- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances & Finisterre 05-07/22 Fran 26? d Nort 27?
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Thanks @trecile but again that is not my concern.You can check each airport's Wikipedia page to see which airlines fly from them and to where.
Go to Santiago. From memory, A Coruña is tiny and Santiago is small. Short distances, quick and easy to get in and out in both cases. Santiago has a bit more to offer as to how to while your time away but not much. There is no need for any 'extra' 3 hours. You will probably fly to Madrid in any case.dont have to get up at un-Godly hour (perhaps take a 9:00 am bus?) and ease of getting to the Airport once off the bus.
One thing I saw on one of previous posts (somewhat on topic) is that A Coruna is a much smaller airport so TSA time is practically NIL thus dont have to worry about 'extra' 3 hours - so that is defintely an appeal
Uh.... I think you missed the part about my wife and "the comfort way she travels"You could always just walk...
Uh.... I think you missed the part about my wife and "the comfort way she travels"
I am actually gonna be more than surprised if she fully walks the SdC-Finisterre part, but hey...she said she was willing...
Mine is even older: 2014. The early bus at 0800--the one you need to reserve in advance probably--is an express bus. The later bus, the one with spontaneous room, stops at every puddle and plaza all the way down the road and takes three times as long. A minor point of information. It's up to you and your sweetie whether the discomfort of getting out of bed and over to the bus stand early is worth the shorter bus ride.Okay, this was 2015 and we took a bus to A Corona from Muxia, not Finisterra but it had so many changes of buses I lost count. I was a bit stressed and I kept thinking about someone who didn't know any Spanish. The bus schedule had no indication of what was ahead.
The short story is that, in my opinion, you are probably better off going Finisterra to Santiago.
A minor point of information. It's up to you and your sweetie whether the discomfort of getting out of bed and over to the bus stand early is worth the shorter bus ride.
Yes! Thank you! Terrific idea!! As I was reading these posts about Galician-centric airports, I kept thinking back that I took that same bus from Santiago, only on to Lisbon Ain pril 2019 for a flight the following day back to St. Louis. Why? Because I figured this departure from Lisbon, even overnight in a hotel, would provide me a "hint" of Portugal for a future Camino Portuguese. And, I had the time, so why not?Why don't take the bus to SdC, than change to bus or train to Porto?.
Way bigger Airport, way more possibilities. And much cheaper, the flight back home should be ~400€ from SdC, the flight from Porto was 169€! That was a fast decision ;-)
The trip from SdC to Porto was a pleasant 3,5h ride via Pontevedra, Vigo and Brago (as long a I do remember it right) for 24€.
Just FYI - it's TAP, not TAM.that TAM, the national airline of Portugal,
Not so familiar; the station has been or will soon be relocated to be near the train station if I have not been fooled by a recent post.The bus departs from the familiar, cavernous Santiago bus station
I am actually gonna be more than surprised if she fully walks the SdC-Finisterre part, but hey...she said she was willing
Thank you for TAPping me on my Forum shoulder and advising that the Airline of Portugal is TAP. (not TAM)Just FYI - it's TAP, not TAM.I flew Porto-Lisbon-San Francisco with them in 2019. The flights were good.
In 2019 took the bus to Porto and spent a couple of wonderful days there. I chose a flight from Porto to San Francisco that had a loooong overnight layover in Lisbon, arriving in the late afternoon and departing around 10am. Although I was only in Lisbon for a few non-sleeping hours I enjoyed getting a taste of it.
That's quite a relocation!Not so familiar; the station has been or will soon be relocated to be near the train station if I have not been fooled by a recent post.
I was very curious about that city and was very pleasantly surprised. That's one of the reasons I plan to walk the CP.Get the bus to Porto .........a wonderful place [our pick by a mile ] to spend a few days before going home.
All the transfers from A'Coruna and SDC make Porto a no brainer.
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