CykaUJ
Kenyan Heart, Russian Soul, Global Citizen
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Porto to Santiago to Muxia Feb 2016
First of all, a massive thank you to everyone who so kindly and patiently answered all my questions and fear, both rational and irrational ones! The disappointment of all the cockups from Follow the Camino has led me to adopt Winston Churchill's attitude of 'a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.
So because I didn't want to start my first day tomorrow with having to take either a taxi from Vilharino to Vila do Conde or a train from Porto to Matosinhos, I decided that today is my first day and walked 16km around Porto, from the Sheraton to the cathedral to get my first stamp, and then followed a bit of both the coastal and the inland to teach myself where the waymarks are.
It was a great training day.
Day 2 will start with taking the metro to Mercado and then join the coastal route to Vila do Conde.
So because I didn't want to start my first day tomorrow with having to take either a taxi from Vilharino to Vila do Conde or a train from Porto to Matosinhos, I decided that today is my first day and walked 16km around Porto, from the Sheraton to the cathedral to get my first stamp, and then followed a bit of both the coastal and the inland to teach myself where the waymarks are.
It was a great training day.
Day 2 will start with taking the metro to Mercado and then join the coastal route to Vila do Conde.