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Starting Portuguese Camino on Tuesday

ricrog

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Time of past OR future Camino
Frances (07), Ingles(09), VDLP (09/10/11), Portuguese (12/20), Del Sur (18), Algarve Way(14/17)
Flying into Faro today, then Lisbon on the weekend and start walking next Tuesday 18th Sep from Porto, 32 deg forecast for Faro today and 29 deg for Porto on Tuesday ---AAAAAAAARGH! Arriving in Faro at 10pm, no buses into town so will camp out under a bush at airport, probably cooler under the stars. YEEE HA!
Be looking out for all you Peregrinos out there.
 
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Bom Caminho!

Good luck with the Portuguese language! Easy enough to read usually but it sounds like Russian with a Spanish tweak when spoken. Should you remember, leaving Tui, in the woods, is a small shrine honoring, sorry you are British, honouring Saint Telmo by his "bridge". I am ex-Navy so please give him my regards.
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I am planning on doing the Portuguese Camino next year and would love to read about your journey. Please post often. Since I do not speak the language, communicating will be a challenge—one that I am looking forward to. On the Camino Frances I was able to speak in French and Spanish and did not have a problem getting information, directions, etc.

Once you complete your pilgrimage, please let me know which maps and guides you used and if they were adequate. Looking forward to reading more about the Portuguese Way.
 
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I fly out today for the Camino Portugues from Tuy, just the five day part, which may take me six days. It is mostly a warm up for the Camino Primitivo. You would have to move real fast to pass me, ricrog, but I will save a cold beer for you in Santiago!

There is probably little more to be said about the route than has been posted here, but if I find unique information, I will drop into the Forum to pass it on.

As always, many thanks to Ivar for providing this invaluable website.
 
Hey Falcon, guess I missed you in Santiago, hope you drank my beer for me!
Rick :wink:
 
Hey K-Fun
Don't worry about Portuguese, Spanish will get you by. You can view my journal of the walk here
http://ricrog.blogspot.co.uk/
As to maps and guides, I made a word document from various sources to carry with me, I'd be glad to share it with you, it's too big to upload here but I could email it to you if you send me your address
Rick :wink:
 
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Hiya Scruffy, got this too late to comply with your request, but did note the shrine.
Portuguese was no problem as I speak it quite fluently due to having been married to a Brazillian "lady"-(bad memories!) many years ago.
Rick :x
 
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