I don’t know that we’ve ever seen a city more decked out with Christmas lights than we have here in Porto. We spent three days in Santiago de Compostela and the city was definitely illuminated, but nothing like what’s on display in Porto.
I don’t know that we’ve ever seen a city more decked out with Christmas lights than we have here in Porto. We spent three days in Santiago de Compostela and the city was definitely illuminated, but nothing like what’s on display in Porto.
After 35 days and 350 miles we walked in to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on May 17, 2015. We were beyond tired and physically beat. The next day we witnessed the pilgrims mass at the Cathedral and garnered our certificates of completion from the pilgrims office. The day after that… we boarded a train for Porto. Our 48 hours in Santiago were not much more than a blur of exhaustion.
We were told the city of Coimbra was built on steep hills. I thought, surely they could not be steeper than the hills of Porto, right? Wrong. The historic City of Coimbra (pronounced co-eem-bra) is all about the hills and they are definitely steeper than those of Porto, and the cobblestone streets are brutal. By the time we boarded our return train my feet were screaming. But, would I do it all again? Absolutely.