Luc Verelst

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Around

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