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johan. May is a great time for walking the caminho PortugesGood day,
I am planning on starting in Porto in May 2015.
Is it a good time?
I need to travel from Lisbon to Porto and then from Santiago back to Lisbon. Which is better train or bus, if it is possible?
Thank you,
Johan
Worcester, South Africa
Good afternoon,johan. May is a great time for walking the caminho Portuges
It is not too hot. My wife and I walked last year from Lisbon to Santiago
In the morning you need your fleecevest. After a while you take a layer off when you are warmed up.
Sometimes a little drizzle but as been said. A great walk
Some tips. Skip day 3 from Alverca de Ribatejo to Azambuja. Take the train. Only walking on industrial estates and along busy roads with lots of traffic. If you do wear a reflecting safetyvest.
Stay at the Santarém albergue..great place. Hostal Solo Duro in Gôlega, Hilario in Mealhada
The Jesuites schoolcampus in Cernache lodges you for free in a house with bunkbeds. Restaurant oposite the entrance. Give them a ring on beforehand that you will arrive.
In Coimbra the Park hotel at the riverside oposite the bridge and almost next door to the tourist info gives you the atmosphere of the ancient years.
Just outside Albergaría -a-Velha is casa Diosceana. A retraîte house with nuns. Bunkbeds and a lunch and diner and breakfast. I remember we paid € 3 each. Great place. Great environs and beautiful sights because it is on a hill .
Take the coastal route from Porto via Matosinhos to Vilado Conde and from there inland to São Pedro de Rates and Barcelos. Nice walk and safer than walking through the busy and dangerous infrastructure to Vilarinho and Maia to Barcelos
Your best lodging on the Portuges is between Barcelos and Ponte de Lima, casa da Fernanda
In Vitorino dos Piaës If you haven't been there you missed the best of the CP.
Give them a ring on beforehand.it can be busy their because everybody likes to stay there.
We were there last year. We were there twice this year and next year we will walk the coastal route but arriving in Viana do Castello we will make a detour to stay in their home . Lovely people, Fernanda and Jacinto. Great hospitality.
Trek from Ponte de Lima to Rubiäes is an off road trek over a mountain. Some climbing and descending. Long day !
From Valença do Minho you'll find plenty of albergues . In Padrón have your breakfast in Pepe's bar..everybody around knows Pepe. This man is completely crazy and you'll have a good time.
All information you find in 1000nds of threads on this forum
Boa preparação e bom caminho
Um abraço
Albertinho
Good day,
I am planning on starting in Porto in May 2015.
Is it a good time?
I need to travel from Lisbon to Porto and then from Santiago back to Lisbon. Which is better train or bus, if it is possible?
Thank you,
Johan
Worcester, South Africa
Johan from Santiago daily go busses to Porto and Lisbon
ALSA is the buscompany
Found one randomly for the date
Departure 12h00 from the busstation in Santiago. Arrival at the Rossio station in Lisbon 20h45. Price approx .58 € per person. Walking is not cheaper was our experience
The busses are comfortable. We travelled to Porto last year. Toilet on board. Keep an eye on your luggage in the luggagecompartment as long as they are opened at any station and nobody attends ! Several examples of stolen backpacks in this way on this forum !
Oh I am terribly sorry my friend
Good you correct me. Johan should be better off to end up at Rossio right in the middle of the center so maybe an idea for ALSA
I think I read it wrong Sete Rios..Rossio...
Sorry again Johan and amigo Diogo
Hey and maybe when Johan is coming to Lisbon in 2015 this bus stops really at Rossio. I send ALSA a letter to do so !
I will try ! One problem. These pasteís make me fat !
We are going to walk the Portugese Coastal next time. What I have seen of it few mountains so less fatburning I am afraidYou walk another Caminho, problem solved
We are going to walk the Portugese Coastal next time. What I have seen of it few mountains so less fatburning I am afraid
We are considering to walk the caminho de Pontevedra o Salnés ,as you mentioned some time ago instead the interior route to Caldas de Reis and so on.
As I have seen this route makes a detour alongside the ría and comes together with the interior route in Padrón.
Where should I get more information about this route ? You know (almost ) everything.
We will start in Póvoa daVarzim to Esposende, Viana do Castelo , Caminha, a Guarda on to Vigo and Redondela (we will miss -¡ que lastima ! the detour before o Porriño as we lively discussed yesterday on another threadI think that I'm also going to do it next year (the Salnes that is). I will depart from Tui next year I want to spare some days so that I can do other things in my holidays.
Let me see where I can find the things about it
it is advisely better to walk the detour from Porto via Matosinhos to Vila do Conde alongsider the coast for 20 kms and than turn inland to São Pedro de Rates instead of walking alongside very very busy roads where heavy traffic passes you less than 50 cms when you walk on the hard shoulder of the road to Vilarinho.I am planning on walking as follows:
Porto
Vilarinho
Pedra Furada
Tamel São Pedro Fins
Ponte de Lima
Rubiães
Tui
Porriño/O Porriño
Arcade
Cancela/A Cancela
Valga
Faramello/O Faramello
Santiago de Compostela
Any advice on places to stay and eat?
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Johan
Worcester (South Africa)
I am planning on walking as follows:
Porto
Vilarinho
Pedra Furada
Tamel São Pedro Fins
Ponte de Lima
Rubiães
Tui
Porriño/O Porriño
Arcade
Cancela/A Cancela
Valga
Faramello/O Faramello
Santiago de Compostela
Any advice on places to stay and eat?
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Johan
Worcester (South Africa)
Definitely have your breakfast at Pepe's bar in Padrón It is on the caminho !Places to stay: http://www.vialusitana.org/caminho-portugues/albergues/
In Tui, if possible, stay in the Municipal Albergue, which is located behind the Cathedral, on the left side (facing front), on a down street.
For the eating part, well, I never slelpt in some places that you talked. If you told me that you were going to sleep in Caldas de Reis, I will tell you to eat at "O Moiño". If you slept in Padrón, I would tell to eat lunch at "Ruta Xacobea", and to take breakfast at "Pepe's Bar".
Give Fernanda a call on beforehand +351 914 589 521Johan, as mentioned before make sure you stay at Casa Fernanda- amazing experience! Stop for lunch at Antonio's in Pedra Furada. I would also recommend Quinta Estrada Romano (6km before Valenca) and monastery in Herbon (though be warned monks are gone and there is no pilgrims' mass anymore).
I would not stay in Albergue the Mos or one in Pontevedra again- nothing wrong with the places, just my own not the best experience.
Give Fernanda a call on beforehand +34 914 589 521View attachment 11781 that you are on your way. It's on the caminho. They extended the facilities recently and have place up to 18 pilgrims per night.
Leaving the albergue in São Pedro de Rates only half a kilometer away is a bakeryshop who supplies breakfasts .
Antonio's in Pedra Furada is a nice place for lunch indeed. It looks like he is or was a jazzmusician. The place is full with jazz related items .
Still rests one question Johan ! How many kms a day you want to walk ?I am still planning, as May 2015 is still far away. Will be looking at my places to sleep. I have 12 days to walk.
Okay . Try to plan I should say to stay at casa da Fernanda for a memorable time there, make the next day the short tour of 14 kms to Ponte the Lima and keep all your energy for the day after, climbing up and down the Labruja mountain between Ponte the Lima and RubiaësHi Albertinho, I want to walk maximum 25 km per day.
Hi Albertinho, I want to walk maximum 25 km per day.
Then dear Johan maybe it is a better option in spite of my recommandations for the coastal to take the metro to Maia and walk from there. The worst of the bad walk from Porto -Vilarinho has done thereThank you Diogo92. I got 11 days....
Thank you Diogo92. I got 11 days....
Ask Diogo. He works in a hotel in LisbonTicket is booked! Busy bokking hotels in Lisbon and Porto.
Ask Diogo. He works in a hotel in Lisbon
Tell Johan ! Not me ! For the time being I do not come to Lisboa. Next time will be PortoGood good, my Hotel you should book
Tell Johan ! Not me ! For the time being I do not come to Lisboa. Next time will be Porto
Take a break ! And a caipirinha !i don't know what the heck it's happening today, but my head it's not computing very well
Take a break ! And a caipirinha !
Good morning too JohanGood morning! Any advice on prepaid data sim cards for a tablet, that will work in Portugal and Spain? Vodafone?
Good day,
Me again! Any advice of places to stay at in Porto, which will easy to get to from Porto Campanha Station?
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