Safe Return Doubtful

Days 16 & 17 – to Entre Ambos os Rios I decided to top up the LPG, which I only use for cooking, at Arcos de Valdevez, to the south west, about a half hour drive. There’s a website that shows the LPG stockists. In some countries, Scandinavia for example,…

Day 14 – to Gavieira There’s a few days of rain forecast, with temperatures gradually getting warmer, though not today. Not a lot higher up, and it had originally fallen as snow. The tops of the mountains, less than 1200 metres, were just about at cloud level, so peaking in…

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…

Day 12 – to Castro Laboreiro My mission in Monção was to hike the Caminho dos Mortos, or the ‘Walk of the Dead’. It earns its name as it used to be what we would call in the Lake District, a Corpse Road; a track upon which the dead were…

Day 11 – to Monção Peneda-Gerês National Park, Portugal Not a huge amount to report on today, as a fair bit of it was spent sat in Volkswagen, Santiago de Compostela. I had reckoned without the temperature dropping significantly at night as I had moved inland. The fine clear day…

Day 10 – to Ponte Madeira For two days at Moreira bay I have seen practically nobody. No other vehicle came down to the sea. I did see a farmer, a hundred metres or so away, moving some sheep, but that was it. It will rank in my top ten…

Day 9 – at Moreira Beach Rather than move from this wonderful little bay, I hiked over to the peninsula of Cape Touriñán, on the Camino dos Faros, through farmland. The lighthouse is the westernmost point in Spain. Though not the westernmost of the European mainland, twice a year, at…

Day 8 – to Moreira Beach I neglected to mention yesterday that the Camino dos Faros has an excellent website, where there is all the information needed, https://www.caminodosfaros.com. Cicerone published a book on the route last year, which I haven’t got, though I have very many of their other publications.…

Day 6 – at Ermita de Santa Hadriano del Mar, Malpica The section of coast between Malpica and Muros, where I am now, is called the Costa da Morte, or Death Coast. It’s name is as a result of the many shipwrecks along its treacherous rocky shore, exposed as it…