Albergaria-a-Nova

Day 16 - Águeda to Albergaria-A-Nova
Sunday, September 24.

Started at 7:09 am. Finished at 1:00 pm. 21.3K/13.2m. Walking time 4h22m. Steps 26,890. Calories 993.

Up & out a bit earlier. Beautiful sunny day. Uneventful day. Went by fast. Walked through a few small towns, so quite a bit of pavement. Had some dirt paths through eucalyptus forest too.

One highlight was stopping at Igreja Matrix. They were getting ready to start mass. A lot of younger couples with kids about 6 y.o. were outside and they all filed in together and sat in the front pews. I guess it was a special mass for the kids. Stayed for about 40 minutes and then left. The church was full!Read more

Albergaria-a-Velha to Albergaria-a-Nova. 6km!

Got up early to pack our backpacks ready for the start of our Camino today. Thought we'd done well keeping our packs to 7kg, but they seemed a lot heavier once we had everything in them 😳
Got the 9:30 train North to Aveiro then a bus to Albergaria-a-Velha, around 60km South of Porto, which is where we started walking. It was around 2:30 when we started, and around 30C so we only did 6km! Oh well, gotta start somewhere. It wasn't a bad walk, half of it through Eucalyptus plantations, so pretty similar to home.
We are in our first albergue (hostel) but have a nice double room. Walked into "town" and had a huge 3 course meal for €12 each - nothing fancy but very nice 👍.Read more