Do I need 2 stamps each day to get the distance certificate?

[Jmancebo]

I started walking in Roncesvalles and tomorrow I am arriving to Santiago. I know that I need two stamps each day in the las 100km to get the Compostela. But do I need two stamps each day from the beginning to get the distance certificate? Because I have two or more stamps each day in the most of the places, but some days I just have one stamp (because I was in a village were it was basically nothing).

Thanks in advance.

 

[trecile]

No, you do not need two stamps each day for your entire journey to get a distance certificate. Your completed credential and 3€ will cover it.

 

[Jmancebo]

Thank you so much!

 

[C clearly]

do I need two stamps each day from the beginning to get the distance certificate?

Perhaps you can report back tomorrow, with your first-hand experience.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Basically you tell the clerk where you started out. They look up the official distance on the data base (or fudge it if you walked some weird hybrid Camino) and enter that.
Remember to buy a cardboard cylinder to keep the certificates safe - you've earned them so look after them.

 

[trecile]

Basically you tell the clerk where you started out. They look up the official distance on the data base (or fudge it if you walked some weird hybrid Camino) and enter that.

I was disappointed not to get a distance certificate this year showing the kilometers I walked on the Aragonés, Francés, and Invierno in one continuous walk. I had kept track of my distance, but the volunteer wasn't able to do anything but enter one of the routes I walked and give me the standard distance for that route.

Five years ago I also walked a hybrid Camino: Francés - Salvador - Norte, and kept track of my distance. The volunteer was only too happy to take that information from me for my distance certificate.

 

[Tincatinker]

When The Beloved and I walked the Vasco, Frances, Salvador, Primitivo, Verde, Norte, Frances combination a few years ago the volunteer on the counter went a bit wide-eyed. Their supervisor told us we were supposed to walk to Santiago and not just wander about. We then spent a pleasant 10 minutes comparing our reckoning with the PO’s standard tables and cheerfully agreed a distance for The Beloved’s certificate. It may have helped that the Vasco, Santo Domingo to Leon, the Salvador and Primitivo to Lugo are all “known”. At that time the Verde did not count (still doesn’t I think) but that aberration was quietly ignored. I suspect that the km counted and certified were the ones measurable from Lugo to Santiago by the “recognized route”. ‘Sall a larf innit

 

[AidaYYC]

I was disappointed not to get a distance certificate this year showing the kilometers I walked on the Aragonés, Francés, and Invierno in one continuous walk. I had kept track of my distance, but the volunteer wasn't able to do anything but enter one of the routes I walked and give me the standard distance for that route.

Five years ago I also walked a hybrid Camino: Francés - Salvador - Norte, and kept track of my distance. The volunteer was only too happy to take that information from me for my distance certificate.

Sadly, the clerck in the first instance should have asked for advice rather than make the unilateral decision and thereby shortchange in what you rightly earned.

The second clerk did the right thing and gave you the much earned credit. I was also fortunate this year when I walked the Portuguese from Lisbon following La Senda Litoral from Porto where upon arrival at pilgrim office in Santiago I happen to get the most senior of the clerks who recognized the additional distance vs the Central and granted me the correct distance on my certificate.