Hi,
I just completed the camino portugues from Lisbon. I am very thankfull that I had access to such a amount of informations on this forum before leaving and will post myself soon.
But before that I would like to make a report on the bad experiences some of my fellow female travellers had to go through.
I didn’t meet a lot of pilgrims on this camino and let’s say I really got close to 3 female pilgrims, who were walking alone, at separate moments of the journey.
Out of these three, two were sexually harassed in Portugal.
One in the early morning hour, before dawn, just out of Vilarinho, on the central after Porto (Man following her in a car and shouting insanities, she speaks portuguese). The second right after Aguaçadoura, on the coastal (exhibitionist masturbating).
Both were very scared and managed to escape. They didn’t report to the police.
This made me think that the stories we hear about now and then must really be the tip of the iceberg. I think this is really a major problem on this camino and that women should keep on being fully informed before walking alone.
I hope that the local police, when the cases are brought, takes this seriously.
I just completed the camino portugues from Lisbon. I am very thankfull that I had access to such a amount of informations on this forum before leaving and will post myself soon.
But before that I would like to make a report on the bad experiences some of my fellow female travellers had to go through.
I didn’t meet a lot of pilgrims on this camino and let’s say I really got close to 3 female pilgrims, who were walking alone, at separate moments of the journey.
Out of these three, two were sexually harassed in Portugal.
One in the early morning hour, before dawn, just out of Vilarinho, on the central after Porto (Man following her in a car and shouting insanities, she speaks portuguese). The second right after Aguaçadoura, on the coastal (exhibitionist masturbating).
Both were very scared and managed to escape. They didn’t report to the police.
This made me think that the stories we hear about now and then must really be the tip of the iceberg. I think this is really a major problem on this camino and that women should keep on being fully informed before walking alone.
I hope that the local police, when the cases are brought, takes this seriously.