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    Camino Portuguese alone or with someone

    Here’s a great resource for walking out of Lisbon. If you google “Elle Bieling, first day out of Lisbon” who happens to be an active member on this site, you’ll find an informative, current introduction to the evolving Camino walk out of Lisbon. She adds an enjoyable perspective to the variety...
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    Santiago to Lisbon.

    At least 15 years ago, a couple of us strolled south from Tui to Fatima, a significant part of your proposed walk. Although it was certainly not a popular route at that time, it was most engaging, even amusing. This was in the day before GPS use, so Brierley’s guide and arrows (blue arrows to...
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    Fatima-Tomar

    Yes, it was a glorious walk from Fatima through quaint Portuguese countryside a couple of Decembers ago. You’ll arrive in Tomar with a smile on your second day. The 4 day Camino from Nazare on the coast to Tomar via Fatima is a delight in either direction. The Camino Ninja app worked well for...
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    Fatima-Tomar

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    Thinking of walking Lisbon to Porto around Christmas 2023

    December is a great month to start out from Lisbon. It was surprising that when I did this walk in December 2021, many albergues and hotels were open. Hopefully, my reflective link below gives you some ideas. Hotel Aleluia in Fatima was a highlight as far as a clean, affordable and friendly...
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    Cobblestones on the Portugues

    When the ankles feel cobblestone, they start to stretch their horizons, and the feet, well they’re on an adventure – something between dancing and reflexology, and of course the eyes, they’re smitten by the art, a myriad of patterns and so many colours. It’s no wonder that this pilgrim has...
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    LIVE from the Camino Walking the Camino Portugues in Winter - My Experience

    It’s a wonderful time of year to walk: just a smattering of pilgrims and no problem finding a bed. Last year walking from Lisbon in December, my feet were never wet, but this year we did some inadvertent wading. It’s great to hear from pilgrims successfully walking the cooler, quieter months -...
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    Sand trail from Espinho

    Yes indeed. Fabulous. I did it last December, thanks to Nicolas, who punched in Maps.me for me to some great trails near his waterfalls. I wanted to see the stunning church some hours northwest of his place in Valega once in this lifetime - not well known, but so beautiful both inside and out...
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    A Walking Journey of Magnificence and Safety through Portugal's Camino in December 2021

    Obrigado! Good on you for embracing a winter window. Last year I started in early December in Lisbon and will do so again this year, but not sure from where yet: Lisbon, Faro, Nazare, Coimbra, Viseu - so many beckoning paths that end up in SdC. How's your time line? Do you have the 30 days or so...
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    Where do pilgrims who detour to Fatima rejoin the Caminho?

    How painfully tragic! As someone who drove bus for years as a young man to pay my way through university, my heart goes out to these pilgrims and their driver. A freak accident (front wheel blowout) like this could happen to anybody. My friend the Cree medicine woman would say (maybe appropriate...
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    Where do pilgrims who detour to Fatima rejoin the Caminho?

    Couldn't resist answering your enticing "way-too-early idea". Now that's a truly inviting route. Given my Arctic preferences and my appreciation for only meeting 2 pilgrims in 600 km of the Portuguese from Lisbon last December, the idea of meeting well over 100,000 pilgrims in Fatima on May 13...
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    Where do pilgrims who detour to Fatima rejoin the Caminho?

    This is an informative map of the Fatima pilgrimages. When I walked into Fatima from the north maybe 15 years ago before cell phones, the word lost took on a new meaning upon attempting to leave the Tomar path in order to walk southwest from Ansiao. Signage is somewhat better now and GPS makes...
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    Where do pilgrims who detour to Fatima rejoin the Caminho?

    The route from Fatima to Tomar was mostly well marked along the backroads when I walked it last December. If you download the camino.ninja app and follow the Caminho Nascente e Poente you'll be OK. The same camino on the 3-day walk the other way from Fatima to Nazare would be almost impossible...
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    My turn for a LIVE thread - starting from Lisbon

    That was me in Lisbon 5 months ago and 600 km later. It’s such a grin that first morning out. And you’ve been such a positive inspiration on this site. Thanks for posting and welcoming us subArctic dwellers to ignore the snow still in our yard and to live vicariously for a moment. Enjoy, enjoy...
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    A Walking Journey of Magnificence and Safety through Portugal's Camino in December 2021

    Thanks for asking. I saw it referred to on Google maps as Watermill Moinho Garcia.
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    A Walking Journey of Magnificence and Safety through Portugal's Camino in December 2021

    This isn’t a submission that was going to press. Why? I only carry an iPhone on the path. It’s such a pleasure to transmit thoughts with 8 fingers in play, but the thumbs bully their way from their usual sharing of the space bar, to taking over the whole tiny keyboard. And yes, they suck as...
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    Camino Central from the Algarve

    Just before Christmas this year I found myself at Pinheiro da Bemposta, probably the place you might seriously consider going “coastal “. While staying there as the lone peregrino at Mikalous’ scenic Waterfalls Alberge, I told him that my thoughts were to head northwest from his place to a...

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