yellowshoes55
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Portuguese - Porto to Santiago, (2014)
Camino Frances - SJPP to Santiago (2015)
We have just finished walking the Portuguese Camino on 5th October. We were a group of 4 mature Australians doing our first Camino.
Our second day we started from Arcos with great expectations and anticipation of getting this wonderful 'technical' stamp from Sao Pedro. We had several methods of navigation, but failed to use two of them resulting in walking way off track just prior to Sao Pedro.
We approached the railway crossing which we stopped at and debated whether we should go right through the town (which was not marked with yellow arrows) or swing left following the yellow arrows. I do not have a photo as we did not realise our error at this point.
We should have checked our instructions, instead we went left which took us north west past corn field after corn field and through wooded areas, instead of north east. We were still following yellow arrows and the shell on the blue background. We had walked approx 10kms before the arrows ran out & we decided that our route was not the intended one. We caught a cab back to the correct route, but sadly missed Sao Pedro to Pedra Furada.
This error was almost duplicated by four much younger experienced girls from Perth in Western Australia.
We had no more problems after this and thoroughly enjoyed our the rest of our Camino consulting our maps instructions & yellow arrows as we went.
Our second day we started from Arcos with great expectations and anticipation of getting this wonderful 'technical' stamp from Sao Pedro. We had several methods of navigation, but failed to use two of them resulting in walking way off track just prior to Sao Pedro.
We approached the railway crossing which we stopped at and debated whether we should go right through the town (which was not marked with yellow arrows) or swing left following the yellow arrows. I do not have a photo as we did not realise our error at this point.
We should have checked our instructions, instead we went left which took us north west past corn field after corn field and through wooded areas, instead of north east. We were still following yellow arrows and the shell on the blue background. We had walked approx 10kms before the arrows ran out & we decided that our route was not the intended one. We caught a cab back to the correct route, but sadly missed Sao Pedro to Pedra Furada.
This error was almost duplicated by four much younger experienced girls from Perth in Western Australia.
We had no more problems after this and thoroughly enjoyed our the rest of our Camino consulting our maps instructions & yellow arrows as we went.