Maria Eckdish

Bor i: California, United States of America Les mer California, United States of America

Reisende Lisbon/Porto
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- 24. aug. 2023, 22:18
- 🌙 68 °F
- Høyde: 49 ft
- Portugal Distrito do Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Casa do Infante 41.140343, -8.61435141°8’25” N 8°36’52” W
Day 2 Porto
24. august 2023, Portugal ⋅ 🌙 68 °F
All day Douro Valley Tour with wine/port tasting, lunch and river cruise.
Originally decided against this tour due to the time commitment and after all, we have Napa and Sonoma county for wine and this couldn’t be much different.
Wow, so glad we went. Absolutely breathtaking scenery, it was an amazing day, and nothing like our wine region.Les mer
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Reisende Lisbon/Porto
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- 23. aug. 2023, 14:44
- ☀️ 86 °F
- Høyde: 56 ft
- Portugal Distrito do Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Casa do Infante 41.140362, -8.61465341°8’25” N 8°36’53” W
Day 1 Porto
23. august 2023, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
Train to Porto. Arriving at São Bento Train Station was crazy. It was absolutely packed with people, and walking tours. But we fought out way through the mob :-) and walked down to the river to our hotel, Guest House Douro. Lovely couple running the place.
Heat wave continues but we’ll get a break starting tomorrow.
Walked across the Dom Luis Bridge to Gaia for port tastingLes mer
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Reisende Lisbon/Porto
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- 22. aug. 2023, 10:45
- ☀️ 84 °F
- Høyde: 157 ft
- Portugal Distrito de Lisboa Socorro Intendente Igreja de São José dos Carpinteiros 38.719513, -9.14245638°43’10” N 9°8’33” W
Day 2 in Lisbon
22. august 2023, Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
Good night sleep at My Story Hotel, Rossio. Perfect location for sightseeing.

5pm - so far walked 6 miles on crazy uneven cobblestones, visiting Igreja da Gracia and Castello de São Jorge along the way. 90+ F - drinking gallons of water.

After breakfast at the hotel had a nice very late lunch at Figu’s. Octopus salad for me, with a nice cold beer.

Happy Hour and snacks at the BAHR & Terrace- beautiful view and best place to watch the lights come on across the river.

Tomorrow we’ll take a 9am train to Porto - no sleeping in 😀.Les mer
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Reisende Lisbon/Porto
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- 21. aug. 2023, 21:12
- 🌙 81 °F
- Høyde: 66 ft
- Portugal Distrito de Lisboa Socorro Mártires Platz Rossio 38.714184, -9.14019438°42’51” N 9°8’25” W
Day 1 Lisbon
21. august 2023, Portugal ⋅ 🌙 81 °F
Flight from SFO went well, but of course, no sleep for me, so it was a long and tiring trip.
Brutally hot weather here, 98 degrees and I’m in need of yet another shower. See
Beautiful and lively city, spend the half day we had exploring and eating pastel de nata - yummy. Also had the local Bacalhau, delicious fish, for dinner at the Time Out food market.
Se Catedral is beautiful, and walking in the Baixa, Alfama and Bairro neighborhoods, spending time along the River made for a busy but fun afternoon.Les mer
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Camino Frances
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- 11. sep. 2022
- ☁️ 77 °F
- Høyde: 883 ft
- Spania Galicia Santiago de Compostela Praza do Obradoiro 42.87763, -8.54246442°52’39” N 8°32’33” W
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Final day in Santiago de Compostela
11. september 2022, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Stayed 2 nights at the Hotel Costa Vella. Again a small room but very cozy and

Juan found out through his sister that someone from the US paid to have the Botafumeiro swing during the 9:30am Mess, so we met there and it was quite impressive as you can see from the video.

It was fun exploring the old town of Santiago with all the little alleys and people everywhere. Also stores and restaurants everywhere. The Cathedral is absolutely majestic, nothing that my iPhone camera could even try to capture, so you’ll just have to look at the pics on the web.

We ended with a nice dinner with the two couples and I packed my bag again for a next day departure to Barcelona. Before leaving I had a very nice breakfast at the Hotel.

Barcelona here we come - 3 nights at the Yurbban Ramblas - then home sweet home.Les mer
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Camino Frances
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- 10. sep. 2022
- ☀️ 79 °F
- Høyde: 883 ft
- Spania Galicia Santiago de Compostela Praza do Obradoiro 42.877628, -8.54246442°52’39” N 8°32’33” W
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Santiago de Compostela
10. september 2022, Spania ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Early start after having a quick coffee and toast at the Pension O Muino. I couldn’t wait to get to Santiago de Compostela.
So excited to reach Monto do Gozo where you can see the city of Santiago de Compostela below you. Just a few more km to go.

The markers along the entire route have been so consistent and they were everywhere- on the side of houses, on the ground, on sign posts - everywhere. But suddenly as we are entering Santiago, there were just a few, pointing straight ahead, and then just stopped.
But of course , pilgrims know that they get the Compostela somewhere by the Cathedral and you could see the cathedral’s spires from almost anywhere.

There where so many pilgrims at this point, I just followed them and all worked out perfectly. Got my Compostela within about 10 minutes.Les mer
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Camino Frances
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- 8. sep. 2022
- ☀️ 77 °F
- Høyde: 935 ft
- Spania Galicia Pino, O Arca 42.905712, -8.36280342°54’21” N 8°21’46” W
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Arzua
8. september 2022, Spania ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
After a really comfortable stay at the Hotel Lux in Melide, it was time to get to Arzua.

In Arzua I am stayed at the hotel 1930 which was a bit of a disappointment. Small room and I felt like it was a bit damp, didn’t really sleep well.

Had dinner with the Sac people and 2 more Americans joined up with us. Had a really nice cheese appetizer with delicious local cheese. Then I had a meat lasagna and the local cheese mousse with blueberries- it was delicious.

They had an interesting market the day I got there.Les mer
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Reisende Food stand with a cute pink car
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Reisende Woah looks like more of a big city!
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Camino Frances
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- 7. sep. 2022, 08:13
- ☁️ 55 °F
- Høyde: 1 680 ft
- Spania Galicia Palas de Rei Palas de Rey 42.872772, -7.87955342°52’22” N 7°52’46” W
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Melide
7. september 2022, Spania ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
Easy 11 miles of walking today. Rain off and on, at times pretty heavy.
Didn’t sleep much last night so happy to arrive here early, a little before 1pm.

Melide is a pretty big town. After taking a nice shower in my own private bathroom, I checked out the old town a bit, and the oldest church around according to the hotel guy. I’m too tired to fact check - lol!

Going to go to dinner with the guy from Holland and his wife who joined him on the camino for the next week.

Only 3 more days of walking. Easy day tomorrow to Arzua, then 2 long days to the finish line.

Already walked 127 miles (203 KM) and at least 38 miles more to go. So when they say 200 km from Ponferrada, that’s to the end to the beginning of the town - yesterday from the town marker to the hotel it was another 4 miles.Les mer
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Reisende Ha! That’s so fun, seems like the locals like the Camino
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Camino Frances
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- 6. sep. 2022, 15:11
- ⛅ 68 °F
- Høyde: 1 486 ft
- Spania Galicia Melide 42.91394, -8.01429642°54’50” N 8°0’51” W
Dag 8
Palais de Rei
6. september 2022, Spania ⋅ ⛅ 68 °F
19 miles of walking today - Portomarin to Palais de Rei

And - the horror, the Hostel de Outeiro gave my private room and bath away!

The town was completely booked out and the only thing available was a bed in a mixed dorm of 4 people with 1 bathroom shared among other rooms as well. We’ll, I guess I did finally have a complete Camino experience, and an experience totally overrated in my opinion 😀. Not planning to repeat that, though I survived and was even able to sleep for about an hour. There were 2 guys and another women (from Taiwan) and myself, having arrived late I got to have the top bunk - at least I didn’t fall down.

The town was not nice, but we did have a great dinner of octopus (fist time for the Elk Grove people) and some meat with French fries with the usual bottle of wine. Everything comes with fries here and if you order a glass of wine they bring you a bottle, at about 4 euros.Les mer
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Camino Frances
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- 5. sep. 2022
- ⛅ 64 °F
- Høyde: 1 486 ft
- Spania Galicia Melide 42.913956, -8.01425542°54’50” N 8°0’51” W
Dag 7
Portomarin
5. september 2022, Spania ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
17.5 miles - Sarria to Portomarin
Goodness gracious - the people - where did they all come from? People everywhere! After walking in mostly solitude, I was surrounded by people. Many are walking in groups, many are talking non stop, or are playing music, or talking on the phone. There are so many you stop saying Buen Comino 🫢
Finally around 11ish, many people had stopped for coffee and I finally had some peace and quiet. Very nice countryside most of the way, with a very steep, but short hike down into Portomarin.

A couple of guys went down that narrow rocky path and had to be helped walking their bike down 😀

Nice town. Had dinner again with Kelly and Juan. A pizza place was open around 6 and we were hungry and tired, so went for a salad and pizza. When in Spain….. 🥱😱

There was some kind of festival and the music was blasting almost nonstop until 10pm then started up again at 11pm - but I was blissfully sleeping by then.Les mer
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