I am currently walking the CAMINO PORTUGUÉS, an ancient pilgrimage route from Porto northwards to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. Please join me on my trek by clicking on the BLOG posts below.
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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, and…
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 Sebastian…
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 to…
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 my…
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 here…
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 path…
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 chance…
CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 2: Wednesday 27 May 2026 – VAIRÃO to BARCELOS (33 [+4] kilometres) Today will live long in my walking memory. I slept well, through the heat and snores of the Vairão Monastery dormitory night, awoke at 5.45 am, and was walking, alone, within half an hour. The quiet and stillness of…
CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Day 1: Tuesday 26 May 2026 – PORTO to VAIRÃO (24 [+5] kilometres) * My digs in Porto happened to be just a kilometre or so from the Catedral Sé that I visited yesterday morning, and which marks the start of the Porto to Santiago section of the Camino Portugués. So, and…
CAMINO PORTUGUÉS – Monday 25 May 2026 I made the right call in scheduling a free day to explore the centre of Porto ahead of my Camino walk tomorrow, so I will start with a few facts and figures. With a population of around 250,000, Porto is Portugal’s second city (after Lisbon), and it was…
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