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Thanks for clarifying!They do but it's right at the very front on the first page. It's how they close out the Credencial.
Or aforesaid grumpy old pagans & recidivists could simply not bother the poor old PO.Perhaps it’s time the PO set up a separate desk for recidivists, grumpy old pagans and anyone else who doesn’t want a souvenir
I've been cheated! I've only got one.They give two. One on the inside front cover, and one at the end of the other stamps.
Perhaps it’s time the PO set up a separate desk for recidivists, grumpy old pagans and anyone else who doesn’t want a souvenir
It is rather like the question, "If there is a thread on a subject that is irrelevant to me, why bother reading?"If there is line out in front of the office, why bother. A cold beer beckons on Rua Franco.
Actually, staff at the Pilgrim Office counter affix TWO, different sellos to your credential. The first, is on the last page of stamps. This signifies that you made it to the Pilgrim Office.They do but it's right at the very front on the first page. It's how they close out the Credencial.
If you actually do not want a Compostela - they produce them very fast these days - all you need to do is ask a security guard or any staff person "solo sello?" This means I only want a stamp.haha I read PO to mean Post Office and could understand their confusion! I also totally understand wanting a sello in your credencial, but not needing a compostela. I went in to the PO (not post office) earlier this year in search of a sello to finish off my homemade journal-cum-credencial - and also came out with a compostela as well, because it was easier to accept it than to turn it down! And the little rebel in me loved getting it when I really shouldn't have with an unofficial credencial ;-) On the last day of my ten week walk the spine fell off the journal and so the compostela has made a great cover!
How do you submit your data online?If you actually do not want a Compostela - they produce them very fast these days - all you need to do is ask a security guard or any staff person "solo sello?" This means I only want a stamp.
The person you asked should take you aside and arrange for the near-immediate affixation of a sello, signifying that you arrived at the Pilgrim Office.
But, these days, getting a Compostela, as well as the accompanying two sellos, only takes few minutes more.
Asking for only the stamps made sense in past years, when the lines were really long and repeat pilgrims did not want to hang around. But now, it is almost easier to submit your data online before arrival and just get the Compostela - which comes with two sellos.
Hope this helps.
Tom
Hmm
In the past two weeks, out of a thousand or so pilgrims, only one asked me for 'solo sello'. I wasn't going to question him why not a compostela, until he said he didn't think he deserved one, so then of course I asked him why he thought that.. after all, he was all stamped up and everything, (from I don't remember where, but a couple of hundred kilometres back). He just shrugged and said it was okay, he'd come back again and walk a longer way. It was his first time.
I'm not sure such a desk would get a lot of use...
Didn't there use to be a sello stamp and ink pad on the right as you entered just for this purpose? It's been a while, memory fades.If you actually do not want a Compostela - they produce them very fast these days - all you need to do is ask a security guard or any staff person "solo sello?" This means I only want a stamp.
The person you asked should take you aside and arrange for the near-immediate affixation of a sello, signifying that you arrived at the Pilgrim Office.
But, these days, getting a Compostela, as well as the accompanying two sellos, only takes few minutes more.
Asking for only the stamps made sense in past years, when the lines were really long and repeat pilgrims did not want to hang around. But now, it is almost easier to submit your data online before arrival and just get the Compostela - which comes with two sellos.
Hope this helps.
Tom
Just turn up at the reception; the analogue process still works as it did.@t2andreo, what if you're a techno-peasant like me and don't have a smart phone?
It has not been a "self-service" Pilgrim Office sello for years, at last within my memory. Even back then, as I recall, it was episodic not constant.Didn't there use to be a sello stamp and ink pad on the right as you entered just for this purpose? It's been a while, memory fades.
If you actually do not want a Compostela - they produce them very fast these days - all you need to do is ask a security guard or any staff person "solo sello?" This means I only want a stamp.
The person you asked should take you aside and arrange for the near-immediate affixation of a sello, signifying that you arrived at the Pilgrim Office.
Hope this helps.
Tom
@t2andreo, what if you're a techno-peasant like me and don't have a smart phone?
Hope you had a great time again with the volunteering and all went smoothly?
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