The Portuguese Way: day 9 - Sauntering
Distance travelled today : 12 miles on foot . Day 9: Arcade to Pontevedra A short stretch today, only 12 kilometres on the 'Way', and...
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The Portuguese Way: day 8 - Everyone should walk a camino
Distance travelled today : 15 miles day 8 : Veigadaña to Arcade Everybody should walk at least one camino in their life. Yes everyone! -...
The Portuguese Way: day 7 - The Power of Positive Thought
Distance travelled today : 18 miles on foot . day 7 : Tui to Veigadãna After yesterday's comedy of errors, and the weather forecast...
The Portuguese Way: day 6 - Locked out!
Distance travelled today : 17 miles on foot Day 6 : Rubiães to Tui The Albergue at Rubiães was OK but we did have a bit of bad luck with...
The Portuguese Way: day 5 - walk, eat, sleep, repeat
Distance travelled today : 18 miles on foot Day 5: Ponte de Lima to Rubiães If you had told me 24 hours ago that I would have walked...
The Portuguese Way: day 4 - Toughing it out in Paradise
Distance travelled today: 19 miles on foot Day 4: Portela de Tamel to Ponte de Lima Today was hot; really hot - muito quente! Not only...
The Portuguese Way: day 3 - People
Distance travelled today: 15 miles on foot Day3: Pedra Furada to Portela de Tamel Our journey continues. With sore feet (me) and aching...
The Portuguese Way: day 2 - Cobbled
Distance travelled today: 15 miles on foot Day 2: Vairão to Pedra Furada If yesterday was defined by 'yellow arrows', then today has been...
The Portuguese Way: Day 1 - Yellow Arrows
Distance travelled today: 20 miles on foot Day 1: Porto to Vairão So, first things first, we survived the 'Squid Game' dormitory. In...
The Portuguese Way: day 0
Bom dia Oporto! Distance travelled today: 60 mile drive to Liverpool Airport 1,491 mile flight to Porto 10mile train ride into the centre...
To be a Pilgrim
Tomorrow I travel to Portugal to start my first ever pilgrimage: a 280km trek along 'The Portuguese Way' from Porto to Santiago de...
West to Whalley
A slightly misleading title; the route from Sabden to Whalley is indeed westwards, but this route does a bit of meandering before...
Smart Phone - Smart life; truth or contradiction?
I got up this morning and followed my usual routine: bathroom, got dressed, cat duties, cup of tea and then picked up my phone. I had a...
Blue sky hope: a poem
When the lane up the hill is more puddle than path, and you're up to your ankles in mud; when the stream overflows and is running so fast...
High Road to Higham
With spring on the way: the lanes bedecked with nodding daffodils, forget-me-nots, and grape hyacinths, a clear blue sky, a stiff March...
Richmondshire and Swaledale: March 2024
Into March, and we set out for an impromptu visit to Richmondshire in North Yorkshire. The weather chilly but dry and the forecast good,...
Mud and Murmurations
March mud. After a long wet February, it feels like an age since the paths were dry enough to walk without the suck and squelch of mud....
Gordale Scar and Malham Cove: February 2024
Let's face it; when you are planning a walking trip to the Yorkshire Dales, you have plenty of choice, and in the absence of any other...
Go out to play: a poem
"Put on your coat and go out to play", my mum said to us one February day. "But mam, it's cold, and those clouds look like rain. Can't we...
Bolton-by-Bowland: January 2024
I have read about Bolton-by-Bowland several times in magazine articles, but until now have never visited. First recorded in the Domesday...
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