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In my preparation for my first camino - the camino Portugués starting on September 15th 2014 from Porto, next week! - I was setting up a Camino Portugués section on my Google site to get a bit the overview.
See there my file Camino Portugués (latest) version dd-mm-yyyy that you can use. You can...
Start about which flight connection you need to take on http://www.flightconnections.com/
and check then the cheapest possible ticket at http://www.skyscanner.com/
Let me know a better way!
the cheapest flight tickets are to be found at www.skyscanner.com
(this site can be useful: http://www.flightconnections.com/)
Going back from Santiago de Compostela to Porto, Porto Airport, Lisbon or Algarve:
Take the RENFE-train from Santiago de Compostela to the Vigo-Guixar railway station...
Thank you for your honest report about your experience on the Camino Portugués. At least you have reached Casa da Fernanda, which is already something. I am starting my first camino ever from Porto in two weeks time. I will follow the coast until Vila do Conde to scip a lot of traffic and to...
check on Google maps (for pedestrians!) and you'll get the answer =)
Answer: 21,5 km (= 4:21 hrs walking). It is by the way Vila do Conde.
But visiting the cathedral + sightseeing in Porto + taking the metro to Matosinhos + walking to Vila do Conde on ONE day (??!!) is maybe a bit too much...
Lovely! You are a Portugal fan as well like me since last July??!! What a nice country, lovely people.
I saw on internet about Jacinto & Mariana, maybe the mother who started this house was Fernanda?
I hope I can catch a bed in their house in the second half of September!!!
I am Dutch (and I live not far from Amsterdam) and I have visited Portugal July 2014 for the first time for vacation:
Porto - Guimaraes - Braga - Bom de Jesus site -Coimbra - Lagos - Faro - Albufeira - Sagres - Sinta - Lisbon
Next time will be mid of September 2014 to start my camino from...
Yes, indeed, I hope I am able to stay in Casa da Fernanda (16 beds), what I have heared the best place on the camino run by Jacinto & Mariana.
Unbelievable donativo place including dinner and breakfast and laundry!
It is just before Vitorino dos Piães
e-mail address...
as I told before in another reply:
AUTNA has several buses per day straight to Vila Nova de Cerveira, Valença and Vigo from the centre of Porto as well as from the airport of Porto!
See http://www.autna.com/venta/index.php
The Portuguese city of Valença is via a bridge connected to the Spanish...
AUTNA has several buses per day straight to Vila Nova de Cerveira, Valença and Vigo from the centre of Porto as well as from the airport of Porto!
See http://www.autna.com/venta/index.php
The Portuguese city of Valença is via a bridge connected to the Spanish city of Tui (in Tui start a lot op...
I fell in love with LISBON as well. I was there last July (2014) and I have stayed in the very nice hostel Golden Tram 242 (4-, 6- 10 persons dormitories as well as luxury double rooms - double rooms with own bathroom & perfect beds!) at the most perfect location near the Rossio Square (metro...
The metro (line B) goes even till Póvoa de Varzim, not only to Vila do Conde. And metro line C goes until Maia (metro station Castêlo da Maia).
For pilgrims heading for Vilarinho (accommodation: Casa da Laura) or Vairão (albergue in the monasterio) take metro line B until metro station Modivas...
* Casa da Laura (8 beds) in Vilarinho:
near the N104 road from Azurara to Trofa
In that case leave the coastal road already just after Lavra and just before Praia (= beach) do Angeiras in direction of Angeiras, Carvelha, Igreja, Modivas and Gião
See:
https://www.facebook.com/AlbergueDoTorreao...
I recommend the coastal road only until Vilar do Conde so that you can scip the industrial areas when you are starting from Maia and go up immediately north from there ... The road along the river Douro is very nice in Porto and the coastal road via Matosinhos to Vilar do Conde is a perfect way...
I am going to stay in the AirPorto hostel for two nights (€13 via Booking.com) less than 15 minutes walking from the airport. After breakfast I am taking the metro to metro station Sao Bento on walking distance of the cathedral and I will collect my stamp in the pilgrims pass there (pilgrim...
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