Señor Steve
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- Portugues (2014)
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Señor Steve,
I had planned to use this bypass when I walked the route in October, but river flooding shortly after Tui caused us to make an enormous diversion to get to O Porriño. I have a some information on the bypass published by the Asociación Galega - Amigos do Camiño de Santiago. It’s titled Itinerario Para Peregrinos Orbenille - O Porrino Por El Entorno Natural De As Gandaras y Rio Louro. It's a comprehensive 35 page document, in Spanish, with sections on historical justification of the revised route, route description and several pages of maps. I can’t remember where I found it. If you like, PM me your email address I’ll send it to you.
We had no problems with waymarking north of Tui
Donovan
The brochure I received in the Albergue in TUI explained what we need to look out for. The markings have been vandalised by local business owners who weren't happy with the loss of trade from pilgrims walking the river route. After crossing under the freeway you need to turn left instead of following the arrows which take you straight ahead into the industrial estate. Photo of this point attached...
We are planning to walk the alternative route on the 23th of march and I have been worried to find the right spot to leave the old camino, untill I've found this website :
http://www.gronze.com/camino-de-san...acabo-la-penitencia-del-poligono-de-o-porrino
It seems the alternative route has become official and is well indicate.
I've found the alternative route on gps track too (just in case)
http://nl.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=5686641
Not a bad thing to have actually. On the few occasions I wanted to use my GPS, it wouldn't lock on to the satellites even though it had found up to 6. After a factory reset, things seem to be back to normal again. I could have used this on this section, as I did become a little lost towards the end. The brochure began to disintegrate in the rain every time I took it out of my jacket and all the drains covered with concrete lids, were gushing water out the top. Large parts of the low lying path were flooded and towards the end I found myself in the middle of the river under a bridge support with nowhere to go. I must have missed a turn-off somewhere along the route.
Herman, great blog! Tell me something, from Ponte de Lima to Tui, did you used your GPS to count the km? I'm asking this because for what I remember, from Ponte de Lima to Valença it's 40 and som km, and from Vlaneça to Tui other 2, and you have marked 38km in your post. Just checking it
Best Regards
Diogo
Hey Diogo, I'm glad you like my blog. It was also fun writing it and it gave me something to do when I was sick and couldn't walk.
No the GPS didn't work once and it only served to drain the battery which was better saved for taking pictures. In the end I just turned it off. I could be wrong with the km count of course. That would make it 42km in total that day. My Nordic walking technique was really working that day. It's a good thing the 30 minute emergencies hadn't started at that stage, otherwise I would never have made it.
Bom Caminho!
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