Day 8 on the Rota Vicentina: The End!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2023
- Rota Vicentina/Fisherman’s Trail Day 8: Vila do Bispo to Sagres, 24km (April 2023)
The last day of my Rota Vicentina trek! The route does continue on for a few more stages, but because of time constraints I had to end my walk in Sagres. But getting to see the lighthouse at the “end of the world” was a fitting way to end my journey!
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Congratulations! Great walk. Great video. You inspire many people with your commitment and dedication to your passion. There are many more adventures ahead. Quote….
The Road Not Taken (modified)….
BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…. I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I do really like this poem, thank you for quoting it here and letting me savor it again :) And yes, more adventures ahead!!
Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Thanks for taking us along! I always enjoy your videos and how happy you are while walking! Can’t wait to see where your next adventure will take us!!👣👣👣
Always so happy to have you watching, Danielle! I'm impatient for my next adventure, and I'll be sure to share details soon!
That was just a stunning series--never knew very much about this trail and you gave us such a wonderful experience on it! Love how you paid the walking stick forward.
I really do hope someone found the walking stick! I like to imagine that it is still out there, moving up and down the Portuguese coastline and passing from hand to hand...
Good morning
I watched all 8 videos. well done! also for your good mood! I laughed a lot! I intend to do this Vicentine route, and then continue to Gallice via Santiago de Compostela. in the north south direction..., of course!
congratulations again!!
jose
I walked this path this spring around the same time you did. So many things I recognized. Thanks for I hardly made any pictures!!
I'm glad I could supply some visual memories for you!! It's such a great path, I'd love to go back and walk it again one day!
Thank you again for sharing your journey
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I love all your videos, you are such a positive person. Buen Camino on all your travels ❤️. Did the portuguese camino a few weeks ago, watched your videos previous to the trip. Very helpful and inspiring.
I'm so glad that my videos have been helpful! I hope you loved the Portuguese Camino... it's a wonderful one! (well, they ALL are...) :)
Thanks for the great details! God bless you.
Thank you Jeff!
Thank you Nadine for sharing another beautiful trail with us armchair pilgrims.
I am really enjoying your videos.
You're welcome Pam, it's a pleasure to share these walks and I'm so happy you're enjoying the videos!
I've enjoyed your Camino videos a lot. My wife and I are planning the Caminho Portuguese in September 2023 and my son (2018) and daugther (2022) walked the del Norte from Gijon to Santiago. Your videos bring back those experiences and inspire upcoming Caminos. Many thanks.
I love that you have a Camino-walking family! September should be a lovely time to walk the Portuguese :)
Ah, the saga of the stick... pauses until the next adventurer companion arrives. I confessed I chuckled a bit at your coffee celebration at the lighthouse. Yeah, this trail was beautiful... thank you for taking us along. Cheers and adventure on!
Had to update on what happened to the stick! And I'm glad you enjoyed the coffee celebration :)
Thanks again Nadine! Here’s looking forward to your next adventure. ✌️❤️🙏🇦🇺
Thanks Jeremy, I can't wait for the next walk!
Well done, Nadine! Looking forward to the next one! I would have loved to find that stick propped up against a trail sign!!
What a lovely end to another great walk by you. It was such a pleasure to tag along. Thank you!
And I'm so happy you followed along, Victoria! It''s always such a joy to make and share these videos :)
Beautiful! Thank you.
Thanks for watching Janine!
Could be mistaken but I think that's the happiest I've ever seen you on trail. Not that you've been miserable on previous adventures, but your happiness on this route really shone through, and that made your videos all the more enjoyable to watch. Bon Camiño!
Haha, I love all my walks, but in different ways. This particular trek was... almost like a vacation. It was fun. I had perfect weather and just couldn't get over the views. Every day was so beautiful, and maybe it's because I was walking shorter stages than usual, but it felt as though I had a great balance of walking and relaxing: stopping for picnic lunches, hanging out on a beach, reading a book... in terms of pure enjoyment, it might be hard for me to top this walk! So you definitely were picking up on something when you said this was the happiest you've seen me on a walk. I really had such a great time! (only thing that would make it better would be a more Camino-like camaraderie in the evenings, though I did meet some very nice people)
What a lovely end to your walk. I was in Sagres in 1991 and this brought back so many memories.
The entire walk was really special, and I thought that Sagres was a really nice spot to finish my walk. I'm glad that it brought back some memories for you!
Fabulous walk Nadine, totally enjoyed the videos. Now I have to do it too.
It's definitely one to add to the list, just such an outstanding walk!
Thank you so so much Nadine , getting the bug to do a Camino again after this
CoVID cancelled my 1st attempt and Health issues stopped it again for the following years
One Day
I hope so much that you'll (safely) be able to make your way to the Camino soon!
Congrats Nadine, great trek, very well done series!! Always looking forward to your next amazing story. I shared your experience with a couple of Vancouverites/Portuguese Camino pilgrims yesterday in Porto looking for their next adventure. Ciao!
Oh thank you for sharing this, I think this is a great route for someone who has already walked a Camino, and especially if they enjoy coastal walking (and Portugal!) And thank you for continuing to follow along here :)
Sagres!
Walking by the ocean is always an epic experience. Thank you for sharing this wonderful walk which is on my list for next year...
I agree, the ocean is just so powerful, but also soothing... and I'm hoping to put together either a post or a video with some planning tips for the route, but in the meantime if you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Thank you for all your efforts in leading the way for others! I just spotted GR11 on the sign at 1:41 in this video, I thought the GR11 was in the Pyrenees... I'll have to investigate further 🤔
Sigh… . Another beautiful walk at an end. No more of your videos to look forward to for a while. 😢
No hope of seeing you on my next trail, because I know you’ve done it twice. 😢
BUT, something new to look forward too 😄👍😄🤞😄
I wait with bated breath!!! 🇳🇿
No more walking videos for now, but I'm going to be putting together some informational videos, so stay tuned! And there are man routes to walk and (hopefully) some years left to walk them, so we may just see each other on the same path one day!
Loved this series Nadine. But now I'm torn. I was planning to do the Camino Portuguese next year, but now I'm wanting to do the Rota Vicentina...
I know! There are just so many great routes to walk! If you had time you could start the Rota Vicentina and walk south-north… then hop up to the Portuguese and continue walking (that’s my dream one day)
@@NadineWalks Ooh, I like the sound of that too! Thank you.
I thought I knew something about this trail from hearing about it, but I now realize I didn't know much. Thank you for the great information. Did you ever see the lovely house of Amalia Rodrigues? She was a famous Fado singer and her old house is on the Fisherman's Trail. It has a wonderful view over the ocean.
I did see her house! The trail passes right in front of it :) I'd never heard of her, but then again I know only a very little about Fado music (but this has made me want to learn more!)
@@NadineWalks If you want to sample Fado, you can see Amália Rodrigues sing Estranha Forma de Vida (1965) and Camané sing Sei de um Rio in youtube videos.
Looks like a nice route, thanks for sharing.
It really WAS a wonderful route!
Thank you for great videos and taking us along :D
I'm always so happy to take others along!!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful walks with us!
You're welcome Bonnie, it is such a joy to make and share these videos!
Another one down , hopefully somewhere to go before the end of summer . Back to work 😊
Haha yes, back to work (well, in real time, I'm wrapping up work for the school year, though not leaving for Europe right away like I normally do. But more walking WILL be happening this summer!!)
That’s right you get a month or so off now , must be some trail in Spain that you haven’t coffee’d your way around . I still think the A.T. Must be somewhere on the list . Apparently there is a TransCanada trail but I’m not sure it’s been done in one go . Winter gets in the way somewhat 😊 enjoy the down time .
Thank you for this series - jogged my memory of our bike trip. It may have been the time of the year, but by late May, almost all the beaches had surfers. Some beaches had little colonies of surfers living in their VW camper vans. Were there any surfers when you were there?
Yes, there were surfers! Not many until a day or two before Sagres. I took a video of a bunch of them in the water but the quality wasn't great so it didn't make the cut :)
I’m going to walk this trail beginning at the end of February with a dear friend I met on my first Camino 11 years ago! Your videos were the reason we chose to walk this trail, so Thankyou so much for the inspiration!! One question about this particular section. Can you give me a general guess on the length of that very rocky portion?
Hmm, I can't remember too well, but it's not super long! Maybe only about 10 minutes of walking? (this was for the VERY rocky section)
Thankyou!
Dear Nadine, thank you so much for your videos! You inspire me to go out and travel as a solo female traveler :)
I am considering walking the Fisherman's trail or the Camino del Norte starting this September.
Besides the obvious difference in the length of the trails, in which way are they different/similar??
Thank you so much!!!
There's probably a lot I could say about this but, to try to keep it simple: both are really beautiful routes, but the Norte dips towards and away from the coast, and sometimes it's frustrating that you're SO CLOSE to the coast but can't actually see it. There are alternatives you can take that at times keep you along the coast, but you'll have to be aware of where they are. But some of the stages on the Norte are just stunning, and as you said, it's longer, so that I don't mind so much the stages that move away from the coast... it's all part of the experience. It's also a Camino route, so that's going to make the feel of it a bit different than the Fisherman's Trail. I'm not sure if you've done a Camino yet, but you'll find that on the Norte, it will probably be easier to meet people, find others to walk with (if you want), eat meals in the evening, etc. I was able to do that a bit on the Fisherman's Trail, but it's not quite as 'natural' as on a Camino route.
But one thing the Fisherman's Traill has is gorgeous views EVERY SINGLE DAY. It's incredible. It's like taking the best days on the Norte and repeating them time and time again, for every single stage. There's more soft sand walking on this route and that can be challenging, so I'd say it's wiser to do some stages that are less kms than on the Norte.
Both routes are really great, I love them. I suppose it depends on what you're most looking for: do you want a Camino experience, and one that is more social? Or is the landscape more important? And really, I think you can't go wrong with either!
@@NadineWalks Thank you for answering!❤🙏
Hi! Did you take a bus from Sagres directly to Lisbon? How long was the bus ride?
I did! The bus from Sagres to Lisbon was about 4 hours
I'm already missing the stick. Just sayin'
I missed it the moment it left my hand...