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  1. Friend from Barquinha

    SATA/Azores Cancelled Flight

    The Azores seemed like a wonderful cross between Ireland and Hawaii--as green and agricultural as Ireland, with tiny fields outlined by black volcanic rock, and a lot of religious heritage--plus the climate and vegetation of a tropical island like Hawaii. Wonderful place!
  2. Friend from Barquinha

    Paulo Coelho's "The Pilgrimage" to be made into a Netflix movie

    I think the writing style appeals more to the Portuguese than the English-speaking reader, so the translation is probably not all that effective. I've tried it too, and found it pretty hard going. Thus Netflix Brazil. They will likely have a big audience there.
  3. Friend from Barquinha

    Post items from the UK to Spain (at the mid-point of Camino del Norte)

    I've been following this situation for a while since I was, many moons ago, a customs broker and dealt with this stuff all the time. Brexit has made it very, very difficult for the small EU exporter shipping to the UK, and reciprocally, for the UK firm shipping into Europe. In fact, these...
  4. Friend from Barquinha

    SATA/Azores Cancelled Flight

    Double on that! We did this once, returning to Canada after using SATA Cda>Portugal, and the stopover was great! The Azores are beautiful, and small enough that you can see a lot in just a few days. A lot of fun; the people were great; the food was good; the land was green as green can be...
  5. Friend from Barquinha

    A new 3000km circular walking route in Portugal?

    After careful reading of their website, https://palmilharportugal.pt/ , it looks as if what they are doing is putting together an app that joins all the existing trails into a circular trail around a good portion of mainland Portugal. They state that the trails will be on public land, and are...
  6. Friend from Barquinha

    LIVE from the Camino Caminho Nascente from Tavira - Spring 2021

    This is one of my favourite parts of Portugal--beautiful countryside with the cork oaks everywhere. I've been reading the last few posts, with updates from Alvaro's recent trek through the area, and following along with Google Maps and adding my own recollections, from a couple of trips in the...
  7. Friend from Barquinha

    Travel from Santiago to Lisbon

    Certainly for the train, you can easily buy a ticket Porto>Lisboa at the Porto railway station. Trains run so often that, if you're not desperate for a first-class ticket (very little advantage to it), and don't need to travel on the fastest Alfapendicular, you should have no trouble at all...
  8. Friend from Barquinha

    Travel from Santiago to Lisbon

    This is the easiest way, for sure! And the long-distance bus terminal in Porto is literally next door to the long-distance train station, where you can buy tickets for Lisbon every couple of hours.
  9. Friend from Barquinha

    Pilgrim rubbish left at Fisterra - video

    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.
  10. Friend from Barquinha

    Another kind of pilgrimage...

    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...
  11. Friend from Barquinha

    "What a hardcore thru-hiker can learn on the Camino de Santiago"

    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...
  12. Friend from Barquinha

    I have now narrowed my book choice down to two.

    A bit like Fermor--like him, a young man on an adventure, but in Spain... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Walked_Out_One_Midsummer_Morning
  13. Friend from Barquinha

    Is 5 days in Finisterre a bad idea?

    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...
  14. Friend from Barquinha

    Info and a photo video from Variante Espiritual

    What a wonderful record of the journey! Thanks.
  15. Friend from Barquinha

    Advice Requested on Hiking to Fatima from Lisboa via the Camhino Português

    Not sure that urban planning/traffic design considerations come into play much, with the location of miracles! ;)❤️
  16. Friend from Barquinha

    Advice Requested on Hiking to Fatima from Lisboa via the Camhino Português

    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...
  17. Friend from Barquinha

    Ryanair stopping service to Bordeaux in November 2024

    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
  18. Friend from Barquinha

    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    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...
  19. Friend from Barquinha

    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    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...
  20. Friend from Barquinha

    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    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...

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