What is the name of this town?
In Portugal and English speaking countries it is called "Porto" but in Spain and some other European countries it is called "Oporto".
There was a similar double name of some places in Galicia, for example "Cebreiro" and "O'Cebreiro".
On our tour of Finisterre yesterday, our guide told us that O and A are used in Galician as the masculine and feminine definite articles, corresponding to the Spanish el and la. Thus Oporto might mean "the port".
But why then does Spanish use the Galician form?
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"I hope that you have found the Way to God on your journey" is what I was previously babbling, trying to say in a Babel sort of way, but it could have been finer if I hadn't left the "r" off "deiner". A diner in Oporto at McDonalds you have been and a diner at Oporto in Oz I have been. Thanks for the history and explanation of "Oporto". We await your next "port" of call. Cheers, Chris
ReplyDeleteHi Paul, Hearty congratulations on reaching the end of your Camino! I haven't been checking your blog for the last week as I've been on my own family history pilgrimage to Gilgandra. Am very pleased I went ahead with it when the rest of the group had to pull out - my uncle from Norway, Rob and Sue and my nephew Peter. The car then train trip back to Sydney was seven and a half hours and I've been recovering from that for the last two days!!! Don't know how my great-uncle and the other 34 Gilgandra Cooees managed to march that far - 10 miles a day for 30 days back in Oct/Nov 1915!!!! I am completely in awe of their blind patriotism, courage and sheer physical stamina in achieveing that. Mind you they got a great reception in Sydney when they arrived and were greeted by a crowd of 100,000 plus the Governor General in Martin Place!!!! The came the reality of WW1 and the ghadtly winter of 1916 on the Western Front. My great-uncle died aged only 19in Nov 1916 and is buried in the British Military Cemetery at Bancourt near Bapaume. It seems your Cimino has more than lived up to all your expectations - I'm glad about that. Do you want me to put your name down for the 45km walk that my neigbour is doing soon -I think it was from Palm Beach to Balmoral for the Fred Hollows Foundation???? Have fun in Paris -my favouirte city other than Sydney. Don't miss seeing Saint Chapelle with its amazing stained glass walls (built for the King) and the glorious chapel downstairs (built for the noblemen I think) - and also you must see THE MUSEE D'ORSAY where you'll see almost every famous painting you've ever seen in books and on TV. It's housed in the old train station and I happily spent almost the whole day there.
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Did you meet up with Father Frank again??? and see him up on the later at the Cathedral???? He was going to Finisteere too - maybe he was one of the group with you??? Elaine
ReplyDeleteNext Port is Antwerp, but more beer than port.
ReplyDeleteHi Paul, If Antwerp has more beer than port, depending upon your preferences, this may be something to whine about? If more beer in Antwerp, definitely "mehr Wein in Wien!" (more wine in Vienna). Regards Chris
DeleteNo, I only met him once on my third day. For a while he was ahead of me but then I was ahead of him when I went to Leon. I didn't get a chance to meet him in Santiago.
ReplyDeletePaul, I did have the pleasure to finally meet Father Frank, at the Cathedral of St. James, on my second day in Santiago dC. He was concelebrating mass there.
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