Jan 20, 2019
Rota Vincentina Walking Holiday on Portugal's SW Coast
Learn all about this exciting long distance trail on today's show.
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Time Stamped Show Notes
00:00 Intro
01:30 Julianna Barnaby gets into Adventure Travel
02:45 Overview of the Rota Vicentina series of trails
04:00 Accommodations
05:05 Do you need to bring your day’s water
05:30 Best times to go
06:10 Portugal is relatively affordable
06:44 How to get to the trail heads
07:41 Do you see many people
10:00 Is the Way like the El Camino
11:00 Landscapes and cliffs described/ cork trees
13:10 How harvest the cork
14:25 Mediterranean plants you’ll see
15:55 Wind sculpts the landscape
16:28 How well is the trail blazed (signed)
17:15 What if you can’t speak Portuguese
18:05 Can you go solo
19:32 How difficult is it
20:06 Walking in deep dune sand
20:19 How exposed are you
21:15 Birding
22:46 Good ‘rest day’ villages
25:05 Luggage Transfer service
25:47 Advice for hikers
26:48 Take some Circular Routes
27:25 Must plan accommodations in advance
29:30 Julianna’s most striking memory
30:37 Julianna meets a fisherman
32:09 How this trip compares to others
33:15 The Discoveries Of blog Julianna writes
35:13 Julianna explains “Discerning Travel”
36:13 Final thoughts: GO!
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