Portugal 2025

mei - juni 2025
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  • Up-up and away I go!

    5 mei, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    Day One:
    On my way to Portugal. I love the rising morning light when flying out of Medford. The feeling of letting go when lifting off into the wild mysterious yonder is breathtaking! In traveling, we let go of a certain mindset and heartset and allow ourselves to be open for wonder and surprise. What will I see...who will I meet...what obsticles will I need to challenge and overcome? It's always a learning experience of self and reevaluating our significance in this human race.
    I began today in a panick when picking up my boarding pass, as United Air didn't have a record of it. Apparently, I overlooked a certain email confirmation. So, I had to hustle over the phone with an agent with a really heavy accent while standing in a noisy airport until the transaction went through. Thirty minutes later, with a $200 price hike, all was done pre boarding time. Now I get to chill for 8 hours in the Sanfran terminal until boarding my flight to Heathrow airport (London).
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  • 5/6 Lisboa ,first night in Portugal

    6 mei, Portugal ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

    Moist cobblestone streets,
    Bells ringing from trolley cars,
    Slow Lisbon sunsets.

    My flight arrived in Lisbon at 6 pm. I had to do a lot of waiting for flight connections! It was a long time getting here. It's the waiting that is exhausting. I took a cab to my reserved hotel (Hotel Convento do Savador) and was delighted to find my room so neat and clean. Fatima is a helpful and kind hotel manager. She has patiently marked on a map the good places to eat and sights to see.
    I commented on the striking tile work on the lobby wall of the hotel. Now, mind you, it looked like an interesting design. But Fatima says, "You must take a picture of it, then tell me what you see."
    The image that ONLY comes out in a photo, not with the naked eye, is an image of Catarina do Portugal, Dutchess of Braganza. The artist has other pieces around Lisbon ( Pedrita.com, also on facebook Padrita Studio)
    Impressive work!
    Once I got showered and changed (even in my weariest state, the miracle work of a shower always renews me), I took a walk around the neighborhood. The young people are out drinking and howling with their friends. The trolley cars are winding up the steep, narrow streets clanking their bells. Night is folding down on us, and there's a vibrancy in this town.
    I'm told there is a train strike taking place tomorrow, and may last many days. That changes my plans for taking a train to Coimbra from Lisbon on the 9th to begin my walk on the 10th. I suppose I'll be riding
    the bus, along with the crowds and price hike, I'm sure.
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  • 5/7 Lisboa in Daylight

    7 mei, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Ceramic tile art,
    everywhere is eye candy!
    My senses are peeked.

    There are so many patterns everywhere! With tile and cobble stones galore. One has to pay attention to where one steps, for the cobble stones are beautiful but may be treacherous through narrow alleyways of tiled walls. I passed a dog park area with artistically displayed signs at the entrance as several humans with dogs on leashes shuffled up to the doggy social club. I noticed a stone wall with delicate weeds squeezing their way through
    the cracks, and I'm reminded how resilient plants are in finding their way to the light. I want to remember how to be that resilient. Clothing lines are interesting photographs to me. I like the banner of colored laundry hanging on a line to dry, using only sun and wind energy to get the job done. It's an image of orderly, cozy simplicity.
    There is an alley where I saw photo portraits on ceramic plaques in front of different homes. Apparently, the plates are to memorialize the people who once had a significant role of giving generously their service, works, and leadership to the community ( This one is of a woman named Carmelinda).
    There are many stories to be heard, but so little time to hear them all. But I can nibble a bit from each tip of the iceberg as I go.
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  • 5/7 Pastel de Nata Lisboa

    8–9 mei, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Yes, delish! This is the taste of Lisbon! Can't pass through without having a few of these lucious custards pastries.😋💕at Casa Sao Miguel Lisboa.

  • Well, I never knew!

    8 mei, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Did you know that there could be a urinal for public use right at the edge of an alley off the side of the street?
    That beats peeing on a public building wall, I guess. I just saw this one. Maybe there are more?Meer informatie

  • 5/7-5/8 Cascais- visiting Emily's Family

    8 mei, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    With the genes
    we share,
    What is more important than
    Warm family hugs?

    Because I am walking Portugal this year, how could I not visit my niece who is living here on the coast?
    When we speak about how the Camino provides, it's more about a state of mind. Allowing the universe to play a part in your life, rather than being fixed on how you think life is supposed to happen. But when we loosen our sails and allow the shifting winds to move through and around us, there is an organic order that is allowed to happen.
    I usually have a bit of anxiety about getting from place to place in foreign cities. But I had the train connection figured out before even boarding the plane. But then there's a train strike. Change of plans, and I had to do more figuring.
    Here's the part about the universe.
    A dear friend, at home, has a friend who also lives in the same town as my niece. She asked if I would deliver a quilt (she made) to her friend in Cascais. That transaction worked well. For the friend had to be in Lisboa to drop her child at an appointment, which then they were able to pick me up for the gift passing and deliver me to my lodging in Cascais. Perfectly choreographed!
    My lodging at Moro's Friend's House was clean and comfortable. I think I had the whole house to myself! I highly recommend staying their if visiting Cascais.
    I dined with Emily and met her beautiful family! I know we don't always have the time we wish to indulge in hours and days with people we love, or want get to love, but I've learned to savor the small, delicious quality of a moment, and be content with that. Watching my children and my siblings' children become successful in doing what they love, or become responsible, loving parents, is the most satisfying reward in life.
    Last picture: Emily packed me a snack bag for the bus ride💖. She's taken to motherhood like a duck to water! 🦆🐥🐣💕
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  • 5/8 Coimbra (first stamp!)

    8 mei, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Rio Montego
    Winds beside me as I walk
    Coimbra Evening.

    This is my starting point. I'm not quite sure where I go from here, but I'm figuring out as I go. While walking along the river, I found the declathalon store on top of a hill! How would I ever manage without google Maps? I bought a set of trekking poles, and now I'm ready to go. While walking back to my lodging this evening, I met a young man from Turkey who asked me to take his picture against a view of the town with the sun setting. He was bursting out of his seams with the exciting life he is living and went on to tell me of all the places he's been sent around the world installing software. Young, excited, and the world is his oyster! I wished him well for the rest of his life, and I continued to walk up the hill. His youth, joy, and zest for life are so refreshing! Coimbra is a lovely place, but I'll be on my way first thing in the morning.Meer informatie

  • 5/9 One more night in Coimbra

    9 mei, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    The set schedule cracks,
    Sometimes, we should stay longer
    To catch the magic.

    I stayed one more night to get my bearings and make some connections before I began walking. I stayed in the Albergue "Rainha Santa Isabel. " it's good to connect with other pilgrims before the journey begins. Now I have names and faces of those who will be part of our camino family for the next few weeks. I entered an old Renaissance church today, which is not used any longer for holding services. But there was a showing of the works of two Canadian artists who have fascinating displays there! Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller collaborate in setting up multimedia sound installations all over the world. Look them up, it's very interesting work. I only have a video of their hanging carousel of mirrors. But there was a lot displayed that tickled my senses.
    In the other video, I'm walking through water with rain boots on, in an old stone basemen. Once upon a time in the late 1500s, this place was a holding tank for rain water. Imagine having a well down in your basement? Now it's a novelty bar. Only open for happy hour at the end of the day. Some people walk down oodles of steps to have a drink while standing at the bar in rain boots. I wonder how coming back up those stairs after a few drinks look? 😬. The cat above the albergue. It's too far for her to jump, so she watches the world from her sill. I call her Rapunzel. This town has been fun. Fourteen miles to the next town tomorrow.
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  • 5/12 to Albergaria a Nova

    12 mei, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    I ask myself,
    Who am I doing this for?
    God says be quiet.

    I keep walking quietly and inhale the view. There are orange, lemon, and quince trees all around. I enjoyed the walk near a river that runs through the old Roman Bridge. A small break from the road walking. Most of this walk has been on the road, and much of it has heavy traffic whipping by. I find this more exhausting than hiking mountain sides.
    This albergue has been the nicest stay so far. "REINA D TERESA" Such a roomy, beautiful setup. I shared a room with Lei ( from China). And we breakfast with a couple from South Africa.
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  • 5/10 to Mealhada

    12 mei, Portugal ⋅ 🌧 16 °C

    When you're falling back
    To get to where you're going
    Just enjoy the view.

    I'm trying to stay on top of writing and posting. Though by the time I walk to my destination, there's laundry to wash by hand, shower to take, food to cook all before retiring to bed. I've been having a hard time finding my rhythm. I know it always hurts on the first week of a Camino, and I'm not spared the aches and pain on this one. I stayed in a hotel south of Mealhado (more like a motel room) because no albergues or hotels had available rooms in Mealhado, and I hand that night, and I hadn't pre booked. So I took a taxi 4 miles backward to repeat the walk the next day. It rained hard early in the day but became bright and beautiful again. The owner of Residencial Pinho Verde was happy to show me his birds. He adores them, and you can tell by how well they're taken care of. He was proud of his khoi, too. It was nice to rest in my own room and get a good night's sleep before walking the extra miles the next day.Meer informatie