Ponte de São Gonçalo

On this day, Connie was still operating under the principle of “one day on, one day off” to try to heal her shin splints so it’s her day to take a taxi. We all taxi back from the hotel to where we ended yesterday (at the tower) then Roel and I got out and started walking.

As we walked through one little village, a man was filling water bottles at public fountain and said the water there was delicious so we filled up our water bottles. In the plaza, a bread truck had just driven up and honked for everyone to come out and buy their bread.

Again, we passed some beautiful flowers, ice plants that I had never seen so big and colorful! It felt like the neighborhoods were competing with each other for the most prolific blooms.

It was a warm sunny day, by the time we got into Lamego we were really wanting a cold drink, there had not been any opportunities up until then. We saw a McDonald’s and without any of our usual resistance to fast food, we went right there and grabbed cold drinks and a sandwich before we went to meet Connie, who had already checked into our room up on the hill by the Lamego Castle.

Lamego is a beautiful tourist city on the Balsemão River. It has a church with a million steps going up to it that looks like a copy of the Good Jesus church in Braga. Of course we did not climb those steps.

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