We had another instance today where the Camino went up a hill and along a high point in order to bypass a flat section of road. There was a town along the road so we missed all the bars. Luckily we did not need to stop at a bar at that point but I wondered what the town thought about losing the Camino business. The Camino del Norte does not seem to be busy enough for the pilgrim traffic to be of much consequence.
On the Camino Frances and the Camino Portuguese we saw several instances of “sign wars” where the Camino organizers skipped a bad section and made it more pleasant and the bar and restaurant owners along the bad section would paint out the Camino yellow arrows with black paint and put the old ones back sending pilgrims past their establishments. Our Portuguese blog has some photos of obliterated signs.
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