Our credentials arrived this week, thanks Ian from the Peterborough Pilgrims Confraternity in England. The credentials are our passport that we will have stamped at each of the refugios that we stay in. When we reach Santiago we hand in the credentials to obtain The Compostela.
Also along with our credentials most pilgrims will carry a scallop shell.
Originally the scallop shell was given to Pilgrims upon reaching SantiagoFinisterre as the shells were abundant along the shores. The Pilgrim then wore the shell on the journey home to prove that they had completed their pilgrimage.
Overtime that tradition has changed so that the Pilgrim carries the scallop shell on route to Santiago and the symbol is now used in the waymarking and lots of other Camino related "stuff".
Thanks Gael for my scallop shell.....

Buenos noches.