santaremhostel
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It all started in early 2014 in a meeting at the famous Restaurant “Martinho da Arcada” in Lisbon, and the purpose was to meet some pilgrims from the caminosantiago.me forum, with an extra “delicacy”, called “Pasteis de Nata”!
A group of pilgrims, and myself, as a forum member and owner of the Santarem Hostel, talked a lot about the Caminho Português issues. In particular, why do pilgrims prefer to start in Porto instead of Lisbon, where the caminho begins.
We have identified the early long stages, industrial areas, dangerous roads, etc etc, and found alternatives for those who do not like to walk 30Km stages or do not want to walk throw Industrial areas, usual on the outskirts of all big cities.
The first output was the document “WALKING FROM LISBON TO PORTO IN SHORTER STAGES” and you can find it here: Short Stages
Then, come up the idea to make a video with pilgrim’s testimony about those early long stages: Lisbon to Santarém.
In order to have a homogeneous testimonies, five questions or themes were proposed:
-Why start in Lisbon?
-How did you manage the long stages?
-The good and the bad?
-Lessons learned?
-If there was a pick & drop service will you use it?
So far I got 4 original videos, with some pictures kindly shared by Laurie and Maggie, to help you to understand the context.
As Albertino posted on the forum:
“…The information on this forum, given by people who walked this part, is an important motivation to others to do so as well. The track Lisbon to Porto deserves this attention…”
Enjoy the videos and your feed-back is most welcome!
Mario
A group of pilgrims, and myself, as a forum member and owner of the Santarem Hostel, talked a lot about the Caminho Português issues. In particular, why do pilgrims prefer to start in Porto instead of Lisbon, where the caminho begins.
We have identified the early long stages, industrial areas, dangerous roads, etc etc, and found alternatives for those who do not like to walk 30Km stages or do not want to walk throw Industrial areas, usual on the outskirts of all big cities.
The first output was the document “WALKING FROM LISBON TO PORTO IN SHORTER STAGES” and you can find it here: Short Stages
Then, come up the idea to make a video with pilgrim’s testimony about those early long stages: Lisbon to Santarém.
In order to have a homogeneous testimonies, five questions or themes were proposed:
-Why start in Lisbon?
-How did you manage the long stages?
-The good and the bad?
-Lessons learned?
-If there was a pick & drop service will you use it?
So far I got 4 original videos, with some pictures kindly shared by Laurie and Maggie, to help you to understand the context.
As Albertino posted on the forum:
“…The information on this forum, given by people who walked this part, is an important motivation to others to do so as well. The track Lisbon to Porto deserves this attention…”
Enjoy the videos and your feed-back is most welcome!
Mario
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