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CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 12: Saturday 6 June 2026 – CALDAS de REIS to PADRÓN (19 [+4] kilometres) To walk in this wonderful corner of Spain is a pleasure and a privilege – a rolling landscape of mixed woodland and well-tended vineyards interspersed with smallholdings and hamlets, all on a human scale that provides newContinue reading “Sunshine On My Shoulders”

CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 11: Friday 5 June 2026 – PONTEVEDRA to CALDAS de REIS (22 [+4] kilometres) One interesting facet of the Camino Portugués north of Porto is that it does in fact have a number of variants. I am following the inland route, the Camino Central, having left Porto and walked pretty muchContinue reading “Spirits Having Flown”

CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 10: Thursday 4 June 2026 – CESANTES to PONTEVEDRA (17 [+7] kilometres) Over the last few days of occasional rain I have both cannily and unwittingly managed to avoid getting wet, or even so much as having to don my waterproofs. Last night the rain arrived, initially briefly after I hadContinue reading “Shower The People”

CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 9: Wednesday 3 June 2026 – PORRIÑO to CESANTES (20 [+0] kilometres) St James (or James the Great as he is often termed) was one of the twelve apostles of Christ. It is his remains that, according to tradition, lie in the shrine at the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, andContinue reading “James”

CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 8: Tuesday 2 June 2026 – TUI to PORRIÑO (17 [+6] kilometres) It was certainly good to get back on the trail this morning, after my ‘Rest Day’ in Tui, for the relatively short rural section of the Camino Portugués up to Porriño. I walked most of the way with SebastianContinue reading “Turn To Stone”

CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 7: Monday 1 June 2026 It is all change today: a new month; Spain for Portugal and a new language to languish in; a time zone shift that caught me out on arrival last night; and a day without donning my walking boots and rucksack. The hot weather though seems toContinue reading “People Watching”

CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 6: Sunday 31 May 2026 – RUBIÃES to TUI (20 [+4] kilometres) With a shorter section of the Camino Portugués in prospect today I allowed myself a lie-in until 7.30 am, emerging a half-hour later into sapphire-blue skies and already warm air: no mist today! No matter, with time on myContinue reading “Carefree Highway”

CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 5: Saturday 30 May 2026 – PONTE de LIMA to RUBIÃES (19 [+5] kilometres) The weather forecast hereabouts for the last week, and for a few days looking forward, has been wall-to-wall sunshine, diurnal maximum temperatures of around 30 degrees, light winds, and a 0% chance of rain. But up hereContinue reading “Dry Spell”

CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 4: Friday 29 May 2026 – BARCELOS to PONTE de LIMA (35 [+7] kilometres) This part of Portugal is just fabulous walking country: verdant valleys, clear streams, forests of pine and eucalyptus, fields of vines and maize, and sleepy villages presided upon by ancient chapels: with every turn of the pathContinue reading “Green Green”

CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 3: Thursday 28 May 2026 Today was another Portuguese scorcher, and so I was pleased to lie in until after 7.00 am and avoid a further early start on the trail. I am staying a second night in Barcelos (in a nicely-appointed private room), which not only gives me the chanceContinue reading “I Say A Little Prayer”