Planning 3 days of walking or cycling to Santiago with 2 young boys

[Deleted member 32113]

Hello
We are a family of 4, with 2 boys 3.5 and 6 years old.
We are planning to take 10 days of holidays at Easter, from around Apr 12 to 21, 2014. We'd fly from Vancouver to Lisbon, visit Fatima, drive or take the train or bus to Porto and further north, and do a couple of days of walking or biking to Compostelle, just as an introduction, as we are aware doing the Camino with young kids is not ideal.
We are good hikers, but our 3.5 years old is getting a little too heavy to be carried on dad's back. Is it possible to take a jogging stroller on the trails? Or a bike trailer if we bike?

Thank you for your help
Maya

 

[Deleted member 3000]

I have seen quite a few strollers used successfully on the caminos.

 

[Diogo92]

@MayaH probably the worst part for you to do, is the Labruja section. It's not O Cebreiro, but you still have to carry your children + the bikes in a stepy 600m hill.

I know that cyclists do a detour around there, but that you may ask it to people who have done the Caminho by bike, or search it on the "Bike The Caminho" section.

But it depends from where you start. If you start from Tuy, you don't have to pass through there.

Would you take your own bikes, or would you rent it? I'm just asking this, because I don't know any company in Porto that rent bikes for you take to abroad or with specs for you to use on trails. Only that.

Best Regards
Diogo

 

[Former member 22438]

@MayaH probably the worst part for you to do, is the Labruja section. It's not O Cebreiro, but you still have to carry your children + the bikes in a stepy 600m hill.

I know that cyclists do a detour around there, but that you may ask it to people who have done the Caminho by bike, or search it on the "Bike The Caminho" section.

But it depends from where you start. If you start from Tuy, you don't have to pass through there.

Would you take your own bikes, or would you rent it? I'm just asking this, because I don't know any company in Porto that rent bikes for you take to abroad or with specs for you to use on trails. Only that.

Best Regards
Diogo

Maybe a part of the caminho da Costa would be an idea however I have no experience with this trail.But spoke to some bikers who did do this. So maybe some of them could react !?
What we experienced was that a man pulled a kind of a light weight wheelbarrier ,connected to a belt around his waist , carrying the backpacks of him and his lady partner. This was beyond Labruja somewhere in Galicia so I am no sure they walked the hardest part before Valença (at last I found the "ç" by using the Portugese keyboard of my Ipad my friend
Mind however the very steep hills in Galicia beyond Pontevedra ,going downwards !