Stamps for camino passport

What is it about us that makes us love having a little book and collecting stamps? In the case of the camino, one gets a credentiale...a camino passport....and then collects stamps or sellos...which is pronounced say-yos...at stops along the way. Every time you ask to stay at an albergue which is an inexpensive...pilgrim-only dorm, they ask to see it and to stamp it. There are sellos available at some banks, bars, pharmacies, churches along the camino. Some spots even have do-it-yourself sello stamps. Yesterday, we met this man who had a little stand with a few cookies, a few figs and a sello station. He seemed to enjoy his gig.

At the end in Santiago, one presents the credentiale full of stamps and gets a compostela...but I will save that report when I have personal knowledge and experience. Meanwhile I collect my sellos in my already tattered credentiale which I keep in my money belt. It guards my belly button.