Friday, 18 October

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 We caught the train from Campanha, Porto, to Vila Praia de Ancore arriving before 3 pm. A nice train trip, had a good conversation with a Danish couple just starting their first Camino and saw out the train window much of the way we walked in 2019 when we walked Porto to Santiago.

We are taking our time and enjoying doing a bit more than last time in each place we stay.

Our planned stops are on yesterday's post. Some of it is repeating the best bits from 2019 but the two planned days walking from Tui to Porrina, and Porrina to Redondela we did by bus and train in 2019. We were very jetlagged when we started from Porto back then and by Tui we were feeling exhausted. By walking them now our Portuguese Camino will be complete, almost.

We won't have walked Coimbra to Porto but John Brierley's guidebook does not recommend that stretch because of all the road walking.

Photos from today:

The pool outside our room at Blue Ancora hotel in Vila Praia de Ancore. Lovely new hotel, reasonably priced incl breakfast. Very close to railway line. Might need earplugs.😊
The Atlantic Ocean 


The steps where, 5 years ago, we handed over the black Labrador to some caring young people who promised to return him home. See our 2019 blog for the story.
A nice display of Mandevilla flowering plants.


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