To Santiago de Compostela: 305.4 km
Walked today:
Total walked: 358.5
Up at 5am, the hostel attendant left us a bagged breakfast so we were able to start walking by 6 am. Suprisingly, half an hour later we found an open pasteleria - these are some of the best places to visit in Portugal - so we could have our morning's coffee.
The walk continued without incidents, unfortunately always on asphalt, we crossed a few towns were we found more houses, more like palaces, covered in magnificent tiles.
We did have some ups and downs and some very nice views.
A notable place was this Roman bridge, it is very long and looks magnificent.
One sign that fascinated Brenda is this school crossing sign. She comments that it looks like two happy kids going to school but a friend replied that it looks more like an adult dragging a kid to school.
At around 10:30 am, Canadian Scott and German Tom caught up with us. They started at 7:30 am an hour and a half after we did. Boy oh boy, we are slow. Since the stage for today is short they plan to keep going. If they reach their goal they will have walked around 35 km.
As we arrived to Albergaria a Velha we sat in the shade in front of a church to pray our rosary. Shortly after Reinhard and Kirsten passed us as well. By then I was having serious trouble with my feet.
We managed to find our hostel and get our room. When the boots came off I found more blisters on my feet, no wonder they are do sore. I really don't think I can walk the 20 km we had planned for tomorrow. So reluctantly wonder woman agreed to take the bus tomorrow to Porto and take a couple of days off there to give my feet a chance to heal.
Albergueira is a nice town. We had lunch in the restaurant attached to the hostel of vegetable soup and bolos de bac - fried balls of bacalhau with rice. Nice.
We went to the drug store to get more patches for my blisters (though for tomorrow I have a couple of patches of "second skin" that Scott gave me). We had fun there, the pharmacist speaks only Portuguese so it is a comedy trying to communicate in a bit of English, Spanish and Portuguese.
We also saw English Laura and Australian Kate having a cold drink at a cafe. Laura's feet are in worse shape than mine so they are taking the bus to Porto today and plan to rest there for a couple of days. I am definitely not the only one with foot problems. Even wonder woman got a new blister today. The heat and walking on asphalt combined are foot killers.
We will be resting the rest of the day so this is it for today.
The church where we prayed this morning is dedicated to St. Joseph so we ask him today to pray for us.
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