Day 13 – at Castro Laboreiro

It’s the last clear day for a while, and there had been a hard frost overnight. But the sun’s up at 7 here, Portugal on the same time as UK, so by 8 most ice had gone.

I took a meandering route into town and broke for a coffee into now, the relative heat of the morning. Coffee, croissant and a bread roll for lunch for 2 euros.

Then an ungraceful clamber up to the fort at 1036 metres. There are steps in the rock in many places that have been around for several hundred years. The rail though, for less time. The two kilometre trail will receive many visitors from Easter onwards, but today there were just a few others.

I chatted to a Lithuanian couple living in Vigo (about an hour away, in Spain) and here for a weekend break.

They both work online and wander Europe while doing so spending a month or so in each place. They had been in Slovenia at Lake Bled at the same time as me last year.

I was back at the van for late lunch and settled in for an afternoon and evening of sport. The Harlequins game, against Exeter, is at Twickenham today, and both teams usually entertain when they play there.