May was a non-stop. Galicia walked from end to end reacquainted with places and Old Style @ s friend s. But were appalled at two locations: San Andres de Teixido and Finisterre. But how can you allow that?
And in this case we are not talking about urban ugliness or cannibalism ( not because there is no clear, and only Finisterre is a poem), talk about all these pseudotradiciones fill several plastic garbage.
Bridge in May we had several groups visit to Costa da Morte. Wonderful time, great people, one of the groups in the hosted Hotel Insua Cee where service and treatment is not 10, is 11…What more could I ask? Those times that you enjoy working both as customer.
We walked and Castle Vimianzo, Cabo Vilán (Here we will also obviate the farm 🙁 and stayed with the interesting museum that opened in the lighthouse keeper's house), Camariñas and finally to Finisterre.
So far so perfect. But look at you that comes to mind down behind the lighthouse to admire the scenery and enjoy this natural setting. What we found? Remains as small (and not so small) bonfires, shreds of charred clothing pinned anywhere, Quemados the shoes without quemar, papers, Photos, padlocks… We will, a slut.
El Camino is fashionable, and Finisterre is no exception, pilgrims swarm by giving people a joy that is appreciated. What is not appreciated, is that when they finish their route engaged to fire burning on the mountain road clothing, Sneakers, a role, or anything that they go through your head. They say it's a tradition, and we will not be us who say no, but truth is that until recently, I never saw such a thing. Maybe we have to go back to other times, when pilgrims came dressed in natural fabrics and leather sandals or esparto. But the problem is that now come with synthetic fabrics and footwear highly flammable materials. Could it be that we did not get the fires we've had? Not the first time either of those fires were out of hand.
We find it hard to understand that someone who has been doing the road, certainly the greenest way to travel, communing with nature, enjoying the scenery… come here and be capable of such a mess. But we do not want to demonize the pilgrim, if we put ourselves in their shoes also understand that the emotion of them finish their journey you're getting carried away by the tide of rituals without any intention of doing evil. A little of it goes where Vicente…
But the hardest thing to understand is that we have not taken action regarding the. Can we not make a steak and we can burn boots? Really we can call this Red Natura or say it is the only place in Galicia with European Heritage Label son sonrojarnos?
But the thing is in here because otro day Fuimos to San Andres de Teixido, Nice place where you have. And here again the horror. A few years ago, not many have as neighbors, visitors start another tradition. Dip a handkerchief in the font and hang it on a tree. Although it is tradition elsewhere neighbors say he was not in San Andrés. And so begins to fill all the trees of tissue paper or cloth (here depends on the economy and). There do take measures, placed for a notice and it seems that takes effect, the source environment is clean. And until we arrived there and were glad for the change. But then we had another occurrence, walk a little further out to sea. And in the middle of a meadow, we have a full metal closure of hundreds and hundreds of pieces of plastic bags. No scarves, Plastics cable bundles. Does the typical image of a garbage we have with the plastic pieces in the wind? For that. Another poster, but this time unfortunately gave no result. Here you can see a story on this with a photo.
We therefore call A CONCERN ABOUT, that the necessary steps are taken to recover these places. We do not think it very difficult, there is nothing to break down, or expropriate, only inform and educate. We are sure that all pilgrims who go to these two places are driven simply by the fashions, traditions or as we like to call them. But we are also sure that if you do see the damage that occurs, be the first to be willing to collaborate on conservation.
This time we will not put pictures of what we saw, We will post pictures of what we see.
