Hi all. I have been thinking about this subject for a long time. Sometimes looks like nobody want to be judged like judgmental, looks like we need to say everything its O.K.
Well, I think not everything is OK, and I dare to say it.
The
Camino de Santiago is a pilgrimage. Its not a tourist thing. You can walk it like a tourist, of course, and it could be correct to do it this way but with conditions. And the main condition is : You never will interfere, annoy or disturb the pilgrimage of PILGRIMS. The Camino is hard enougth itself whithout anybodys "help", thank you!
If any pilgrim CAN´T do it the correct way ( said it, with physical effort) because their age, their injuries, or ealth conditions, is perfect to take a taxi, a bus, to submit their backpacks etc.
But if what you want is to THINK you ARE a pilgrim, walking ten kilometers to the next bus stop, where the travel agency´s staff have your credential sealed, your stuff packed, your meal served, only to take you twenty more kilometers on the way to the next town, where they will take care again of sealing your credential, etcetera, for four more days, you are a damm FAKE. It is like to say "I´m a war veteran" but never going to figth. I never sealed credentials this way when serving like a Hospitalero, and I will never do it. (Please comrades hospitaleros if you are reading this considerate , don`t do it neither, and deny the sello the way the tourist know why you are denying it, politely but firmly)
You knowing fake pilgrims, you tourist-grinos : Do not expect for my understanding, my help, my respect.
Maybe it is not their fault, but the travel agency, but I think we need to say it with high voices in order nobody can do it naively. Those travel agencies always can rent hotels outside the Camino. They can take those comfortable buses full of touri-grinos where they dont disturb, dont interfere, do not annoy. Please, RESPECT the Camino, RESPECT the pilgrimage.
Buen Camino to you, all honest people.
Me a tad dyslexic , sometime explain not so good
