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  1. Catharina56

    Google site Camino Portugués (overview, links, addresses)

    In my preparation for my first camino - the camino Portugués starting on September 15th 2014 from Porto, next week! - I was setting up a Camino Portugués section on my Google site to get a bit the overview. See there my file Camino Portugués (latest) version dd-mm-yyyy that you can use. You can...
  2. Catharina56

    How to return to Lisbon from Santiago

    Start about which flight connection you need to take on http://www.flightconnections.com/ and check then the cheapest possible ticket at http://www.skyscanner.com/ Let me know a better way!
  3. Catharina56

    How to return to Lisbon from Santiago

    the cheapest flight tickets are to be found at www.skyscanner.com (this site can be useful: http://www.flightconnections.com/) Going back from Santiago de Compostela to Porto, Porto Airport, Lisbon or Algarve: Take the RENFE-train from Santiago de Compostela to the Vigo-Guixar railway station...
  4. Catharina56

    Casa da Fernanda- Lugar de Corgo

    ha, ha or agua ardiente in your hand? Nice company. Hopefully I will be there soon =)
  5. Catharina56

    Casa da Fernanda- Lugar de Corgo

    Fernanda OK, but Fernando??? On their metal plate on their home are mentioned the following names: Fernanda, Jacinto and Mariana!!!! NO Fernando involved! =)
  6. Catharina56

    Casa da Fernanda- Lugar de Corgo

    Thanks for the additional information. I have changed my post accordingly =)
  7. Catharina56

    Unable to finish my camino Portuguese

    Thank you for your honest report about your experience on the Camino Portugués. At least you have reached Casa da Fernanda, which is already something. I am starting my first camino ever from Porto in two weeks time. I will follow the coast until Vila do Conde to scip a lot of traffic and to...
  8. Catharina56

    Green alternative to industrial Porrino..

    See the English version about the new path: http://www.amigosdelcamino.com/attachments/article/541/orb_porr_eng.pdf
  9. Catharina56

    Casa da Fernanda- Lugar de Corgo

  10. Catharina56

    Casa da Fernanda- Lugar de Corgo

    "From somebody's blog I took this picture that tells us that the owners of Casa da Fernanda are Jacinto and Mariana. I am almost sure that the mother who started this Casa was Fernanda" ... I have to make a correction though: The owners of Casa da Fernanda are Fernanda herself and her husband...
  11. Catharina56

    Is the only place to stay in Vilarinho the albergue?

    check on Google maps (for pedestrians!) and you'll get the answer =) Answer: 21,5 km (= 4:21 hrs walking). It is by the way Vila do Conde. But visiting the cathedral + sightseeing in Porto + taking the metro to Matosinhos + walking to Vila do Conde on ONE day (??!!) is maybe a bit too much...
  12. Catharina56

    Residencial Santa Marinha

    Lovely! You are a Portugal fan as well like me since last July??!! What a nice country, lovely people. I saw on internet about Jacinto & Mariana, maybe the mother who started this house was Fernanda? I hope I can catch a bed in their house in the second half of September!!!
  13. Catharina56

    Is the only place to stay in Vilarinho the albergue?

    I am Dutch (and I live not far from Amsterdam) and I have visited Portugal July 2014 for the first time for vacation: Porto - Guimaraes - Braga - Bom de Jesus site -Coimbra - Lagos - Faro - Albufeira - Sagres - Sinta - Lisbon Next time will be mid of September 2014 to start my camino from...
  14. Catharina56

    Residencial Santa Marinha

    Yes, indeed, I hope I am able to stay in Casa da Fernanda (16 beds), what I have heared the best place on the camino run by Jacinto & Mariana. Unbelievable donativo place including dinner and breakfast and laundry! It is just before Vitorino dos Piães e-mail address...
  15. Catharina56

    AirPorto Hostel-1km from Oporto's Airport

    On your way back from Santiago de Compostela you can take the train to Vigo (station Vigo-Guixar) (there are many connections) and from the bus station in Vigo you can take the AUTNA-bus from there (about 5 buses per day) to the centre of Porto as well as to the airport in Porto. The whole way...
  16. Catharina56

    Camino Torres

    This camino is passing the picturesque Portuguese city of Guimarães (a World Heritage City!). I recommend you to stay there in the lovely hostel called MY HOSTEL a few steps from the old Santiago Square downtown. See http://www.booking.com/hotel/pt/my-hostel.nl.html Consider to have a break...
  17. Catharina56

    Camino Torres

    http://caminosantiago.usal.es/torres http://pilgrim.peterrobins.co.uk/routes/details/torres.html
  18. Catharina56

    Getting from Porto to Tui

    as I told before in another reply: AUTNA has several buses per day straight to Vila Nova de Cerveira, Valença and Vigo from the centre of Porto as well as from the airport of Porto! See http://www.autna.com/venta/index.php The Portuguese city of Valença is via a bridge connected to the Spanish...
  19. Catharina56

    Getting from Porto to Tui

    AUTNA has several buses per day straight to Vila Nova de Cerveira, Valença and Vigo from the centre of Porto as well as from the airport of Porto! See http://www.autna.com/venta/index.php The Portuguese city of Valença is via a bridge connected to the Spanish city of Tui (in Tui start a lot op...
  20. Catharina56

    Great reasons to start in Lisbon

    I fell in love with LISBON as well. I was there last July (2014) and I have stayed in the very nice hostel Golden Tram 242 (4-, 6- 10 persons dormitories as well as luxury double rooms - double rooms with own bathroom & perfect beds!) at the most perfect location near the Rossio Square (metro...

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