Portugal
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Fishermans Trail – Zambujeira do Mar to Odeceixe on lifeday 25,435
We started the day at 8 am with a 15 minute €20 taxi ride up the coast to Zambujeira do Mar where we had a lovely breakfast at the Por do Sol cafe. Fortunately, the rain stopped just before we departed in the cab 🙂 After breakfast, we started on The Fishermans Trail all be it the…
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A walk in the rain from Aljezur to Odeceixe on lifeday 25,434
By the time we had finished breakfast at 8.45 it was pouring down with rain 🙁 Neither of us had bought our full UK weather kit with us 🙁 so we hung around to see if it would stop. At 10.15 we gave in and left, me with a small brolly Sally with my new…
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Walking from Arrafana to Aljezur via the Rota Vicentina on lifeday 25433
We left the hostel with our fellow walkers and the donkey drivers 🙂 at 9.25 after the poorest breakfast of this holiday so far 🙁 We decided to take the longer route via the cliff tops. An excellent choice with the wildflowers in bloom along a sandy track so making it a very pleasant stroll…
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GR11 Walking Carrapateira to Arrafana on lifeday 25,432
Before I start this post it has to be said I’ve consumed rather a lot of alcohol this evening 🙁 and Sally is currently sleeping it off 🙁 We left the Carrapateiramar Guest House at 8,30 with no breakfast on a lovely still morning the walk started with a climb which is how the day continued,…
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Walking Vila do Bispo to Carrapateira on lifeday 25,431
After an excellent nights sleep and an OK breakfast which we ate al fresco with a German couple who warned as about staying the night in a hotel with a name like the stuff that clogs your arteries we once again set off into the sun & wind! The going was much faster today mainly on…
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Portugal and a return to multi-day hiking on lifeday 25,430
Sally decided that it was time for us to return to multi-day hiking 🙂 and go to somewhere warmer than the UK for her weeks holiday in March. So yesterday we sat on the tarmac at Luton airport for the best part of 3 hours waiting for the Portugese flight controllers call to say we…