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  1. nzPhreadde

    Walking the other way: the Portuguese Camino (Guardian article, 2 March 2019)

    "Btw, Bradypus's deliberate misspelling of Guardian (Grauniad) is a popular reference to the newspaper's frequent typographical errors." It was well known as The Grauniad when I lived in the UK in the mid 70s....
  2. nzPhreadde

    Can we please talk kilometres, litres, Celsius, right-side driving, etc.?

    I had a colleague once, who as a laugh at his science teachers in high school, calculated the acceleration due to gravity in rods per week per week (or rods per square week as he put it).
  3. nzPhreadde

    Funny signs on the Camino and those that lend themselves to humour!

    Or very close to Santiago on the CP
  4. nzPhreadde

    Funny signs on the Camino and those that lend themselves to humour!

    On a route near Fatima while doing our CP in 2017
  5. nzPhreadde

    Are you 70+ and still walking Caminos?

    I celebrated my 71st birthday on the way from Sarria to Santiago, and my 73rd on the way from Lisbon carrying my own pack all the way. No, I'm no fitness fanatic and walked the Lisbon camino with very nominal preparation compared to some on this forum. We walked 31 days over 6 weeks from...
  6. nzPhreadde

    Caminho Nascente: Fatima <--> Tomar

    We have just completed walking this Camino Nascente from Fatima to Tomar, staying for one night at Fungalvaz Albertus (which we had to ourselves). I tried ringing Fr Mauricio's phone which simply rang for awhile and then went to voicemail, which was meaningless to me having no Portuguese...
  7. nzPhreadde

    Places to sleep - from Lisbon to Porto and then coastal route to Santiago (updated)

    There is an albergue at Alpriate, run by Via Lusitana, website http://www.lusitana.org/alpriate. Details are sparse, but they don't take bookings and open at 2pm each day. Phone +351 915 595 213 (which is the Via Lusitana 24/7 multilingual help line) email info@vialusitana.org, address Largo de...
  8. nzPhreadde

    New Zealand friends of the Camino

    For what it's worth, we live in Upper Hutt and begin walking CP in Lisboa on May 3rd. We know a few folk around here who have walked a Camino, and would be interested in swapping stories over a coffee at some point. Sounds to me like there is a reasonable chance of forming a Lower NI collective...
  9. nzPhreadde

    Starting in Lisbon on the 29th of December is this Crazy?

    If it's any consolation, our parish priest (in his mid 60s) walked from Lisbon to Santiago in January 2016. But then he used to spend his (NZ) summers in Antarctica until he got too old for it! I seem t recall he spent a fair amount of the time getting rained on. His adventures are documented...
  10. nzPhreadde

    To our NZ friends: hope you are all OK after the earthquake!

    Yeah, we were shaken awake by the quake, although we were ~250km from the epicentre, and didn't get much sleep for the rest of the night. We had a son & his wife, dog & cat come to stay as tsunami refugees (they are two blocks from the beach) for a few hours. Three of the whanau are working from...
  11. nzPhreadde

    Why am I having 2nd thoughts about CP

    G'day Yarma! We've recently booked our flights from Wellington.NZ to Lisbon - 26:30 flying, 11:00 waiting on the deck for the next flight, so I know your pain on the flying bit - we're planning on 2 nights in Lisbon to recover before walking out... Buen Camino, and Blessings, Peter :-)
  12. nzPhreadde

    Arrow wars approaching Porrino

    The Wise Pilgrim Guide (from the App store) for Camino Portuguese already makes this issue/deviation very clear.
  13. nzPhreadde

    What do those Abbreviations/Acronyms mean?

    Another one which I don't see very often, but should accompany most IMO/IMHO advice - YMMV (= Your Mileage May Vary, meaning this is what I experienced, your experience may be different)
  14. nzPhreadde

    Pilgrims beware of ear worms!

    I'll save the Proclaimers for when I walk the Rob Roy Way next year after the Camino Portuguese... And there is a beautiful rework of O Fortuna from Sydney, called "O You Terror" here
  15. nzPhreadde

    Luggage: Lisboa to SdC

    We're in the middle of planning our Camino from Lisboa, via Fatima to Santiago. The problem is that we are flying from New Zealand into Lisbon, and from Santiago flying on to London to catch up with family, so we're looking for some way to get a suitcase of respectable clothes and shoes from...
  16. nzPhreadde

    GPS vs Apps

    I have a Motorola Moto G2 with only 8Gb of storage,supplemented with a 32Gb microSD card. I use MapFactor's Navigator for "where am I?" and MapMyWalk to track where I've been/ am going which also tells me time and distance via voice. (My wife calls the voice "Sonya", 'cos it gets on ya nerves...
  17. nzPhreadde

    'Loud crowds' from Sarria

    We knew a vise old monk in New Zealand who, when my wife observed that some of the visitors at the monastery may not like the noise our youngest was making during the daily office, that people may expect silence at a monastery, but they should accept what they get, not what they expect. I...

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