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Ola, all! We completed our (somewhat abbreviated) walk on the Northern Route to Fatima and it was lovely! Plenty of blue arrows to follow (and lots of yellow ones pointing the "wrong way" when there were no blues.) Beautiful countryside, not too hot, wonderful historic towns (Valenca, Barcelos...
Muito obrigada, everyone! Good to know there are an abundance of blue arrows pointing our direction. I was hoping for a step-by-step like the Brierley guides but the Roteiro brochure is a pretty good second. :-)
"Efren" caught my eye... I think his drone work is really well done!
Does anyone have any other Camino (Central) Portuguese videos to recommend? I'd love something to watch while I'm training on my treadmill! Ideally something that's not full of jump cuts and weird edits, bad music or lots of...
Are Wise Pilgrim's "Wisely" map apps the same maps found in the Wise Pilgrim app? I see the maps in both are 200mb so I'm wondering if they're the same?
I echo what TMcA and others say above: Don't go barefoot, even indoors! I was a "barefoot from early spring to Halloween" person until one morning I suddenly woke up with the most excruciating pain in my right foot, out of nowhere! I've done regular yoga and stretching my entire adult life so it...
"...you won't be walking long days across a shadeless plain with no place to get out of the heat. It's not like you'll be on the VDLP in July."
Thanks, David, that's exactly what I needed to hear. :)
In reading about jungleboy's proposed three-day route, specifically Barcelos to São Pedro de Rates (recall we are walking backwards), I'm seeing some busy road-walking, including along the N306. However, I also see a detour uphill (and away from the hiway), the Variante da Franqueira. Any advice...
LoL! We're actually in the US Pacific NW, in Seattle. If NP's temps are anything like ours have been the past two summers... we hit 94 F last July, a record for us... I'm not sure even umbrellas will be enough. (Of which I have a huge collection! :-)
Looking forward to NP pilgrims' input: is...
Friend from Barquinha's mention of "brutally, baking hot summer weather" caught my eye. I just saw in my Sunflower guide to Northern Portugal that "...almost certainly it is too hot to walk by the middle of June." My group has been contemplating a three-day walk between Valenca and Rates...
A computer program wrote those stories?!? Amazing! And terrifying at the same time. No wonder this has become an issue with students using AI to write their essays.
What a fun experiment, Viscount! Did it inspire you to get on the road?
Part of what we loved about our first Camino experience was the walking from place to place, the ephemeral arriving-and-leaving, if you will.
The first time we traveled as a group back in 2007 (not a Camino but a tour of rural Dordogne) there were 17 of us. Having a homebase for part of the...
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