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Luc Verelst went for a hike
October 6, 2024 at 06:10
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
October 5, 2024 at 06:22
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Supertramp and Maria Naedts like this.
October 5, 2024
Bad weather. Really bad weather. That is the summary of this day. In good weather this would have been a very nice trip. Before noon it was still somewhat okay but in the afternoon it started to rain heavily. In addition, there were heavy gusts of wind.
During the lunch break I was sitting with an American
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
October 4, 2024 at 06:49
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October 4, 2024
The finish is in sight. After 2 more days of walking today and I'll be there. All in all it was an easy hike. There were about 200 meters of altitude to conquer. If you look at the altitude graph you will see that after the climb there is a sudden deep dive. That may be a technical (internet) malfunction
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
October 3, 2024 at 06:11
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Calma64, Maria Naedts and BETTY like this.
October 3, 2024
Finally another dry day. Getting the shoes dry is quite possible, but clothes are a different matter. If you hang them up to dry indoors, they won't be dry the next day. So I put them in the suitcase, but then everything gets damp again. Luckily I had a drying cabinet the day before yesterday. Hopefully
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
October 2, 2024 at 06:43
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October 2, 2024
Today the weather was possibly even worse than yesterday. But things are improving. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow it should remain almost dry. My shoes were well dried this morning, almost a full roll of toilet paper had gone into them. I had taken out the soles and they were still being treated
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
October 1, 2024 at 06:25
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October 1, 2024
Today was a really bad day, at least as far as the weather is concerned. It drizzled or poured rain almost the entire day. With all this, there were still a few positive things: I had calculated the distance a bit wrong and so I arrived at my destination after 17.8 km instead of the calculated 20.7
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
September 30, 2024 at 07:09
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Maria Naedts and Calma64 like this.
September 30, 2024
Today I crossed the Spanish border. I am also halfway there and it will be much busier from now on. Some of you think I am going to give up, but I am not even remotely thinking about that. Everything is going well here and it will be over much too quickly again. With the sentence 'I may not do the end
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
September 29, 2024 at 07:47
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September 29, 2024
Today was the queen stage of this camino. A 22km walk with an ascent of the Portela Grande, the highest hill of the Camino Portugues at 435m. Compared to O Cebreiro, for example, this is a drop in the ocean.
It was already clear this morning that a lot more pilgrims crossed my path than yesterday. By
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
September 28, 2024 at 06:50
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Leo en Corrie Boender and Maria Naedts like this.
September 28, 2024
A beautiful day today: good weather, nice forest paths, short distance and ..... a lot of downhill. This morning I had no breakfast option at the hotel. The hostess said that I would find something after walking 1 km. Unfortunately, it was closed and I had to walk 7.5 km to get something to eat.
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
September 27, 2024 at 07:36
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Calma64, Coelho🐾🐇🇵🇹 and Maria Naedts like this.
September 27, 2024
Today I made a beautiful trip. The sun was already shining early and the route often went over quiet paths. When I left Barcelos it became clear that I had certainly not seen everything yesterday. Among other things, the beautiful church Bom Jesus. The number of pilgrims that I met along the way was
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
September 26, 2024 at 07:16
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Coelho🐾🐇🇵🇹, Leo en Corrie Boender and Maria Naedts like this.
September 26, 2024
The previous night there was a heavy thunderstorm, not weather to chase a dog in. Fortunately, that had all disappeared this morning. Initially it was still a bit cloudy but soon even the sun came out: I had not seen the sun for 3 days.
What struck me along the way was that there were apparently few pilgrims
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
September 25, 2024 at 07:28
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Coelho🐾🐇🇵🇹, Maria Naedts and Leo en Corrie Boender like this.
September 25, 2024
Today I was very lucky. The rain that was announced spared me almost completely. The first few hours there was light rain, enough to make everything wet. After eleven o'clock it was over and just when I was in my hotel at around 4 o'clock a good gust fell. On the other hand my feet were a bit sore from
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
September 24, 2024 at 06:48
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September 24, 2024
Today was a drizzly day, first a bit of a slush, then a heavy shower and the last few kms it was dry again.
The trip went completely along the water, first the Douro, then the ocean. Tomorrow I will leave the ocean and turn off to the central camino. That is a detour of almost 10 km, but if I had chosen
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
September 23, 2024 at 12:52
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Coelho🐾🐇🇵🇹, Peter and Leo en Corrie Boender like this.
September 23, 2024
In the afternoon I started with a boat trip on the Douro: the 6 bridges cruise. Since the sky had completely opened up, it was a pleasant trip of an hour. After this trip I walked over the famous Luis bridge, both the lower and the upper bridge. Then I visited a few churches and so the first day was
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Luc Verelst went for a hike
September 23, 2024 at 07:15
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September 23, 2024
This morning I took a walk through Porto and visited quite a few sights.
A first stop was at the Torre dos Clerigos. This church is located at the highest point of Porto. From the tower you have a beautiful view of the city. Too bad it was still a bit foggy then.
Then I passed the Sao Bento station with
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October 6, 2024
Yes, I did it, once again. So happy. Yes, after 14 days of not hearing or speaking your own language, you eventually start thinking in English. Yes, I am happy that I have reached my goal, but where in other years I regretted that it was over, now there is a feeling of 'it can stop now'. With all that
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