Gadflyparexcellence
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Thanks for the confirmation*especially* on the Portuguese! And every other route I've had the pleasure of walking so far (VdlP, Madrid, Baztan, San Salvador, Primitivo, Fisterra)
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Does yellow have any special significance? Of was the colour chosen for entirely practical reasons??
I believe he got it from some road workers and yellow seems to be a universal colour for road works. I often find myself following yellow arrows at home which are nothing more than workers pointing the direction of a trench to be dugDoes yellow have any special significance? Of was the colour chosen for entirely practical reasons??
I often find myself following yellow arrows at home which are nothing more than workers pointing the direction of a trench to be dug
I often find myself following yellow arrows at home which are nothing more than workers pointing the direction of a trench to be dug
I thought blue was going TO Fatima?I've seen blue on the route from Fatima years ago and also going "backwards" on the Frances.
I thought blue was going TO Fatima?
Certainly, in Portugal blue arrows point to Fatima and many are labelled as such. I would see them pointing south when I walked north from Porto, often paired with yellow arrows pointing north but not always. When I got to Spain they didn't disappear but they were less frequent. I wonder if you see them alongside the yellow arrows pointing in the same direction on those caminos in the south of Portugal heading up from the Algarve.I thought blue was going TO Fatima?
I remember chatting with a fellow pilgrim on the Camino Portugues earlier this autumn and he was telling me how "Camino-obsessed" his girlfriend is. I suggested that, since she was missing the camino so much, when he got home he could paint some yellow arrows in his apartment... leading to the bedroom. ;-)
Certainly, in Portugal blue arrows point to Fatima and many are labelled as such. I would see them pointing south when I walked north from Porto, often paired with yellow arrows pointing north but not always. When I got to Spain they didn't disappear but they were less frequent. I wonder if you see them alongside the yellow arrows pointing in the same direction on those caminos in the south of Portugal heading up from the Algarve.
I heard /read that D. Elias used the yellow paint because there was a lot left over after road works when he started marking the camino....
Looking back at some photos I took in Sintra after my camino before my flight home from Lisbon, what did I see in the background of one but two arrows, yellow and blue, pointing in the same direction. I can't believe I didn't notice the yellow arrow when I was there! Usually my eye is drawn to them as if by magnets.Yes, when you walk from Lisbon until the two paths diverge in Santarém, the blue and the yellow arrows share the path and point in the same direction.
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