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That is, of course, hyperbole and not expected of any pilgrim. It is expected that I will take food and drink. It is expected that I will leave money and, um, "used food and drink". They say that pilgrims often leave things behind at albergues for pilgrims following behind. It is expected...
Martin,
That they were born of fisher-folk stock doesn't surprise me: my brother, father, and grand-father were all fishermen, and my great-grandfather (Jose Rolão, the one who immigrated from Fuseta) was a sailor.
We will definitely be visiting there!
Thanks,
Joe
Thanks for all the replies. Sadly I do not have the time to walk the whole way from Fuseta. I was talking to my brother about it this weekend, and we're now thinking we'll start our caminho thusly:
Fly from the states into Lisbon.
Train or Bus from Lisbon to Fuseta.
Train or Bus from Fuseta to...
One of the scenes that really spoke to me in The Way was the scene at the Cruz de Ferro. That, of course, is on the Camino Frances.
Is there any equivalent customary location of symbolic unburdening along the Camino Portuguese?
What an awesome idea! Thanks! I took the "street view walk" down the street after reading this. It's a small street, ending at a Church. Probably the church where my grandmother/aunts/uncles were baptized. How neat would it be to take my brother there?
It's a shame it's not on the Camino...
Sadly, I don't know of anyone still living there. My dad passed away a few years ago.
All I know is that as a child, my grandmother lived on Rua Ingreja in Fuseta, and that her parents were Jose Rolão and Maria Diaz Griels (they passed on when I was young). They left Portugal in 1915 (and...
I believe that's the one I mean. I don't speak Portuguese, and all I have to go on these days is a scan of my grandmother's Portuguese birth certificate.
Over 100 years ago, before immigrating to the USA, my family lived in Fuseta (Fuzeta?). The sentimentalist in me would like to visit the birthplace of my forebears in conjunction with my Camino. But really, I don't know what I would do there. I have the name of a street from my Grandmother's...
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