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Lisbon to Santiago on the Central, then return to Porto for the Coastal?

trecile

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Okay, I like looooong Caminos, and Lisbon to Santiago is "only" 600+ km, so I was thinking of walking from Lisbon to Santiago on the Central route, then taking the bus back to Porto (or Vila do Conde) and walking the Coastal. For comparison's sake. Not because I'm addicted to Caminos or anything like that.

I'm not interested in zigzagging between the two.

Has anyone else done this?
 
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Whatever you decide, try not to miss the Espiritual Variant, which I don't consider zigzagging. The walk into amazing little Combarro, and visiting Amenteira's monastery, along with the awesome hour long boat ride to Padron were all special and not to be missed.
 
Yes I was going to make the exact same point, but as usual am one step behind!!

Did it recently…Comborro, was fab, and the monastery looked incredible (I didn’t stay) though apparently getting a bed can be tough though many do.

The boat trip was the highlight of the walk. Post boat I only walked a few kms north of Padron and which I initially regretted as ‘rest days’ aren’t my thing, but stayed at Albergue Lagar Jesus which was fab so I was glad to adhere to the plan!
 
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This is not a strange idea so whether anyone else has done it or not doesn't seem to matter to me. You're not suggesting anything weird like walking backwards or carrying a rice cooker or going by donkey. Walk a camino and then walk another one? Sure, why not?!

Since Chrissy mentioned the VE, an obvious idea is to include that variant on one of the caminos and not on the other one, to give you more variety. That way, you would only repeat basically two stages: Redondela to just past Pontevedra and Padrón to Santiago. Or if you prefer to mix it up a bit more but still keep the Portuguese flavour, after your first camino, take the bus to Braga instead and walk the Geira, or Viseu and walk the CPI + Sanabrés. Or for a longer continuous walk from Lisbon, walk the Caminho do Mar to Tomar via Fátima, which would add about four stages to the walk.
 
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