October 22, 2023 Somehow I didn’t realize that this was our last day here. So we made the best of it. It’s Sunday and Porto is very much asleep in the morning. As we arose to hike to a park, everything was shut down. No cafes. No coffee. No matter. We’ll start walking and something …
October 21, 2023 Our fourth necessity for getting to know a town is to master it’s public transportation. So today we planned to take the Metro across the water to the south side of Porto, to the town of Gaia. But first, some housekeeping. We started the day walking down Alegria street and then over …
October 20, 2023 Another day in a beautiful old city, with numerous walkable neighborhoods. Today we continued with our unusual approach to travel. We stay in a more or less normal neighborhood and then establish the neighborhood markets, cafeterias, laundries, and everything related to normal life, avoiding ( if possible) the heavy touristy areas. Today’s …
October 18-19, 2023 We arose from a very restful sleep in our rented apartment, very close the old section of town. When we realized that the apartment actually included two bedrooms and two baths, we invited one of our camino friends, the nurse we’ve run into many times without any plan, Andrea to share the …
October 17, 2023. We chose to stay in a hostel our last night after shying away from them often. Our own experiences had been middle to negative , with exceptions. But we’ve had to reconsider that bias as this house was gorgeous. The moment we walked in we were greeted by a generous, gregarious Italian …
October 16, 2023 I’ll start today’s blog post without photos due to lack of wi-fi, and later fill them in. Our morning started at our smart apartment in Caldas. We stepped out into the dark streets at 7 and headed over to the Hotel we had tried to eat at last night ( but couldn’t …
October 15, 2023 Fall has arrived in Galicia: the temps have fallen and the rain is expected almost every day. Today we decided to take on a long day, to take advantage of an only mildy rainy day. I had to store the camera in my pack today and today’s post relies on cell phone …
September 14, 2023. We arose early from our comfortable room at Hotel Bahia de Vigo and packed up our things in our habitual manner. At 7:30 we were out the door and walking up the empty streets of Vigo. Soon we saw lights from a charming little cafe, Delicatessen Martínez, founded in 1911. Our waitperson …
October 13, 2023 We awoke to the sound of rain outside of humble pensión and the restaurante/bar was closed when we emerged at 7am. But just across the street was the Bar “Anyonymous” and we quickly went over to check it out. The croissants and coffee were just what we wanted. We got on our …
October 12, 2023. National Day of Spain. What a beautiful little hostel we spent the night in, started by and run by a pilgrim who had walked the caminos herself, and now dedicates this hostel to what pilgrims need. It was quiet, comfortable and situated in a lovely little historic town on the coast. Alice, …
