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Pelegrino Passport Idea

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BeastofEast

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Camino in April, 2016
Hi all!

It's wonderful to be able to look at these forums after getting done my camino. It's a great way to revisit it.

I still have my pelegrino passport, and was thinking of how wonderful it would be if, along the camino, instead of just collecting stamps, you collected drawings or memories in the passport. So, with each person you walked with, you could ask them to draw something small in the passport, in place of one of the stamps. Looking back on it now, I really wish that I had done it! It would have brought back even more memories.

Buen camino!

Jeff
 
Train on the 4-day Catalina Camino
Train for your next Camino on California's Santa Catalina Island March 16-19
On my last walk I did a drawing or watercolour picture every day in a wee journal and also added a stamp of wherever we were staying. One quick sketch was of a guy playing flamenco guitar - he signed it for me!
 
I "manufactured " my own credential/memoria using one of the Camino notebooks Ivar sold me.
It had sellos and comments from people along the way. I had inserted the frontispiece and prayer from an official credential in the front along with a few other prayers, a map of spain marked with the route I had intended to take, and distances between the major places on the various Caminos involved. (I ended up going differnt in the last weeks).
I had done this before but this gime I had to be a bit persuasive to get the pilgrims officeto accept it. I won't try that again but I am pleased that it worked. I would suggest using a normal credential to show where you started and the requisite last 100k's sellos and something like mine for a sello/note/comment.
 
Train on the 4-day Catalina Camino
Train for your next Camino on California's Santa Catalina Island March 16-19
I have seen pilgrims do parallel credenciales-- the official one, and a notebook one which held sketches, etc, as well as the sellos. Either way, I am informed that they are great for an alibi. Should you be under investigation for some offence, you can always tell the detective that, on October 4, you were in the refugio in Belorado, and you have sketches to prove it, as well as the sello.
 
It takes a bit of courage to ask, "May I join your table?" Perhaps, "will you draw in my book" would be easier...
 
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That is a great idea.... I did the camino two years ago from Leon to Santiago and I carried my wooden stick with me.

So, I asked the people that I was meeting along the way to write down their names. Some of them wrote down a little note, too.

Now I have almost all names of the people I interacted along the way on my wooden stick, right in my bedroom bringing me happy memories.

In 9 days I plan to do the camino Portugese from Porto to Santiago, so please share your thoughts on other means of memorabilia!

 
Camino wristwatch
Perfect memento/gift in a presentation box. Engraving available, 25 character max.
Hi Jeff, what a wonderful idea. Definitely going to do this on my next Camino in 2017. Camino greetings
 
Kiwi-family said:
On my last walk I did a drawing or watercolour picture every day in a wee journal and also added a stamp of wherever we were staying.
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I met a fellow in Negreira who had just completed the Camino Ingles. He sketched on tee-shirts. In Muxia I came upon a tee-shirt he had done in a previous year on display in a bar.
 
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