On the Camino

Anyone who has walked the Camino has unfortunately seen it - places where bottles or can have been dumped, rest areas under trees where chocolate wrappers have been left lying and yes those disgusting areas where toilet paper lays strewn around ..... bottles can take 450 to many thousands of years to break down, a can about 500 years before it oxidises and toilet paper a couple of months, not only harmful to the environment but a blight on the Camino.

I found this picture in a guest book on the Camino Sanabres

Further to the buff that my sister and Mum bought me the company has made more details of which are on http://www.buffwear.co.uk/new-ss15-adult-headwear/ss15-camino-santiago-collection  - the normal buffs are £17 and they also do some of the designs as polar buffs (with fleece inside) for £26 and there are some cool designs   Pictures of my Camino buff I've had a look on the American site but can't see any Camino buffs up there yet so if anyone outside the UK knows where else these buffs can be bought please do add it in the comments 

The Santiago de Compostela tourist office sells Camino calendars and I buy one each year. At the end of the year I cut out the pictures to craft with and they make great additions to a simple Congratulations card for arrival in Santiago!  

This wrapping paper is made by cutting out stars from blue and yellow paper and placing these on sellotape which is stuck onto the brown paper

For this year's card I went around everywhere in Santiago de Compostella that I could think of that had sellos and had them stamped on cards - not a last minute card that you can make but if you collected any sellos on your own Camino you could photocopy parts of your credential and then glue them onto a card?

For Saint James' Day this year I wanted to do a picture frame but with a difference so I found these box frames with string in them (originally sold in the pound shop for Mother's Day).