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Thank you, Laurie, but I hope they don't like beer so I would have some time on my ownOh, wow! K1 this is wonderful news. Sounds like a great trip. I hope it goes well and that your clients all like beer.Buen camino, Laurie
Well, the tour is organized by a tourist agency which sells pilgrimages (with no walking as in Camino way) to Fatima, Rome, Santiago, Jerusalem, Međugorje etc. But for this kind of combined pilgrimages they offer 8 days tours. Which left me with only 6 days of possible walking stretches (1st and last day for transport from/to home) so I had to be a bit imaginative which walking sections (5 walking days with 115km altogether) to chose between Valencia and Santiago with Braganca thrown in for a treat. Furthermore the agency guarantee sleeps in 3 or 4* hotels (breakfast & dinner included) with a Slovenian language mass each day. So the overnight stays just must've been planned in larger cities along the way because of all of this. But I think I composed a gem of a 8 day tour with two detours that in whole will include Valencia, Almansa, Toledo, Madrid, Avila, Salamanca, Zamora, Braganca, Ourense, Santiago & Fisterra. Hope I answeredHow did you pick the towns and cities?
Yes @amsimoes , a friend of mine was returning from SdC to Madrid on foot last June on the Zamorano and he said that the markings are being repainted and there are more of them now. So he had no problem finding the way even in reverse.I was recently in the cities of Bragança and Vinhais and observed most of the path marked with yellow arrows.
In conversation with a lady from the municipal council of Vinhais I was informed that the path in this municipality is already marked and that the construction of the albergue is being finished, which is right in the center of the city. From Vinhais, the Portuguese variant of Via de la Plata (or Zamorano), goes to the municipality of Chaves, heading to Verin (Galiza) and the Sanabrês path.
I cannot say that the path (caminho Zamorano - portuguese via) is all finished, but in the year 2021 there was a great effort for this path to be signaled.
Buen camino.Will keep an eye on your walk as thinking of doing the same one this year soon ,now we Australians can get back here !You should stay Orense a few nights id you have time -the hot springs along the river, free,are fantastic.Hola, amig@s,
This is more or less just a post for the posting in the Camino Calendar. On March 30th I'll come to Valencia to take my first group of "tourigrinos" on a super fast Levante/Zamorano/Sanabres Camino Combo. All in all just 8 days but I'll be in heaven nevertheless
I won't have much time during the day but in the evening (after dinner) when the group will be too tired or will have time to explore the towns on their own I might be available for a drink or rather two. So if anyone interested here's the list of planned overnight stops:
- 30.03.: Valencia,
- 31.03.: Almansa,
- 01.04.: somewhere halfway between Toledo and Madrid so that's a no go,
- 02.04.: Avila,
- 03.04.: Zamora,
- 04.04.: Ourense,
- 05.04.: Santiago de Compostela,
- 06.04.: sorry, flight back home.
Take care!
K1
Hi @sambaBuen camino.Will keep an eye on your walk as thinking of doing the same one this year soon ,now we Australians can get back here !You should stay Orense a few nights id you have time -the hot springs along the river, free,are fantastic.
You know very well it won't happen (and why)Hi Kinky,
What a nice surprise to see you "up and running" a bit on the forum again, and hope to see more of you "here and there".
Yes but not much of them:Did you encounter any other pilgrims on the walking stages ?
I was going to ask whether you had checked out the bar.Oh, I forgot to add maybe the most useful info on Levante - the bar and restaurant in Gotarrendura is open again
The waitress speaks English too (she's Romanian) but I don't know whether she's just hired or did she actually takes over the place...
Wow, I missed your group for few time: I was in other group, Spanish, for a cultural trip in the Rias Baixas, and we decided an unforeseen visit to SdC on the same day and were there from 17:00 to 20:15.....Day 07 (Tuesday, 05.04.)
- 08:30 bus to Capela do Santiaguino (Outeiro, by the albergue after Ponte Ulla)
- walk to Praza do Obradoiro (ca.24 km)
- holy mass at Igrexa de Santa Maria Salome
- a lot of drinking and few free afternoon hours for the folks
- bus to Hotel Santiago Apostol (nice rooms but 4 km before the SdC)
I was going to ask whether you had checked out the bar..
Did you find the connections to St Teresa. (Dovecote) I didn’t look around when I was there before.
Edit : afterthought re Gotarrendura
Did you ring ahead to warn the bar that the town would have a mass explosion to its population. The bar must have been hopping with all of you there ?
Ahhh, Jean-Luc, it would be nice to meet again in SdC. At least we've had some off limits time that afternoon. After the Slovenian language mass in Rua Nova I walked back to the Cathedral around 17:00 and were drinking beer with few of the group at the bar just down the stairs off the Pr.do Obradoiro (between Pazo de Raxoi and Colexio de San Xerome)... In the sun, on the street, pure blissWow, I missed your group for few time: I was in other group, Spanish, for a cultural trip in the Rias Baixas, and we decided an unforeseen visit to SdC on the same day and were there from 17:00 to 20:15.....
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