Category: Portuguese Camino 2024

Fri 6 Sept Holiday Inn Lisbon Continental Overnight in a HI in need of a refresh, but good breakfast ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sat 7 Sept Solar dos Poetas, Lisbon Lovely pub, very chic décor, a bit...

Our final day if walking was certainly more pleasant than its predecessor. The path led away from the main road wherever possible, winding through the villages and through the forested hills that surround Santiago...

There is always a day when you question the whole walking business, and we’ve been fortunate enough to leave that until our penultimate pedestrianing. I can go back to times when we have really...

All sorts of weather warnings had been issued for today, so we joined hundreds of pilgrims in fleeing along the trail in full wet weather trim, hoping to avoid the worst of it. Mind...

Our weather so far has been interesting, starting with the heatwave in Portugal, a couple of days of mist and one day of rain. After yesterday’s glorious afternoon, we should have known that the...

We were rather sorry to leave Vigo. It was a busy and prosperous city and we only scratched the surface on our rest day. We have also lost touch with some our pilgrim companions:...

Let’s get this out there now: the 19Th was a long, long day that finished in a burst of ridiculous events. But let’s not rush the story! Our rest day was very relaxed! There...

We were tempted to walk along the beach (the Senda Litoral) but our friend Mr Brierley suggested that it would be exposed to both sun and wind, so we preferred the inland path, even...