Life's a Stitch

We checked out of the pensao and drove through the countryside to Burgau. If you know me, you know I like tree tunnel pictures as much as I like lone tree photos. 

Burgau had a small beach nestled between two rocky cliffs.

Up we went in cobblestones to the clay then rock trails above the village.

In the distance we saw where a slide had taken out part of the cliff (blue arrow). Next to it dirt paths laced their way up (green arrow). There’s no way that’s the path so close to an unstable area, I thought. Think again. Those dirt paths were in our immediate future. 

Tre trail became more rocky and this was our descent. We didn’t notice the blue and green “x” symbol at the bottom indicating we had taken the wrong way. 

We stopped for lunch in the town of Luz.

Then the weather shifted to cold, grey and windy, looking like rain. We looked up the Google maps walking directions that would avoid the possibility of wet clay cliff paths and started up the cobblestones. 

By the time we made it to the top the weather cleared and there was a trail entrance. More steep rocky terrain requiring calculating each step. We looked back from whence we came.

The scenery completely changed at the top with a pine grove then peppercorn shrubs growing off a reasonable dirt trail. 

Descending into Lagos was reasonable, but it started raining. We gave up with 40 minutes to go and was rescued by Greg. 

We had requested early check-in at our air b&b, which was granted, however we waited in the car for over an hour and a half for the code to arrive. Just as we turned it into a party with a drink of choice for each, of course the code came.

The apartment is a bit dated, but a good size for the four of us. The only drawback being a heavy vanilla/floral scent.

We walked to a burger and fish bar, five minutes away: Pinhao. Entering we weren’t optimistic, but whoa, it was amazing. Staff and food were right up there. Dinner for four came to e80.

The rest of our schedule is to be decided before we head to Lisbon on the 27th for our transatlantic cruise.