CAMINO WORKSHOP

We have booked for the Camino workshop on 1 March.  A workshop is kindly offered annually by the Confraternity of St James South Africa. Hopefully we will get our credencial at the workshop. A credencial is your pilgrim passport, without which you cannot stay in the pilgrim accommodation. Pilgrim accommodation is in an albergue or refugio.  These are hostels, sleeping anything from 2 to 100 pilgrims per room!  I think that some nights we may opt for casas rurales (country inns) accommodation to spoil ourselves a little. Each night we need to get a sello in our credencial.  A sello is a stamp in the pilgrim passport.  These stamps, collected all along the route, are your proof that you have completed the camino route.  This proof of travel is required in order to receive your Compostela, a certificate of completion. (You need to walk the last 100km to receive a Compostela).

David and I had a hot, but very pleasant training walk this morning.