Today we walked 20km after a bad night's sleep - the man in the room next door arrived back in his room at 10:59 and spent 15 minutes talking very loudly to his son on the 'phone (on a good note I learned that the weather was now much better than it had been). seeing as he was speaking on speaker 'phone I also learned that the man's son was pleased about this and that the grandchildren were well but missing their Grandad!
We were up at 6:30 and packed away. Mum was having her bag carried by the Spanish Post Office on this Camino and they need all bags packed and at reception by 8:00 so by 7:40 we were down and ready for breakfast.
The breakfasts in the albergue were named after different Caminos and we both chose the Camino Frances breakfast which was fresh toast (with gluten free bread for Mum at no extra cost), jam freshly squeezed orange juice and coffee/hot chocolate. It was delicious and we weren't the only ones to linger over our breakfasts.
It has been a few years since I last walked the Camino Portuguese so although I recognised some parts of the Way I spent most of the time feeling like Gandalf in the mines of Moira, 'I have no memory of this place'.
The guide book had few bars mentioned for the day's walk but at 8:30 we came across a café that a family had opened in their back garden. we had a piece of fruit each and some freshly made lemonade for 2 euros 50. While we ate the family's little dog spent his time going between the eating Pilgrims looking pathetically at us hoping for food.
Later we stopped at the side of the path and ate the bread, cheese and ham for dinner.
Once we arrived in town finding the hotel was difficult but I managed to pick up a wifi signal for long enough to get Google maps to work.
Our bedroom was a large one and even had a balcony but not much of a view to look out on!
Finding dinner was difficult - very few places were open in the town so we headed down to near where the albergue was and found a bar there that was serving a Pilgrim menu and whose staff knew what was and wasn't gluten free.
Settled down early.
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