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I’m not there yet, but the forecast looks terrible. An acquaintance was up there 2 days ago having spent the previous night at Borda and walking out in the morning. Around mid-day he said the Napoleon was closed but he was already at Leopoder and...
Not to mention local holidays.
Here's a handy list - worth considering if you are planning a camino.
https://www.officeholidays.com/countries/spain/2024
I will close this thread, I think this is an important topic, but it seems it is difficult for us to not get personal... the important part is the announcement (see the first post).
I must admit that yet another discussion of who is a tourist and who is a pilgrim would bore me to near death and it would most likely be the death of this thread, even when it is a death steeped in some kind of humour 😶. Luckily, we here on the...
I did this in 2022 (landed in Lisbon, actually just walked to the Oriente train station (it's a straight shot and not super far with a backpack rather than rolly luggage), sidewalks right from the airport door -- i had this thing about "starting...
Rome2Rio is good for checking route options but for timetables it’s much better to go to the source. This is the English version of the Portuguese trains website:
https://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en/
I thought that the first film was a bit too clichéd with the main characters. The American lead was initially very insular in his thinking and probably had trouble pointing to France on a map, the Dutch character a very laid-back drug abuser, the...
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