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I, too, stayed at Largo da Sé, but can't recommend it! Although I prearranged a time to drop off my backpack, I found the door locked and waited for 1.5 hours before staff arrived. My room looked nice and clean, but around 1 a.m., I awoke with 15 bedbug bites, sighted 3 of the creatures in the...
I stayed last October at Hotel Payro in O Milladoiro. The staff were very pleasant, and I had a comfortable, clean, spacious room, with good heating (it was a cold night). With a walk of only 7 km to Santiago in the morning, I arrived in plenty of time to drop my backpack at my accommodation and...
Having walked from Lisbon to Santiago a couple of months ago, this question made me curious. I added up Brierley's numbers for all of the stages between Ponte de Lima and Santiago, and here are the results:
57.9 km - natural path / forest path / gravel (36.3%)
88.6 km - quiet country lane...
I returned a few days ago from walking the CP from Lisbon. Between Porto and Santiago it rained everyday except one (12 out of 13 days, central route). It wasn't continuous, but it was frequent and pelting and unavoidable. Sometimes the trail was a veritable river. I had waterproof (Goretex)...
Valada (Dos Caminhos) is open, but the owner sometimes takes a day off. In many towns between Lisbon and Porto there are no albergues, so one needs to be prepared to stay in small hotels or pensions, or to plan carefully to overnight in towns that do have an albergue or hostel. I am two days...
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