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[QUOTE="peregrino_tom, post: 110599, member: 4307"] chefrich – good luck. I met very few people until the last four days. There were four women walking alone who at various points I caught up, walked with and then usually overtook. An Italian couple branched off to Fatima and a French couple mixing bus and walking stages. That was about it! johns: I had better weather than you, which really helped. Yes it was a very different camino and hard graft, but all-in-all I thought it was well worth it! Laurie: yep waymarking in the eucalyptus plantations was tricky. I think this is a lot to do with the camino not following old paths with stone sides that could be arrowed (compared say to the paths through Galician woods). Instead just muddy tracks through relatively new plantations. Saw some traces of peeled off yellow painted bark. But there were also a few good small yellow signs that had been tacked up. Sometimes a bit of yellow plastic bag had been knotted to a branch. I took these to be temporary signage – and never went astray as a result of this assumption. But generally the waymarking was ultra economical and I just had to keep the faith that if you don't see a marker you're meant to keep going straight ahead. My most bizarre incident of eucalyptus waymarking though was just before the ponte romana after Pedacaes. At the main road there was a 'working girl' plying her trade. Just there, the plantation has been completely razed so there are no markers, just empty ground. The working girl, while on her mobile was able to gesticulate to me to explain the right way. Seemed like she was quite used to providing this service to confused pilgrims! I attach the single sheet of albergues (after Porto) that the tourist offices were handing out in late October. You'll see I've marked 'closed' on two of them. No idea when they're expected to re-open. With the Tui one closed, I stayed at the private 'Taperia O Albergue' – nice and central too, at the top of Rua Obispo Lago. You'll see they've left off the temporary albergue at Caldas de Reis. I was curious and found that it is actually open, but people who stayed there told me it really is very temporary (and has been for a while!) and not satisfactory when there's many people staying as it's basically a single room without much separation from the toilets etc. I stayed at the one 5km before at Briallos which was v good. There's a map in the albergue showing how to get to a bar and shop in the nearby village. But too much detail! I plan to send you all my notes in the next couple of weeks, cheers, tom [/QUOTE]
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