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I’m not sure about the rest of Spain but everywhere we’ve been on the Portuguese it’s a requirement in public transport, taxis, shops, restaurants when not eating (we were politely reminded a couple of times when we first got here - we came from a place where no one wears masks), and crowds and...
Not required or expected for hiking.
Yesterday we were stopped by the local police on the trail — they were camino patrol and have a specially marked van saying this (we took a picture). We got a stamp from them, had a pleasant conversation (always order pulpo), and then they spent 3-5 minutes...
We have not seen that sort of “mask” in the past 5 weeks walking the Camino. Mask compliance is very high here — probably greater than 99%. We haven’t seen any of the common end runs — bandanas, nose not covered, etc. The only exception is eating and drinking. Even then everyone seems very...
We have been told but haven’t confirmed that we could take our paperwork to a farmacia in Spain and that they could get us a QR code. But we’re not certain about this and haven’t bothered to explore it. It would interesting if anyone else has heard this.
I have been walking the camino in Spain for the past (that includes 5 days of recovery from a twisted knee) and we have only been asked for vaccination status twice, once at a restaurant and once at a pension. In both cases they readily accepted our paper vaccination from the US.
Today, we...
We flew to Spain, Madrid, from the US in mid December. No Covid test was required then, I don't know if the rules have changed since then. The procedure was relatively painless -- we used the Spanish site for travel permits (the airline sent us the link) loaded up our vaccination cards and where...
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