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Cheryl - first of all congradulations by the time I post this I think you will be in Santiago! thank you so much for your postings live from the camino Portuguese! I have found it so helpful as I will start the coastal and spiritual variant in...
Definitely not "top shelf," but in my experience, less than half the price.
We buy from Decathlon in Portugal quite regularly. They make it clear their products are designed for cost-effectiveness and mass use. That being said, they're usually...
I have lived in France and Portugal and shopped at Decathlon for gear and for a big box store found them adequate but I thought their own branded gear was not as top shelf as what is available from REI in the US. I have read reviews that REI...
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...
You might not be able to book the Vigo>Porto part of the trip. It's a weird little train. Collaboratively run by Renfe, the Spanish operator, and CP, the Portuguese one. I know last year we did have to change stations; the Vigo>Porto train was...
Closing this thread because it is devolving into personal attacks
I find it inappropriate to tell women that they must be chaperoned by a man in order to be safe on the Camino. While women are usually the victims of this type of crime, both...
For the first, Portuguese part of the caminho, this works...
It's the Portuguese government site. You need to input the district you're in, and then the town. So you *do* need to know what district you're in, at any given time.
It gives you...
For me, the Invierno a few weeks ago hit a real sweet spot. Walked on my own every day except the last one into SdC, but through the course of the Camino met my first fellow pilgrim, then 2nd, finally the 3rd, and where by night 5 there were 4 of...
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