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[QUOTE="amorfati1, post: 803055, member: 22497"] Dear Laurie and All A wee 'chime in' here - a peregrina from Lisboa to SdC - May 2014 ([I]before those spiffy boardwalks appeared)[/I] It's perhaps a 'fruitless' debate if one would look for a 'winner'. In my experience of life in general and Portuguese Caminho in particular - much has to do with ones intention/s, preferences/biases, perception/s and attitude/s. I for one LOVED the Portuguese caminho for what it is and how it shaped me (aka the echoes of this pilgrimage are still with me and reverberate). Considering starting in Porto was never an issue - it was to start at Lisboa. Period. I wanted to 'swim/bathe' in the country/atmosphere, not just having a toe-dip. That's just my preference. For e.g. some prefer to just celebrate Christmas-season On Dec 24 and 25th - and on the 26th, the tree will be de-decorated and is out the door presto. I for one start with 1.Advent Sunday, Samichlaus (Dec 6th), etc and conclude with Epiphany, Jan 6th. It's a peaceful, in-drawn time, not much boisterousness, but lots of candles, Panetone, Stollen, some gifts, etc. That's just what rings my chimes. Who's to say that the chimes rung on just Dec 24 and 25th would be any less enjoyable/meaningful? So --- Sure - the cobblestones are bloody murder - but somehow there became part of it too. And as i knew of them prior to the pilgrimage (due to multiple prior Portugal sojourns) - I prepared w/ good footwear and insoles (Montrail, as i recall. Even had a spare-set of silicone insoles) The complaint of much road-walking i never understood. I walked many a mile through fab countryside, fields, forests, etc. I encountered a woman who lamented the drag from Azambuja to Santarem along the busy roads. Which had me puzzled - as I had walked the same points (from A to S) but through lovely countryside and encountered the most spectacular poppy fields i had ever seen in my life. Turns out - she had mis-read the map. Of course - laments then would amount to: "PC has lots of road-walking" and not the less flattering, but more honest: "I am too bloody daft to read a map properly". Am not aiming to convince anyone to do or not do XYZ. everything has light and shadow sides, that's just the nature of life on this planet. I just don't go along with statements or claims that a "one course meal" equals a "five course meal", or a 'three course meal of chinese food'' is the same as a 'three course meal of persian food" - as an example. The experience is different - but if and when anyone is happy with a one course meal - who am I do debate or discuss that choice? If the PC from Porto is the ticket for you - go right ahead. wherever you start walking from - I wish you a blessed pilgrimage - to me the caminho was especially precious when i realised that the Way walked me ... instead of the 'me' walking the Way. ([I]and as an aside - i am aiming for living less on the 'comparative mode' - when everything is measured, compared, quantified - and live with life as it is, presenting itself now and here wherever i might live, sit, walk, pilgrim, write. )[/I] saluti, C [/QUOTE]
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