Day 6: Labruja to Tui

Tuesday 24 September

We left Labruja by the light of our head torches - there was a bit of a climb ahead, and we wanted it behind us before the heavy rain came. After a magical misty, chilly hike, we arrived at a small snack bar and warmed up with coffee and toasted cheese. Or rather, toasted cheese doorstops!

It wasn’t long afterwards that Prudence developed bad leg cramps and in the end we had to ask some helpful ladies, who were chatting in the garden of a house on the route, to call a taxi to drive us the last 7 km to the international bridge from Valenca (Portugal) to Tui (Spain). We walked across, then navigated our way to our accommodation, stopping en route to buy supermarket salads for dinner and anti-inflammatories for Prudence. The next day’s walking, if any, would be decided in the morning once we’d assessed our feet and legs.Read more