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  1. 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. :)
  2. 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! :-)
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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! :-)
  8. 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. :-)
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. Jmhilde

    How to Rate the Rubiães to Tui Stage of Camino?

    Thank you! Was there any shade along the river walk? We're from the Pacific NW in the US and we don't do well with unfiltered sunshine, LoL!
  13. Jmhilde

    How to Rate the Rubiães to Tui Stage of Camino?

    Ola Pelerine! Eight of us are planning to take this same route, with the Caminha to Valenca connector, in early July. What did you think of the route? We're seeing lots of photos of the Minho River ecovia trail that seem to show endless stretches of red paving with not much to see along the way...
  14. Jmhilde

    How to Avoid Road Walking on the Camino Portugues

    We are looking at the Minho River walk, too, but someone elsewhere said there was very little shade and no cafes along the trail, yikes! So now we're thinking we'll do the Lima River walk from Ponte de Lima to Viana do Castelo. Would love to hear from anyone who has walked either of these river...

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