Day 7, Tui to Porrino We left Tui rather early due to some pilgrims waking up the entire Albergue with noisy back packs and thinking that it is OKAY to speak aloud while so many of us were still trying to catch an extra 40 winks. Anyhow, it was a beautiful fresh morning to wind […]
Day 6, Rubias to Tui (cross the Portugal / Spain border today) – another highlight on this route!! A great new cafe / shop about 3km’s from Rubias, awesome breakfast stop. We met so many pilgrim friends here catching up over a few cafe con leche’s “Pretty” walk today The constant reminders of Tanika, the […]
Day 5, Ponte de Lima to Rubias Today’s climb to Portela Grande, short easy walk of +- 22km’s – however one hell of a climb, luckily in the shade so very do-able and if you take it slowly it in fact is not that bad!! (NB -Brierley’s book is not correct reflecting only 18.1km’s for […]
Day 4, Balugaes to Ponte De Lima (a highlight along the Portuguese Way) Tanika in our thoughts every step of the way! Enjoying the sight seeing – Ponte de Lima!! (I LOVE THIS PLACE) Ponte de Lima @ night – so “beautiful” These two are having loads […]
Day 3, Barcelos to Balugaes. Cassidy having a “tearful moment” missing Tanika. My soul was still aching badly day 3 – we were all MISSING Tanika. ……you just keep going no matter what!!! Decided to spoil ourselves with a bit of luxury @ Casa do […]
Day 2, from Vila do Conde we cut back inland to Barcelos! Was tempted to follow the coastal route but stuck with our initial plan as some of the accommodation had been booked and paid for along the inland route.
Day 1, Porto to Villa do Conde, along the coast.
Leaving on a jet plane………… South Africa to Lisbon 18th September A sigh of relief as we successfully checked through passport control enjoying the feeling of “finally on our way” for the girls year long planned journey to walk the Camino. The four of us sat in the international departure lounge expressing our excitement, wishes, […]
How are we feeling….. We still don’t have our VISA’s The longer I wait for the euro to recover the worse it gets We are NOT physically ready for the journey We have not started the packing process I have not got to the doctor as yet to get script for good pain-killer (interestingly you […]
Even though it is only July and we have +- 2 months to go before we depart on another adventurous Camino my heart beats with JOY everyday knowing that my feet will be on a spiritual journey again later this year (2015). I feel so blessed that I am able to embark on yet another […]