Camino de Santiago de Compostela

[eze]

Hi,

A few weeks ago, i was driving on N122 betwee Balinco da Cima and Mertola. This is very close to the spanish border, not very far from Huelva from where i know a Camino starts.

Suddenly, on trafic signs, we saw, on most of them, both sides of the road the famous yellow arrow for, may be 15km.
Those signs disappeared when we entered Mertola.

My question to you : Is there any Camino passing by this road ?
I do know that there is Camino de la Plata on the other side of the border as we walked it.

Or may be, those posts have nothing to do with any Camino...

Thanks for your contributions

Francis

[mikevasey]

Hi Francis

Try this website http://walkingbaesurissantiago.blogspot.com, I think it was waymarked from Tavira in 2009 for about 100 km.

Conrad Stein the German language travel book publishers have a guide for this route all the way to Santiago.


In the more northern parts of Portugual there are seperate developments going on for other caminho routes, which you may be to link up with this route from Tavira see these posts on this forum http://www.caminodesantiago.me/board/el-camino-portugues/topic11982.html and http://www.caminodesantiago.me/board/el-camino-portugues/topic12024.html.

Mike

[eze]

Thanks very much for the information, Mike.

We were so surprised to see those arrows in such an unexpected area of Portugal !
Thanks for the links that i'll read carefully. Actually, as previously said, when Mrs Pilgrim will have fully recovered the use of her left ankle, hopefully soon, we are to return to the Camino for the fourth time, on Caminho Portugues pela Costa.

Thanks Mike.

[peregrina2000]

Mike, I'm so impressed -- where did you ever find this information????

I know that part of Portugal, and it would be a great walk, but I wonder if most of it is on the road, as Eze's experience suggests. I also assume there are no albergues, but maybe the bombeiros pitch in?

It also looks like the route skirts the mountains by hugging the Spanish border, and then turning inward to Ourense.

Mike, are you planning to walk this route? Buen camino, Laurie

[mikevasey]

Hi Laurie and Francis

I think it would be a great route through the interior of Portugual, a lot of sierras to go through, long quiet stretches. When I flew into Lisbon last year for my camino I was sat on the east facing side of the plane and was looking in that direction with these thoughts in mind. I am going to see how I feel after the one in May, no more planning for future ones just make the most of this one.

I tried to copy the link to Conrad Stein on my original post,the computer I was on would not let me, that book is the way in. If there is a lot of road stretches, I have feeling they would have come up with alternatives to it, a lot of it is not waymarked. They have updates to November last year on their site, it may be worth contacting your German speaking friends, not only to to find a better translation but also pose some questions on their forums.

What else I would say that if you can find the various walking associations in Portugual it may be worth going on their websites. I went to see my friend in Warsaw last year and we went to a slide show about a Polish couple who had gone to Portugual for a few months and it showed them walking in the interior mountains on various routes and staying in walking club refugios.

It does appeal to me, but I might let some one else do all the leg work first, Laurie?
Buen Caminho


Mike

[mikevasey]

The Conrad Stein link http://www.conrad-stein-verlag.de/p/verlag/show_book.html?isbn=978-3-86686-230-2&edition=1&t=132978056322.