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Gracias para contestar.Albertinho the best maps of all routes etc are on Luis Freixo's Blog which is free ! The dios of the Portuguese Way deserves a medal !!
Thanks very much for this post. Saved me a load of grief.The other day I ordered the booklet Camino Portuges Maps by John Brierley.
My attention was triggered by the frontpage as pictured at several websites .on the frontpage is pictured a blue dotted line as being the camino Portuges da Costa. although also mentioned the text camino central route and because of issue 2015 I decided to order the booklet on line.
If you want to walk the caminho da Costa from Porto to Vigo and Redondela via Esposende, Viana do Castelo ,Caminha, A Guarda ,Oia and Baiona ,this booklet is useless because it does not give any information about de caminho da Costa.
Today I sent it back to the webshop.View attachment 15306
Welcome on the forumThanks very much for this post. Saved me a load of grief.
Thanks very much for this post. Saved me a load of grief.
There is no problem to find your way on the coastal.I am using my iPhone with the app maps.me --I downloaded the maps for Portugal and Spain. Although not marked with Camino Routes, I am finding maps.me to be a great resource in addition to looking for the yellow arrows. I am able to verify my location easily and I'm able to track my progress with little effort. I'm in route, currently, so I'm likely not able to respond immediately--hope this will be helpful to others walking the Coastal Portuguese Camino--it is lovely and I'm so happy with my choice of caminos!
Do you perhaps know of any English versions?Albertinho the best maps of all routes etc are on Luis Freixo's Blog which is free ! The dios of the Portuguese Way deserves a medal !!
I've just ordered the Brierley Portuges guide and am wondering if the newest edition now includes information on the Coastal route. If not, I will be returning it as well. Thanks in advance.The other day I ordered the booklet Camino Portuges Maps by John Brierley.
My attention was triggered by the frontpage as pictured at several websites .on the frontpage is pictured a blue dotted line as being the camino Portuges da Costa. although also mentioned the text camino central route and because of issue 2015 I decided to order the booklet on line.
If you want to walk the caminho da Costa from Porto to Vigo and Redondela via Esposende, Viana do Castelo ,Caminha, A Guarda ,Oia and Baiona ,this booklet is useless because it does not give any information about de caminho da Costa.
Today I sent it back to the webshop.View attachment 15306
No it does not contain any info about the Portugese coastal except for The trail Porto to Vila do Conde so better return it.I've just ordered the Brierley Portuges guide and am wondering if the newest edition now includes information on the Coastal route. If not, I will be returning it as well. Thanks in advance.
Sorry for late reply but to whom it concerns. No Freixos info is in Spanish but is usefull because it contains a lot of maps.Do you perhaps know of any English versions?
There is a general misunderstanding and misleading . The route out of Porto is called the CENTRAL route. The INTERIOR route starts somewhere else , in the Coimbra area in central Portugal and leads at the east side of Portugal to the Via de Plata route.the interior never hits the central route from Porto.The maps are really only for the interior route expect day 1 which should be a must option for everyone out of porto. Just to let people know i think john brierly is in the process of a book for the coastal route. I have a friend who was doing the coastal from porto and got terribly stuck so she emailed john and he sent her a couple of pdfs of stages just like his interior book. This is what the coastal walk needs a good guide book, there is so much beautiful coastline and great alburgues, but she struggled clambering over rocks etc so there are times when u need to go in land and whilst there are some arrows there could be more information on the dangerous bits. She hardly saw a soul. the odd one or 2 pilgrims so i think a good guide book would boost the numbers on the coastal walk from porto. Lets hope its out for next year!!!
Well I can advise you to follow the yellow waymarkers from Porto,Vila do Conde, Póvoa de Varzim to Esposende. Keep the ocean at your left.Here's a question for someone who's walked the coastal route - I've got Brierley's 2015 version, and it shows the camino going inland to Rates at Vila do Conde, and restarting at Esposende, but no path TO Esposende - how do you get from Vila do Conde to Esposende? And assuming there is a way to do it, what's that path like?
Obrigada!
Brierley guide published Jan 2016 contains the coastal and Le Senda routes. It is a separate section at the back of the book starting on page 198. Lists all the usual information. It's a good guide. But as anyone who reads the postings, the person who tries to do a service for people must need a thick skin and Brierley must have thick skin because he keeps writing and updating the guides. I'm sure their are some that fault him for not painting a metre wide yellow line from start to finish.
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