AcrossTheWater3008
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- C Frances x 2 - 2016, 2017
C Portuguese x 2 2016, 2017
C Muxia/Finisterra x 2 2016, 17
CdM
Hi
I am booked to fly to Seville on 20/03/2017 and had been hoping to walk the VdlP all the way to SdC from 22/03/2017..... On further reading of the forum here re this route, I am getting quite concerned ..
I am very frightened of dogs and various threads have mentioned that there were dogs as well as pack of dogs in the first stage as well as other stages on this route. I have seen what dogs can do to humans and I have worries as I will be walking alone. I know I can buy a noise dog deterrent alarm, but this is not helping me.
Whilst I was walking to Muxia in August as well as the Portuguese recently, I have had some incidents with dogs.... I was walking from Muxia and decided to walk on the road as it was misty in the woodlands, when these 2 (?Alsatian) chained guard dogs started barking.... I stood about 300 feet from them for 30 minutes before a couple came by and gave me a lift from there to about 300 feet from these dogs..... Another incident was when I was almost nearing Muxia and I wanted to stop at a little village for a drink when a group of dogs came charging towards me..... I quickly retreated back onto the main road. (I cannot remember the names of these villages atm)
Whilst walking to Casa Fernanda on the Portuguese recently, I stopped in the village about 500 km from the house and a dog snarled at me.. I had to wait at a safe distance for about 45 mins until it went home.... before I continued on my route.
I feel really anxious about these dogs. I will have a walking pole, but the sight of a dog showing its teeth at me is enough to send me running down the road the other way.
The other alternative is to bus these routes where dogs are commonly, otherwise, I guess, I will have to abandon walking VdlP altogether.
I am booked to fly to Seville on 20/03/2017 and had been hoping to walk the VdlP all the way to SdC from 22/03/2017..... On further reading of the forum here re this route, I am getting quite concerned ..
I am very frightened of dogs and various threads have mentioned that there were dogs as well as pack of dogs in the first stage as well as other stages on this route. I have seen what dogs can do to humans and I have worries as I will be walking alone. I know I can buy a noise dog deterrent alarm, but this is not helping me.
Whilst I was walking to Muxia in August as well as the Portuguese recently, I have had some incidents with dogs.... I was walking from Muxia and decided to walk on the road as it was misty in the woodlands, when these 2 (?Alsatian) chained guard dogs started barking.... I stood about 300 feet from them for 30 minutes before a couple came by and gave me a lift from there to about 300 feet from these dogs..... Another incident was when I was almost nearing Muxia and I wanted to stop at a little village for a drink when a group of dogs came charging towards me..... I quickly retreated back onto the main road. (I cannot remember the names of these villages atm)
Whilst walking to Casa Fernanda on the Portuguese recently, I stopped in the village about 500 km from the house and a dog snarled at me.. I had to wait at a safe distance for about 45 mins until it went home.... before I continued on my route.
I feel really anxious about these dogs. I will have a walking pole, but the sight of a dog showing its teeth at me is enough to send me running down the road the other way.
The other alternative is to bus these routes where dogs are commonly, otherwise, I guess, I will have to abandon walking VdlP altogether.