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These are seaside resort areas with varied hotel options. Gronze lays them out in good detail. In the summer of 2022 my wife and I stayed in hotels nightly. Because we went in August, we pre-booked, especially for weekends. Viana do Castelo, Vila Praia da Ancora, A Guarda (especially...
It is. there are local busses (about 40 minutes) form Povoa de Varzim, Esposende or Viana do Castelo to Barcelos, depending on how early you want to leave the coast. From Barcelos to Braga busses run about every half hour. Very easy to find in Barcelos. They have big, graphic signboards with...
We went in mid-October. It rained eight days out of eleven, a couple of days so heavily that my phone (kept inside my sealed coat pocket or backpack most of the day) was disabled and I lost all our pictures. The week and a half before and the week and a half after us were much drier. So be...
1. Tui- Redondela, 32km. If that is too long a walk for the first day, you could stop in Rúa/Mos (hamlet of 50 people with an albergue 10 km before Redondela) or O Porrino (industrial town of about 5,000 with all services, hotels and two albergues, sits about halfway between Tui and Redondela)...
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