Camino portugués

[Mady Roosen]

Anybody Who Walked the camino portugués from Vigo to Porto (opposite direction)???? Costal route
Thanks for sharing your experiencia.
Mady

 

[Thornley]

Anybody Who Walked the camino portugués from Vigo to Porto (opposite direction)???? Costal route
Thanks for sharing your experiencia.
Mady

In 08 whilst home - exchanging in Caminha after our Camino Frances we came across maybe 6---8 people who were undertaking the walk from Vigo going south.
The majority went via San Perdo/Oia/A'Guarda on the Spanish coastal path and got the boat to Caminha .
I believe after conversations with these young pilgrims from many nations this would be the recommended way .
They loved it , the scenery and solitude and in 08 Mady there were not that many pilgrims .
The path ...... seek advice from the Tourist offices and keep the ocean on your right
The people are wonderful and kind , the accommodation good and not expensive.
You will love the albergue in Caminha
To enjoy a good , cold Sangres ""free "" don't touch "one" piece of bread or any part of a roll when you sit down for a meal ........they are the same price.
Enjoy this wonderful way and if there weather is kind enjoy the great coves and beaches.

 

[pelerine]

It is probably somewhat early to start preparing for my camino 2019 - camino ingles to Santiago and then Santiago to O Porto walking "counterflow". But since you are asking this question, I am also interested. When walking the "normal" direction on the camino portugues I noticed blue markings. Do they mark the opposite direction? And are there many???

 

[andycohn]

They lead to Fatima.

 

[Thornley]

Do they mark the opposite direction? And are there many???

No
No
Keep the water on your right

 

[pelerine]

Ah! Thank you! Maybe I will go to Fatima then....

 

[Mady Roosen]

In 08 whilst home - exchanging in Caminha after our Camino Frances we came across maybe 6---8 people who were undertaking the walk from Vigo going south.
The majority went via San Perdo/Oia/A'Guarda on the Spanish coastal path and got the boat to Caminha .
I believe after conversations with these young pilgrims from many nations this would be the recommended way .
They loved it , the scenery and solitude and in 08 Mady there were not that many pilgrims .
The path ...... seek advice from the Tourist offices and keep the ocean on your right
The people are wonderful and kind , the accommodation good and not expensive.
You will love the albergue in Caminha
To enjoy a good , cold Sangres ""free "" don't touch "one" piece of bread or any part of a roll when you sit down for a meal ........they are the same price.
Enjoy this wonderful way and if there weather is kind enjoy the great coves and beaches.

In 08 whilst home - exchanging in Caminha after our Camino Frances we came across maybe 6---8 people who were undertaking the walk from Vigo going south.
The majority went via San Perdo/Oia/A'Guarda on the Spanish coastal path and got the boat to Caminha .
I believe after conversations with these young pilgrims from many nations this would be the recommended way .
They loved it , the scenery and solitude and in 08 Mady there were not that many pilgrims .
The path ...... seek advice from the Tourist offices and keep the ocean on your right
The people are wonderful and kind , the accommodation good and not expensive.
You will love the albergue in Caminha
To enjoy a good , cold Sangres ""free "" don't touch "one" piece of bread or any part of a roll when you sit down for a meal ........they are the same price.
Enjoy this wonderful way and if there weather is kind enjoy the great coves and beaches.

 

[Mady Roosen]

hello Thornley,

thanks a lot for your reply but is the camino in the opposite direction also waymarked. and if so do you know in which color?
thanks
mady

 

[pelerine]

Hello Mady! I had a direct answer from Miroslow to the question I posted above. Just in case anybody may find this interesting I repeat his answer here (he gave me permission):

"It is a challenge to walk against the arrows. Person knows there they point but it is not easy to figure out from where they might be pointing.
Blue arrows to to Fatima and leave yellow in Tomar I believe, but they are not fool proof.
Walking the Caminho few times I made a map which might work well for your walk. It is at caminhomap.com"

Voila!

 

[Thornley]

hello Thornley,

thanks a lot for your reply but is the camino in the opposite direction also waymarked. and if so do you know in which color?
thanks
mady

We never saw any whilst in Caminha when we walked south for 10km to a certain restaurant we loved. But the kids we met never doing your way never mentioned any difficulty which does exist on other ways as we found out walking back from Muxia.

 

[Miroslaw]

Hello Mady! I had a direct answer from Miroslow to the question I posted above. Just in case anybody may find this interesting I repeat his answer here (he gave me permission):

"It is a challenge to walk against the arrows. Person knows there they point but it is not easy to figure out from where they might be pointing.
Blue arrows to to Fatima and leave yellow in Tomar I believe, but they are not fool proof.
Walking the Caminho few times I made a map which might work well for your walk. It is at caminhomap.com"

Voila!

Just slight clarification, blue arrows point the same direction as yellow from Lisbon to Santarem. They part in Santarem, but not every yellow arrow has corresponding blue arrow.
Please note that walking to Fatima from north or south is not a challenge because how arrows are oriented but rather because not all yellow arrows or signs have corresponding blue arrows or signs.
But even that is not a big issue northbound, simply follow yellow arrows until Santarem where blue leaves yellow as they point same direction up to Santarem.
Southbound there is some challenge of back arrow walking toward Fatima since not all yellow arrows have corresponding opposite pointing blue arrows. I do not exactly recall where arrows would part for one walking from the north. It might be in Ansiao or in Tomar, or somehow both. ( There is something to ad to my map. Anybody remembers?)
So a person will need to interpret where the yellow is coming from and in such case attempt to back read yellow until next yellow and blue double and opposite pointing arrow marker appears.
Some imagination is required in reading the arrows in general but that is usually quickly acquired by all pilgrims.

 

[Miroslaw]

But please do not take me wrongly, there are sufficient in my opinion double arrowed signs while walking southbound.
Challenge would be only occasional, but nerveless it is worth mentioning.

 

[Miroslaw]

In any case one can use caminhomap.com to download, as much as possible errors free as of spring 2017, map of Caminho Portugues.
It should work really well as a backup to arrow reading.
Updates or corrections to this map anyone?

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

If you're walking the Portuguese camino backwards, does that make it a new one? The Camino Eseugutrop?

 

[pelerine]

I should think so! If you can find it with the markings on the “wrong” side of the tree, of lamppost.....

 

[mspath]

See this earlier post re walking backward on the Portugese camino.

 

[Camembert]

If you're walking the Portuguese camino backwards, does that make it a new one? The Camino Eseugutrop?

If this caminho “ Eseugutrop “ is going to exist my dear friend , we are going to walk it together ?
we start drinking a beer and a Portwine in the Grandcafé in Santiago and then off we’ll go o.k.?
best regards from the other side of the North Sea
Albertinho and Nel

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

That's a date, Albertinho. I will save up for a mirror to show me where I'm walking.....