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    Travelling from Porto airport to a different start point (Ponte de Lima)

    That's right! I find Google Maps, and Rome2Rio, too, are useful for pointing out the availability of local transport, and the name of the transit company, but there's often a discrepancy between what they say and the actual schedule. That's why I recommend drilling down to the website of the...
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    Travelling from Porto airport to a different start point (Ponte de Lima)

    Along with Rome2Rio, as Trecile points out, Google Maps is also very helpful for identifying local public transit options, even within cities themselves. In the search box, enter Porto airport as your starting point and Ponte de Lima as your destination. Then click on the train icon and it...
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    Porto to Santiago April 2022

    The Coastal route runs right by the airport. Basically, you walk out of the terminal and turn left and you'll intersect the camino right away. Here's a screen shot from Windy Maps. The Coastal route is shown in blue. If you keep going straight on the route, you'll hit the coast at Vila do...
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    CP: Some general questions

    With respect to your question about jumping from one route to the other, it's easy to do at multiple points. For example, on the coastal route most people make it to Vila do Conde on the first day. From there, there is a marked trail to Arcos on the central route. From Povoa de Varzim and...
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    Stage After Casa da Fernanda

    The steepest and most rugged climb on the Camino Portuguese is between Ponte de Lima and Rubiaes, so you're probably best off breaking up Casa de Fernanda to Rubiaes into two stages, with a stop at Ponte de Lima. Plus it would be nice to have a few extra hours to spend in Ponte de Lima, after a...
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    Camino Portugues - most scenic route with less road walking?

    As I wrote in a previous post, there’s no riight answer and there’s tons of debate about this on this forum. Depends on what you like, and maybe on where you’re from. Far more pilgrims on the central, and more of a pilgrim “vibe”, like on the Frances. More historical towns on the central. The...
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    Hiking poles in Pontevedra

    Chema Sport, Calle Benito Corbal 14 in Pontevedra has hiking poles (“bastones de trekking”). www.chemasport.es. No shortage of places in Santiago, among them a Decathlon Store at Rua de Republica de El Salvador 31. Decathlon is Europe’s largest chain of outdoor sporting goods. I’ve been...
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    Luggage transfer - AirBNB

    Just contact your transport company directly. They will tell you from where, and where they do not pick up.
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    Looking for recommendations for Portuguese Camino guide book

    John Brierley’s guide covers both the coastal and central routes. Clear maps, good lists of albergues and other accomodations. Clear walking directions. Also, gives you good background information on the places you’ll visit, which are mostly lacking in the available apps. It’s available on...
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    Coastal or central route?

    You can switch over to the Central route at Vila do Conde (1-2 days out of Porto). The cross-over is described in Brierley. Or you can walk a further day on the Coastal route up to Esposende. From there, there are frequent local buses to Barcelos on the Central. The bus company is Trasdev...
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    Portuguese camino- New question...

    I don’t have a specific memory, but both halves are generally rural. Looking at the Wise Pilgrim online map, it seems that you’re not along much busy road on either segment. Brierley’s maps should. give you a good idea, too (I threw away the pages as I walked, so no longer have my copy)...
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    Portuguese camino- New question...

    Chris: Since everyone (including me) recommends staying at Casa da Fernanda, why don’t you just walk there from Barcelos on Sunday, stay overnight, and then have her call a cab for you on Monday morning to take you to Ponte de Lima? Then you do the same Monday walk from Ponte de Lima that you...
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    Portuguese camino- New question...

    Chris: Here’s the bus schedule for the line between Barcelos and Ponte de Lima. http://www.transdev.pt/sites/default/files/horarios/afi_barcelos_-_ponte_lima_a4h_1811.pdf Transdev is the bus line. Looks like there is a stop at Portela, which is 10k short of Ponte de Lima, so you could just...
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    Portuguese Central- which stage to skip?

    To not break up your flow, I’d opt to skip something in the beginning. For example, if you’re not keen on walking out of cities, you could take the metro from Porto to Viila do Condo, then get in your day along the coast by walking approx. 22 k up to Esposende, from which there are frequent...
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    Coastal or Inland Portugese Route?

    Here's a thread on the exact same topic just last week. https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/advice-on-coastal-route-from-porto-versus-internal-route.58689/
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    Coastal or Inland Portugese Route?

    There’s no riight answer and there’s tons of debate about this on this forum. Depends on what you like, and maybe on where you’re from. Far more pilgrims on the central, and more of a pilgrim “vibe”, like on the Frances. More historical towns on the central. The coastal has fewer pilgrims...
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    I have caught the Camino Bug.

    We had the same feeling. We wanted a longer Camino, but the stretch from Lisbon to Porto didn’t sound exciting, so we walked from Porto to SDC, then took a bus the next morning to Oviedo, and walked the Primitivo back to SDC. The Portuguese from Porto was pretty easy, but it was a nice warm-up...
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    Gronze in English?

    If you open Gronze in Google Chrome, it should automatically give you an option to translate it into English via Google translate. Otherwise, there’s no English option in Gronze itself (at least that I can find).
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    Portugues : Best guide book

    Brierley’s latest edition (2018) is more complete on the coastal options, with route descriptions, etc. Earlier editions had only maps.
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    Last 100kms - Portuguese Way vs French Way

    Depends where you start on the Ingles. If you start in A Coruna, the distance is less than 100 km, but if you start in Ferrol, it's approximately 110 km and enough to qualify for the Compostela.

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