Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Bitten

A much nicer day  than yesterday in many ways. It started with a fantastic buffet breakfast, and the trail followed quiet country lanes and ancient tracks. It was a little cooler, with a good breeze.

We made good time to Pont de Lima, where we found a huge market in progress. 

We decided we would brave the albergue, but we are not having much luck with this -   we discovered it didn’t open until 4 and we were in need of showers and a rest right now! So flagged it and opted for a hostel instead.  The lock on our room didn’t work properly, so Rob managed somehow to communicate with our Portugese landlady that if he had a hammer and screwdriver, he would fix it. And fix it he did. The quid pro quo was that she refused to take any payment for doing our washing.

We should have slept like logs, but unfortunately somewhere along the way today we were attacked by an army of midges and we are both sporting a huge number of great ugly itchy welts. I hate midges!!! 


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