First Stop, Philly
2024年9月12日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Sitting in the airport in Philidelphia, waiting with fingers crossed, hoping that they'll have seats for us on this next flight, Philly to Madrid. Desi's son is a pilot for American Airlines, so we'reもっと詳しく
1.5 Days in Porto
2024年9月13日〜15日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Obviously, 1.5 days in Porto is not neeeeeearly enough, and almost a little heartbreaking for me. Tried to make the best of it nonetheless.
Went to a city wine and food tasting Fri night, came homeもっと詳しく
Porto Buildings
2024年9月14日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Portugal has tile on many of its buildings. They're very pretty. These pics are all still in Porto. Throwing in a little street art here too.
Day 1: Porto to Vila do Conde
2024年9月15日〜16日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
First walking day was a little tough. Started out from Porto Cathedral and took several miles and a couple of hours, winding through city streets before making it out to the coast to head north.もっと詳しく
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2024年9月15日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
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Day 2: Vila do Conde to Esposende
2024年9月16日〜17日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Got an early start and walked 2 quick blocks back to the ocean to head north for 15 miles. At about 1/3 of the way in, we cut more inland (probably about 1/3 sooner than we should have), leaving theもっと詳しく
Day 2 Continued: Shoreline & Seaweed
2024年9月16日〜17日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
The beaches were beautiful, but the water is cold! Even the locals weren't really having it.
I haven't yet found out what they're doing with it, but workers were out, actively raking up the seaweedもっと詳しく
Day 2 Cont: Inland & On the River
2024年9月16日〜17日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Once we shifted a bit inland, we walked through a lot of farmland (mostly corn, kale, spinach and some pumpkins), and it got toasty. We, along with quite a few other pilgrims found respite in a coolもっと詳しく
Day 3: Esposende to Antas
2024年9月17日〜18日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Simple Simon day! We walked ~6miles today to Antas Guest House. It has a beautiful, private backyard with a swimming pool, and we literally had it all to ourselves from 11am-3:30pm today. There wereもっと詳しく
Day 4 Cont: Wildlife
2024年9月18日〜19日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
A few more domestic critters were the closest contact we had with the local wildlife (outside of the doves who seem to love the area and all the trees). They've been with us for the past couple ofもっと詳しく
Day 4: Antas to Viana do Costelo
2024年9月18日〜19日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Rrrrg, I suspected I wasn't going to be able to keep up very well with updates on this. Ah, well . . .
We did another 10 mile walk on this day and reached Albergue Santa Luzia, sitting right next toもっと詳しく
Day 4 Cont: Cathedral Santa Luzia
2024年9月18日〜19日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Rio Lima, stairs, smokey skies, and rest.
Santa Luzia is my mom's patron saint (Lucia).
Barbie Shannon
I am so sorry you still have smoke, I thought you were walking away from the fires & smoke.
Kathy ThielenApparently, they are all over the place. We had some rain yesterday and I think it has helped.
旅行者I hope it is really not too dangerous with all the smoke and fire around you! Please take good care and get every information you can 🤗
Day 5: to Vila Praia de Âncora
2024年9月19日〜20日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Beautiful 10 mile walk, mostly along the coast with a few sections just a bit more inland. This place had a great beachfront with lots of restaurants. We had dinner here with another pilgrim we hadもっと詳しく
Day 6 Cont: Tui, Spain
2024年9月20日〜21日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Tui was hopping, and we had gotten far north enough of the rain to have beautiful weather again. Lots of other pilgrims and friendly locals. Didn't find any pilgrim priced meals, but the food wasもっと詳しく
Day 6: to Tui, First Night in Spain!
2024年9月20日〜21日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Short day, 7 miles. We started out, not taking too much heed of the impending rain. We had our ponchos, but I don't think we were mentally prepared for the downpour that came. We had originallyもっと詳しく
Day 7: Tui to Mos
2024年9月21日〜22日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Tui to Mos was a long, 14 mile day, through a lot of beautiful woodland paths and streams, with a gorgeous garden cafe stop along the way.
Stayed in a rental home that night, which was a couple of kmもっと詳しく
Day 8: Animals!
2024年9月22日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
This dog in the first 2 pics was fantastic. As we were first approaching, he was in a perfect, upright sitting pose, with a dead rat just off to his side. I'm assuming he had slain the rodent and wasもっと詳しく
Day 8: Mos to Puenta Sampaio
2024年9月22日〜23日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
This was an 11 mile day, but felt longer (to me) because we were more exposed and the sun was strong. I felt as though I was melting, but when I checked the temperature, it was only 68°!
Moreもっと詳しく
Day 9: Taxi to Pontevedra
2024年9月23日〜24日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Desi, like so many other pilgrims (including me on my first trip), has tendinitis, and I've finally convinced her that the only way to heal it is to stay off her leg for a day or two. Begrudgingly,もっと詳しく
Day 10: Pontevedra to Caldas de Reis
2024年9月24日〜26日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
And then there was rain. We stalled until 10:45, waiting to see if it would ease up a little, but then put on our ponchos and started walking. Today was 14 miles. The route took us along open trailsもっと詳しく
Day 10 Cont: After the Rain
2024年9月24日〜26日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Desi, Joanna, and I made another cafe stop around 4 in the afternoon, and sampled some delicious, flaming chorrizo. As we finished up there, the rain stopped, the sun came out, and we enjoyed the restもっと詳しく
2 Nights in Caldas de Reis
2024年9月24日〜26日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Had 2 nights in Caldas de Reis, as a friend had recommended hanging out a little longer here, and Desi need some serious icing and down time for her tendinitis.
The first evening was very nice there,もっと詳しく
Day 11: Caldas d. Reis to Padrón
2024年9月26日〜27日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
We did 12 miles to Padrón today, with just a little rain in the morning. It was a beautiful walk, beautiful scenery.
Had a fantastic dinner here (food was great, service was a little weird), whichもっと詳しく
Day 12: Padrón to Santiago
2024年9月27日〜29日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Final walking day as pilgrims! The distance between these 2 points is just shy of 16 miles - Des' ankle was not going to be able to tolerate that distance, and I just plain didn't feel like doing it!もっと詳しく
Days 12-13: Santiago de Compostela
2024年9月27日〜29日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Santiago was even more lovely than I'd remembered it from my first visit, 8 years ago. The Cathedral was beautiful, without all the scaffolding that had been there before.
We took lots of pics,もっと詳しく
旅行者Looking forward to seeing more pictures from the upcoming days in Finisterre and Madrid 🤩
Kathy ThielenI thought of you and the rest of my first Camino Familia throughout this walk. Wonderful, wonderful memories of then, and very new and different experiences now, with more memories to ponder and new connections made.
Kathy ThielenWe've made the standby flight!!
OMG! How exciting! Fingers crossed! [Dianna]