Walking from Lisbon to Fatima to Porto to Santiago

[Peter J Martin]

I am planning to walk the Portuguese Way from Lisbon to Fatima, on to Porto and Santiago in May next year. I have prepared my itinerary with the help of John Brierly's guide and a person in Spain who has helped with previous Caminos
I would like to hear from anyone who has done this Camino, walking from Santarem to Fatima and then re-joining the Camino at Ansiao. What is the signage like on this part of route and would there be difficulties with accomodation, I always use private accomodation for medical and personal reasons.
I have been to Fatima on many occasions with parish pilgrimages, but I would love to walk there.
Thank you.

 

[Madis]

I walked From Lisbon to Santiago through Fatima. Here is my journey in blog format:
https://caminopilgrim.travel.blog/camino-de-santiago/camino-portugues-2019/

My short version would be that the walk into Fatima is really nice. I did not enjoy the day walking out of Fatima that much though.

Anywho, my main issue was the amount of snakes I had around me, while I had only shorts to wear. I started in mid-May.

 

[Celtic]

I am planning to walk the Portuguese Way from Lisbon to Fatima, on to Porto and Santiago in May next year. I have prepared my itinerary with the help of John Brierly's guide and a person in Spain who has helped with previous Caminos
I would like to hear from anyone who has done this Camino, walking from Santarem to Fatima and then re-joining the Camino at Ansiao. What is the signage like on this part of route and would there be difficulties with accomodation, I always use private accomodation for medical and personal reasons.
I have been to Fatima on many occasions with parish pilgrimages, but I would love to walk there.
Thank you.

HI Peter.
I hope to to walk from lisbon to Santiago next May aswell.
Not sure what route I'm gonna take from Porto though...
I'm sure it will be ok for signage, and there will be other pilgrams doing the same route. So I'm just gonna follow them.
Try booking.com for accommodation.
Buen Camino

 

[Madis]

The road into Fatima is marked with blue arrows from many directions. From Lisbon you walk towards blue arrows to reach Fatima. From Fatima North towards Porto you start walking the blue arrows in reverse.

I do not remember seeing any blue arrows north of Porto anymore.

A lot of the time blue and yellow arrows are beside each other in Portugal when on the Camino to Santiago.

 

[Peter J Martin]

I walked From Lisbon to Santiago through Fatima. Here is my journey in blog format:
https://caminopilgrim.travel.blog/camino-de-santiago/camino-portugues-2019/

My short version would be that the walk into Fatima is really nice. I did not enjoy the day walking out of Fatima that much though.

Anywho, my main issue was the amount of snakes I had around me, while I had only shorts to wear. I started in mid-May.

Thank you Madis,
I have briefly looked at your blog into and out of Fatima. I will read your full blog in detail a bit later, I think this will be very helpful for me.
This will be my 8th Camino and still going well at 78 years
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HI Peter.
I hope to to walk from lisbon to Santiago next May aswell.
Not sure what route I'm gonna take from Porto though...
I'm sure it will be ok for signage, and there will be other pilgrams doing the same route. So I'm just gonna follow them.
Try booking.com for accommodation.
Buen Camino

The road into Fatima is marked with blue arrows from many directions. From Lisbon you walk towards blue arrows to reach Fatima. From Fatima North towards Porto you start walking the blue arrows in reverse.

I do not remember seeing any blue arrows north of Porto anymore.

A lot of the time blue and yellow arrows are beside each other in Portugal when on the Camino to Santiago.

Thank you Madis