Category: travel
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OK – Maybe Tens of Thousands of Pilgrims!!?!!?!
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Arcade to Pontevedra, 10.4 miles, 4 hours I decided to start late this morning given the distance to my next place and the rain forecast…. I had the “included breakfast” – café con leche with tomato jam and olive oil on toast, which I like, but no protein!! So, I augmented…
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“Green Spain”
The Provence of Galicia is one of four autonomous communities that make up the geographical and cultural area of Spain known as “Green Spain”. The others are Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country, all joined by the Cantabrian Sea. This northern region of Spain stretching along the Atlantic coast is lush with dense forests, agricultural…
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Hundreds of Pilgrims (maybe thousands!!)!!
Sunday, April 13, 2025 Tui to O’Porriño, 12 miles, 3 hours I stayed at the historic Parador in Tui last night and breakfast was included – however it wasn’t served until 8:00. Also, the waitress forgot that I ordered some huevos fritos, and so it was actually 9:00 by the time I got on the road – so…
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Saturday Brings Me Back To Spain!!
Saturday, April 12, 2025 Fontoura to Tui, 10 miles, 3 hours More mind trips… I had planned to leave around 9:30 given my calculated ten mile trek, yet when I rechecked the forecast I discovered that rain was due earlier than I had noted upon retiring last night. So, in spite of a marginal night’s sleep…
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Roman Bridges Underfoot and a Big Climb!
Friday, April 11, 2025 Ponte Lima to Fontoura, 17.3 miles, 7.75 hours I knew I had a short day ahead of me, the temperatures dropped by 10° – plus rain was forecast to begin in the afternoon. So, I had a leisurely morning, enjoyed a hot breakfast, and didn’t begin walking until 8:30. Both having breakfast…
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Bloom Where You Are
Thursday, April 10, 2025 Lugar do Corgo to Ponte Lima 10 miles, 3.25 hours Well it turns out, I COULD have waited to hear the roosters crow – at least until daybreak!!! There were two that tag teamed on the hour and half hour starting at 1:00 am! And then there was at least one neighborhood…
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A Sunny Day on the Camino Portuguese!
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 Barcelos to Lugar do Corgo 12.2 miles, 5 hours, 45 minutes Towns walked through: Vila Boa, Lijó, Tamel São Pedro Fins, Aborim and Balugães. My guidebook, “The Camino Portugués” by Kat Davis, says today’s trek “is a picturesque walk along winding country lanes with a few short forest sections, medieval bridges…
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Another Camino, Yippee!!
April 7, 2025, 17.5 miles (6 hours) walked along the Central route of the Portuguese Camino de Santiago. Today’s footsteps took me from Porto, through Cappella da Ramada Alta, by the Padrão da Légua stone cross, through Araújo, over Rio Leça, on to Moreira, Monsteiro, Gião, Vairão and finally to Vilarinho. As I left Porto,…
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Onward – to Porto, Portugal!
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 3.6 miles, Sunday, April 6: 10 miles Today, Saturday, April 5th, was a getaway day, and I ended up at the train station about an hour earlier than I needed to be because I had hoped to stop at the post office and mail some of my items on to Santiago…
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Coastal Cádiz
4/2: 8.3 miles, 4/3: 11.1, miles 4/4: 5.2 miles Wednesday, April 2nd I awoke at zero dark thirty and hoofed it the half hour to Málaga’s train station. My route was well lit and I felt safe and continue to be grateful to live in an age when women can travel solo. Train stations are…