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  1. Jmhilde

    Is there a detailed guide to walking from Valenca to Fatima?

    Ola, all! We completed our (somewhat abbreviated) walk on the Northern Route to Fatima and it was lovely! Plenty of blue arrows to follow (and lots of yellow ones pointing the "wrong way" when there were no blues.) Beautiful countryside, not too hot, wonderful historic towns (Valenca, Barcelos...
  2. Jmhilde

    Is there a detailed guide to walking from Valenca to Fatima?

    Muito obrigada, everyone! Good to know there are an abundance of blue arrows pointing our direction. I was hoping for a step-by-step like the Brierley guides but the Roteiro brochure is a pretty good second. :-)
  3. Jmhilde

    Is there a detailed guide to walking from Valenca to Fatima?

    It would be nice to not have to reverse-engineer a south-to-north walking guide! Cheers! :-)
  4. Jmhilde

    Which route to choose in terms of asphalt/roads?

    My group of eight will be doing a short walk in July from Arcos to Tui. What kind of surfaces will we find along the way?
  5. Jmhilde

    Best Camino App for Camino Francés

    Thank you, good to know! I'm enjoying looking through the app and look forward to using it this summer!
  6. Jmhilde

    Dromomania

    "Efren" caught my eye... I think his drone work is really well done! Does anyone have any other Camino (Central) Portuguese videos to recommend? I'd love something to watch while I'm training on my treadmill! Ideally something that's not full of jump cuts and weird edits, bad music or lots of...
  7. Jmhilde

    Best Camino App for Camino Francés

    Are Wise Pilgrim's "Wisely" map apps the same maps found in the Wise Pilgrim app? I see the maps in both are 200mb so I'm wondering if they're the same?
  8. Jmhilde

    plantar fasciitis - with 7 weeks to go

    I echo what TMcA and others say above: Don't go barefoot, even indoors! I was a "barefoot from early spring to Halloween" person until one morning I suddenly woke up with the most excruciating pain in my right foot, out of nowhere! I've done regular yoga and stretching my entire adult life so it...
  9. Jmhilde

    Recommendation for five-day walk for first-timers?

    "...you won't be walking long days across a shadeless plain with no place to get out of the heat. It's not like you'll be on the VDLP in July." Thanks, David, that's exactly what I needed to hear. :)
  10. Jmhilde

    Advice for three nice walking days in Portugal, please!

    Thank you, jungleboy! LoL, I have the Wise Pilgrim app, it didn't even occur to me to look there. I appreciate the info AND the reminder! :-)
  11. Jmhilde

    Advice for three nice walking days in Portugal, please!

    In reading about jungleboy's proposed three-day route, specifically Barcelos to São Pedro de Rates (recall we are walking backwards), I'm seeing some busy road-walking, including along the N306. However, I also see a detour uphill (and away from the hiway), the Variante da Franqueira. Any advice...
  12. Jmhilde

    Recommendation for five-day walk for first-timers?

    LoL! We're actually in the US Pacific NW, in Seattle. If NP's temps are anything like ours have been the past two summers... we hit 94 F last July, a record for us... I'm not sure even umbrellas will be enough. (Of which I have a huge collection! :-) Looking forward to NP pilgrims' input: is...
  13. Jmhilde

    Recommendation for five-day walk for first-timers?

    Friend from Barquinha's mention of "brutally, baking hot summer weather" caught my eye. I just saw in my Sunflower guide to Northern Portugal that "...almost certainly it is too hot to walk by the middle of June." My group has been contemplating a three-day walk between Valenca and Rates...
  14. Jmhilde

    chatGPT suggested packing list - just for fun

    A computer program wrote those stories?!? Amazing! And terrifying at the same time. No wonder this has become an issue with students using AI to write their essays. What a fun experiment, Viscount! Did it inspire you to get on the road?
  15. Jmhilde

    Advice for three nice walking days in Portugal, please!

    Part of what we loved about our first Camino experience was the walking from place to place, the ephemeral arriving-and-leaving, if you will. The first time we traveled as a group back in 2007 (not a Camino but a tour of rural Dordogne) there were 17 of us. Having a homebase for part of the...
  16. Jmhilde

    Advice for three nice walking days in Portugal, please!

    This route sounds magical! We have some mobility issues with our group this time but I'm putting your suggestion in my notes for future walks! :-)
  17. Jmhilde

    Advice for three nice walking days in Portugal, please!

    Thanks! We'll be in the Algarve earlier in our trip and will definitely be hiking there. :-)
  18. Jmhilde

    Advice for three nice walking days in Portugal, please!

    Thanks, Steven. We are in fact working with a local walking tour company, the same folks we did our Douro self-guided tour with (and liked very much!) However, I was finding that the info they are giving me was frequently contradicted by reports here on this forum. Confused by this, I thought...
  19. Jmhilde

    Advice for three nice walking days in Portugal, please!

    Thank you, jungleboy, your suggested route sounds perfect for my group, yay! :-) I had to chuckle at the comments about my "exhaustive" list of requirements! After spending hours reading through this forum, I didn't find what I was looking for. I did, however, see MANY responses to other...
  20. Jmhilde

    Advice for three nice walking days in Portugal, please!

    We are a group of eight who are hoping to find a nice three-day walk while we are visiting Portugal this summer. In 2015 we walked from Sarria to Santiago and all agreed it was amazing! This visit we sadly have only three days to walk but would love to replicate what we so enjoyed back then...

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