Crossed the Sil in the gathering dawn. Low clouds, not promising well, but failing to live up to the promise. Although the clouds were still below 1000m nearing Cornatel, so I took the short cut to Borrenes past the Ermita de la Virgen del...
Tuesday 19 November 2024, Braga - Caldelas.
This is a continuation of my account of life as a hospitalero in Salamanca and my Camino Torres
Today was a relatively short walk, so I got a later start, having breakfast at the youth hostel at 8...
This comes like this as default setting when the forum software is installed. I guess one of the reasons would be that a moderator might need to get in touch with a user to communicate any issues this user might have with the forum rules. Imagine...
Apart from the major towns and termini most of the FEVE is hop-on hop-off. You flag down the train as it approaches the station, buy a ticket from the Guard and tell them which station you want to alight at.
I’ve never found a rail-pass that...
Monday 18 November, Guimarães to Braga
I've been going to sleep early and getting up early. I guess my body never really switched from Spanish time to Portuguese time. I was awake before 6 and down for breakfast shortly before 7. Instead of...
Passing through Bembibre with Jupiter fading to the west, I noticed a huge sign promoting the area's festival of the "exaltación del botillo", a local speciality with protected status, involving stuffing bits of pig into a pig's lower intestine...
The helpful person in the tourist office strongly recommended not walking up the Puerto del Manzanal instead of the usual route. Grudgingly admitting that the two are almost equidistant, especially if you allow for the massively greater ascent to...
Sunday 17 November 2024, Pombeiro - Guimarães.
Today as a shorter day, and one in which I had a decision to make. Not far into the walk, just after crossing the historic Ponte do Arco bridge, I was faced with the choice: go left or go right...
There was a recent thread about EST (Erhard Seminars Training) which I have to say I have never hear of, but it got me thinking.
I undertook some rather 'left field' training about 10 years ago, that may have some lessons for those grappling...
Somehow Astorga has always seemed, not unobtainable - very obtainable from many different angles - just never previously obtained. As the conclusion, never previously achieved, of the Plata, and of last year's Camino del Sur, theoretically from...
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