Route to Samos

[Richard Ferguson]

I walked via Samos in April this year.  I remember some as on dirt
roads/trails, some as on rural roads, getting more on the main road closer to
Sarria.  I don't remember bad traffic, although some is on or near the road.

Remember that the refugio at Samos is cold.  Take the guided tour of the
monastary.

Richard
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> Topics of the day:
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>   1. The track through Galicia
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> Date:    Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:54:00 -0700
> From:    Bruce McLean <b_mcleanaTELUSPLANET.NET>
> Subject: Re: The track through Galicia
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> D & M Matthews wrote:
>
> > This is my first contact
> >
> > My wife and I intend to walk the Camino in May 2003. I am a retired teacher,
> > Marie is still active, on a casual basis, in alternate healing. We live on 6
> > acres, 3 km from the village of Dunoon, which is 20 km from the little
> > university/cathedral city of Lismore in Northern NSW. We are trying to
> > re-establish sub tropical rainforest on our little property. We are
> > experiencing a record drought, in the middle of summer, in an area more used
> > to flooding rains.
> >
> > In Millán Bravo Lozana, "The Pilgrims' Road to Santiago, A practical guide
> > for pilgrims," 1999, Editorial Everest, León, we get a tantalising reference

> > to the track that was purpose built by the Xunta de Galicia in 1993 from
> > Cebreiero to Santiago but I can find no other reference to it.
> >
> > Who will tell me the actual route of this path? Does it go via Samos?
> >
>
> You pays your money and takes your pick :-).  There are two waymarked routes
> from Triacastella to Sarria, one via Samos.  As far as the purpose built route,
> for the most part the marked route is separated from the road system, in places
> this has involved the building of a separate parrallel "path", It is however not
> continuous, the first stretch out of O'Cebeiro is along the road. I walked the
> route bypassing Samos and it is a combination of farm roads, farm yards and
> approaching Sarria a separated path. People I have spoken to who have taken the
> Samos route reported no trouble.
>
> Good luck
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