Don't get lost....

The camino is remarkably well sign posted. Here are a couple of markers. Those blue directional pointers seem to pop up uncannily almost any time one feels confused about an upcoming turn. The other type of sign, sponsored by our friends San Miguel brewery!,is rather less frequent, usually posted right outside a bar to remind the poor pilgrim how much further you have to go.

Over the course of a typical week there may be 1000s of little turns to be made, so you have to pay pretty close attention even though the route is well sign posted. Most of us went at least a little astray now and then--by not paying enough attention, or walking in the morning darkness before daybreak lit up the waymarkers, or victimized by a sudden bit of road construction that interrupted the route. All in all, though, I have to hand it to the volunteers and provincial governments that keep the route so well waymarked---leaving pilgrims free to enjoy the landscape most of the time rather than worry if they are on the right track...