Great free EU-Portuguese learning resource

Thanks for starting this thread. Another recommended European Portuguese podcast is Practice Portuguese.

As a student of Portuguese and Spanish, I can say that European Portuguese has a difficult accent (compared to the more open Brazilian version) and Portuguese in general has some difficult sounds for non-native speakers. However, I'm sure Portuguese people you meet on the Caminho Português will appreciate it if you make an effort to say a few words in Portuguese and they probably won't appreciate it if you speak Spanish to them.

While Portuguese and Spanish are close to each other in the grand scheme of world languages, they are not as close as people often think as @Jan_D mentioned. As a general rule, both in Europe and in South America, Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish more than Spanish speakers can understand Portuguese. And camino pilgrims might know that not only are they separate languages, but there is another defined language (not a dialect) 'between' them: gallego, or Galician Spanish, which is the immediate parent language of Portuguese.