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We're thinking of doing Porto to Caminha next year as we don't have time to do the complete route and we only do about 15-20km a day. I'd be interested in the small hotels you stayed in as we will be looking for private rooms and bathrooms. Thanks.
We did our first Camino in April/May from Tui including the Variante Espiritual and soon realised that we could get them from all sorts of places including the Guardia Civil advising pilgrims on the way to Pontevedra.
Excellent. Thank you very much. I'll download that route. Yes I've used a converter as well to convert from GPX to KML and then import into Google My Maps to get an overview of our routes. Do you by any chance know of any good GPX editors? I'd quite like to adjust some of routes but it's...
Thanks. I do have the Brierley guide and it does look quite detailed. We tend to use the GPX tracks as a back-up for when we're not sure. If we do that route, we'll use Wikiloc to track it and upload the track as we use it to record as well as follow tracks. It's very good.
Do you know where you can get the tracks for the river/cycle route between Caminha and Valenca? I actually use the Wikiloc app and upload GPX tracks to it or find tracks that others have uploaded but I haven't found the river route yet. Currently planning for next year!
Yes it does count as we have just done it, walked from O Porino via the Variante Spiritual and received our Compostela and got at least 2 stamps each day.
Thank you so much for this and particularly for information on private rooms. We've just done the last 100km from O Porrino to SdC via the Variante Spiritual and now we want to start in Porto following the Coastal/Litoral next year so am avidly following all the "live" posts and taking notes!
Good luck! And Buen Camino. We remember walking past that hotel on our last day. The car park was very busy and there appeared to be a load of bikers meeting up. Fortunately we didn't need Aircon on May 1st. I don't envy you the heat
How nice to read this. We did that day a month ago - it was our 2nd day as we'd started walking from O Porrino. There was a very steep descent and I really needed my poles. There was only one bagpiper - I bought a ceramic cockle shell from him - and a can of Aquarius from the other guy and then...
We'll be doing that walk on Monday and having a rest day in Pontevedra. Weather is looking quite iffy. Am preparing to get pretty wet. Have you decided to do the Variante Spiritual? We will be.
Fortunately I know what Judias are in a menu!
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