Ponte da Lima to Rubiães (kind of) Wendy

We left Ponte de Lima over its beautiful part-Roman/part-medieval bridge. The town is the oldest in Portugal, having received its charter from the mother of the first king of Portugal in 1125. Highly recommend it if you are in Northern Portugal for a couple of days.

It was a quiet day and unfortunately for us most eateries along the way were closed. Yikes! Something we forget about. But right about the time we hit some serious elevation, we ran into Cheryl, from our night at Casa da Fernanda.

That turned out to be a God thing in more than one way. We had not found any hotels inside Rubeãis so we were staying way out of town. It turns out that Cheryl was staying at an alburgue run by Marlene. Marlene is the sister of Luisa who was renting our hotel! So while we waited for them to come pick us up, he applied us with fresh baked apples and lemon, verbena tea and homemade pancakes. Has people say, " The Camino provides," but I'm pretty sure God had a hand in it today also.Read more