Nice!! It was just a misunderstanding!!
Bon camino!!
Katia
Principally it is the same.. After you arrived and had gone, another pilgrim in Fisterre,noticed the poles and thought. Hey walking poles these are still missing in my gear ! Go away or I take them away and so he did.. So now you have to buy new ones..
Yesterday I passed Matosinhos on the motorway A28 direction Porto and the south
The Decathlon is at an industrial estate right from you if you head from Porto to Vila do Conde .
The motorway A28 is in between the seaside and the industrial estate
At a certain moment you will pass a kind of oil refinary or chemical plant and about there but on the other side of the motorway is the shop. Quite a detour to buy poles
Google "Decathlon Matosinhos " and you'll get a Google Earth overview
If you keep in mind that the coastal caminho follows the oceanside directly by a wooden boardwalk along the beach you better buy your poles where you live instead of trying to get them at the other side of the motorway and back to the camino.
Succes
(Why we are there now.. We walked the camino ingles a few weeks ago and travel around in Portugal now with our car and caravan.)
Do not forget to stop and stay at casa Fernanda in Vitorino dos Piäes between Barcelos and Ponte de Lima. We were there last saturday. The best place to sleep of the caminho from Porto to Santiago.
If you are there give Fernanda and her husband Jacinto -lovely and caring people they are -the regards from Albertinho and Nel.
Bom caminho