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Bag it up; carry it to the next town; throw it out properly. It's way too hot, and will get far too dry, to be burning anything in the countryside. How fires start.
I thought forum members might find this intriguing, as it is an annually scheduled pilgrimage, of sorts, in rural central Spain and Portugal.
A small-boat convoy travels, over a month and a half while the weather is still not too hot, down the Tejo (Tagus) from eastern Spain through central...
I really liked this! I haven't attempted a caminho yet, but I am more and more drawn to it...and this writer's explanation of the community, and the communality of having attempted something like this...particularly.
It very much reminded me of the common experience shared by offshore...
Maybe take the bus down to Vigo, and then go across by ferry to the north side of the ria? There seem to be a fair number of small hotels--not very expensive--there, and then you can also explore Vigo and maybe the islands, which are a national park?
That's an area I've always wanted to see...
I noted this a few weeks ago, about some new routes to Fatima from north of Lisbon...
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/new-marked-paths-to-fatima-in-central-portugal.86408/
Our local municipal government in Vila Nova da Barquinha has just produced a short video publicizing its...
It could have something to do with the French reduction of short-haul flights, perhaps?
This is from last year. Ryanair could be looking at their revenue in the last year, and feeling that Bordeaux isn't worthwhile for them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65687665
The fish pastes and butter are always packaged (plastic or tiny tins). If you open them, they're yours. But if still sealed, they can definitely be redirected.
As for sliced cheese, I don't think any such rule must exist in Portugal; I've many times seen the small plates of cheese, usually with...
In Portugal, tap water is not commonly drunk at meals away from home. I get the feeling the sentiment is, if you can afford to eat in a restaurant, you're affluent enough to pay for bottled water (though I'm inferring this just from the fact that noone ever offers it as a choice, and eating in a...
Not true if you order a menu do dia. It will always include the couvert which is bread, olives, and sometimes butter. If you order a la carte, the couvert, covering the same, will likely be billed at a euro or two, on top of the cost of your other choices.
In tourist-type restaurants, they will...
My two bits' worth:
I sense the heart of this discussion is the relative perception of "value of the wine," if I can call it that.
In Spain and Portugal, table wine is so cheap as to seem to locals just a tiny bit more valuable than water.
I can buy a 1-litre box of wine (admittedly, not...
Same is true for us, when we're in small-town Portugal. Here in Canada, people are very private, and as you say, a lot of their/our lives is spent at home. In Barquinha, life is to some degree lived on the street. Although we're foreigners, and our Portuguese is pretty painful, and there's not...
I know it's not so romantic as pulling it from a cask, but much of the time, nowadays, the bulk wine that is peregrino- or menu del dia quality comes in those 3- or 4-litre boxes, so the various-sized glass jugs are quite common.
I've been in Spanish and Portuguese farm-supply stores, where...
Just got an email about today being last day of a seat sale for Vueling in Spain.
For anyone wanting to go to, say, Barcelona, after arriving in Santiago, this might be useful.
Buen camino...
I suspect it's because vegetables--right or wrong--are considered "poor people's food." During the dictatorship years, the division between poor and rich was very stark, and the poor had little access to protein other than eggs and dairy.
The legacy from those hard years is a strong preference...
Also, if Corga is just outside Freixos (looks like it on the map), there is a family health clinic as extension in Freixos (closer):
Centro de Saúde de Ponte de Lima
+351258909280
Open till 8 tonight.
Best of luck!
This sounds about right. There are several out-in-the-open faucets in our neighbourhood. One is marked agua impotavel; the others have no marking. After several years of dealing with Portuguese officialdom and its penny-wise pragmatism, I would guess that the official response to "why isn't it...
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