If you walk religiously from Tavira and checkout the signage on the churches / ruins / cruzeiros, you will notice the Templars of the Order of Santiago was along the road building hospital for pilgrims. The government knows the history and that's why they rebuild the Camino but for tourism gains...
In the south of Portugal, the locals don't walk the Camino to Santiago and they don't believe people are willing to walk to Santiago. Most of the time even the tourist office don't know much about the Camino and you don't know how long for me to negotiate with the tourist office, just to...
Hi jungleboy,
This is Maria from the formerly known as Refúgio Peregrino Nicolau, we are now called Refúgio das Cabaças. If you come visit us, you will understand the reason of the name change and our place has improved a lot since your last visit with the help of a very special French pilgrim...
This incident reminds me of something happened to me today when I started to walk from Coimbra in the midday. As there was also a man running along the Camino up and down the road when it was just me and him. He kept checking on me and he stopped sometimes very weirdly which alert my attention...
Actually I've been talking to pilgrims to Santiago from Lisbon and from Santiago to Lisbon, especially those who don't like to take the vaccine. Their experience with the albergues in Portugal is that the ones in big cities or more touristic places follow the "rules" while the ones in the small...
If you really want a different and genuine experience in Portugal on th Camino and that you don't have much time to finish in Santiago, I would highly recommend to start from Guimarães, it is the birth place of Portugal, a very nice preserved city in the Old Town centre. You just need to take a...
Dear Camino experts,
I am interested to explore the the camino in Portugal from Guimaraes to Braga which leads to Santiago, and also the camino and from in Porto to Braga. Has anyone have walked eitherof of these routes ? I would like to know where to sleep on either ways and how it is, any...
Just to answer you some questions about Montserrat as I have stayed at the monastery for a week for retreat a few years ago. I love that place so much.
1. There are a few hotels right next to the monastery.
2. The famous boys' choir at Montserrat normally sing to tourist at the basilica at noon...
Dear friends of the camino,
Have any of you walked from Fatima to Tomar and can give me some points on this way ? Since last year I walked from Lisbon to Fatima and would like to continue on from Fatima to Tomar and then all the way to Santiago sometime in the future. I hope I don't need to...
I actually can sleep through people snoring but in my recent camino experience, I have heard other people try to stop someone from snoring by fake coughing or sneezing and they said it worked, another thing that I witnessed it worked is people did a series of sound like "Tac tac tac" using their...
I mostly stayed in municipal albergues and sometimes private albergues, but I saw they always have beds left, even in Sarria, the streets are very quiet !
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