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I just had a wonderful experience visiting the Catholic Clarisas Convent. See location https://maps.app.goo.gl/vNAFtjk8AyvNUd7r5
I wasn't doing the Camino this time,I just wanted to buy their homemade biscuits/cakes. The hospitality there is amazing. I was greeted with a warm welcome by Sister...
My daughter and I are going to walk from Puebla de Sanabria to Santiago on the Sanabres (she doesn't have a lot of time) this spring. Gerald Kelly's guidebook for VdLP and the Sanabres is a wealth of info about accomodations and other facilities available in towns along the way, restaurants...
El Concello de Ourense cierra la única terma que funcionaba en Outariz tras reabrirla en Semana Santa - http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/ourense/2023/04/19/concello-cierra-outariz-tras-reapertura-parcial-semana-santa/0003_202304O19C1991.htm
Looks like they have closed the thermal bathing...
Hoping someone can give me current information. I'll be in Ourense sometime in the next few days and I'd love to have a bath in the hot springs. What could be better than a Galician onsen? :cool: Online I am seeing conflicting reports of closures because of Covid. Does anyone know for sure which...
Article in the local paper - La Opinion de Zamora - with comments from Teo and other townspeople. The pandemic has been challenging for the small communities along the Camino where pilgrims stay in normal times. I can't think of a community that takes better care of pilgrims...
This Ancient City Should Be Your First Stop in Spain Post-Pandemic
While other destinations have been hibernating through the pandemic, this medieval jewel west of Madrid has been quietly glowing up.
Read in The Daily Beast: https://apple.news/AuvHw6DIbSI6zhl23gx8gbg
Like many of the monasteries I have gotten to know on my Caminos, the Oseira monastery is located in a jaw-droppingly-beautiful location. When I stayed there, I took a little walk up, because in my experience, looking down at these sites is usually gorgeous. I’ve attached the pictures I took...
More here:
https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/ourense/2020/06/20/xunta-galicia-rehabilitara-albergue-peregrinos-monasterio-oseira/0003_202006O20C89911.htm
In our confinement, we're planning 2021. There's nothing better than to look ahead and hopefully, turn dreams into reality.
We are tossing between walking the Caminho Português, which we were going to walk this year and for which we have a plan, and the VdlP.
For a number of reasons, mainly...
We're looking at our schedule for the VDLP and trying to figure out Stage 16.
Should we stop in Banos de Montemayor? Is it worth the stop?
What is there to do there?
Or should we just continue on to La Calzada?
Opinions?
Suggestions?
Hi
I’m hoping to make a start on the VDLP in spring 2019. I would really like to time some of the walk to see flowers or at least red poppies in bloom ‘somewhere along the way’. (Hope I find what I’m looking for ) as soon as I thought these words I remembered they are from Dan Mullins’ new...
If you've walked the Sanabrés, you will probably remember this bridge. It's between Silleda and Bandeira. Started in the 900s, currently accessible only on foot, overgrown with vines and weeds, but it is a jewel worth saving...
I saw a notice in the public albergue about a private ethnography museum in Aldea del Cano, the Museo the Oficios and Tradiciones and set off to look for it. It was a little bit hard to find, in a private house in Calle Real (look for the round stone planters with flowers in - former horse...
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