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The weather might be the biggest challenge between SJ and Roncesvalles. The solitude is way bigger in this stretch than in the one to the Cebreiro. You will walk 18Kim's without crossing a single house (Napoleon route). Therefore you need to carry more water and food. In our opinion this ones...
Nice work! No matter where you start you Camino, everyone end up doing (or at least trying to do) the last 100km. We already made two Caminos, the Portuguese from Valenca (120km) and the Frances from SJPP (800km) and we didn't felt we where more peregrinos in the larger Camino than in the short...
Very helpfull information! We cross with this Camino last September (during a hiking trip to Picos de Europa) and since then we got very curious about it. Thanks a lot for the info!
Having a place to sleep every 20km is already a great achievement. No doubts about that. But the opening of some more public albergues along the route Lisbon-Porto would still help this stretch to growth further. In our opinion that's why most pilgrims choose to depart from Porto: there is...
Magwood, we just saw your video and the first tought we shared was that we had already seen those flowers somewhere else. It was from your blog. We stumbled upon it on our research about the Caminho Portugues a few months ago. Only now did we match magwwod from the "trepidatious traveller" to...
We notice the increase of pilgrims departing from Lisbon. Every weekend we spot pilgrims on their way to Santarem. Some years ago spoting one was an event :) But it's still a road less travelled compared to the stretch Porto-Santiago
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