THE PORTUGUESE ROUTE
Does anyone know where we are?” The woman from Yorkshire asked no one in particular. There hadn’t been a coffee stop for some eight kilometres, so a cluster of us had fallen on the Central Café like nomads on an oasis.
A feature of Northern Portugal is that they are not big on signage, street names are small and scarce and, truth to tell, the directions we’d been given by our booking agency were wanting. So in answer to Yorkshire’s question, we had no idea.
In pilgrim circles it’s said that all roads lead to Santiago and that your Camino begins as soon as you set out from home. Narrowing down
