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Love your photos and blog! Brought back great memories of walking this with my sister in 2018. Ultreia!I walked this route with friends in 2017. My husband has wanted to walk it since... but slowly. So we're meandering our way to Santiago.
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There are a few more photos in my blog https://thenwewalked.blog/2021/09/29/how-was-your-day/
Your photos complement your text so well. Don't you love the pointy peaks on Bill Withers' shirt! I hope the toes are doing well. What a great idea, right and left foot socks...I walked this route with friends in 2017. My husband has wanted to walk it since... but slowly. So we're meandering our way to Santiago.
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There are a few more photos in my blog https://thenwewalked.blog/2021/09/29/how-was-your-day/
There are a few more photos in my blog https://thenwewalked.blog/2021/09/29/how-was-your-day/
I walked to Matosinhos in 2019 and loved it! Elle, your blog helped me make my decisiin to do it.They are indeed lovely photos on your blog. I have been trying to convince the metro riders out of Porto to Matosinhos, skipping this senda litoral section to rethink their decisions, for what seems like forever! Maybe it is finally catching on!
Just curious. If you are meandering, can you find places to stay? We're slow walkers and we're concerned about lodging on the coastal route. Any info would be helpful.I walked this route with friends in 2017. My husband has wanted to walk it since... but slowly. So we're meandering our way to Santiago.
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There are a few more photos in my blog https://thenwewalked.blog/2021/09/29/how-was-your-day/
I love the first section out of town... so worth walkingThey are indeed lovely photos on your blog. I have been trying to convince the metro riders out of Porto to Matosinhos, skipping this senda litoral section to rethink their decisions, for what seems like forever! Maybe it is finally catching on!
Just curious. If you are meandering, can you find places to stay? We're slow walkers and we're concerned about lodging on the coastal route. Any info would be helpful.
Yes I just use the phone... a Samsung Note 10lovely photos. Are you using just your phone camera?
Thanks.We're staying in small hotels and I did book them all in advance. We have limited time so I planned it to keep days around 20km when possible. Booking our beds means we don't have to rush... and we didn't take towels or sleeping bags either. So far it seems pretty relaxed... which is just what my husband wanted.
I used booking.com for almost all the rooms... and Gronze and the Wise Pilgrim app to check distances.
I'll send you my plan when I'm home if you'd like.
I agree! I don't understand the advice to bus to Matosinhos, when the walk along the river is so lovely.They are indeed lovely photos on your blog. I have been trying to convince the metro riders out of Porto to Matosinhos, skipping this senda litoral section to rethink their decisions, for what seems like forever! Maybe it is finally catching on!
We're staying in small hotels and I did book them all in advance. We have limited time so I planned it to keep days around 20km when possible. Booking our beds means we don't have to rush... and we didn't take towels or sleeping bags either. So far it seems pretty relaxed... which is just what my husband wanted.
I used booking.com for almost all the rooms... and Gronze and the Wise Pilgrim app to check distances.
I'll send you my plan when I'm home if you'd like.
I will make notes and create a post at the end with all the stops we've taken... and any options we also see.I agree! I don't understand the advice to bus to Matosinhos, when the walk along the river is so lovely.
Could you post it here for all of us?
I'm hoping to walk from Lisbon next Spring, but don't know yet if I will cut over to the Central route or take the Coastal. I'll probably decide when I get to Porto.
Fab pics. Wonderful narration. Enjoyed reading. Felt transported back to Portugal. Love that country. So much to see. And I could feel the atmosphere and the sense of lingering after a meal. Been there, done that. Easy to do in the medsI walked this route with friends in 2017. My husband has wanted to walk it since... but slowly. So we're meandering our way to Santiago.
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There are a few more photos in my blog https://thenwewalked.blog/2021/09/29/how-was-your-day/
It is wonderful... and people seem so genuinely warm. You'll have a beautiful walk.I love your photos and daily accounts - so looking forward to seeing it all for myself.
Anywhere near Bordeaux and SW France?Thanks - I'm also an expat living in France!
I'm in Normandy. My husband is going to join me, after the Portuguese, to walk the Ingles and he has just this minute booked an Airb&b just outside Bordeaux for the first stop on his journey down by car! Small world.Anywhere near Bordeaux and SW France?
Your photos are beautiful, thank you for sharing. You make me look forward to my trip even more.Today was a transit day... we caught the train and a bus to Ponte de Lima. We had a great time beside the coast and now we're going to walk along the Central routemore walking tomorrow!
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I'm very much looking forward to the next few days... I've not walked the variente beforeI don't know how I missed your thread till this morning! Wonderful to follow your journey @LesBrass . Gosh! Incredibly gorgeous photos! They are bringing back such wonderful memories of this camino. Thank you. And ahead... one of my favourite stages of any camino, the Ruta de la Piedra y del Agua.
Glad you're over your tummy trouble, so lovely to have your fantastic photos back. Take care.Mos to Arcade. When I first walked this route in 2017 my husband decided he wanted to walk it too because he loves the sea and he loves seafood... and Arcade is famous for oysters. Last night he had a plate of oysters, followed by crab washed down with a glass or two of Albarino white wine... he was a happy chap.
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I too, had a table in Combarro by the sea in 2019.Arcade to Combarro
Today was my husbands birthday... we walked to Pontevedra where we turned left for the variente. and we had a table right beside the sea in Combarro... in the most popular and highly rated restaurant in town... he was a happy chap!
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Sorry that you will miss out on your compostela but glad that you are walking again.Combarro to Armenteira
I started my journey earlier in September taking a small group from St Jean to Burgos... then I travelled to Porto with my husband and we've walked along the coast until we were in sight Spain, dropping back to the Central route at Ponte de Lima and yesterday taking the variante to Combarro... I've walked close to 700km but yesterday I had to take a taxi for 9.3km and thus no longer qualify for my holy year Compostela. I'm so sad.
After his seafood supper yesterday my poor husband yet again suffered sickness and there was no way he could walk the 9.3km to Armenteira. I considered leaving him to take a taxi and walking on alone but he really was in no fit state and it would have been a bit mean of me to leave him when he felt so poorly.
Sadly we have no flexibility in our schedule... so we had to move on
We took a taxi to Armenteira where tonight's hotel owner met us... I had a little while to visit the monastery whilst he sat in the shade. I bought him a little crucifix for his birthday... the nun squeezed my hand and told me it was unique
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Oooh, those look like zamburiñas. My new faavorite Galician seafood!!!! A notch or two above the normal vieiras (scallops) in my book!
I surely hope they were not the cause of your husband’s illness.
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wishing you a safe trip home. thank you for your amazing photos and blog. very much looking forward to following in your footsteps in 10 days.We're flying home tomorrow... it seems so long ago I started in St Jean and even Porto feels a distant memory. We have loved our camino and look forward to more planning now. Thank you for the kind words.. stay well folks... buen camino until the next time
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Wow! Fabulous photos Coleen. Thank you so much for sharing. I am not on FB, and rarely look at blogs, so really appreciate you posting them here. What smart phone are you using, and at what resolution? Your photos are stunning! You have an incredibly good eye, amazing!
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