Last night was a quiet dinner with a Portuguese cyclist, Lara (Germany) and the albergue owner Diogo. Laura has knee pain and has had to end her Camino now. It happens.
We have another big day today, 27K but it is flat. Today we will cross the bridge in Valença, Portugal to Tui, Spain. Also when we enter Spain, their time is 1 hour ahead.
After crossing the bridge, the rains came. We thought we would get a cafe stop in Tui but the Camino trail skirted the central part of the town where unknowingly to us were the only cafes. At that point it became another forced march in the rain to get to our first cafe stop 17K later.
We met a friendly guy name Henrik (Denmark) on the walk who was just doing a five day walk with a tour company since he had time off. He likes the fact that you meet people from all over the world just walking the Camino.
After our cafe stop we were in better spirits. Fair to say that we broke one of our Camino rules which is only one person can be cranky at a time. It happens.
It was a long day. We left at 07:00 and arrived around 16:00. The albergue we are at (Casucho da peregrina) is newer and has everything we need, including a washer, dryer and a hair dryer!
“Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote. I know I will be happily infected for the rest of my life”….Michael Palin