{"id":16350,"date":"2017-03-13T21:59:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T21:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=16350"},"modified":"2017-03-13T21:59:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T21:59:47","slug":"walking-vila-do-bispo-to-carrapateira-on-lifeday-25431","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=16350","title":{"rendered":"Walking Vila do Bispo to Carrapateira on lifeday 25,431"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an excellent nights sleep and an OK breakfast which we ate \u00a0al 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\u00a0set off into the sun &amp; wind!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16352\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-2017-03-13-14.18.18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16352\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-2017-03-13-14.18.18-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-2017-03-13-14.18.18-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-2017-03-13-14.18.18-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4-2017-03-13-14.18.18.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Fresco breakfast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The going was much faster today mainly on good tracks some through pine &amp; eucalyptus woods which gave us a break\u00a0from the constant wind later we were sheltered by the hills we soon found ourselves having a drinks break in the lovely village of Pedralva.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16354\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-2017-03-13-18.56.58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16354\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-2017-03-13-18.56.58-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Kelly crossing a ford\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-2017-03-13-18.56.58-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-2017-03-13-18.56.58-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-2017-03-13-18.56.58.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally crossing a ford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After our break we started walking down a delightful river valley, stupidly we ignored the sign for the wet weather route which the Germans had taken yesterday, the first ford was OK by the sixth ford the water was getting quite deep \u00a0flooding over my trainers \ud83d\ude41 fortunately\u00a0only one big climb was left before we descended into Carrapateira and our Guest House named after the village. The room has the bed on a mezzanine with a fantastic shower, kitchen &amp; sofa on the ground floor.<\/p>\n<p>After a bite to eat across the road we then walked to the cliffs to see the sunset. Totally amazing walk along boardwalks and seeing the dunes and crashing Atlantic rollers at Praia da Bordeira a great end to a walking day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16353\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-2017-03-13-20.17.27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16353\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-2017-03-13-20.17.27-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-2017-03-13-20.17.27-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-2017-03-13-20.17.27-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-2017-03-13-20.17.27.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I tried using the new Apple Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/898761607\">Strava app<\/a> but it came in missing 5 miles, although it displayed the full route \ud83d\ude41 quite pathetic especially how it dims the display. The good old Etrex20 came up with the correct answer on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/898758425\">Strava of 14.3 miles<\/a>\u00a0plus an extra 7km to the headland and back.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent scenery and a very enjoyable walking day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sc\/bt8ortdl5si01g2\/AAAzRjjPiuN1q01xDjBmF6uia\">Dropbox pictures are here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an excellent nights sleep and an OK breakfast which we ate \u00a0al 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\u00a0set off into the sun &amp; wind! The going was much faster today mainly on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portugal","category-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}