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    • Dag 166

      Wanderung im "Märchenwald" von Buçaco

      6. mars 2023, Portugal ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

      Der Wald von Bucaco ist ein 105 Hektar großer, üppiger Park, der erst von einem Kloster, später als ein Refugium der königlichen Sommerresidenz genutzt wurde. In der Nähe befinden sich die Thermalquellen von Luso.
      Für die Erkundung war heute perfektes Wetter, das den Wald etwas Mystisches verlieh. Wir genossen die vielen Stimmen und Geräusche des Waldes sehr.
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    • Dag 15

      Etappe 13

      22. mai 2023, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

      Mit der Herberge, die uns in der letzten Nacht für 10€ Unterschlupf gegeben hatte, waren wir vollauf zufrieden. Wir hatten das "Glück", im Gegensatz zu heute, allein in einem Zimmer mit 2 Etagenbetten, die allerdings auf etwas wackeligen Beinen standen, übernachten zu dürfen.
      Ich entschloss mich, auf den Wunsch von Roland hin, in der oberen Gefilden zu nächtigen! Das stellte sich für mich schon bald als sehr praktisch heraus. Denn  jedesmal wenn Roland sich rührte, kam auch das Bett in Bewegung und schaukelte mich so sanft in den Schlaf! Bei Roland stellte sich der Schlaf nur sehr schleppend ein, denn er hatte kein Vertrauen in die Konstruktion und daher wohl Angst das Schlafgebilde könnte zusammenfallen! Zu eurer Beruhigung, es ist nichts dergleichen passiert!
      Da es bei dieser günstigen Übernachtung kein Frühstück gab, machten wir uns schon früh auf den Weg Richtung Cafe-Bar. Schon bald wurden wir fündig und konnten, im Kreis von vielen jungen Leuten, die fröhlich singend und ziemlich angeheitert von der letzten Nacht übrig geblieben sind, einen Kaffee und feine Croissant geniessen.
      Dann machten wir uns definitiv auf den Weg....die heutige Strecke verlief nicht ganz so idyllisch wie die gestrige, denn wir wanderten doch recht viel an gut befahrenen Strassen entlang. Natürlich auch durch Dörfer wo wir uns zwischendurch eine Pause gönnten. Hier gibt es noch lange nicht in jedem Dorf ein Restaurant und auch die Einkaufsmöglichkeiten sind rar. Darum waren wir froh, als uns das Wasser ausging, einen Laden zu sehen, von dem wir glaubten, es wäre ein Lebensmittelgeschäft! Leider war es aber ein Grosshändeler, der nur Grosspackungen im Sortiment hatte. Freundlicherweise erlaubte uns der Verkäufer, unsere leeren Flaschen an einem  Wasserspender aufzufüllen! So kommen wir täglich mit netten Leuten in Kontakt! Auch mit unsere heutigen Herberge sind wir wieder zufrieden! Obwohl, wie ihr auf dem letzten Bild sehen könnt, hier einiges los ist.
      Ps. Ganz viele dieser Gäste sind für uns keine Unbekannten mehr.
      Tschau zämä!
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    • Dag 6

      La carica dei gilet fosforescenti

      9. mai, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

      Da stamattina è un continuo incrociare persone che camminano in senso opposto al nostro, tutte rigorosamente con i gilet ad alta visibilità…
      Dopo un attimo di curiosità, abbiamo capito il motivo! Lunedì prossimo è la festa della Madonna di Fatima e i portoghesi partono a piedi verso il santuario….
      Li per li non abbiamo dato peso alla cosa, ma poi abbiamo capito che per stasera sarà un problema trovare un albergue libero!🤦🏻‍♂️
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    • Dag 3

      Procissão das Velas

      8. mai 2023, Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

      Today we really started our camino. And this day we were confronted with hundreds of and hundreds of pilgrims going the other way. Not like us they are not going to Santiago de Compostela but they all go to Fatima. On the evening of the 12th of May there is the so called Procissão das Velas.. the candle procession. It's held on the evening before the 13th of May which is the day what the virgin Maria appeared for the first time in Fatima.
      It's a nice spectacle to see that many people going on a pilgrimage but it has a downside too... how to find lodging in the place you want to go to... So we are now juggling a little bit with where to sleep and where to walk to.. but I think we found a good compromise for the next 2 days. And after that we won't be confronted with big groups of pilgrims no more.
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    • Dag 16

      Day 13/2 Coimbra to Mealhada

      16. mai 2022, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      For my first true day on the Camino, we traveled 23.3 kilometres from Coimbra to Mealhada while climbing 219 metres. According to my companions, this was a relatively boring leg as it was mostly over flat, paved terrain. For me, it was the perfect introduction to the Camino, particularly since the bulk of the distance was done under overcast skies with temperatures in the low 20s.

      Along the route we met up with the Dutchman, Wil, as well as Scott and Judy from California. All three drifted in and out of our group over the course of the day, until we reached Mealhada. At that point, Scott and Judy planned to travel back to Coimbra via train for the night and return to Mealhada in the morning.

      At about the 12 km mark we stopped for coffee and Pastel de Nata in Sargento Mor and then powered our way to lunch at Lenis-Bar in Mealhada. For €7.50, we had soup, a main course, salad, wine, dessert and coffee, all of which were delicious. We then checked in to the Oasis hotel and I had a deep afternnon nap before going out to buy supplies for breakfast in the morning. While at the store, we were unable to resist a bottle of tawny port for €5.99, which Brenda, Ernie, Anita, Wil and I promptly polished off in an impromptu gathering in the hallway outside our rooms.

      For dinner we gorged ourselves on some delicious vegan fare at Floresto do Leitoes.

      After dinner we waddled back to our rooms and prepared ourselves for our next early morning departure.

      A great first day on the camino
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    • Dag 23

      Bussaco Palace Hotel

      24. mai 2018, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F

      This is another pousada, one of the historic and culturally important buildings that have been converted into luxury hotels. We were there in the rain so didn’t get many good pictures,. It is a beautiful place, but they don’t want tourists wandering in the building unless they are staying and/or dining there. But I sneaked a few pictures while Dean was talking to the reception staff.Les mer

    • Dag 16

      Happy Easter

      31. mars, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      It was an uneventfull walk to Mealhada today. I met Jorge and his wife Charo from Argentina on the path tho. Jorge has done 9 caminos, and his wife 6! Lots of people in the albergue tonight.

    • Dag 7

      Not for vegetarians

      22. oktober 2018, Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      Mealhade does not have much to offer except restaurant after restaurant specialising in - suckling pig! I tried it but have to say I think my version is at least as good. A rather forgettable walk to Sernadelo (just after Mealhade) from Coimbra - some of it beside a despondent smelly canal and road. The one excitement was a herron like bird that kept flying off just as I was about to capture it on the iPhone camera. And about 6km through a eucalyptus forest. Came across two crews of timber workers cutting and removing trees - cheery waves and questions. The Portuguese find it very odd that a woman would be walking solo anywhere - let alone all the way to Santiago. But they have all been admiring and wished me well.
      The weather is unseasonably hot and my red umbrella is up much of the time.
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    • Dag 38

      A gloomy Hostel, and rain all night

      10. mai 2021, Portugal ⋅ 🌧 10 °C

      After my accident I hobbled on to arrive just before Dark in Mealhada at a hostel that more deserved the name "Den".
      I had got the last bed in a dormitory with 20 beds and a mixture of workers and pilgrims.
      In this gloomy, moist building, one small weak lamp lit the space and one tiny window supplied the air The showers were such that one didn't want to enter barefoot.
      All night long snoring filled this stuffy, moist space without air!
      What a night!
      This morning I discovered that there was also a modern part to this complex that a group of 30 Pilgrims had taken in one block.
      While their luggage was loaded into two large vans, they gathered in a large circle to pray, going three times through a whole rosary chain of Ave Maria's and prayers, a process that took nearly 45 minutes.

      The deep irony in the picture I took, was that the very representative of the technocratic future, "GOOGLE", stood right in the middle of these praying pilgrims in the form of a "Google Street view" vehicle that was busy filming the city streets of Portugal.
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    • Dag 37

      Pilgrims everywhere, and a Wipe-out

      9. mai 2021, Portugal ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

      The 13th of May is the anniversary of the apparition of Maria in Fatima and pilgrims from all over Portugal are heading to Fatima. On my route yesterday and today I have met several hundred. Joyful groups who have been walking for days, partially without luggage and accompanied by vehicles, others with rucksacks. All colours, ages and ethnicities.
      WOW! What a movement, what faith!

      As I was navigating down one of these wet sandy paths later this afternoon what I feared most, happened. I WIPED OUT!
      My front wheel had slipped sideways off a rut and my bike looped sideways as I flew through the air. With bloody legs and bruises all over but thank god no further damage.
      I shook myself, only to discover that the half liter milk I had bought earlier had burst inside my bag distributing itself between my equipment and clothes.
      Wet, and covered in mud, I screamed my frustration!
      One of those moments where one asks:
      "what the FUCK am I doing here?"
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