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Today start our third caminho . Alltough we are not in Portugal yet, it starts today.
It is complicated to explain why it starts today but I'll give it a try.
The Netherlands have a King- HM Willem Alexander and tomorrow will be his birthday .this birthday is a national holiday and many dutch like to celebrate this day by coming together in the bigger cities for a drink, a fleamarket (really !) and concerts of all kinds. Centers of celebration are a.o.amsterdam and Eindhoven.
Coincidently in Eindhoven in the south part of the country is the airport , we fly from to Porto tomorrow.
The Dutch railways expect big crowds direction Eindhoven tomorrow -besides that the scoccer team of PSV Eindhoven has become champion of the Dutch Premier Division so they expect even more people around.
We do not like to travel on a tight schedule so leave today for Eindhoven and if there is no public transport tomorrow morning, the airport is about 3 kms.away from our hotel . A nice warming up distance.
On the airport we will meet two people, Guus and Joke, who are biking to Santiago from Porto .
We do not know them but they are friends of my sister and my sister told me they are on the same plane.a small world after all.
Tomorrow afternoon we will be transferred to the albergue monasteiro do Vairão on the first route out of Porto via Vliarinho. (Not my advised route by the way as you know from many posts- I advise the coastal route usually via Matosinhos and Vila do Conde to Rates) but Vairão is allready out of the busy infrastructure of Porto and only 14 kms from Rates .
The backpacks are ready, both weigh 7 kgs , as before.
And ..we are ready for the caminho..
Here a link to our travelblog
http://caminho-portuges-da-costa.reismee.nl
It's time to go to Eindhoven.
Um abraço from Rotterdam
Albertinho and Nel.
Today start our third caminho . Alltough we are not in Portugal yet, it starts today.
It is complicated to explain why it starts today but I'll give it a try.
The Netherlands have a King- HM Willem Alexander and tomorrow will be his birthday .this birthday is a national holiday and many dutch like to celebrate this day by coming together in the bigger cities for a drink, a fleamarket (really !) and concerts of all kinds. Centers of celebration are a.o.amsterdam and Eindhoven.
Coincidently in Eindhoven in the south part of the country is the airport , we fly from to Porto tomorrow.
The Dutch railways expect big crowds direction Eindhoven tomorrow -besides that the scoccer team of PSV Eindhoven has become champion of the Dutch Premier Division so they expect even more people around.
We do not like to travel on a tight schedule so leave today for Eindhoven and if there is no public transport tomorrow morning, the airport is about 3 kms.away from our hotel . A nice warming up distance.
On the airport we will meet two people, Guus and Joke, who are biking to Santiago from Porto .
We do not know them but they are friends of my sister and my sister told me they are on the same plane.a small world after all.
Tomorrow afternoon we will be transferred to the albergue monasteiro do Vairão on the first route out of Porto via Vliarinho. (Not my advised route by the way as you know from many posts- I advise the coastal route usually via Matosinhos and Vila do Conde to Rates) but Vairão is allready out of the busy infrastructure of Porto and only 14 kms from Rates .
The backpacks are ready, both weigh 7 kgs , as before.
And ..we are ready for the caminho..
Here a link to our travelblog
http://caminho-portuges-da-costa.reismee.nl
It's time to go to Eindhoven.
Um abraço from Rotterdam
Albertinho and Nel.