Playful Dread
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Portuguese Way (Porto - Santiago - Finisterre) June/July 2015
Portuguese Way (Lisbon - Santiago - Finisterre) May/June 2017
Good evening (UK).
My wife and I walked the Portuguese Way 2 years ago in July 15. It was my first Camino and my wife's second, as she walked the French Way literally 6 days after we'd met and had our very first date.
We decided to do the Portuguese Way for our honeymoon, flying into Porto and taking the coastal route along the Atlantic coast for the first section of our journey. After reaching Santiago we had already decided before leaving the UK that we wanted to continue to Finisterre, which we managed but decided against travelling to Muxia due to the weather conditions. So we jumped a bus back along route to Vila Do Conde and walked back along the coast as best we could trying to follow the arrows. A large section of this coastal route though was being re-routed so it became quite difficult at times and we ended up walking many miles more than we'd anticipated having been caught out with river inlets or simply taking wrong turns trying our best to stick to the coast etc.
Main highlights for myself was staying a few extra nights in Caminha for the medieval festival on our way back and meeting some really extraordinary people on our travels from all over the world
And so to this year, come May 1st we plan to do it all again only from Lisbon this time. We're taking 6 weeks off to do the walk again and this time plan to stay over a few extra nights in Caminha again as well as Ponte De Lima and a few of the coastal towns we passed along the way.
I'll be posting more of our experience and also looking for some advice this time around with equipment etc. as we're looking to camp out wild again this time. We're taking a tarp with us as last time we had no shelter other than our sleeping bags and self inflating ground mats. So the early morning dew tended to rest upon us and make us rather cold come 4/5 am in the morning.
Love and blessings to all who wander the earth.
Bon Camino
My wife and I walked the Portuguese Way 2 years ago in July 15. It was my first Camino and my wife's second, as she walked the French Way literally 6 days after we'd met and had our very first date.
We decided to do the Portuguese Way for our honeymoon, flying into Porto and taking the coastal route along the Atlantic coast for the first section of our journey. After reaching Santiago we had already decided before leaving the UK that we wanted to continue to Finisterre, which we managed but decided against travelling to Muxia due to the weather conditions. So we jumped a bus back along route to Vila Do Conde and walked back along the coast as best we could trying to follow the arrows. A large section of this coastal route though was being re-routed so it became quite difficult at times and we ended up walking many miles more than we'd anticipated having been caught out with river inlets or simply taking wrong turns trying our best to stick to the coast etc.
Main highlights for myself was staying a few extra nights in Caminha for the medieval festival on our way back and meeting some really extraordinary people on our travels from all over the world
And so to this year, come May 1st we plan to do it all again only from Lisbon this time. We're taking 6 weeks off to do the walk again and this time plan to stay over a few extra nights in Caminha again as well as Ponte De Lima and a few of the coastal towns we passed along the way.
I'll be posting more of our experience and also looking for some advice this time around with equipment etc. as we're looking to camp out wild again this time. We're taking a tarp with us as last time we had no shelter other than our sleeping bags and self inflating ground mats. So the early morning dew tended to rest upon us and make us rather cold come 4/5 am in the morning.
Love and blessings to all who wander the earth.
Bon Camino
