Thursday Oct 3, Esposende to Viana do Castelo

Hotel “Enjoy Viana”

So, the last 2 days we were walking on those boardwalks up north, but then a normal route replaced the wooden boardwalks.

We saw already people walking with their phones in their hands. On the road we noticed 2 opposite indications of the Camino where to go next. But no indication of the name of that route, as there are three Caminos crossing each other. The Coastal, The Spiritual and the Central Camino. So this is very confusing and everywhere you see people with their phone in the hand, looking to see where the app is taking you.

As you don’t know exactly what to do, you decide to take a route, some other people take a left turn and you take the right turn, however you don’t see them anymore.

We had the same problem, once we made the decision we had to walk to the right , but ended up walking on the highway for at least 4 miles.

Finally, we got to the hotel and saw other pilgrims who encountered the same problem we had. 







The yellow arrow follows the route to Santiago.
The blue arrow follows the route to Fatima.
















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tuesday Oct 1, Porto to Vila de Condo

Image
“Hotel Brazao” Today we started with a healthy breakfast and left by bus to go to the Cathedral where our journey started.                                                                                                    Once we left the Cathedral area, we already encountered immediately some problems as the directions of the route to follow were very poorly marked.                                                                                 At that moment we saw anot...
Read more

Saturday Oct 5, Vila Praia de Ancora to Vila Nova de Cerveira

Image
Hotel “Minho Belo” It was raining cats and dogs when we left our hotel. Luckily there was a Chinese store close by where I bought a green plastic raincoat from head to toe, I think I paid 3 Euro for it. And as I mentioned before, the 3 different Camino routes were crossing each other again. So we started walking that morning and again, hard to find the direction, so we ended up walking along an autoroute again, without a special trail for us pedestrians. We finally made it to a village and entered an hotel to get directions where to go. They mentioned that the boat to cross the water was for a long time out of service but there was another boat from a different location, not too far, that would take us to a different other side. So we walked in the direction indicated, saw the speedboat, met 2 other Peregrinos who joined us to cross the water, we paid 5 Euros each and off we went. 10 minutes later we landed on the other side of the Bay. At this landing point there were no walkways nor...
Read more

Wednesday Oct 9, Redondela to Pontevedra

Image
Hotel “Virgen del Camino” The cab driver dropped us and our bags off, and we went in search of something to eat for breakfast. We didn’t notice the bad weather here, so we took off and spent all day walking in Pontevedra. It has an important group of squares of medieval origin and monumental religious buildings, such as the baroque Church of the Pilgrim Virgin and the Pazo de Lourizan. For lunch we went for a fish meal but wasn’t too great but 3 ladies from Seville next to our table made it very enjoyable.
Read more