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So, my workplace won't be revising its travel advisories for faculty prior to the end of March... (We are, of course, allowing foreign travel for students, starting in January .. because that's a money decision).
But: we will be allowed to travel as of April 1. So yay.
I'm looking at landing in Lisbon April 4th.... getting one of those less expensive, direct flights that depart on a Sunday.
Then I have options limited only by a promise to be in the Obradoiro Square on May 4th. I fly back home under this plan out of Madrid on the 7th, and plan a bus trip to Fisterra with the friend I am to meet.
So I have one month.
I could get myself to San Sebastian and walk the Norte; I could walk right out of Lisbon, or I could head for Madrid and walk Perhaps to Valladolid and then hop a train to Leon to patch together the Oviedo, the Primitivo and the last of the CF...
Are there better and worse options for April amongst these routes? I don't do well with a mix of cold/damp... but my sense is that the Norte is pretty temperate by April and will get more-so... Will the routes out of Leon heading North before they head west be too cold? snowy? Will the Lisbon route northward be too difficult come Easter?
I'm pretty excited that Portugal is so highly vaccinated, that it's being quite strict as I understand it about masks and vaccine certificates, and that Galicia seems also to still be very committed to protecting the health of locals and visitors.... I have less information for the Camino do Madrid, or for the Norte....
I'll take your thoughts with thanks...
But: we will be allowed to travel as of April 1. So yay.
I'm looking at landing in Lisbon April 4th.... getting one of those less expensive, direct flights that depart on a Sunday.
Then I have options limited only by a promise to be in the Obradoiro Square on May 4th. I fly back home under this plan out of Madrid on the 7th, and plan a bus trip to Fisterra with the friend I am to meet.
So I have one month.
I could get myself to San Sebastian and walk the Norte; I could walk right out of Lisbon, or I could head for Madrid and walk Perhaps to Valladolid and then hop a train to Leon to patch together the Oviedo, the Primitivo and the last of the CF...
Are there better and worse options for April amongst these routes? I don't do well with a mix of cold/damp... but my sense is that the Norte is pretty temperate by April and will get more-so... Will the routes out of Leon heading North before they head west be too cold? snowy? Will the Lisbon route northward be too difficult come Easter?
I'm pretty excited that Portugal is so highly vaccinated, that it's being quite strict as I understand it about masks and vaccine certificates, and that Galicia seems also to still be very committed to protecting the health of locals and visitors.... I have less information for the Camino do Madrid, or for the Norte....
I'll take your thoughts with thanks...