing a lot of graffiti and it's really annoying. I don't need to see peoples names. I don't care if they were here. It means nothing. It adds nothing.

 

[grayland]

I doubt very much that any members on this forum are writing graffiti on the Camino.
We are a very , very small percentage of the pilgrims.
Unfortunately, there is really no way to reach those who do these things.

 

[gerardcarey]

I doubt very much that any members on this forum are writing graffiti on the Camino.
We are a very , very small percentage of the pilgrims.
Unfortunately, there is really no way to reach those who do these things.

But it's ok to be grumpy eh?
I get grumpy.
I like to be grumpy.
I like grumpy people.

Kind regards (yeah right)
Gerard

 

[Kanga]

It's a sad person whose form of self-expression is to deface something meaningful to others.

 

[KinkyOne]

I don't know why people have the need to deface things with their scribbling but it's gone since history began. I saw graffiti on walks in Pompeii dating back to its heyday.

It is ugly, selfish, and rude in my opinion. I wish people would stop.

A couple of years ago some idiot spray painted right to life messages all over the stones and walls.

I agree completely with Hurricane-Hanne, but have to add that Romans at Pompei didn't have smart phones which, OTOH doesn't mean that nowadays "we" are cured from sending messages in different ways

 

[Anniesantiago]

I doubt very much that any members on this forum are writing graffiti on the Camino.
We are a very , very small percentage of the pilgrims.
Unfortunately, there is really no way to reach those who do these things.

I know.
It just feels good to vent sometimes!

 

[KinkyOne]

I am seeing a lot of graffiti and it's really annoying. I don't need to see peoples names. I don't care if they were here. It means nothing. It adds nothing.

On Camino Sanabres this year (I think in spring) a guy named Evan (or Ewan?) sprayed his name on every possible surface there is. At first it seemed kind of funny but after a day or two seeing his name for 30 or 40 times each day it really annoyed me. I thought to myself: "So what if you were here?!!! Give me a break or I'll walk faster and find you somewhere and sprayed my name all over your face!"

Never got to meet him though...

 

[Anemone del Camino]

It's a sad person whose form of self-expression is to deface something meaningful to others.

It's exactly the same type of person who says "it's my Camino, I do as I wish". Sadly, many, many, many. Because the Camino is no longer a pilgrimage, but an in expensive vaccation.

 

[Anemone del Camino]

On Camino Sanabres this year (I think in spring) a guy named Evan (or Ewan?) sprayed his name on every possible surface there is. At first it seemed kind of funny but after a day or two seeing his name for 30 or 40 times each day it really annoyed me. I thought to myself: "So what if you were here?!!! Give me a break or I'll walk faster and find you somewhere and sprayed my name all over your face!"

Never got to meet him though...

Yes, so what if any of Is were there? Let's,just leave it the way we found it, instead of asking it to change to fit our suburbian needs.

 

[Seabird]

As my father said when he caught me writing my name on a dusty car: "Fools' names like Fools' faces always appear in public places." That was the last time for me.....

 

[MTtoCamino]

Yes this reminds me of how wonderful the stone buildings, walls are. The graffiti so takes away from the hard work to build them. It is very unfortunate.

 

[Lydia Gillen]

"The names of fools are like their faces,
they are always seen in public places"

 

[Hanne]

I doubt very much that any members on this forum are writing graffiti on the Camino.
We are a very , very small percentage of the pilgrims.
Unfortunately, there is really no way to reach those who do these things.

You are probably right! First- (and only one-) timers on the Camino de Santiago, not pilgrims, who can't stop the walking. The Camino-holics

 

[Annette london]

But it's ok to be grumpy eh?
I get grumpy.
I like to be grumpy.
I like grumpy people.

Kind regards (yeah right)
Gerard

I like this guy!!!

 

[pudgypilgrim]

I doubt very much that any members on this forum are writing graffiti on the Camino.

I wonder. There was packing list post early this year (actual list was in a linked blog, so a search here doesn't find it easily) where the items included "black marker, in case I feel like doing some graffiti" and I was kind of surprised that not one person who responded mentioned that.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

The mojones are just granite or concrete. They have little significance to the Spanish except as markers. I suspect most of the artists are from Spain. I would never carry the additional weight of a marker pen, so it isn't me.

 

[Rebekah Scott]

probably because packing list posts are very boring to everyone except the person writing them.

 

[AlanSykes]

One name I really resent seeing is that of pinturero falangist José Antonio Primo de Rivera, carved into the stone of the Praza de Quintana above the memorial to the Batallon Literario of 1808.

 

[gerardcarey]

I like this guy!!!

That makes two of us!

 

[CaptBuddy]

It's exactly the same type of person who says "it's my Camino, I do as I wish". Sadly, many, many, many. Because the Camino is no longer a pilgrimage, but an in expensive vaccation.

That about does it for me. I'm outa here.

 

[jennie]

That makes two of us!

great story teller,witty and oh so modest

 

[CatherineAnn]

The mojones are just granite or concrete. They have little significance to the Spanish except as markers. I suspect most of the artists are from Spain. I would never carry the additional weight of a marker pen, so it isn't me.

Best laugh I have had all day! I used to laugh at cutting off the handle of a toothbrush....

 

[Stivandrer]

The biggest responsibility lies on the first person who writes on a fresh, clean surface...

Others will take this as licence to scrawl ...

Only grafiti that I did like was going up to the Cruz de Hiero:

- on the last traffic sign before the top ;

"Learning to Fly, as I ain´t got no wings"

first signpost after the cross:

"Coming down is the Hardest Thing..."

Forgot to take a snap, but it kept me humming Tomm Petty the rest of the stretch....