Originally Posted by
jefnvk
I'd be more than willing to bet I could find people who walked it complaining that people who did it on a bike didn't go through the pains they went through, that they just blew by on their comfy bikes covering 100+km a day. I've met three people who have done it on my travels to Spain, all were non-athletic women walking many hundreds of kilometers of it.
In any case: did the church hand out certificates of completion to those on eBikes? If so, they are legitimate means of travel, as the church is the only one that gives any legitimacy tot he route to begin with.
I don't think it's the church that hands out certs. it's an organisation called 'the friends of the way of St. James'. I expect the Ebike guys had their 'passports' stamped (as I did) all the way so I've no doubt they were entitled to them.
It's a traditional Christian pilgrimage but it's my understanding that the modern mass tourism phenomena that is the Camino really started in the 1960s with the 'friends...'.