Back home and reflecting on this adventure. What a journey it’s been! Not what I expected after hiking the Primitivo seven years ago. Yes, I’m older but I felt stronger than before. Ah, the hubris will get you every time! Some aspects were fabulous, others not so much. But all rolled together it was a …
Category: Portuguese Camino
Lisboa – Day 3
Sunday, our last full day in Portugal. There was one last thing I wanted to see while here and that was Sintra. It’s about 40 minutes outside of Lisbon so you have to make distinct plans. I began the booking search as soon as we arrived here on Thursday evening and was almost out of …
Lisboa – Day 2
This day we got up for an early start. We had heard that there was really big flea market in the city on Tuesdays and Saturdays, so as this was Saturday, we were in luck. It’s the Feira da Ladra, Lisbon’s oldest flea market, dating from the 12th century! We went outside and managed to …
Lisboa – Day 1
Thursday evening we settled in to our new abode for the remainder of our time in Portugal. Fortunately there’s a small Pingo Doce, the local grocery, very nearby, so we could easily obtain supplies. We got off to a leisurely start on Friday. We decided to head up to Castelo São Jorge, or as it’s …
Muxía Onward
We stayed two days in Muxía to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere and relax at the end of the hike. When Mandy and Karma joined me I had been sneezing and sniffling a bit. I didn’t think much about it. But as we were settling in to the bunk room we heard much more “cold” sounds. …
Muxía
A very different day. We met up from our separate hotel rooms to have breakfast, as the kids weren’t sure about the prospects for food along the route today. They headed out about 0830. I stayed at the hotel until 1030, when I checked out and headed the small distance to the bus stop. I …
Finesterre – The End of the Earth
Or at least the end of this hike for me, but not the journey. We awoke in our albergue in Cee, being especially quiet as one other hiker in our section was still asleep. We noshed on whatever we had in our packs and ventured out. It was still a bit before sunrise as we …
Cee
Some good news I forgot to relay in last evening’s post - we learned that Pilgrim, the street dog which followed us for days, was adopted! We were chatting with Rick, from Sydney, who had been a day ahead of us, when the conversation came around to a dog that had followed him. After sharing …
A difficult day
But it didn’t start out quite so bad, except for the two old men in the bunks across from us that snored like the dickens. All night. Never mind that they had shipped CPAP machines but somehow took them off. Sigh. No one slept well. We all bonded over how dreadful they were. So we …
Negreira
We had a delicious dinner, which there is no shortage of in the city. It was packed with hikers and tourists with no end of restaurants and souvenir shops. We have no desire to carry anything extra, so we ignored the shops. We enjoyed having a room and bath to ourselves so slept in a …
Redpath At Ease 