Vitorinos dos Piaes to Ponte de Lima

After 9 miles we arrived at Ponte de Lima and the lovely Mercearia, right in the middle of the lively city.
They are starting to decorate the city for next weeks Féria’s Novas festival which we will fortunately or unfortunately miss.
So happy we had a short day walking as it was absolutely beautiful and we kept stopping to enjoy the scenery along the way. Left at 7 without breakfast and coffee. We arrived around noon, with just one coffee stop along the way at about 6 miles.

We had beautiful trails and even the dreaded cobblestones were delightful as they were the really old stones and not the uneven ones we’ve been walking on for so long. We bypassed most of the small towns through countryside - that’s why no coffee for that long.

We keep running into 2 pilgrims from the US, and last night we had a pilgrims meal with people from Italy, Switzerland and Ukraine.

I was hoping to just lay down for the rest of the day and nurse my blisters, but there’s just too much to see for that.
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