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I've just received the following email
Hi Vincent
This is a horrible walk
Unusually hot 35 plus degrees every day
No signage or arrows here
Walking on noisy busy main roads
No cafes or toilets
Brierley must have done this in an American car
His maps are inaccurate including distances
This is a hot dusty noisy walk
Same if you walked along our ring road then walked through heavy industrial areas
Regret this a lot
No such thing as a Portuguese Camino
People have no awareness here
Maybe not enough do this yet
Seriously thinking of catching a train to Porto to walk
Sorry to dump this but it was extremely dangerous walking on the road to Golega today
No side track just an incline down to a ditch and there has been no shade yet
Cars were gunning pass close and I was nearly hit many times
Half the cafes in Brierley’s were closed
Best Wishes etc
The above person has done 4 CF. Any Comments
Thanks
The observations of that email resonate with me. Perhaps any walk can be a nice walk under the right circumstances, but I found the Camino P to be quite different than the Camino F, and not as enjoyable as Camino F. I would caution anyone walking Camino P after walking Camino F that they should manage their expectation. Camino P just felt like a walk, and perhaps a journey after a few days, but not a pilgrimage. Waaaaaayyyyyyy too much road walking (some dangerous) relative to the total distance travelled on CP. Also, it seems there are fewer nice hostels in the countryside on the CP where you could share and enjoy the community of a really good pilgrim dinner experience (there are a few that are mentioned on other posts but there are fewer than CF and they are often reserved). From Porto to SdC, if you do not reserve a bed ahead of time, there is a good chance some nights that you are staying at a lower quality hostel and possibly on a matt on the floor. On CF I had a sense that I was walking a route that had been the path of thousands for centuries. I didn't get the same feeling on the CP - it seemed like a trail marked in recent years to capitalize on the popularity of walking in Spain. Also, it seemed to me that the local Spanish people I encountered on the CF placed a higher value on the Camino walk and were warmer and more encouraging to wish the traveller a "Buen Camino" than on the CP. After arriving in SdC, the CP route gave me a new appreciation for CF. I hope to walk CF again some day, and perhaps Camino N.
Funny that as I was walking from Porto this September and I was clipped by a Diesel Truck and bent one of my Leki poles....all that traffic from Lisbon had it's chance!!!!
I've just received the following email
Hi Vincent
This is a horrible walk
Unusually hot 35 plus degrees every day
No signage or arrows here
Walking on noisy busy main roads
No cafes or toilets
Brierley must have done this in an American car
His maps are inaccurate including distances
This is a hot dusty noisy walk
Same if you walked along our ring road then walked through heavy industrial areas
Regret this a lot
No such thing as a Portuguese Camino
People have no awareness here
Maybe not enough do this yet
Seriously thinking of catching a train to Porto to walk
Sorry to dump this but it was extremely dangerous walking on the road to Golega today
No side track just an incline down to a ditch and there has been no shade yet
Cars were gunning pass close and I was nearly hit many times
Half the cafes in Brierley’s were closed
Best Wishes etc
The above person has done 4 CF. Any Comments
Thanks
Don't panic, (same goes for you @camino_rooky ) , yes some of it will be hard and at times unpleasant but at other times you heart will sing with joy even if your feet are screaming in pain, it's up to you to make up your mind which you listen to.Yikes!! We leave on Saturday for Lisbon and start walking the 19th.
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