• Double post tomorrow

    Apr 15–20, 2025 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F

    I wrote nearly the whole of today's post and dropped my phone and lost it! Too tired to redo now, but I will catch up tomorrow.
    Good night!

    I need to make this short so I can post tonight's footprint, so short story....
    SO much more rain, including two thunderstorms. SO many more hills, I commented to someone tonight that I feel like I should be in heaven by now, I keep climbing and barely walk downhill. But the beauty! It is bountiful!
    The day ended in a tiny albergue with 4 beds. We stayed with Mano from France. He was up and out before we woke up! Anyway, the albergue was a bunkhouse attached to a family home. We ate dinner in their home and they brought us breakfast in our bunkhouse. Dinner may have been the best food since arriving in Portugal.tomato and pumpkin soup, bread, olives, cabbage cooked Dutch style, big salad, mashed potatoes and a gravy with mushrooms and small chunks of beef, something good but I am not remembering and fresh fruit for dessert.
    I slept in the top bunk and needed to get up to pee 3 times. Challenging
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