leaving lisbon early september help with route

[james walter purdum iv]

i am planning to leave lisbon in early september and as i have read there are many routes to porto. which would be the easiest to navigate. i have the breighley guide and will that give me the best route to porto? from there i want to do the coastal route to santiago. any suggestions and general ideas are much appreciated. i walked the camino frances last september and i loved it so much.

 

[peregrina2000]

i am planning to leave lisbon in early september and as i have read there are many routes to porto. which would be the easiest to navigate. i have the breighley guide and will that give me the best route to porto? from there i want to do the coastal route to santiago. any suggestions and general ideas are much appreciated. i walked the camino frances last september and i loved it so much.

I would suggest the online forum guides in the Resources section of the forum. There is one from Lisbon to Porto and one from Porto to Santiago. They have information about the more commonly walked Caminho de Santiago. Leaving from Lisbon, that "traditional"Caminho heads north along the Tejo River. You can also walk the Coastal Caminho from Lisbon, which isn't exactly along the coast, and then finally the Caminho do mar, which does track the coast. You can see posts on the two latter options in this section: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/forums/Coastal-Camino-from-Lisbon/

When I first walked from Lisbon, maybe 8 years ago, I met no one. Now you are likely to find a little group, especially in early September, but if you want solitude, go for either the Coastal or the Caminho do Mar. Bom Caminho!

 

[amorfati1]

i am planning to leave lisbon in early september and as i have read there are many routes to porto. which would be the easiest to navigate. i have the breighley guide and will that give me the best route to porto? from there i want to do the coastal route to santiago. any suggestions and general ideas are much appreciated. i walked the camino frances last september and i loved it so much.

I second Laurie's post and links -
here is the first one of mine - sharing accommodation notes and other experiences - plus photos.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...-on-caminho-portuguese-w-images-part-i.27901/
there is also part II and III

lots of people have provided good info with their own experiences, not just hear-say or guidebooks.
enjoy the preparation ....
and as i recall - there are now sections where one can walk on boardwalks - (somewhere past lisboa) - Diogo spoke of those segments and also provided photos.
Bom Caminho!
c

 

[scruffy1]

Brierley will get you there-from Lisbon there are several long stretches 30 and 30+ kilometer. Don'y land in Lisbon and run off down the Camino, it is worth a good lookaround stamp your credencial in the Cathedral but do visit Monasterio de los Jerónimos to put you in the right mindframe maybe take a ride on the yellow tram #28 will bump and thump you all over town a great experience- I would definetely recommend stopping at Santarem, Tomar-yes, climb the hill for Convento de Cristo , Coimbra as especially interesting, do a bit of research and consider taking in a side trip before Coimbra through the Shrine in Fatima, not everyone's cup of tea but certainly if you are that close why not! and Porto is lovely duck into the train station for a real surprise, Rates and Ponte de Lima also, if you have time hop a bus from Barcelos to Braga for the Bom Jesus shrine and a ride on a 1930's chain drawn tram up that hill, the bridge at Tui/Valença is a realization of the European history of conflict, moving into Spain Pontevedra and the fish market, Padrón with both the Saint James hitching, post - the real one is in the church not the garden outside - and the museum of Galicia's poet(ess) Rosalia de Castro, on to Santiago. A warm welcome guaranteed, interesting food, good wine, just b-e-w-a-r-e the Portuguese driver!
PS Look out for an old fort wearing an Australian bush hat slowly walking after Porto, he looks remarkably like that fellow at the top of this entry.