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September should be very warm. Daily hiking in a T-shirt should be good. I wore the same shirt every day for hiking. Technical shirts are super easy to handwash and dry fast.
In mornings I wore my rain jacket too, but on the revised list I...
I'm impressed ! I really need to drop my backpack weight, so maybe some advice (I am planning the Portuguese Litoral in mid September)
In terms of clothes, how do you manage with just one t-shirt? and is a head light not necessary?
thanks
Go to where your name is written
Go...
Somewhere Else.
Not some door
Nor address
But in your place among the stars
Where the wild winds call your name
The world knows your name
Its the music in your head
The beat in your heart
The time in your...
I just walked this yesterday and saw the 102 km marker. I was staying in the area close to the cathedral and the Buen Camino app had a route that went right by the Cathedral and out of the city, up a steep hill or two and then into the forest...
Awww I LOVED reading this. I’m taking my 9yo daughter and hoping for some down time and reconnection and just being together. You are making me feel as though my shorter stages are the smart move! We each are bringing a journal to draw and write...
Hi everyone,
I went on a short coastal Camino Portugues in March with my 11 year old son and wanted to share some of my experiences here.
We walked a very small part of the Camino. We started March 13 in Póvoa de Varzim and finished in Vila...
So I’d been given to understand in my pre-Camino research that one could just ask for a copo de agua (glass of water) which is basically tap water on the house.
Since arriving in Portugal a few days ago, I had no issues with such a request at...
Hi, I live in Lisbon, so I might help clarify the issue :)
Some years ago the restaurants/bars were in a crisis and become annoyed with people asking for tap water with ice cubes and not consuming anything else, so they started denying it.
As...
I wish you a great experience. On the Camino and as a volunteer.
I will be doing the Portuguese, senda litoral + spiritual variant, so we won't cross paths (at least not this year ;) )
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