Tui to Porrino

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That was a hoot. Well it was more like herding cats – we were all over the place…some forward, some back and some in between… and it was a blast. Pace is yet to be determined – and actually who cares if it isn’t – but the amigos were as blown away with the walk through the country as we were a year ago. Photo stops commenced almost immediately and really didn’t stop the whole day. The funniest was watching Melinda take a selfie and then not accounting for her back pack, falling over onto her backside – elegant recovery and much laughter and off we went again.

The walk was great most of the way – with a couple of sections on asphalt, but pretty gentle the whole way. Luckily all the guide books gave us alternatives so that we could avoid the highway walk and the industrial area walk – so we were all happy.

At the end of the day we agreed to meet at 6.15pm to head back to Portugal for dinner (we’ve been transported back to Tui for the night and then we are taxied back to where we finished today to start in the morning). At about 5.15 in comes a text message from Melinda – “tell Lori we’ve found the best spritza blanco sangria in the square – come on down”. And so we did. Clearly the shower assisted with the recovery. We then crossed the river and headed back to the fortress town of Valenca for a pilgrims meal – 15 Euro for three courses with wine included. We then walked back to Spain and had an ice-cream to finish the night off.

So tomorrow a slightly longer day – 23 km but with a slightly later start due to the pick up…we are off to Arcade on the sea…Galicia on sea…should be interesting.