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  1. koilife

    Partial "Portugal Portion Only"Camino possible?

    At this point, a Magic 8 Ball is as accurate as anything else.
  2. koilife

    Stage After Casa da Fernanda

    What a delightful looking hill! Long and steep enough to get your attention, but not so much as to kill you. Likely more than a bit treacherous in a good rain, however. My son and I will end our training regime in the Rocky Mountain foothills. Lots of hills just like that, except with a mile...
  3. koilife

    Stage After Casa da Fernanda

    My Dad, on his 75th birthday, said, "Lots of people who turn 75 are dying. I'm just getting warmed up!"
  4. koilife

    Stage After Casa da Fernanda

    I found it on your blog, which is a nice guide. Thank you.
  5. koilife

    Stage After Casa da Fernanda

    Thank you! If I choose not to stay in Ponte de Lima, this is a perfect distance. Also, I found a grocery store about 1km away from it, and a restaurant-bar about 1.3km away. Where did you find this, BTW? I don't see in on the vialusitana site, Wise Pilgrim, or Village to Village.
  6. koilife

    Stage After Casa da Fernanda

    You two do know the way to this man's heart . . . ❤🗿🌳⛵🍲🥗🍷
  7. koilife

    Stage After Casa da Fernanda

    Like Najera or Estella or SJPdP?
  8. koilife

    Stage After Casa da Fernanda

    While it might be enough to get my attention, I wasn't particularly concerned about the 300m climb there by comparison to, say, the Route Napoleon or the climb to O'Cebreiro or going over the Salvador or Primitivo. Unless there is a compelling reason to stop, I'd go past Rubiaes if having...
  9. koilife

    Stage After Casa da Fernanda

    I'll have a moderate day from Barcelos to Casa da Fernanda (20 km). But, the day after Fernanda seems rather awkward. I have either a very short day to Ponte de Lima (14 km) or a very long day to Rubiaes (32 km). If I stop at Ponte de Lima, my next day would be somewhere around Fontoura or...
  10. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    As a Catholic, I believe that God is indeed everywhere; the challenge is in my attentiveness. The camino aids me in being attentive; it helps me to listen, to see, to taste God where I would usually miss him. As a Catholic, I also believe that my full and complete participation in the Mass and...
  11. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    I walk to Santiago for far more than relics and traditions and theories. I walk for him to which they (and St. James himself) ultimately point, which makes everything else interesting, but not compelling. I love Padron peppers and will eat some there simply for the sake of saying I ate them in...
  12. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    A good thing, given your profession! That's always the case. All the planning now helps me to manage reality as it presents itself.
  13. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    I suppose my other option, of course, is to drop the walk to Finisterre and use the extra time along the Portugues. Those three days are my safety factor in case we get delayed along the way due to injury or illness (like those three days in Tineo, LOL!), but with some extra time built into the...
  14. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    And yet he lights up like a Christmas tree at the memory! Compared to my unsolicited advice to him, yours was as if from the lips of God. Three days, and I won't cut into my final stay at Hotel Alen do Mar (always my second reservation after locking flights). Sintra is big on Bennet's desires...
  15. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    I surely don't look the part. I'm less racehorse and more burro (my sons might substitute a related word). But, my prior experience is that I have an irrepressible urge to finish. My first camino, we put down about 30 miles (49 km) to arrive that evening, and my second we put down just over 20...
  16. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    That sounds absolutely wonderful, especially if coupled with an evening at Herbon.
  17. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    But I want it all, and I want it now! ;) If we don't go onto Santiago, we're definitely staying at the monastery. Right now I'm just juggling where I make up a day so we can still walk to Finisterre. My preference is three days in Santiago rather than two, which means I either give up a day in...
  18. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    I have plenty of time either way, so no reason to bus or forego the Compostela.
  19. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    It seems like a lot of time (almost a rest day) right at the edge of Santiago. What was there about Padron that commended it to you (twice) as a stop as opposed to pushing on towards/into Santiago?
  20. koilife

    From Vila Nova de Arousa to Santiago or Padron/Herbon?

    When taking the boat ride from Vila Nova de Arousa to Pontecesures, do most people carry on all the way to Santiago in that one day (26K), or stop in Padron/Herbon, or somewhere in between? [And, yes, I recognize the "it depends" nature of the question (timing and length of the boat ride...

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