I was going to respond to this last night, but then I figured @jungleboy would soon be awake in Rome, and be right on it with precise information. And he was! We encountered the Camniho Centrale at Santiago do Cacem, where we started the Rota...
This is the Caminho Central that I mentioned upthread. It’s well signed and there’s a free guidebook in English and several other languages for download. The problem for @trecile (if indeed it is a problem) is that it doesn’t connect to the CP in...
This has been asked before but unfortunately just south of Lisbon is a bit of a black hole.
The two routes further south of Lisbon (one camino, one not) are the ‘Central’ from Faro (general thread here) and the Rota Vicentina. These now connect...
If you just want to go to Pamplona, there's a bus back to Pampalona from Puente La Rienna that stops every few hours. There's a bus shelter right near the gas station and the DIA grocery store on the main street in the center of town. It'll be...
Unlike the Renfe website, which never tells you why there are no trains listed on your selected dates, the Estellesa website posted this notice when I took a look at their website and put in dates for Puente la Reina to Pamplona at the end of...
yep! You can also get a bus direct to Donostia / San Sebastián. Just look at next weeks schedules for your anticipated day of travel. Timetables rarely change much.
Rome2Rio is great for showing itineraries, but the schedules it shows often don't correspond with the actual schedule of the bus company, so be careful to dig down to the website of the bus company itself. In this case, as you've found, the bus...
An introduction-level article in the Sydney Morning Herald today:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/australians-are-becoming-camino-converts-in-record-numbers-why-20240412-p5fjcl.html
It is the most popular trail of the Rota Vicentina in south-western Portugal (Alentejo/Algarve). It's more a hike / walking holiday than a pilgrimage as such, but the scenery is absolutely fabulous.
Here is a post I wrote about it: Rota...
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