Camino Day Eight

Calvinos to Alvaiázere
~21.25 km/13.2 miles

The theme of the day was rain!
I walked today with Evan from Australia who was in the albergue last night.

First a light drizzle, then real rain and the donning of rain gear. Then the sun would come out and my poncho became a sauna suit, so off it would come. Only for it to start raining again 15 minutes later. This went on all day. Fortunately it wasn't a long day of walking. We arrived in Alvaiázere around 12:30.

Today brought more hills and eucalyptus forests. At least we were rewarded with some nice views after the hill climbing.

I couldn't check into my accommodation until 3 pm, so I went looking for something to eat while I waited. I found Evan had the same idea and had just arrived at one of the two restaurants that were open on a Sunday. My hotel has a restaurant, but it's closed today.

We decided that we should go for a pretty big meal since there might not be anything available later on today. The specialty of the place was pork and we thought that we had both ordered pork but somehow we got a portion of pork and a portion of bacalhau (cod) . It turned out that the bacalhau was really the better choice of the two. With the fish and pork we also got chips, French fries, rice, salad, bread, olives, and something called migas which was bread mixed with some sort of greens and beans - quite delicious. There was enough left over that I can have it tonight and/or tomorrow for breakfast!Read more