Thanks, Sholl. I did know about Santiago de Compostela.
How is the road for cycling?
I'm not too worried about hills, just traffic and road width.
I did the Santiago pilgrimage in September of 2007 from O Porto to Santiago
de Compostela. It includes some roads, but also has forestry paths and farm
paths. You cannot ride a bike along the entire trip. Well, if you wish to
carry it over a couple of those "mountains". There was one stretch so
vertical that I could reach out and touch the ground in front of me as I
climbed up the hill! I remember at the time thinking, "So, that's why we
haven't seen any cyclists!"
Some of the hill climbs weren't up roads, either. More like goat tracks or
walking through small creeks where you had to skip from rock to rock or get
your feet wet. And, there were downhills just like that as well. I remember
one where the forestry people had gone in and dumped a bunch of rocks to
control erosion on the trail going downhill. The rocks were angular and
about the size of grapefruits. We crossed a creek with a drop of about 15
feet into the water by going over a couple of steel planks that someone had
laid down.
I'm a cyclist, and I know it wouldn't be any fun to try and take a bike
there. Sorry about that.
Pat in TX