Albergaria-a-Velha

Today I did a lot of roadside walking. There were also some nice sections in the woods, but it really was mostly on roads today. It’s been really sunny too which has been oh so incredible after all of the rain! However, the highway walking may have actually been a good thing because many of the paths still had a lot of water in them. I’m thinking that maybe more of the land will have drained by tomorrow!

One thing that honestly amazed me today, was the scale of the highway bridge that I crossed. It went over a river/gorge at what seemed like the highest and longest point. I’m always astounded by how many places there are in the US where it seems like so much money has been poured into really nice roadway infrastructure and the surrounding areas really don’t seem to have much going on and at least from some sights today Portugal doesn’t seem to be immune to this either, as the villages surrounding this huge bridge seemed to be in various states of repair and many buildings had various pieces of sheet metal used as sidelong and roofing.Read more